Yankee 2.0

My hair is down to my waist and I use a lot of conditioner so that I can get a brush through it right after showering.  How does the vinegar water solution work on tangles?

Suzy

We used vinegar to rinse our hair when we were kids... too many years ago! I still use it now and then and my hair is long, too. If you try it, use it several times before deciding, as your hair will take a little while to "get used to it."

What vinegar does is remove all the shampoo and built up conditioner, so that at first your hair may seem rough, but it will calm down eventually. When you use vinegar, also use a brush and brush your dry hair the old fashioned hundred strokes each day(Although I never make it past fifty) and that will help.  

<i>I'm working on some home-made shampoo, too, but the first batch came out too thick -- it works great, but it's a paste, not a liquid...</i>

Perhaps you need to dilute more--the shampoo I buy from Sally Beauty Supply in gallon jugs always needs further diluting (says so right on the jug), so I do a 70/30 mix of shampoo to water in the smaller bottles I refill from the big jug.

Try diluting up to 100% before giving up.  I have the feeling you're on to something.  Let us know if it works.

This doesn’t work on extremely curly hair, only on wavy or straight hair. My hair frizzed out and stood on end! I want to get ride of my Afro not encourage it. The best thing for curly hair is not to wash it too much and not to brush it out every day. I only wash my hair when my head starts to itch (once to twice a week). I put a cholesterol treatment on twice a month. And I only brush my hair when dripping wet and then put mousse or oil in it to keep the frizzies away. All I have to do it get up in the morning and shake my head and I’m ready to go.  

Since I bleach the heck out of my hair,I rather have blond and gray then brown and gray,so my hair is dry so got to condition twice on yeah dry and damaged look maybe back in the eighties but I rather have the hair strAit and condition instead...

So the conditioning helps alot plus I don't have to straiten the hair teehee....