Hi Karin, I have a question for you. A really long while ago I think you wrote in your blog you stopped using regular hairdye and shampoo (I hope I remember that right!) Could you tell me (or make a blog post) about what you do with your hair? Your hair always looks fantastic but I bet you use an eco-friendly way to care for it, and not lots of products :) Do you use shampoo, or something else? Henna for hairdye? (and mixed with what?) I hope you can answer my question :) – Basje

You are correct! I do not use regular hair dye, because I am very allergic to it. I am not allergic to bleach, hence I kept bleaching my hair for a long while after I stopped using dye. Then I shaved my head & grew it out, after a while I got bored and started with henna instead. As it grew out I also experimented for a long while with not using shampoo at all, and instead washing my hair with only a conditioner & rinsing it in cold water. This really makes your hair look better, especially if you have curly hair. Also you have to wash your hair more seldom because it gets less greasy that way. You have to use a brand of conditioner without certain chemicals in them, so I’d recommend you to google “conditioner only method” or something like that because I found out on the swedish site Lockig.se (under: hårvård – vacker utan schampo) and both conditioner brands and ingredients can differ from country to country.
And that is the best method to clean your hair that I know.

However, nowadays I’ve got some dreads in the back of my head & don’t want to use conditioner so now I’m back to shampoo..  I buy Coop X-tra shampo because a) it has very few ingredients in it, and I believe that most shampoos have lots of crap in them to make your hair addicted to buying more of the same shampoo, and conditioner, and product, and so on & b) because it is like 9 kr and lasts 4-5 months. So that might nog be the most eco friendly alternative out there since I am not sure if the ingredients are biodegradable, but it works very well on my hair and I’m kinda scared to switch. If I do I will write about it!
I rinse out the shampoo in cold water which I think makes the hair look a lot better. I never use any products at all and I don’t heat up my hair with curling irons or the like. And I rarely tease it either, only sometimes if I really want big hair.
Another trick is to dry your hair with a kitchen towel instead of a regular one that is kinda ungentle on the hair.
I think that is it!

I am quite sad that my hair refuses to grow longer now though! In my dream world I have knee lenght hair.