Green Goddess: Natural shampoo

Many people avoid commercial shampoos because of ingredients such as sodium  laurel sulfate, fragrances and phthalates. It is possible to  wash your hair with baking  soda.

Many people avoid commercial shampoos because of ingredients such as sodium  laurel sulfate, fragrances and phthalates.

It is possible to  wash your hair with baking  soda. Many of my newsletter  followers swear by this method:

Pour about ¼ cup of baking soda (I have  long hair so you could use less). Mix with  a bit of water to form a paste. Take this  into the shower with you and put through damp hair as you would a shampoo – except it doesn’t foam. Rinse well then tip  over a cup of water, to which you have added  2 tablespoons of cider vinegar (or malt vinegar will do) as a final rinse. Do not rinse out.