Well my hair is flatter than it has been for the last week, and it’s because I’m back to using shampoo again.

I looked at my ends on Friday, and realized that they had a lot more split ends than usual.

Even though I’ve had compliments on how my hair looked and smelled with CO washing, I decided that I’d rather have flat hair than permanent damage.

I’m not exactly sure what is causing the split ends, and right now I don’t want to spend time trying to figure it out.

I did notice that with CO washing my hair was fuller, and had more body at the crown - and that says a lot for someone with classic length hair.

In addition to that, on Thursday I noticed that after I took off my knit cap there weren’t as many flyaways, or staticky bits of hair as there usually were after I took off my hat.

Of course I can achieve that effect by running a little coconut oil through my hair, so I’m not worried about that.

All in all I really loved what CO washing did for my hair, with the exceptions of increasing the amount of split ends, and tangles. If it hadn’t been for that I would have kept it up indefinitely.

I did try this experiment once before, and noticed more splits than usual, but I figured something else was going on, but now I believe that it was just the conditioners that I was using.

There are many people who use the CO method, and I’m sure that they don’t have problems with more split ends, or they wouldn’t keep doing it.

Although I have seen several people recommend that you alternate washing your hair with shampoo and conditioner, and conditioner only, I don’t think that this method would work for me because my roots are so oily. It might work for people with normal or dry hair.

I’d also like to add that although my hair seemed a little oiler than usual for the first few days of the experiment, it quickly evened out so that it looked just as clean as it does when I use shampoo - only it had more body.

At no time did I get strange looks from people wondering why my hair was so dirty, or questions about what was going on with my hair. I know this is something most people are worried about, and it’s also something that I worried about as well.

DH didn’t even really notice anything was going on, until I asked him if my hair looked different so that I could tell you what he thought

As always I’d love to hear your comments.

Thanks!