Here's Part 3 of Lightening Natural Hair Naturally. The method here is a bit riskier for your hair for different reasons. I do not foresee my self using this option because of the risk involved but I believe sharing is caring and you should have a go if you want to.
Hydrogen Peroxide & Baking Soda Paste
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I know some people will say this method isn't "natural", but the basis of the recipes I put up in Part 1 of this series was the peroxide in the honey and cinnamon. This just skips the waiting for the peroxide to form step. This can get a bit messy, so be ready to
clean up afterwards. Because this will give you almost instant results you should probably do a test patch so you can see what your end result will look like. Take a small section of hair from your nape or somewhere similarly well hidden and test the mixture there before you lighten your whole head.
Ingredients/Tools:
Peroxide
Baking Soda
Disposable Vinyl Gloves
Spoon
Bowl
Shower Cap or Grocery Bag ( For Total Hair Color )
Thick Nourishing Conditioner/Deep Conditioner
Drying Towel
Blow Dryer (optional)
Steps:
1. Put On Your Gloves
2. Create a paste out of the baking soda and peroxide. It should be thin enough to spread around but thick enough that it wont drip every where.
3. Apply the mixture
4. Put on your shower cap/plastic bag and leave the paste on for 30 minutes, if you want it lighter than that then leave it on for an hour. DO NOT exceed an hour.
5. Thoroughly rinse your hair with cool water. Now, saturate your hair with a thick nourishing conditioner, preferably a deep conditioner that contains protein. Let the conditioner do its magic for about 20-30 minutes or longer.
6. Thoroughly rinse with cool water and pat dry. You may want your hair to air dry or you can blow dry it on cool to see the results.
Why this is dangerous for your hair
Baking soda is much more alkaline than hair, so it will lift the cuticle wide open and allow moisture out of the hair strand. Peroxide is the oxidizing agent in hair color, and its role is to break the chemical bonds in your hair so your natural pigment (melanin) is broken down, resulting in the lightening effect. If left on for too long your hair will become dry and break easily.
- If you only want to lighten a section of your hair you can use aluminium foil to contain the mixture.
- If you would like your hair lighter, it is up to you to lighten your hair again. I don't recommend doing it more than once a week. I'd go for every other week with both protein and moisture treatments in between, in the end it depends on the health of your hair.
- You can also do an ACV rinse after this treatment to close your hair cuticle back up and prevent dryness. Find the recipe here
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