Baking soda treatment?

**Archy** · 01-05-2015, 09:21 AM

Hey, does anyone use a baking soda treatment for low porosity hair?? And if you do how often can it be done and what does you mixture consist of?

Thanks in advance

**OHR** · 01-06-2015, 07:01 AM

Good Morning and Welcome!
Try here, here and here for ideas on using baking soda. You might also check out YouTube videos for ideas and techniques.

ETA: Sorry! Click on each 'here' and that will take you to the thread

**underthehood** · 01-06-2015, 09:06 PM

Just a question: what is a baking soda treatment/ what is it meant to accomplish? And why low porosity hair specifically?

I've never heard of it before....

**LBellatrix** · 01-07-2015, 01:31 AM

My understanding is that it opens the cuticles, allowing more moisture to penetrate. It makes low-porosity hair more porous, I believe.

Ever since my disaster with the original baking soda conditioner treatment some years back, I've only done baking soda rinses, and I haven't done one of those in a VERY long time.

**Archy** · 01-08-2015, 07:03 AM

Yup that's what I understood as well and it acts as a good cleanser and makes the hair softer (supposedly). What went wrong with your treatment?

**LBellatrix** · 01-08-2015, 11:32 PM

I described my experience on this site...don't know if you can find it though...

I forget whether I mixed equal parts baking soda and conditioner or one part baking soda to two parts conditioner but whatever it was, it was too much. It felt like I'd given myself a texturizer: same intense curl definition, same intense dryness. It took a good six weeks for my hair to stop feeling like straw...and that's after trying EVERYTHING, including rain water, to get it to feel soft again.