Confession Time

My husband found me out this week. He discovered a gallon of apple cider vinegar under the bathroom sink and asked, "What is this?"

So I came clean. He already knew about part of my sordid hair care routine, but I fessed up completely and tried not to let his skeptically arched eyebrows deter me from disclosing the truth.

And this is the truth.

Not only have I been washing my hair with a baking soda and water mixture for the past half a year, I've also been conditioning with an apple cider vinegar and water solution for about a month.

I confess. When it comes to my hair, I've become one of those crazy all-natural anti-shampoo hippy people.

But I'm really not crazy!

The baking soda takes away the scalp itchies that have plagued me for years, and it reduces my frizziness significantly! And the apple cider vinegar makes my hair shiny and soft! And they're both cheaper than traditional shampoo and conditioner! How am I supposed to resist that kind of treatment?

Okay, I know you're looking at me like I'm a nut job and might just belong in a mental care facility, but before you lock me up, let me give you the details, so that someday when the truth comes out for all the world to know, there will be record that I was not completely off my rocker way back in the spring of 2011.

I begin by preparing my two solutions:
- one quarter cup of baking soda with one cup of water in a bottle with a squirt top, like a regular drinking water bottle (I've tried various concentrations of this mixture. Too little baking soda doesn't eliminate the scalp itchies; too much baking soda dries out my hair)
- one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar in one cup of water

I take both mixtures into the shower with me. Once wet, I shake the baking soda mixture well, squirt it all over my head and rub it in vigorously. I don't worry about getting it all down the length of my hair; I just focus on getting the scalp clean. Rinse well.

Next I drizzle the vinegar mixture over my head and all down the length of my hair until all the hair is coated. I let it sit less than a minute and rinse it out well. At this point it already it feels smooth.

And that's it.

Go ahead and take me away if you must. But I feel better just getting that off my chest. Even if you are all looking at me oddly now.