My garlic and lemon juice hair treatment experience.

If you have a story of how you transitioned off of shampoo, I'd like to hear about it. I'll share mine to start off, this may be of use to those folks who wonder about shampoo and/or hair loss.

I'm 36, and every male in my family is bald. I have had the most hair for the longest time, but in the past year, the scalp got brighter every day and I had a lot of hair loss on a daily basis. I could see it on the wall of the the shower, the little tumbleweeds that form when the water starts backing up... It was depressing, but I accepted it as part of life.

Well, as it turns out, in my ongoing research into awakening-conscious food, etc, I came across garlic. As a dietary/medicinal item, garlic has a very long and revered history of uses, among them, hair loss. I believe it to be because of the high sulfur content, but that is a whole other branch of discussion altogether. I eventually got a bug up my ass to try the natural approach. What else had I to lose? I have a plain high-RPM juicer at home, the kind I use for beets and carrots. I would periodically peel enough garlic (a LOT) to make what I called 'hair food'. It was always garlic juice but I would occasionally add ginger and/or onion juice and cut it with either hemp, olive oil and most recently, aloe vera juice.

I know what you're thinking. Smell. Not a problem. I work in a call center, and not one person, not one, ever smelled garlic on me. The secret, is in the rinse. The trick is to rinse your hair with lemon juice. Concentrated lemon juice has a definite "tingle", some might say burn, so use it carefully. Also, I would only treat my scalp in targeted spots. I would wet and part my hair, then use the little plastic brush that comes with any 'man-scaping' shaver kit. By carefully dabbing the hair food I had less to deal with in the smell department. I would also take advantage of weekends and days off work to have what I would call, cryptically, 'garlic days'.

I'm loathe to take on things that require a lot of cleanup, or things with a lot of steps and measurements. I like simplicity, and I believe that holistic treatment is all about simplicity. I don't measure out anything. I don't believe it should be necessary.

So, did it work? I believe it did. Within a few weeks of the garlic treatments, the amount of hair I was losing plummeted. I also lost ALL flakes and any kind of dandruff. In fact, I could swear that my scalp actually got a little pinker. I don't know how much it did for my thinning hair, but it definitely did dramatically reduce the amount of hair I was losing, and I can see this just by what I track in the shower drain.

I still do lemon rinses 2-3 times a week. I have not used shampoo in over 3 months. I don't have any issues with grease/oil and my hair looks really, really nice. It smells good and feels really soft. I'd be curious to know if anyone else rinses with lemon juice, do you have to dilute it? Lemon juice has bite to it.

Anyways, sorry to keep rambling, but I was eager to share as much as possible.

-N-