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- Hey everyone I'm Mindy from Cute Girls Hairstyles,
and today I am going to be doing a video
that is apple cider, (stumbling over words)
I can't talk, apple cider vinegar rinse 101.
So I probably get more questions about this product
than any other product in my haircare line.
So today I'm gonna teach you why you should be using
an apple cider vinegar rinse,
the benefits of using an apple cider vinegar
on your hair and how I do it.
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and let's start talking all things apple cider vinegar.
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Let's talk pH for a minute.
The pH level, you know that there's high acidity
and then there's alkalinity at the bottom
and depending on where in that scale something falls,
it's either acidic or it's basic.
And so the skin and hair on your body
is typically running around 4.5 to a 5.5
which is slightly acidic.
Seven is considered neutral.
If you're using shampoos and other products
that are clarifying products for your hair,
that are stripping out the gunk and the extra oil,
they tend to be slightly alkaline.
So what happens over time is that your hair goes
from a 4.5, that low range that we talked about,
then it gets slowly and more and more and more alkaline,
as you use, use, use, use, use the products.
So the problem with that it starts to damage your hair
over time.
So something like an apple cider vinegar
that has a high acidity level to it,
it has the ability to pull that number back up
and even it back out that neutral ground
where your skin and hair thrive the very most.
Just keep in mind that even good shampoos and stuff
are going to over time,
do the same thing on your hair, just at a much slower rate.
So you wanna bring that acidity level back up
to keep your hair in check.
It's gonna help with so many things.
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My hair definitely needs to be washed,
it's day six for me,
which I normally wash on day four or five,
so this is a little longer than I normally go,
I have oil build up, I have exercised several days,
so there's nice sweat in there.
And then of course, I've used styling products
like dry shampoo and other things
so we're kind of to the point where my hair pretty much
if I move it, it stays in place.
So the apple cider vinegar rinse that I'm using today
is the Hairitage, An Apple A Day one,
and I'm using it because I know that all of these nasties
are removed.
It's sulfate free, phthalate free, paraben free,
silicone free, gluten free, mineral oil free,
color safe, cruelty free, and vegan.
On top of that it smells delicious
so I know that's not gonna leave my hair
smelling like vinegar either.
So I'm gonna use the shampoo
to do the normal clarifying cleanse on my hair,
then I'm gonna use the apple cider vinegar rinse
to restore the pH balance
and then I'm gonna add in my conditioner
to just add a little extra detangling properties.
So I'm shampooing, lathering up,
use my fingertips.
So you untwist the cap and this needle nose section
is so you can get it really down to into your scalp.
Then I take it and I just work it down into my scalp
and just gently squeeze as I'm going
and it kind of sets a little bit as you're going along,
so you know which sections you're getting it into.
And I try to squeeze a lot of the water out my hair
so it's just damp, it's not sopping wet.
You can see the setting, so you can feel where it's at.
And then when you're all done,
you've just gotta work it through like you would a shampoo.
And then I try to let it sit in my hair,
you can twist your hair up,
you can just leave it down, you can put on a shower cap.
I twist it up, and let it sit for a few minutes.
After five minutes then you just rinse it out
of your hair like you would a shampoo.
Okay guys, so this is my hair after the apple cider vinegar.
For me it still feels a little tangly
so I like to put a little conditioner
through this afterwards,
which is why do it in between the shampoo
and the conditioner.
But plenty of people literally just spritz this on
or rinse their after the conditioner,
that works too.
I'm using SOS, to put through my hair
and you're gonna see I'm starting at the ends this time
and I've already, again, squeezed a lot of the water out
and then I'm working it up from my rooms.
Okay, I've had the conditioner in my hair for a few minutes,
you can see how much better my hair looks
and I'm about to rinse it out.
But I also like to just run a comb through it
or a wet brush or a pick.
Whatever will go through your own hair.
And then after a few minutes I rinse.
I only us an apple cider vinegar
probably once every two weeks,
maybe sometimes even longer, it depends on the time of year.
Acidity over time, if it's too much, too often,
can dry your hair out.
So you need to be cautious of not overdoing it,
but do try play around a little with apple cider vinegar
to see how it responds to your hair
'cause you are going to love it.
We need to talk about cuticles.
So if you looked at your hair shaft under a microscope,
you would see that it's a big long tube,
so imagine this is your hair shaft,
and all over on that tube
there's little scales called cuticles.
Now typically the cuticles want to lay flat,
that's where their healthiest, that's where your hair
is gonna do the best, and when it's gonna look the best.
But over time, with dry air, with heat damage,
with coloring, if your hair just tends to be dry by nature,
what's gonna happen is that your cuticles start opening
and pulling up.
And the more open and pulled up,
the more likely it is that your hair is damaged,
or that you're gonna have fuzz,
that you're gonna have frizz,
that you're gonna get tangles,
it just produces overall dry and damaged hair.
Shampoos typically, like I already explained to you,
they have a little bit of alkaline in 'em.
What happens is that when you use that alkalinity in it,
it tends to pull up the cuticles just a little bit.
It opens up the cuticles.
So then, why we all like a conditioner,
is because the conditioner helps to lay the cuticles flat.
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So right now you can see Paisley
has her hair on this side.
I've halfened it out
'cause I'm demonstrating for you guys multiple ways
but normally her hair might be braided like this
or you might have it in cornrows,
or you might have it in some other form of protective style,
that you don't wanna undo the twist or the braids
all the time to wash the hair.
So in this instance you might need to wash the scalp
and cleanse so that there's not smell
or lots of grime building up,
but you wanna leave it like this.
So a shampoo would be too sudsy and too hard to rinse out,
that's where an apple cider vinegar rinse comes in.
What I would do in this case is imply just take,
this is why again, there's the pointed top,
just take the apple cider vinegar
and we're gonna go right in between her braids,
is it cold?
- Yeah.
- And down her heart lines.
So that we're just cleaning, adding that all over,
and when we get it to get to where it's all in there.
And you just take your fingertips and gently run it
through there onto her scalp,
trying not to undo her cute braids that are in
and we would just do that.
So that it's all over.
- It's cold.
- And we would let it sit for a minute or two
and then we would just lightly rinse all of that out.
Then you would just dry her hair with a towel
and you would set to go for a couple more weeks
before you have to take her entire style out
and wash and detangle her hair.
Okay, the second way to use an apple cider vinegar,
you could use as a no-poo wash,
so no-poo means no shampoo,
you just wanna use the apple cider vinegar.
In this case with her hair undone like this,
I would just make hearts and go along
through her scalp like this and apply it,
just like we were doing with the braids
and then rub down into her scalp
until it's setting and you're feeling that.
Sorry, Pais.
- It's cold. - And you're seeing that sud.
And then you would just shoot it through
the rest of her hair like this.
And rub it in until it was completely all over her hair
and then let it sit and then you would rinse it all out
and then add conditioner afterwards to moisturize even more
and hydrate.
The third way to use apple cider vinegar rinse
in between a shampoo and a conditioner.
So on Paisley's hair I use conditioning wash shampoo,
the co-wash.
For me the difference between this and using it as a no-poo
is simply how long it's been between washes
and how much build up there is in her hair.
So it's been several weeks she had her hair braided,
and so she had a lot of product build up
and I can feel that there's build up in her hair
that I'm interested in getting out with the co-wash first
and then I will use the no-poo to reinforce that
and to help seal and close some of her cuticles
and to really pump in some vitamins into her hair.
So I'm gonna start by just using the double down co-wash.
Okay so I have co-washed her hair
and rinsed it and I've just finger detangled as I was going
and now I'm going to apply the apple cider vinegar.
So again, we're just going into her scalp,
putting this in, just like we would if we only using this,
I'm just making finger part lines,
working down her scalp, all the way down.
- It's cold. - And then I'm gonna take it
and spray a little through the ends,
and make sure I'm working it all the way down.
And then what I'm gonna do is just rub into her scalp.
So I'm using the pads of my fingers,
not my nails and I'm just massaging,
this is great for your hair follicles
and this is great for your scalp,
it helps make sure all of that apple cider vinegar
is right up against that scalp.
And when we're done with that,
then I would go back in and add the hair mask,
which is what I use on Paisley almost exclusively
as the conditioner for her and work this all through,
detangle her hair, let it sit and moisturize.
And then of course, when we're done with that,
I would add in some leave-in conditioner
and that's that.
That's how you use apple cider vinegar.
So that's how I would use it on Paisley's hair.
It just depends on how you wanna use it.
My thing, again, I said this in other videos,
but you are the expert on your hair, not me,
so you guys take what you learn from me
and then apply it to your hair
by playing around with it, trying different things
and seeing what's gonna give your hair the best,
amazing results.
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Apple cider is full of vitamins,
it's a great, healthy, natural product.
For your scalp it's got an antimicrobial factor,
it has antibacterial factor and an anti-fungal factor,
can you get any better than that stuff?
Apple cider vinegar is also a great cuticle closer,
so your little shaft of cuticles that might be up,
this helps to shut them.
So what you're gonna notice immediately
when you use it, is your sheen is gonna be better,
your luster is more likely to be better on your hair,
it's gonna feel a lot smoother,
varying from hair to hair,
the discrepancy on what kind of results you get,
varies from hair to hair.
But these are the things you're commonly gonna see
by using apple cider vinegar.
I am not a licensed dermatologist or doctor,
I'm not here to tell you that
this is a miracle cure for your dandruff,
I'm just telling that this is
something you might want to try
if you experience having dandruff
and then in the past, it has been something that works
for some people.
I should also note you guys,
that apple cider vinegar is not just like the stuff
you can buy at the store and dump it on your hair
'cause that is a very very intense solution,
where apple cider vinegar that you're going to buy
from my life as already been pre-diluted,
which is much much healthier for your hair.
Okay guys, I hope you loved this video,
I hope you love learning more about your hair,
I know I certainly do and when I figured all this stuff out
10 years ago I was like, mind blown,
because I had been using all the wrong things for my hair
and this was so helpful for me to figuring out
a good hair routine and a good regimen
that was healthy for my hair.
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Bye guys.
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