Please help, I’ve ruined my hair with a shampoo bar and now it won’t wash out

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I tried one of these eco-friendly shampoo bars from Ethique. Not only did it make my hair greasy, but it’s also built up this sticky residue which I can’t get rid of. Stupidly, I was determined to persevere with the shampoo bar so I kept it up for four or five washes until I finally decided enough was enough.

Yesterday I went back to my normal shampoo in a bottle and it doesn’t seem to have worked. The sticky residue is still there and it feels like there’s more and more buildup. It feels horrible.

Please tell me this will get better and it’ll wash out eventually? Otherwise how can I get it out of my hair and get things back to normal?

I’m allergic to lots of stuff and I should’ve left well alone. Lesson learned.

On dry hair apply loads of aloe Vera gel all over your hair and scalp like a hair mask and leave in for an hour before washing out.

Washing up liquid. Put it on dry hair, then rinse it out.

If thr bar wad pik based another hair oil might work, as oil removes oil. I'd massage something like one of the treatment oils you get throughout leave for at least half an hour or longer if you can then use a harsh shampoo like head and shoulders or as others have said washing up liquid. It will definitely come out eventually after enough washes anyway so don't panic.

*if the bar was oil based

dementedpixie · Yesterday 20:31

Could you try washing up liquid?

I was told as a child never to do that, or to use it to wash a floor, because of the sticky residue. I did resort to it when I got creosote in my hair, then loads of washes with normal shampoo....

Try putting your usual shampoo on your dry hair,massage in then,leave a few minutes then wash out.

Seriously just use the washing up liquid.
I was having problems due to products with too much parabens and whatever and Fairy liquid sorted it out.
I now use shampoo and conditioner from Holland Barrett with none of those things and it smells of turkish delight ( rose ).

rookiemere · Today 06:46

Seriously just use the washing up liquid.

Yes, sorry - I just meant not to use it under normal circumstances!

As a kid my hair was washed with washing up liquid when we ran out of shampoo, there was no problem with it.
Neutrogena used to do a brilliant shampoo that took all build up off.

if you have a nit comb try that
I think coke would work too

Vosene shampoo

Another vote for washing up liquid on dry hair then rinse, you could dilute it a little before applying

Did it have cocoa butter in? This has happened to my kids a couple of times when they've used solid shampoo that contained cocoa butter. Total nightmare to remove! We just had to keep on washing..

ittakes2 · Today 06:54

I think coke would work too

It would lift her mood, but she can't go out to her dealer, not with her hair in that state!

😃

Vosene is good for this. Make sure you leave it on for a couple of minutes and use it a few days in a row.

I would definitely try a scalp scrub, they are really good at getting rid of any build up and leave your hair feeling really clean

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Ug this happened to me too, how are they allowed to sell this rubbish?!

I only used it once and it did wash out after 3 latherings of head and shoulders shampoo, I’m sure it will come out!

Whatever you get out of 1 lemon and about a cup of warm water.

This happened to me with the first shampoo bar I tried. Took about a week to get back to normal. I switched to lush bars and never had the same problem.

Thank you very much everyone!

I feel like shampoo bars are all the rage at the moment. I was thinking about why I persevered with it and didn’t just give up after one or two goes, and honestly I think I was just sucked in by the marketing. Ethique clearly have the strongest marketing and brand identity etc, and their website is full of five star reviews so I thought surely it must work, and I must’ve done something wrong if it didn’t work for me so I’d better try again. I really wanted it to work! I won’t be trying it again.

I do recommend trying a different bar. Like I said, the Lush ones are much better. I really wanted to make it work when I was on a binge to cut plastic in my life and I'm really glad I did.

John Freida Detox shampoo.

I had a tonne of buildup from Olaplex products. My hair felt awful. I grabbed the above shampoo in Asda and gave my hair two shampoos and a conditioning…perfect.

Bicarbonate of soda works really well for me too. Saves buying expensive clarifying shampoo.