Originally Posted by
florenonite
Hmm, I may well need a transition period as I've always needed to wash every 2-3 days (I spent about 6 or 7 months of 2020 trying to stretch washes but with little success).
I added a splash of white wine vinegar to my rinse this morning and I think it's helped my scalp. I ended up rinsing the scalp a bit as well as the length (just ducking my head under) because I didn't want to repel my husband by smelling like a chip shop for the next 8 hours.
My scalp and scalp hair both seem happy, but my length feels greasy and coated. This is actually how my hair felt the entire time I lived in Scotland and the only fix I ever found was cutting it off. I can think of a few possibilities as to why this is happening now:
1) Even though I spent over 2 minutes rinsing my scalp, I paid less attention to rinsing the length as I didn't lather below the nape, so there may be some residual soap there.
2) My hair still hates vinegar and even that tiny amount was enough to make it greasy (I don't think this is the case as my roots are happy).
3) My hair did not like or need conditioner applied after an acid rinse closed the cuticle, and so the conditioner is just sitting on the outside of my hair rather than absorbing. Damaged ends aside, my hair is generally low porosity and doesn't like me putting things on it, so this is a distinct possibility (I kind of assumed I'd need conditioner because my hair is damaged, but perhaps the acid rinse is doing enough).
It's easy enough to test both 1 & 3 together, by being more careful about rinsing the length and skipping the conditioner next time.
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