The Dirty Hippy Truth About No-Poo and Why I Won’t Use Baking Soda on My Hair - Hippy Natural Hair Care Series Part 1

Back at the end of January, I decided it was high time to try the no-poo method. I had seen posts all over the internet hailing it as the best thing since sliced bread, so I decided to give it a try. The only thing that had been holding me back was dealing with the detox period. I knew that all of the damage I had done to my hair in the past, would catch up to me during the detox period. Before my hippy makeover was complete, I had made use of my teens and twenties to utterly destroy my hair. I dyed my hair every color of the rainbow, and back again. I used all sorts of flat irons, curling irons, crimpers, blow dryers, etc. I even tried ALL kinds of products containing harmful and harsh ingredients. All of this damage really started to stack up and my hair became so dead that I had trouble growing it out.

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