Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. That means if you click through a link and buy something, I get a small commission and it doesn’t cost you any extra. Awesome, right?!
I was a child of the 80s and 90s, and that means my mom sat my sister and me down at the kitchen table and gave us home perms.
God, I hated perms so much.
To this day, if I am walking by a salon and I can smell the solution, I throw up in my mouth a little and shuffle briskly away.
Once I was old enough to protest the perms, I went through a phase (most of High School) where my hair was long and straight. I chopped it pretty short in college, and there was even a short time where my hair was blue.
As I have gotten older and more concerned with what I am putting on my skin (not to mention the environment at large), I have leaned toward the natural hair care. With just three simple changes, my hair is continuously shiny, soft, and thick.
And they are such simple things!
I use a natural shampoo.
A few years ago, I considered going no-poo, but the greasy transition was very, very oily, so I caved. Not long after, I was reading a blog (I wish I could remember the name of it) and she was talking about Apple Valley Natural Soap and their shampoo bars. I decided to give it a whirl and have been hooked ever since.
You can get anything from CDB Oil to body butter from Apple Valley Natural Soap. They are the best. Use my affiliate link and my coupon code (AVNSCASSIE10) to get 10% off your first order.
I don’t color my hair.
I want to be clear that I am 37 and have gray hair – a lot of it. Most of the gray is at my temples, and when I have my hair down, you can’t see it.
Some people think that I don’t color my hair because I am a hippie, that all that dye is bad for myself and for the environment (there is a reason they don’t want pregnant women to color their hair).
Others think it is because I am taking a feminist stance and am not going to let cultural norms and the patriarchy dictate how I should look and feel about myself.
Those are both great reasons, but I am going to set the record straight:
The reason I don’t color my hair now is out of sheer laziness. Good hair color is expensive, and I would much rather spend that money on, well, anything else.
I let my hair air-dry.
A few years ago a friend spent the night at my house. It was unplanned, a snowstorm rolled through, and the roads were terrible. The next morning, after showering, she asked me for a blow-drier. I handed her an ancient ConAir with a few scary spots where the plastic casing had melted that I dug out the utility room.
I shrugged, wished her luck and said the only time I used it was to shrink-wrap the plastic I put on the windows in the fall.
So, yeah. I don’t use a hair drier.
The dress code at my day job is relatively casual, so letting my hair dry naturally is not an issue. If you work at a fancier job to might not have that luxury, but if you use a microfiber towel to dry your hair, you will have to spend far less time under the drier.
I have this towel from Aquis, and it works great. I wrap my hair up in it after a shower and continue to get ready for the day. I unwrap my hair and brush it out a few minutes before leaving. My hair is usually dry by the time I get to the office.
Going natural in your beauty routines don’t have to be hard. Like most simplifying, it is more about what you don’t do than anything else.
What have you don’t to make your hair care more natural? Share it with me!
0
Leave a Reply