Water Filtered Shower Head

Tonight I bought a water filtered shower head. I have read that filtering any and all water you consume/use is best, but since my house is like 100 years old and falling apart I will have to stick with doing what I can. Everyone knows the benefits about filtering drinking water but there is also supposed to benefits to washing yourself with filtered water.

So anyway I went to Lowes and bought a Sprite Showers Filtered Shower Handle ($30).

The claims are that the filters takes out the chlorine and dirt from the water so that your hair and skin are free of all that and softer. It is supposed to cut down on the buildup of soap scum in the shower too. I know my water is hard. I have fine, blonde hair and I always have such a hard time with it being weighed down without any product. It tends to look and feel greasy and dirty even after I wash it. I have changed my shampoo and conditioner so many times. I have tried not conditioning my hair, using a “cleansing” shampoo, washing my hair flipped upside down. Lots-o-things. So now I am trying the filtered water thing. The shower head has a filter inside the handle which says it needs to be changed every 3 months. At Lowes you can buy a 2 pack of the filters for $14. So I guess that’s not bad, $28 a year.

I am going to give it a few weeks until I make a complete decision on whether or not it was worth it. I’m sure it will take some time until my hair/scalp and skin is free of what is already built up on it. So I will update my blog every so often on the progress.

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Homemade Sea Salt Spray

First off, why do all the different products I LOVE always end up discontinued?? I am so skeptical and frugal when it comes to buying beauty products. The cheap side of me wants to buy the cheapest hair products or cosmetics because (and this is my skeptical side) when I do make the jump and splurge ($10-$20) I almost always end up disappointed.

 

So a few years ago I bought a bottle of John Frieda's Beach Blonde Ocean Waves Sea Spray ($5) because I was actually looking for a way to lighten my blonde hair without dying it and the Beach Blonde collection had a lightener, I don't remember how, but I ended up buying the Sea Spray product.

 

AND I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!

 

But of course they discontinued it and 2 years ago I bought 3 bottles off of someone on eBay and 2 of the bottles were something fake, I don't know what, but they were not the real deal. So I have been holding on to this last and only bottle for dear life. That was 2 years ago and now I only have about 3oz left so I have been searching for a replacement. And like I said I am skeptical and thus frugal so it saddens me that sea salt spray can really only be found online (at least there is no where to buy it in my area) and the prices range from $9-$25+. I don't think so, not when I don't know if it's any good. So I have decided to make my own since the ingredients are few and I actually have all of them in my house!

 

• Water (8oz)- I used spring water because I figured it was better than the hard water I usually shower in, but you can use any kind of H2O

• Sea Salt (1tsp per oz of water/8tsp) - I already had a sea salt grinder as I use it in place of regular salt. You can buy it at Dollar Stores now, and obviously use it for seasoning food if you want.

• Conditioner (1tsp) - I used White Rain Tropical Coconut because 1. I already had it and 2. I wanted to keep with the coconut smell, but you can use whatever you want/have.
• Hair Gel (dollop)- This is used to help keep some shape
• Spray Bottle- I used a 10oz bottle and it filled it just to the top, so use 10oz+, if you use one you have from around your house, make sure to rinse it out good.

 • *OPTIONAL* Seed Oil (3-4 drops) - Actually any kind of oil, tea tree or cuticle oil. Again I read this on the ingredients of the John Frieda bottle and I already had cuticle seed oil. I don't know what it will or won't add, but what the heck.

 

I took a shower (I needed to anyway) because I always felt that when I used the John Frieda spray it worked best when my hair was completely wet like after a shower. Now the directions say you can spray it on damp or dry hair (even throughout the day) but when I used it on my dry hair it always made it feel gross and greasy. Plus if you think about it it's suppose to act on your hair the way it would after you went swimming in the ocean. So I just used it as I have always used the JF kind, I shook it up to mix and sprayed it all over my head, flipped my head down and sprayed underneath. I decided to let my hair air dry (I have nothing going on today) while I am writing this blog. Periodically I am just kind of scrunching my hair and twisting some strands, nothing major.

 

I have read some online complaints that the salt dries you hair/scalp out. Yes I guess it would since salt will do that to your hair and skin. So to decrease this problem I wouldn't use it every day. And make sure to condition you hair good. I personally am not too concerned with the drying of my scalp because I have the oiliest hair ever! Really I do. I MUST wash my hair every day and sometimes twice a day depending if I am going out or something.

 

So my hair is not completely dry but I figured I would post this photo anyway. I normally have pretty straight hair. This is only my homemade sea salt spray. I have done nothing but scrunch and twist my hair a little bit. So judge this photo on that much. I have not styled it or pinned it or anything, I am even still in my pepto colored house coat.

 

 

 

This is just to show what the spray did to my hair.  I am pretty satisfied with it.  I may tweak it with a little more salt, but so far so good.  I would recommend anyone has enjoyed marketed sea salt spray to make this.  I did have all the materials around my house, but if I had to estimate a cost, maybe $3-$4, depending on if you can go to a Dollar Store.

 

Good Luck ツ