I've always had this huge bottle of apple cider vinegar in my kitchen for the longest time ever. I was totally impressed by its health benefits and weight loss mechanisms. So I purchased a bottle. However, I had a terrible reflex system and even a very very diluted ACV seemed like a super acid drink.
Some time this year, I've overcame my laziness to try DIY beauty treatments. I was always advict of skin care products, 5 years ago, I tried so many Japanese / European /American expensive line of skin care products, that my parents decided to stop funding my skin care routine. There were both ups and down to this situation, the ups were that I did not have to take a deep breath and bet my face 's safety on an expensive chemical to make or break my face.
Then at some point of time, I looked into haircare. This was back in the time where I would dye my hair every 2 months for 2 consecutive years and I've been through almost every shade of red and brown. I've also got nasty hair extensions for 2 years, that I would take out and get new ones put in. The dying and the hair extension tension was just so much for my hair that when I finally decided to do nothing with my hair, a massive amount started to fall out (shed). I was so scared of the hair loss that I've resided to hair loss masks and shampoos just to find a reverse effect. So I tried to target the root of this and looked into the ingredients of my shampoo. Then I looked into the ingredients of a rather famous horse hair shampoo and read their reviews on the Internet. Apparently even the horse shampoo had Sodium Lauryl Sulfate ( a chemicals used in car wash), even worse than SLS was Aluminium Lauryl Sulfate (which could be found in commercial brands like Patentene, Dover..) and only organic brands did not contain these harmful ingredients.
However, there are two reasons why I do not like using organic shampoos
1. High cost
2. Weird smell
Being the frugal soon to be college grad, I had to figure out a way to be cost efficient, while making the most out of the products that I had at home or cheap food goods.
In the past 2 weeks, I've experimented with
1. Honey Olive oil + sugar mask (face mask)
2. Coconut oil (hair mask)
3. Apple Cider Vinegar (hair mask)
So far I'm liking the results :)
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