sticky hair?

**mintyhot** · April 16th, 2010, 06:27 AM

last night i washed my hair with diluted castile soap and i rinsed with vinegar usually this is okay but this morning my my is kinda sticky and hard to run my fingers through.the roots of may hair look like they have a coating, i was thinking it might be the tea tree oil i put in after because my scalp smells and i was thinking the oil could help. could it possibly be the tea tree oil that is causing the sticky waxy feeling?

**aisling** · April 16th, 2010, 08:34 AM

No, I think it's the soap, they can leave a waxy feeling.

**Carolyn** · April 16th, 2010, 08:49 AM

Soap based products always leave my hair feeling that way. That's why I don't use them anymore.

**mintyhot** · April 16th, 2010, 03:14 PM

do you think if i changed to soft water it would be different?

**spidermom** · April 16th, 2010, 03:17 PM

I don't know; some people seem to get along all right with soap products; I don't know if they have soft water or more tolerance for the feeling of it. I can't stand the feel of soap anytime/anywhere/for any use, and we have soft water, ICK!

**MAO** · April 16th, 2010, 03:23 PM

Is your hair damaged? I've been using Bronner's to wash and a white vinegar rinse after. My virgin hair feels awesome, the bottom half (stripped and bleached last year) feels stiff and crunchy to me.

**mintyhot** · April 16th, 2010, 04:56 PM

i don't think so, i don't use any heat... ever. do you have soft water. I know this is a stupid question... but how do you know if it is damaged?

**MAO** · April 16th, 2010, 05:00 PM

No I think I have hard water.....

**little_cherry** · April 16th, 2010, 05:04 PM

What sort of vinegar and how much vinegar did you use?

**~~StephanieB~~** · April 16th, 2010, 05:44 PM

Vinegar doesn't leave a sticky coating on anything.

But soap often does... and softer soaps like castile leave more of a residue than hard soaps.

It could be that the kind of soap mintyhot used was okay for her undamaged roots, but leaves too much of a residue in her damaged ends, since heat-damaged and chemical-damaged hair is much more porous than healthy hair.

Mintyhot, I think it's the soap.

Unless..... you didn't put oil into all your hair, from roots to ends, did you?

If you did, then you may have just used too much oil and, like I said, your ends may be damaged and that makes them much more porous, so they soaked up much too much oil - which also can leave a sticky residue if you use too much.