Actually Avalon shampoos can be quite harsh, due to their lack of sulphates (cleansing agents found in most shampoos). I tried to go sulfate free for three months and all it did was mat the top of my hair every time I washed.
What really works, and I know it sounds odd, is to dilute your shampoo. This has not only saved the length of my hair (waist length now), but also has gotten rid of the itchy, dry, flakey scalp.
I put about a tablespoon of shampoo (I use nature's gate products, they have a gentler sulfate, than pantene and such) in an applicator bottle with a nozzle on it and add about 3-4 ounces of warm water. AFter saturating my hair well with water, I shake up the bottle and apply all that foamy lather to my scalp only. The nozzle allows you to get right down to the scalp. You could also apply a cheap conditioner (I use VO5 strawberries and cream) to your ends and length before applying the diluted shampoo. This way your ends are protected from the drying shampoo and it just glides over the ends as you rinse.
Regular shampoos have harsh cleansing sulfates in them. The more you use them, the more they 'strip' the oils from your scalp, which in turn, sends your scalp into overdrive to produce oil and you end up with the greasies pretty fast. Diluted shampoo does not do this, plus it's much gentler on your hair. Also, if you wash your hair every day, this is much better for you.
Another 'plus' to dilution of shampoos is that you can afford to buy the salon stuff, because I made an 11 ounce bottle of Aveda shampoo last 6 months by diluting it! That works out to about
55 cents a week for shampoo.
shampoo and conditioner containing no alcohol?
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