Things I like: GudonyaToo hair products

There are so many products out there that I think are just amazing, so I decided to start sharing them with you. I am making $0 from this blog, and all opinions are my own. Nobody sent me any free stuff, I promise.

Regular liquid shampoo tends to make my scalp itch and give me dandruff. The worst offender is Pantene, but lately Herbal Essences and even Fructis have been doing the same thing. (Plus, I'm trying so hard with my Nestle boycott, which also means no more Garnier.) A few years ago I discovered solid shampoo, which works well if you have particularly dry, frizzy coarse hair. It is apparently fantastic on natural african type hair or any of the very tightly curled hair (think jew-fro). Unfortunately for me, my very fine, thin, slightly wavy hair would be so weighed down by it that it'd look like I never washed it at all.

Then I found Gudonya Too on Etsy. They have a creme shampoo that sort of splits the difference. It lathers and rinses well, but it feels like a thick scrub when you scoop it out of the container. It has sea salt! You use a lot of water and the salt dissolves which makes bubbles. (Look on the back of your shampoo bottle: if it lathers, it'll have some sort of salt in it.) It gets my scalp and hair clean without overly drying, and I use it with their intense hair conditioner. The conditioner is amazing, too. It feels thinner than you'd expect but a little bit goes a long way, and you don't need to use it every day.

I now have the softest, silkiest hair I've ever had. Plus, it smells amazing. I prefer the spa fusion scent, but they have all kinds, including unscented conditioner for the sensitive folks. (I didn't see unscented shampoo but I'm sure you could ask.) For those who would need to know, the shampoo is vegan but the conditioner is not (silk extract).

Soon I'll be trying something new to try and regrow my hair a bit--it's supposedly better than rogaine and safer for mamas. If it doesn't pan out, I'll be ordering more of my favorite Etsy hair products!