Hard Water and Your Hair and What to Do About It!
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Do you have crazy hard water where you live? I sure do! And chelating shampoos have made a MASSIVE difference in the softness and shine of my hair.
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I shampoo my hair with distilled water only, and it’s made a huge difference! I live in TX where the water is pretty hard. I moved here from NC, which had naturally soft water. It took me a long time to figure out why my hair started changing when I moved here, but once I did, the difference has been incredible! I’ve looked into shower filters, but it seems most don’t do that great of a job. Thanks for the info in this video!
What’s your process for doing this? How much water do you go through?
@@alexsteph44 I go through 1.5 to 2 jugs of distilled water while doing my hair. I get the jugs from Walmart and heat it a bit before shampooing my hair. I’ve used it just straight from the jug without heating it too. I wet my hair, add the shampoo, and rinse with the distilled water. I also use distilled water in my spray bottle during styling. 😊
Did you get back your good quality hairs back after using distilled water
@@himanshubiyani4723 Yes! It made a big difference.
@@katherinevrandall Wish I knew about distilled water before. I spent months using spring water and was wondering why my hair was still having trouble. I had thoughts, did some googling and realized even bottled water has minerals. Im an idiot.
Had to tell you before I forget, it is pronounced "key-lating" as in car keys. I looked it up. Now back to the video! Your videos always put a smile on my face.
My well water is so hard that it ate through the stem of our brand new faucet in a week. And then the mineral deposits plugged the holes back up.
Ok
Wow that’s nuts!
Fracking area? That doesn't sound like just a 'hard water' issue. I hope you don't drink it or bath in it eeks
@@DebRoo11 nah, fracking is banned in my state. We live over a shale deposit which means Radon gas is an issue. On the other side of my state, the well water is full of sulfur.
Swear to God you could sell me ice on a cold day. Screenshotted and ready to order . LOL!!!!
First, that is an epic hair day. If it feels a
little heavy, maybe keep this routine in mind for days when you want your hair to be on point.
I have soft water here in Oregon, but I watched anyway because I’m a science geek. And I learned something! This is probably why shampoos later so well for me-often better than reviewers say.
I giggled a little when I saw that both you and Manes By Mell posted a hard water video today. The curly community has no excuse to be uneducated now! Go forth and buy hard water shampoos.
Hi Courtney! If I may add my grain of salt from a chemist’s viewpoint, it is unlikely than an apple vinegar rinse will significantly remove hard water deposit. Vinegar is made of acetic acid which has no chelating properties because of its chemical structure.
If you want to go for a natural alternative, you will have better luck with lemon juice which is made of citric acid and is chelating. However you have to be very careful with its very acidic pH. Hope that helps!
This is really useful thanks. I tried ACV rinses in the past and found they didn't do that much for me, it's nice to find out why.
Thanks. I'm so tired of the misinformation. People think vinegar fixes everything!😂
I did research on heavy metal contamination this year, so when I heard chelation I was like 🧿👄🧿
When I first started my hair journey I found you channel my hair looked terrible. It was straight in some places wavy in others and I thought that you had the most gorgeous hair. Your hair type was very similar to mine but I thought that the curl pattern was way differnt. As I am taking your tip and tricks into consideration as well as trying some of the products you recommend, my hair is getting healthier and it looks more like yours. I am aware that following your hair care tips will not make everyone's hair look like yours I am just very happy that I can finally enjoy the way that my hair looks and not have to tie it back. Thank you so much Courtney!
I live in the country and we have well water. Even with a softener I get build up like crazy. My go to is the Malibu hard water treatment! It works wonders!
That is a great one as well! Well water is tough too! Ugh!
I know this comment doesn't have to do with your topic of this video. I had to share! I started dabbling with CGM at the beginning of quarantine and found your videos. Holy cow! You are a wealth of knowledge! I've learned so much from your videos and have received so many compliments about my hair. 😊 I purchased the Perfect Hair wrap and brush last week and used the brush for the first time just now. I LOVE IT!! Thank you for always doing these videos. I hardly ever comment on anyone's videos, but just had to let you know that you've helped another person. 💕
I tested my water and it has a pH of 9! I use the ION Hard Water shampoo every other month sometimes more. It has helped so much. I have done a club soda final rinse and my hair felt nice. I guess that is a similar thing.
Angela G did you also got shower filter? Also is leaving rinse with club soda or Apple cider vinegar okay? Like do I have to rinse it with clean water 😒
Your curls just keep getting better and better! I’ve been following you for awhile now and it’s been so fun seeing your progress 💜
Hi Courtney! My good friend lived off grid for a few years and washed her long curly hair with rainwater. It was so soft and healthy she didn't even need conditioner! When she moved to town with hard water, her hair became rough, dry and she had to use conditioner again. Her hubby will be installing gutters with a barrel so she can wash with rainwater again 😉.
As long as you don't live in an area with a lot of pollution for the rain to pick up on its way down, this is not a bad idea
Omg THANKYOU so much for making this video!! I’ve been struggling with hard water and curly hair for 12yrs now! I just thought it was my hair
Hi their 35🐭🐦🐗🐹
I think it might be more cost effective & convenient(less plastic waste too) to install a water filter on your shower head than to rinse with distilled water. If your water is so hard it's damaging pipes, might be time for a soft water or total water filtration system throughout your home (if you own the home of course.) Water that hard can give you kidney stones as well as be bad for your hair. Where I live we don't get that white, hard scaliness but instead a pink, slightly slimy residue from standing water. I must wipe out my dog's water bowl thoroughly before refilling it & wipe down the deck of the tub regularly or anywhere water might accumulate/dry repeatedly. We filter our drinking/cooking water but not our bathing water since it doesn't seem especially hard. ( My dog's water is filtered through a Brita but apparently it doesn't remove whatever the pink slime is)
I get the same pink residue in my tubs, toilets, and pet bowls. Do you know of a good shower head filter?
@@laurentyler3518 I don't off hand. You'd probably have to check with the manufacturer of your shower head & see if they provide one or check with your local Lowes, Home Depot, hardware store & ask. I know that the Brita filters don't eliminate the pink so I assume no other charcoal filter would either.
I invested in a water soften system. I recommend Rain Soft system, amazing difference in my water.
How often should you be using a chelating shampoo if you have hard water? Love your videos!
Wondering this too.
@@lolodrake12 hi how you doing
Really depends on how hard your water is. If your water is REALLY hard, maybe every wash would be necessary. But more than likely, it’s not. I have pretty hard water but I only chelate 1 time a week. Manes by Mell just released a video ALLL about chelation and hard water. Check it out!
@@lizmoore852 you call once a week not too much? Dang. Where I live it's normal to wash our hair once a week, I thought you were going to say once or twice a month 😅
@@SaraHinata well if you're only washing your hair once a week you aren't getting hard water on your hair often so then once a month would make sense for you
Please do a distilled water rinse! I have hard water and also use the Ion hard water shampoo and have considered using distilled water for a rinse, but like you, don't want to spend the extra money. I already have to use distilled water every night for my Bi-Pap machine.
I just ordered the Ion hard water shampoo. Excited to try it! My hair is so copper right now. It's supposed to be blonde! I've been using vitamin C to remove a dye mishap, and peroxide based lightening spray by John Frieda to blond it up and remove the orange (which has worked before), but it's all backfiring on me now!!
I have well water so it is extremely hard water. It explains so much why my hair looks so brassy so quickly even when I use purple shampoo! I’ll have to try a chelating shampoo. Your hair looks great, Courtney! I would like to see you rinse with distilled water to see if there is a noticeable difference!
Oh. My. Goodness. I knew I had hard water from your previous videos, but it had never occurred to me to look it up. The pH in my area is 8.35!!!!
Malibu C Un Do Goo is another wonderful chelating shampoo - used by hair professionals and salons. This is my chelating shampoo of choice.
Your hair looks gorgeous and super shiny! Thanks to your advice I did buy the Ion hard water shampoo.
Can you please do a video about wet frizz? I can’t for the life of me fix or anything
I think she has one. I also think Curly Susie has one about it. I have so much wet frizz it’s ridiculous so I feel your pain!
This is truly amazing.... in the entire video, while you did your hair....not a SINGLE hair fell out. My jaw is still on the floor. I have a LOT of hair, a lot! but in the past few month I feel its just shedding and shedding (and I suspect hard water), so for me... to reach a zero hair loss state....OMG, unimaginable!
Well done for finding out a cool routine for yourself!
Thanks for this video we live in a hard water area so I will be looking out for these ingredients as the products mentioned aren’t available in Ireland your hair looks amazing in this by the way
Your eye makeup is AMAZING.
I would say yes to the experiment! Those are always fun :D
Thanks for this video! Its so hard for me to get no frizz and flyaways. I want glycerine free but then also protein free/low. Thats hard! Just like my water haha.
I live in a hard water area. Got myself a filter for my shower head, best thing ive ever done. I can tell if im even a week overdue for changing the filter, my skin and hair get dries out so bad so fast, but when I remember to change the filter, my hair and skin feel fantastic.
May I ask what kind/brand you got?
@@jek504 Sprite I think. I got it at Home Depot
@@sugoiharris1348 Thank you!!
I like the ion shampoo. Glad to hear about the rest of the products so I have new things to try.
Yes! Please do the distilled water experiment.
UGH YOUR HAIR IS SO PRETTY!!! Thank you for all of your videos they're so helpful.
Omgosh I just checked my city’s level on hardness, I’m out in west Texas. 243 ppm!!! I knew we had hard water but gracious!
I heard you could wash your hair with rainwater instead of distilled water. But all those tips were very helpful, we are getting basically rocks from our tap :D
Ive been washing my hair with bottled spring water. My hair is better but is STILL getting damaged! What I literally JUST discovered is that I should be using distilled water. Distilled is stripped of ALL minerals and metals. Gonna start buying that instead because it made no sense that even my new growth was still getting super destroyed.
I've just realized the same thing after my hair got destroyed by hard water...thought bottled water was the way to go...it's definitely better than my shower water but wasn't really doing much to improve things. Now I realize I need distilled water
@@winterlynn9012 In case this helps, Ive been using distilled for about a month now (i wash about 1x week) and my hair feels better. Im finally able to use conditioner again. When I would try moisturizing my hair when I used hard water and spring, it made it worse. So im able to better care for my har. I also missed being able to pamper myself with all the hair treatments, etc.
Ever since starting to take better care of my hair over a year and a half ago, I've always struggled with really frizzy poofy, dry, dull looking hair. I've tried a lot of products and masks and no matter what I do I still deal with a lot of poofiness and frizz and my hair just isn't shiny. For a while now I've speculated that perhaps I have hard water. Watching your video and doing some research, it turns out here in North Texas we have hard water. Definitely going to buy that shampoo and see if it helps. I wonder if my sister's brassy and orange looking ends are due to the hard water, versus us thinking it was hair bleaching due to the sun.
Did it work for you? How's your hair now?
Omg Courtney your hair looks fabulous♥️♥️♥️
Hey Courtney! Love your vid - always so helpful!
Any tips / could you do a vid on how to cope with high humidity, please? I am a wavy low-por girl, and have noticed my hair has more definition abroad than in the UK! Usually because when I would travel, pre-lockdown of course, I would go somewhere warmer and dryer. Humidity in Cardiff this evening is 92%! I'm coming to the end of my current products and would love to buy some new ones that are better suited to the weather here! Any recs?
Thank you so much!
I can't seem to find a hard water shampoo here in Belgium without paying an arm and a leg. 🤷🏻♀️ However I read that bentonite clay could work for hard water but can't seem to find detailed info. Perhaps you know more about this? 😉
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Thanks for the vid! You’re one of my favorite curly/wavy channels, I was wondering if you have any other favorite curly/wavy channels you could recommend? Thanks!
Your hair looks AMAZING
The water at our house has been super hard, and the landlord just had a softener installed, the guy who installed it tested the water and said that the water was over 300 ppm!
Off topic -- who? me? you? lol I love your tangents... I'm talking t-shirts!! When I go to your website, the only purchase option leads me to your Amazon shop, which is still great.. but I'd love more info on purchasing your designs! Thanks and keep on curling/waving!
Thanks Courtney, I’ve been wishing for this video!
Have a good might🐹🐏🐖
Hi Courtney! I'm a very new wavy-curly, only a week in. I've been binge-watching your videos and learning so much. Here in San Diego, we have very hard water. When I wash my face, I do a final rinse with distilled water (I spray it with a spray bottle, so I don't waste much) and I have thought of doing the same thing with my hair, but I haven't come up with a way to do it without wasting too much water. I can't just spray my hair with a spray bottle, but I don't want to pour a jug of distilled water over my head either. If I come up with an efficient way of rinsing without too much waste, I'll come back and post it here. In the meantime, I'd love to see a video if you decide to give it a try.
Doesn’t still water also have minerals added like calcium, magnesium,etc 😒
Good question.
Your hair!!! Its looking so curly now!!! Its changed so much from the beginning ! Love your videos ♡
Well I'm atheist, so I can't speak on the spiritualism that people might feel
But can confirm about the my bad hair days looking better than I think!
I used to work (pre virus) at a wellness clinic where people usually came in about once a week, once every two weeks for our services, and most everyone was a regular (our location was in a bad spot with little foot traffic but I digress)
Anyways the regulars would come in and always tell me how pretty my hair was getting and how shiny it is and how nice it looked! I think I only ever had once person try to insult me by saying beach waves weren't curls, but I was just happy that my hair could be identified as waves from strangers and I was surprised that I didn't receive more gatekeeping lmao 😂
Cool bean🫘 … LOVE it!! 🥰
Have you ever tried shower filter ? I moved into a new place and discovered hard water !! I was in tears after second shower ( also I have very very fine hair so my hair tangles very very easily ) because i literally couldn’t brush through my hair had to put in a pony went to my friends and started showering at her house after realizing the problem and buying a water softener for my Lanlords house isn’t in my budget . After doing some digging I found a shower filter called aqua home group 20 layer filter system there’s also a showered head that you can add extra vitamin c for harder water . I live in Minneapolis and we have the top 5 hardest water on the country so i decided the 50 bucks was with trying I was actually shocked by the results even my kids are happy with it . I don’t think it works as good as a softener but makes it manageable and I can brush my hair again after shower .
Yep I think this is the issue with my hair. Stupid hard water
Thank you for the video and showing how you use the AG Hair Recoil and the amount you used.
I always have the best hair days after the clarifying with hard water shampoo. Mine is with sulphates too, it is a little drying, but after I DC then I literally have the best hair days. It's difficult to resist and not use this shampoo every single wash.
Omg girl your hair looks sooo good in this video! I love your videos, very helpful with everything that goes into the CGM. Keep it up :)
Would it not be sufficient to use a typical water filter pitcher like you would have in your fridge?
In uk where I live we have soft water. Thanks Courtney
Yes yes and yes!!! This was my problem when I lived in South Dakota. I remember getting a cut and the stylist asked if I dye my hair. I did not! But the hard water ruined my hair! I now use Malibu C shampoo once a week and we also bought a filtering showerhead which helps a ton. Please do the distilled water experiment!!!
What filtering shower head did you purchase? I have been trying to find a reputable one.
Several videos on water-related hair problems and I’m so confused. 😣
Our water has measures around 350-500 ppm dissolved solids but my hair feel over-conditioned, overly soft, almost wet, but it’s super shiny, and getting my natural curls to curl has been a major struggle since I moved here. (Well-water.) It always feels WAY over-conditioned no matter whether I use Suave Daily clarifying or a chelating shampoo. I’ve had to recently just give up on conditioner entirely after living here a year. (All my old products and some new have failed me.) And my scalp and skin are both a mess; itchy, flaky, dry, irritated. To top it off, my hair looks like it’s thinning!? Idk, if it’s related, or just stress at this point, but I am totally at a loss. 4 years of curly (wavy?) method, and I’ve gone backwards. Negative progress.
I was regularly getting 3a curls before moving. Suddenly, especially the past maybe three months, I’m lucky to get 2a over most of my head, with weird spots that still want to attempt seriously disfigured 2c curls, but not down the entire lengths; just in spots, at the roots (with strait ends), mids and/or just ends.
I’m baffled. And I can’t seem to find anything anywhere on this.
I have been only washing my face with distilled water for a year now and so much of my acne on my face has cleared up and it's less oily because the hardness of my water and the chlorine and chloramines it's treated with in my area made it more dehydrated so it produced more oil. I have been thinking it would help my oily but dehydrated feeling scalp but that would be expensive!
Glad I found your channel! We definitely have hard water. What about the ION conditioner? Have you tried it?
How are chelating shampoos different than clarifying shampoos? Do rinsing and shampooing continue to deposit minerals on hair? Long term solutions are probably quite expensive.
I have well water Courtney would you suggest the ion shampoo
I have well water, the ion shampoo has worked really great for me :)
You can test for hard water with Castile soap. If you put the soap in the water it will become cloudy if it’s hard.
Oh wow I mop with that and it turns it white
I was wondering if your no 1 goal in your formulate formula, is curl definition?
I just started using formulate, and love it. I have thinning as my no 1 goal, and I've noticed significantly less hair fall since using. .
But my daughter has curl definition as no 1 goal, and we noticed a HUGE difference right away.
You should get a shower filter! on amazon 30 bucks$$$!!!
What do you think about the Kinky Curly Come Clean shampoo?? Is it also good when you have hard water?
So I have hardwater, but I have a water softener, do I still need to worry about potential build up on my hair?
My sisters and my hair does not like city water it much prefers the well water it sucks
My water turns my hair orange I live in Oregon By the way
Love your shirts
What kind of cap for the deep conditioning/where to buy?
How much conditioner do you use in your hair?
I feel like I'm going through mine so fast.
Soooo many products ughhh. So at the end do you rinse that out or is that all left in your hair?
distilled water rinse or just a shower head filter??
I would love to see you try a filter attachment for your showerhead!!
Wow, you really know what you're doing; your hair looks great!!!
Awe thank you! :)
Love this! Love your videos!
How hard is your water on the water scale?
Formulate says ours is 100/100.... it's horrible.
What if I live in a brand new home? We just built it.
Congrats on the new home! You maybe able to find the information with your city or a search on a local facebook page.
How often do you use the hard water shampoo?
So a chelating shampoo is different than a clarifying one right? Or same thing? Sorry if that's a dumb question. I'm so new to all of this curly girl stuff
I think welshiecurly on Instagram talked about how it's different!
Do you style you head in the shower or do you get out and do it over the tub like you did in this video?
She has said she always does it upside down in the tub.
You can get a filter system put in your house
That would for sure help!
Someone knows how hard is the water in NYC.
What kind of Vinegar did you use on faucet? ACV or distilled?
Normal white vinegar works really well for all sorts of cleaning. Avc will not work as well. I buy 20 litres of white vinegar every 3 months or so from Amazon for about £15
I envy your ability to produce oil! This subscriber is so dry, I bleed.
Is cooking or drinking hard water okay or not healthy ? 😒
My hair still feels brassy and stiff after 2 washes and yes I deep conditioned w/hyaluronic acid right after!!
If it still feels brassy and stiff is it possible that I still have hard water build up ?!!?
What are you using to get rid of the hard water? Was the hyaluronic acid in a deep conditioner?
I have been struggling at home where our water is soft. I had a wash day at my sister's house in Houston and my hair came ALIVE. She said she has hard water. WHY does my hair act better in harder water??
Haha oh man that crazy! It sounds like your hair likes a little bit of grit. You might try using stylers in your soft water that are more gritty.
Thank you! I will look in to that! I spend so much time watching your videos that my husband even knows who you are. It is an honor to have you reply to my comment! 😍
Hye cortney, your really talks like cortney Cox of friends😆😄
Is it weird that I'm struggling with naturally soft water? My scalp never feels clean unless I use a chelated shampoo, but then my hair lengths and ends get too stripped. I've tried regular or gentle shampoos for weeks/months, but my roots are stil limp even after my hair dries on wash day. My scalp is also often itchy and irritated (pinkish or redish). I used to get 3A spirals without even trying, but now it's really hard to get definition. I've also been losing a lot of hair to the point that my hair part is wider and the hair right beside the part is thinner (I can see more of my scalp than I used to).
Maybe just try a normal clarifying shampoo and not chelating because chelating is for hard water and is very drying. Clarifying is drying to but not as bad as it’s not meant to remove hard water and pool chemicals it’s only supposed to remove residue from your everyday products and silicones that build up
That being said whenever you clarify you must ALWAYS deep condition afterwards. If you struggle with your ends put some conditioner on your mid-shaft to ends before clarifying then after that follow up by deep condition your whole head to balance it out. This should work and please let me know if it helped
Would a regular clarifying shampoo work ?
Would the suave clarifying be chelating enough to pull out deposits?
Nope..while Suave does contain Disodium EDTA, it is not in high enough concentrations to remove all Ca and Mg deposits. 😫
@@SwavyCurlyCourtney dang. Stupid hard water. Does make our coffee taste better 😉
How about Kinky Curly Come Clean?
I have classic length hair and find distilled water is very helpful.....*
The distilled water business is a big hassle. I have water filters on my shower head and it helps. And I put a little white vinegar in water to rinse. The slightly acidic pH will lift the minerals, chelates the minerals, out of the hair. Condition well.
What kind of water filter do you have on your shower heads?
I love the color of your hair. Do you dye it? if so, do you have the color number?
Hi. I stay away from dea and mea. It has a bad right up
Manes by mell uploaded a video just like this on the same day this was uploaded
Hey! I notice that bouth Ion and Malibu hard water shampoo, have sodium C 14-16 olefin sulfonate.. As much as I know that ingredient is a sulfate to avoide if you follow the curly girl method, because it s a agressive cleaning agent . Just wondering....
I tested my water and it's 1000ppm. Pray for me 😭
Woahhhhhh haha 😂