Dr Bronner's Castile Soap as a Shampoo?

[peronella]

Hey Everybody, I hope this is the right board for this, I searched for something lie that and had trouble finding an answer. Sorry if this has been addressed.

I've been looking for alternative ways to shampoo my hair, its very oily. I've tried CO but it just takes too long. I do want to stretch out my washes someday but I can't deal with greasy hair right now. I'd get fired :P

My Mom Recently Brought home " Dr. Bronner's 18-in-one hemp citrus orange Pure Castile Soap Made with Organic Oils" She brought it for use as a soap but she said I could wash my hair with it. I wanted to run that by you all on LHC to see what you thought.

It seems to have a lot of good stuff in it, coconut and olive oils orange il hemp oil lemon and lime oil and vitamin E.

Its very mysterious to me, because it seems like so much oil would make your hair oily, but my mom says that's not the case. What do you guys think?

Thanks! <3

[spidermom]

We took it camping one time, and my hair had a terrible reaction to it - got all sticky and matted and awful, also dried out. My hair looked and felt better if I allowed the murky lake water to dry in it.

(there are quite a few threads about this; did you try the "search" feature, upper right of bar at top)

[VanillaTresses]

I have tried it several times, and if you are going to do it, I would take the recommendation to "dilute, dilute, dilute" VERY seriously! The only way that I have gotten this to work semi-well as a shampoo was to literally put only a few drops of this soap in an almost full Nalgene bottle of water, shake, and pour over my hair as a rinse. If you try and use it like you would use a regular shampoo, it will leave your hair feeling pretty weird, as Spidermom was saying. Since it is a true soap, rinsing with vinegar or acidic rinses will help to get out some of that soap residue feeling.

[peronella]

thanks for the reply.

I did search for it, only a few threads came up and none of them had an answer to my question. I checked the reviews section too. but maybe I searched for it wrong, I have trouble with the forum search here sometimes. sorry, I'll try again.

[VanillaTresses]

Here are the links:

Dr. Bronners?
(http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=26534&highlight=bronner)
Dr. Bronners for Shampoo? (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=24392&highlight=bronner)

Dr. Bronner's Castile Soaps (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=4889&highlight=bronner)

Pure Castile Soap as Shampoo? (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=29849&highlight=bronner)

[Yozhik]

I've used it as a shampoo, but it was a while ago. I don't think I diluted, but I did use a ton of conditioner afterward. :)

I like the different types -- peppermint, lavender, and my favorite -- almond! I hope you enjoy :)

[jeanniet]

I tried it once, thinking since it was all natural it had to be OK...big mistake. It was awful. Worst stuff I've ever tried on my hair, seriously.

[Carolyn]

I had the peppermint one a long time ago. It was horrid even with a vinegar rinse and conditioning. Then I tried it as a laundry soap with some borax. A couple of my good t shirts were never the same shudder:

[LaurelSpring]

I have had a love/hate experience with it. There have been several times that I used it and loved it but then the last couple of attempts I hated it. I wanted so much to love it because I use it on my body in the shower and it would be so so easy just to use it for everything. Definately dilute it. I dilute for my body. Its very concentrated. I had problems with alot of gunkyness and buildup. It also made me itch but thats just because Im weird and cant take citric acid on my head.

[Deeya]

Don't try it on the hair. All ingredients look so nice & natural, but it left my hair all tangled, messy & gunky. My hair just refused to dry. Had to wash & wash & condition to get it to some decent level. Diluted Castile soap is good for skin though.

[Autumns Veil]

I really didn't like it. I have course hair and even diluted, it really dried my hair and left a sticky gummy feel to it.

[Centaur]

I use the formula with tea tree oil every night as a body wash and to wash my face. I don't dilute it.

Once or twice a week, I use it to wash my hair, though I dilute it and use an ACV rinse afterwards. I find that if I don't use it everyday, it works well. But, when I tried to wash my hair with it every night, even diluted, it dried my hair out.

[Anje]

My first thought is "Don't do it!"

Seriously, I've found the peppermint to be nasty stuff as shampoo. When camping, I would now opt to just not wash my hair for however long I was out (even a month or two, hypothetically), than wash with that stuff again. If you must try, dilute it A LOT, and be sure to have a vinegar rinse and conditioner handy, in case you end up with hair that feels like it's made of old spider webs.