No Poo Update & Mathematician Records Updates

First of all, I would like to let everyone know how my No Poo experiment is going.

I am currently at Day 92 of No Poo. At Day 46 of No Poo, I switched over to Water Only, which will now be abbreviated to WO. I am now 46 days into WO washing, though I do wash my head every once in a while with ACV when the flakes get unbearable. I usually wash my hair every 6-8 days with WO, though I'm considering washing my hair every 5 days and see where that gets me.

In these last 46 days of WO, I've gone through yet another vigorous transition. Now that I'm not using anything but water and the seldom ACV rinse, my scalp had gone into overload in producing sebum.

Day 58 of No Poo, 12 days of WO, I thought my hair looked awesome until I looked at my hairline. So much sebum built up! It was awful, and I dealt with that for quite a bit... I have noticed, though, that in the last two weeks, I haven't had a crazy build up like that on my hairline, though it still gets itchy and flakey.

I started scritching and preening my hair, which is basically massaging with the balls of my fingers against my scalp to break up the build up and then preening is to spread those oils down the length of my hair. I don't do it as often as people generally suggest, but with the brushing of my paddle brush and my boar bristle brush (BBB), my hair is still relatively manageable.

Overall, my hair still isn't where I'd like it to be. Since I switched over to WO instead of the BS/ACV mix, my hair needs to go through probably another 40 days or so to get over switching to WO. But I will stay resilient and get through it, because I believe in low-maintenance, no-chemical hair! For now, I just keep my hair up most of the time except for the two days after I initially "wash" it, then it's up for a few days, then I wash it, it's down for a few days, then up again...etc.

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Now, onto the next order of business: The Website. 

Stewart has been working diligently on releasing free EPs and CDs for our music artists on the page.

Our most recent releases are as follows: 

Agartha

by Math Dealer

2013

Möbius Strip

by Kaushik.Venkat

2013

Great Spirit

by Shiva Om

2013

Above and Beyond

by Etcetera

2013

The projects we are currently working on are as follows: 

Evolute 1

by 10+ Mathematician Records label artists and producers

2014

Math Dealer and BlessingJah Sound e.p.

2014

Full CD albums from BlessingJah Sound, Etcetera, Shiva Om, Kaushik.Venkat

2014

All music can be found by following the "Music Shop" and "Free Releases"

links on our homepage.

http://www.mathematicianrecords.com/

We are still open to new artists that would like to be apart of our label. If you have any inquiries at all please e-mail us at mathrecords@live.com. We are so excited for our new releases and future projects!  

No 'Poo Update

Hey guys! It's been 45 days since I've started my No 'Poo journey. It's been interesting so far!

I didn't really notice too much difference at first. The dandruff was still there and after a week and a half my hair was starting to get mad greasy because it was going through a transition. Eventually it tapered off and, man oh man, my hair got really, really soft.

Because the flakes weren't going away, I decided to get a chlorine shower head filter on Day 16. I got it for $18 at Home Depot. It's made my water feel softer and I feel like it doesn't irritate my skin as much as it used to.

Day 21, my curls started to come back. They had disappeared because of the heaviness of the grease.
By Day 27, flakes had returned with a vengeance... I realize now it was a sebum build up because I wasn't using ACV on my scalp after using BS on it.

Day 33, my hair was ultra soft but I still had that flake problem. I didn't realize until Day 40 that it was a sebum build up and that maybe I should use less BS and use ACV on all of my hair.

So, I've come to the conclusion (though many have before me) that this BS/ACV mixture isn't going to work for everyone. I have been considering doing WO, which is water only, and between BS/ACV washes I will do (and have done) WO. I bought a boar bristle brush to distribute the sebum from the top of my head down to the tips of my hair, which has helped reduce the sight of the flakes from the sebum build up, and while at Day 45 I do still have an itchy hairline, this is still an experiment. I am still going to stick to it because the dandruff I suffered from before doing this wasn't any better or worse than it is now, so there is no reason for me to use chemicals on my scalp if it isn't going to improve anything. I feel like my hair has mostly gotten back to "normal" and I am happy with the softness it has gained after all this. It doesn't smell like anything, just hair, and that's always good news, too. Haha.

I also wanted to mention that around half way through this experiment that I have also stopped using soap to wash with. I still use it on my hands but when I'm in the shower I just use warm water and a wash cloth. My skin feels normal, if not better. It doesn't feel dry or irritated and I don't stink. Because there is no fragrance, I'm no longer sneezing up a storm in the shower and I feel like I'm using less time and water to clean myself. Our bodies have natural oils and things to help clean itself... I'm not saying we should stop bathing--please, keep bathing! But the use of chemicals is really unnecessary. If you want to smell like a flower or something, just use some essential oils to rub on yourself, or mix it into some water to put in your hair. Honestly, I like smelling neutral.

If any of you have any questions, I will do my best to answer them. Otherwise, good luck in your natural endeavors!