So, I've always wanted to try washing or rinsing my hair with actual demineralised water after good results with bottled water and filtered water.
Recently my hair has been extremely sticky and full of knots when wet and even my filtered water isn't helping that, nor conditioner. I feel like I have too much mineral build-up in my hair.
Bottled water makes hair super clean, soft, and removes a good amount of minerals, but can get a hassle, as you need to get multiple bottles from the stores to wash and rinse completely.
Filtered water, in e.g. a Brita jug, gives the same good results, but it slightly more practical, since a jug can hold several liters of water and you only have to fill it up under the tap (preferably the bath tap as my sink is too shallow). The problem is that maybe the volume isn't enough to wash and rinse at the same time. It takes about four liters to wash and rinse longer hair, while the jug holds maybe two or three liters and it takes a while to filter the water in between empties.
So, a large 5 liter jug of demineralised water sounds like a good plan no? To be honest I was scared to put something from the cleaning aisle into my hair.
I normally, for the reasons above, only rinse my hair with said waters, not wash it completely, which is not very representative, as I was going to actually wash my hair with the deminieralised one. So this study is not exactly empirical. Sorry!
So I took the giant jug and thought, let's fill a glass with this and wet my hair first. Welp, no way a glass of water wets my hair thoroughly. OK...let's try another glass... Ok, my hair is sort of wet now. Let's lather up the shampoo. Now, I need to rinse. One glass doesn't rinse all. Another... and another... it keeps foaming, like in that prank... Ugh, I just take the jug and lift is over my head, and need liters of it to rinse out the shampoo. Once all the shampoo is out I have used 4 liters out of 5. Will use the other one for my hot iron.
My hair didn't feel great. I didn't use conditioner, I know, but conditioner can really make my hair even more built-up, thus also heavy, dry, coarse and prone to breakage. I wanted my hair as pure as possible.
When tried to comb my wet hair, it was even harder than before. A lot harder... OMG! It was hell to comb through my hair! There were hundreds of sticky knots in there! I heard my comb shave over my hair and could just imagine the breakage...
After a whole five minutes of combing my extremy rough hair, I blowdried it. This was ok, my hair dried a lot faster because now the heat didn't have to get through layers of mineral build-up. Each strand felt super light, fresh and silky. My hair did look damn shiney, wow.
Straightener went a lot easier than usual as well, even after going to bed after just blow drying. I got my hair straight in 5 minutes, while it would normally take me 10 or more due to some build-up that deforms my hair even. I touched the back of my crown and just wow, that is what I wanted to feel: a smooth silk 'scarf' of hair on top of my head.
But... is it worth to pain to:
- buy a 5 L bottle at the store?
- the money?
- the plastic waste?
- lifting said bottle
- painful hair combing?
Well, the horrible knots while they hair is wet is a mystery to me and might be a personal issue. I will try conditioner next time.
As far as the result goes, I think I could achieve the same one if I actually washed my hair with the bottled and filtered waters instead of just rinsed. The whole hassle is too much for me, and if the knots are caused by the demineralised water, then hell no, I will rather sit and wait for my Brita filter to filter around 4 liters to wash ánd rinse.
Whatever the result with this, I will never buy demineralised water again to wash my hair, it's just not worth the pain. It's also very unsexy to use, and I have no clue where the water came from in these jugs.
(the water I used is not the one pictured)
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Helena
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