ammogirl

When you are a girl, you hear your entire life about how you shouldn’t wash your hair every day because instead of getting rid of the grease, it actually makes your hair MORE greasy–yeah, I know, that sounds stupid.  Especially if you are like me, and have thin hair that is weighed down by, oh, air.  So I’ve always scoffed at the idea, and out of the many days I’ve been alive, I’ve washed my hair 99.1% of them.  

And then, when I was on vacay, both Sandee and Christy expressed amazement that I actually do wash it every day, and I was like, “do you NOT?” And they said, “damaging!!  No.”  And the seed was planted.  I thought about it a little, and decided that as soon as I could, I would do an experiment, and see just exactly what was up with this bit of info.  Fortunately, there was a four-day weekend right when we got home, which: perfect, if you are planning on not washing your hair.  I even purchased a shower cap.  Yes.  And I wore it.  

I wore it day 1 in the shower, and my hair was fine.  I wore it day 2, and my hair?  Not fine.  By the time I woke up on day 3, my hair was one big greasy clump in the back of my head.  I stripped my sheets, threw them in the wash, and jumped in the shower, where I lathered not once, not twice, but three times.  And then I started only washing my hair every other day.

However, THIS week, circumstances prevented me from the every other day thing, and while I washed my hair Wednesday, Thursday morning I didn’t have time, and Friday my hot water at home was out.  And do you know what?  It’s TRUE!  Not washing your hair makes it LESS GREASY! Because on Friday, which was day 2 of no hair washing, my hair looked fine!  And even this morning, before my (fortunately hot) shower, my hair still looked okay, and it was day 3.

I LOVE no hair washing!  My hair is so much happier!  Even better, it smells yum, because I discovered (from…somewhere…hm.  How DID I discover it?) Chagrin Valley Soap and Craft and omg the shampoo bars are FABULOUS.  I don’t even have to use conditioner!  And, they use ALL NATURAL INGREDIENTS, which fulfills my inner Oregonian hippie.  Currently, I have: Carrot Milk & Honey, Rosemary Mint, and Extra Honey Beer & Egg.  I want: Cafe Moreno, because IT LOOKS AWESOME, Mud & Clay, because IT LOOKS AWESOME, and Babassu & Marsh Mallow, because IT LOOKS AWESOME.  Also wanting, from their body soap collection:  Chocolate & Almond and Chocolate Orange Twist, because who doesn’t want to smell like chocolate?  

And now we’re going to see Benjamin Button.  

Tschuss!!