Launching Evorganics line of personal care products

Ha ha, it's next to free so I don't bother to market it.

Step 1: Greasy

Coconut oil.  First of all it's a kind of reverse conditioner for hair or skin.  You massage straight into your scalp or skin, then you try to rinse it off as much as possible.  So it is self equalizing.  People have been looking for the conditioner just right for them.  That's a wrong or expensive approach.

Some use it to kill bacteria responsible for dandruff.  Some use it to repair damaged hair.  Some use it to soften tough skin.  In any case, I don't advice to leave it on for more than a few minutes.  It should also work if you do it more often.

The research is to dilute oil with glycerin and then water.  You can apply a lot less that way and feel better in the process.

This step is optional of course if you hair don't need conditioner.  I used to but I don't after switching to Evorganics.

Step 2: Soapy

I would suggest Dr Bonner's liquid soap.  The best part is that it can be diluted with water to a concentration that you like.  Avoid this step if you can.  The body should produce the right amount of body oil given the chance.  You don't want to strip off all the body oil. But if you put oil in your hair, probably you want to use soap to feel better.

As with all other steps, you should feel good about it.  But don't judge when you are wet.  It will not be squeaky clean as we are all brain washed to feel.  Say when your hair are dry, you should feel like having shampoo and then conditioner.  That's why you don't need them because you will feel the same with Evorganics.

Step 3: Salty

Baking soda solution in purified water (or tap water of course).  One teaspoon per cup is salty enough for your tongue.  Use it to rinse your hair.  Baking soda can dissolve grease in bulk, which is different than soap that only works on the surface.  It is pretty safe, used in and out of the body in medical applications.

Rinse thoroughly with water after each step.  If they can be combined I would have combined them.  Combine Greasy and Salty will result in soap.  That's why some morons on youtube cry foul, generating skunk in their hair.

This step is optional if you don't feel that your hair is dirty at all.

Step 4: Fruity

One teaspoon of citric acid crystals for several cups of water to suit your own taste.  If you can drink it, it won't be too harsh for your hair and skin.  This is an alternative to the more common vinegar rinse.  It's acidic but smell nice.

People use citric acid (or vinegar) to cure or prevent dandruff.  I think it's believable but don't leave it on over a minute.  It has cleaning properties at opposite of the pH scale of baking soda.  So you will have best of both worlds.  Mixing fruity and salty will give you carbon dioxide bubbles, and cancels each other.  But that's what some morons do in their washing machine.  Citric acid is also an excellent water softening agent.

I think I feel a lot of difference between vinegar and citric acid.  With citric acid, I feel my hair is shiny, fluffy, and the greasy feeling on my face disappeared at an instant.  But maybe that's just psychological.

This is optional if you don't feel your hair or skin dirty, and you don't need to prevent dandruff everyday.

People use lemon juice to lighten their blond hair and skin.  I agree that lemon juice contains more things and the process is more complicated.  I don't think that dilute citric acid and immediate rinsing will do anything to your hair or skin.

Step 5: Sweety

One teaspoon of glycerin per cup.  It's extremely common in personal care products as a water soluble moisturizer.  You know if you wash with just water, you will feel bad and dry.  I was hoping to compensate that by adding a moisturizer.  I'm not sure it do anything but I don't feel bad at all washing my hair and body with just glycerin water.  You can even leave it on as a moisturizer or conditioner.

Sweety combines with fruity to produce a little bit of polyester for making cloth fibres.  So don't combine.  This is the only essential step, or otherwise you are not even washing anything.  Glycerin also dissolves oil so it has it's cleaning powers.  It is also used in washing out ear wax.

You must add enough water to glycerin, say half and half, or it will take water from your skin.  Otherwise, the more glycerin the better but this is the only ingredient that cost some money.

Glycerine - the universal ingredient for personal cleaning

Using baking soda for a while, my hair is OK.  I thought of getting rid of body wash too.  But I can't do without moisturizer lotion, even if I use Dove for body wash.  I also suspect my dandruff is due to dryness.  I wash my hair everyday so the flakes are carried away without too much visibility.  But if I don't wash for a few days, the flakes come off in large visible pieces.

So I thought of adding moisturizer to my formula.  Glycerin fits the bill.  It's used in many many personal cleaning and cosmetics products.  You can get it easily online.  It's not expensive for the amount you need.

My objective is different from many other home made product blogs.  It have to work better, saving time and money are bonuses.  I believe in evolution work best, or sufficient.  I don't want to change the texture, smell, of my hair or skin.  I just want to give my body the chance to adjust and balance itself.  It also have to work for the kids.

Basically I wash everything with diluted Glycerin, roughly one teaspoon per cup of purified water (or tap water).  You must dilute Glycerin with water or it will absorb water from your skin.  If the whole family uses one teaspoonful per day, the 32 oz bottle will last for 3 months, which is pretty good.

I didn't add any other thing because you could leave it on your hair or skin.  People use it as hair detangler and it works pretty good.  But if you don't use shampoo to strip all the body oil, you can just wash with Glycerin water  and then rinse thoroughly with water.  Yeah, I use Glycerin water like shampoo.  After "washing" the hair will feel sticky when wet, but after the hair dries, my hair feels better than having shampoo and then conditioner.  It looks better.  And the next day I don't really need to wash my hair in order to make it tidy.  So basically I could have wash my hair once every several days, not dedicated by the morning look.

My skin feels good too without using any moisturizer.

If money is no object, you can just pour a cup or two Glycerin water (diluted) on your hair, and spray yourself all over the body.  $10 per bottle per month isn't bad at all.  But my cheap shampoo and conditioner probably last longer.

To save Glycerin, I use a 97 cent Walmart spray bottle to wet my hair, which works pretty good.  For the body wash I created a gel.  I dissolve one to two teaspoon of tapioca starch per cup of purified water and heat in the microwave to boil.  When cooled, you have a translucent gel.  When you squeeze it out from a bottle, it just look like a clear gel.  Of course, I also dissolve the Gycerin before heating.

Actually the best delivery bottle is probably the cheap squirt water bottle with a valve.  The water won't come out even when upside down, until you squeeze the bottle a little.  To get a proper and cheaper one, it's called (medical) cleansing bottle, or perineal irrigation bottle.  It's also very good to squeeze out gel.  It's easy to use for the kids, and water can't easily get in inside the shower even when the valve is open.  That's kid safe.

I also tried to wash my hair with the gel.  It doesn't make noticeable difference.  But I just don't feel right adding a lot of sticky starch onto my hair.  Though the gel can easily be rinsed away.

If I feel dirty, I'll spray myself with baking soda water first.

I also brought some Dr Bronner soap just in case.  The liquid soap can be diluted so it's not expensive.  But I don't think I need it except for my face and neck area.

I think vinegar rinse on hair may be useful.  Acid can remove some oil (and dirt).  It can neutralize the residue baking soda in solution form absorbed at the scalp.  But it assumes leaving the hair slightly acidic is better than slightly alkaline.  But I don't want one more step everyday for the kids.  I also tried diluted lemon juice rinse.  I think there's some difference from vinegar.  Lemon juice is a lot easier and smells good.

My hair looks and feels great, and still do waking up in the morning.