No 'Poo do!

I've recently embarked on a shampoo-free journey and I must say, so far so good. I was very hesitant about this, regardless of all of the good things I've read about it.

I started out by washing with a mixture of baking soda and water, followed by a white vinegar rinse.
*Mix baking soda and water until it turns into a paste. Thick enough to not be runny in your hair, thin enough to rinse out easily. I'm still playing with the consistency*

Afterwards, I did a coconut oil and milk mask.
*1 teaspoon coconut oil and 1 cup milk*

I would have did the mask first, but I felt like I needed to do a mask on clean hair versus hair that hadn't been washed in a week (I only wash my hair once or twice a week, as is). The mask made my hair insanely oily and horse hair like, but I slept on it without washing it with actual shampoo. The next morning, I washed again with baking soda and vinegar. The baking soda did help pull some of the oil out, but it was still oily. Yet, I did not wash. I kept on trucking. Here's my run down thus far:

Day 1 - Baking soda/vinegar/coconut oil mask
Day 2 - Baking soda/vinegar
Day 3 - Nothing, just a water rinse in the shower
Day 4- Nothing, water rinse in the shower - This was the first day that I saw a difference. I normally have to blow dry my hair followed by a flat iron, otherwise I'm a fluffy mess. Today, I let it air dry and my hair looked awesome!
Day 5 - Nothing at all, my hair is pretty much coconut oil free at this point. It is a little oily, but I think that's because my hair is trying to compensate from the years and years of shampooing and stripping it of it's natural oils.
Day 6 - That's actually tomorrow, but I don't plan on doing anything other than a cool water rinse in the shower.

I'm going to keep this up for at least a month or so. I want to give it the opportunity to level out and see how it goes. I do need to continue to play with the consistency of my baking soda paste and also the hair mask. Some people are worried about their hair smelling like vinegar from the rinse, but I assure you that it rinses right out with no smell. More to come on this and more to come with my personal movement toward the green!