Hi! Do I have to do an ACV rinse after using a shampoo bar or can I just condition as usual? Thank you.
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Hi! Do I have to do an ACV rinse after using a shampoo bar or can I just condition as usual? Thank you.
CavyQueen, have you visiting the massive shampoo bar thread?
You can do either, it all depends on your hair, and your water. I would experiment to see which you prefer. I generally do a vinegar rinse prior to my conditioner, but it's more a force of habit than necessary. On the occasions when I just condition right after, my hair is just as nice. :)
Hi manderly! Yes, I saw that thread and did not see an answer to whether I need to do an ACV rinse. Everyone seems to like the bars. They seem more like condtioners. How do they cleanse? Thank you.
They cleanse quite well, there is a transition period where your hair may be quite funky, though.
And I still require conditioner, while lots of others don't.
I would recommend you take some time to read the first couple of pages of that thread (I know it's absolutely massive!), skip to somewhere in the middle and read a bit, then skip to the end and read a few pages. That's a good way to get a lot of good information out of a massive thread like that. There is also a search function within each thread, so you can search for specific words or phrases to help you find if someone has already asked your question.
Then, there is always the option to comment in the thread with your question :D That thread is a mover, so it would be answered within hours. :flower:
Welcome to LHC, btw.
Whether you need to do an ACV rinse is a matter of how your hair reacts to the bar. Personally, I've only used conditioner after a 'poo bar while traveling, when I didn't want to deal with bringing vinegar and mixing it while living in dorm housing, and my hair was fine. That said, I never tried it long term, and I was in a very soft-water area.
The only way to tell if you need the rinse, is to try your bar with just a conditioner. If your hair feels waxy or coated, try the rinse next time. You can do both a rinse and a conditioner, in any order, if you want. If you want a more concrete answer, check out the massive shampoo bar thread, paying close attention to the locations of people that have good results with the various permutations. If a lot of people who live in your area say they need a vinegar rinse, you may need to, as well.
It depends on your water. At home, with hard water, I don't do a rinse or condition, just a prewash oiling. I do finish with a cold water rinse, though I don't actually know if it makes much difference.
At uni, with soft water, I put conditioner on the length before doing a lemon juice rinse (ACV makes my hair go greasy really quickly), because my hair feels really horrible without an acid rinse. In retrospect, I don't think I did a cold water rinse the time I forgot the acid rinse, so I might try that when I get back to uni and see how it works.
I have noticed once or twice at home that I've needed to apply a wee bit of conditioner to all my hair after washing because it felt rough, but the conditioner's acidic enough to close the cuticle.
I think that the need to do an ACV rinse (or similar) is dependent on whether your water supply is hard or soft. If hard (high mineral content), you will want to do an ACV rinse. I have soft water and don't do one; I just use a conditioner afterwards and it's good.
Like I said before, all in all my hair seems to love the poo bars, but my ends have been grumpy ever since the fiasco where I tried to use a soap bar as a conditioner.
Since then I've been using conditioner on my ends (mini-CWC style). My ends were happy with CWC before. But they are still giving me grief. Since then I have clarified, SMT'd, and put conditioner on my ends before I've so much as touched a shampoo bar.
I'm not quite sure what to do about them anymore. My ends just don't seem to want to recover. I'm not even putting the shampoo on them anymore and they are still grumpy! GAAH!
/rant
By midsection do you mean around the nape? With conventional shampoos I just shampoo the roots, and I found when I switched to bars it could get greasy there. What I suspect was the problem is that the liquid shampoo runs down towards the nape area, washing out the grease, but with a bar you actually have to wash that area like you would the rest of the head.
I think my hair's weird. I keep reading that you need an acid rinse in hard water but not necessarily in soft water, but I have the opposite experience. In soft water I need it, in hard water I just use the shampoo bar and nothing afterwards and my hair feels better than it does with anything else I've done to it. I'm going to kind of miss the water when I go back to uni :(
It was initially another thread that was merged in here :flower: