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Apple cider vinegar is acidic – it contains 5% acidity. So you may want to dilute cider vinegar before using it on your hair, though I have heard from many people who use cider vinegar without diluting it.

Adding baking soda to apple cider vinegar rinse makes hair shiny and healthy

Take a 500ml mug or jar. Fill it up half with warm water and half with cider vinegar. That’s your apple cider vinegar hair rinse. Fill it up in a bottle dispenser. I use a sprinkler bottle.

How to wash hair with apple cider vinegar

Now wash your hair with shampoo as you usually do. Shed excess water from hair. You may want to lightly dry up hair with towel, which is optional. Apply cider vinegar hair rinse. Work cider vinegar into the scalp. This is where it is needed the most. Leave it on for a couple of minutes and wash it off. Take care to avoid cider vinegar getting into your eyes. It many cause burning sensation.

If cider vinegar manages to make its way in your eyes, wash them off with cold water.

Here’s a variation to the process. Some people prefer to add a spoon of baking soda to the ACV hair rinse. This provides extra shine and also helps in cleaning up dandruff.

• The most important benefit of cider vinegar is its ability to balance pH factor of hair: Human hair should ideally have a pH factor of between 4 and 6. Cider vinegar has Shampooing typically increases pH factor. Human hair is acidic, with a pH factor of 4 to 6. Shampooing your hair regularly strips them off their acidity. Apple cider vinegar, with its pH factor of about 4, helps in restoring the pH balance of our hair.
• Cider vinegar makes hair smoother, and addresses the problem of split hair.
• Cider vinegar’s ability to remove chemicals from the scalp helps in solving the issue of scratchy scalp. Healthier scalp promotes new hair growth.
• Because of its anti-bacterial and anti-fungal property, apple cider vinegar can provide a good remedy for hair loss diseases like Alopecia.

White vinegar used for cooking is different from apple cider vinegar.

So the answer is no – you shouldn’t use white vinegar if you wish to get healthy hair. Apple cider vinegar is specifically manufactured to contain ‘mother’ of vinegar – it is the muddy floating object that you will see in the bottle. This mother contains the nutrients and enzymes you need for it’s health value.

This is why it is important to choose the right apple cider vinegar from the market.

What you should be looking for is unpasteurized, unfiltered apple cider vinegar. If it is made from organic apples, even better. Organic apples are free from pesticides. The leading brand of organic cider vinegar is Bragg. Bragg source their organic apples mostly from within the United States and therefore are more confident about the quality of apples used in making cider vinegar.

Organic cider vinegar is worth the money you spend on it, considering how much money we spend on commercial products laden with chemicals. Also, apple cider vinegar is versatile and has many more uses – see the end of this article.

Some people prefer powder cider vinegar instead of liquid cider vinegar. I don’t know whether the powder cider vinegar is effective. I use liquid cider vinegar because I can see the ‘mother’ of vinegar in it.