I need a new hair routine

[ejpint]

I was pretty much exclusively co-washing with Suave Naturals coconut for quite a while. It worked really well with my hair, it got stronger, longer and looked great.

Now all of a sudden it looks awful. Like the conditioner isn't rinsing out properly and the ends look chunky and greasy by the end of the day.

I think it's my new house and the water here - we have a water softener combating super hard water.

Can anyone recommend cleaning/conditioning products? What works best for you? I have long-ish hair, fairly straight, but it picks up a lots of wave in any kind of humidity. Fairly fine, but lots of it, so anything too heavy really weighs it down. Not chemically treated, I stopped coloring about a year ago. Not overly dry or damaged, not overly oily.

Suggestions?

Oh, I also try to avoid parabens and -ates if I can.

[ijack]

I use the suave keratin smoothing shampoo and really like it. My hair has a tendency to be pretty frizzy, and this definitely keeps it smooth and it isn't heavy at all.

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I just started using Burt's Bees Very Volumizing Shampoo and really like it so far. It has definitely made my hair shinier without weighing it down. It is sulfate- and paraben-free.

Still trying to find a conditioner to love...

[ejpint]

Oct 25, 2012 9:46:02 GMT -5 v said:

I just started using Burt's Bees Very Volumizing Shampoo and really like it so far. It has definitely made my hair shinier without weighing it down. It is sulfate- and paraben-free.

Still trying to find a conditioner to love...

Ooh, I forget about Burt's Bees. I liked a sample of that same shampoo I got a while ago.

With that, do you find you need to wash every day, or less often?

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Oct 25, 2012 9:50:38 GMT -5 ejpint said:

Oct 25, 2012 9:46:02 GMT -5 v said:

I just started using Burt's Bees Very Volumizing Shampoo and really like it so far. It has definitely made my hair shinier without weighing it down. It is sulfate- and paraben-free.

Still trying to find a conditioner to love...

Ooh, I forget about Burt's Bees. I liked a sample of that same shampoo I got a while ago.

With that, do you find you need to wash every day, or less often?

I have never found anything that makes me not want to wash every day Bad things happen to my hair when I sleep.

[ejpint]

Oct 25, 2012 10:42:09 GMT -5 v said:

Oct 25, 2012 9:50:38 GMT -5 ejpint said:

Ooh, I forget about Burt's Bees. I liked a sample of that same shampoo I got a while ago.

With that, do you find you need to wash every day, or less often?

I have never found anything that makes me not want to wash every day Bad things happen to my hair when I sleep.

Me too. It's like a tiny Bon Jovi climbs onto my pillow each night and tries to recreate his 80s heyday hairdo. I probably need to give up on trying to wash less often.

[evans]

Oct 25, 2012 10:46:09 GMT -5 ejpint said:

It's like a tiny Bon Jovi climbs onto my pillow each night and tries to recreate his 80s heyday hairdo.

:-( :-( :-( :-( :-(

I have nothing productive to add to this thread but that was just too good to passby.

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Some that I've tried recently and liked:

Blow shop.blowpro.com/collections/clean-nourish
Carol's Daughter Monoi www.carolsdaughter.com/Portal.aspx?CN=4B5BE703E09D&BCID=F0D65E76FCB0
Lush I Love Juicy shampoo & American Cream conditioner
www.lushusa.com/I-Love-Juicy/02007,en_US,pd.html
www.lushusa.com/American-Cream-Conditioner/9999902017,en_US,pd.html?start=1&cgid=conditioners

But my hair 'routine' is to wash/condition, put some gel or B&b surf spray in it, then go to bed with it wet. Then I wake up and brush it the next day. So YMMV.

[ejpint]

Oct 25, 2012 11:12:10 GMT -5 @ameliapond said:

Some that I've tried recently and liked:

Blow shop.blowpro.com/collections/clean-nourish
Carol's Daughter Monoi www.carolsdaughter.com/Portal.aspx?CN=4B5BE703E09D&BCID=F0D65E76FCB0
Lush I Love Juicy shampoo & American Cream conditioner
www.lushusa.com/I-Love-Juicy/02007,en_US,pd.html
www.lushusa.com/American-Cream-Conditioner/9999902017,en_US,pd.html?start=1&cgid=conditioners

But my hair 'routine' is to wash/condition, put some gel or B&b surf spray in it, then go to bed with it wet. Then I wake up and brush it the next day. So YMMV.

Mine is to wash, comb and let the vents in my car dry it while I commute to work. So yeah.

Thanks for the list - I feel like we might have similar hair types, so I'll look for some of these. I tried Carol's Daughter, but haven't used Lush in a while.