December 21, 2025|Farm Life, Foraging, Gardening, Holistic, Homesteading, Products, Sustainability, Tips
If I Can’t Eat It, It Doesn’t Touch My Family
Part 3: Hair Care – Ditch the Silicones and Watch Your Fine Hair Stop Thinning
Shampoo is the biggest racket in the bathroom.
They sell you a stripping cleanser, then a plastic coating to fake thickness, then dry shampoo and “volumizing” sprays to hide the damage. It’s a subscription scam for your scalp.
I used to be the sucker paying $45 a bottle for “fine-hair” lines that left my hair limp, frizzy, and shedding like crazy. Then I quit cold turkey. Eight years later I still have fine hair (always will), but I have a hell of a lot more of it than I did in my thirties, and it grows faster and stronger than it ever did on the fancy bottles.
Here’s exactly what I actually do.
The Scam Breakdown
- Silicones – Plastic wrap that makes fine hair look thicker for a day, then weighs it down and traps buildup.
- Sulfates – Industrial degreasers that strip sebum and crank up inflammation (hello, extra shedding).
- “Fragrance” – Still phthalates, still hormone disruptors that mess with hair-growth cycles.
- Polyquaterniums & “volumizing polymers” – Cationic plastics marketed to women like me with fine hair. Build up and make shedding worse.
What Actually Touches My Hair (and ships from this farm)
→ Cleansing: alpaca-felted Castile bar only when it’s actually dirty
Most days just warm water and finger-scrubbing. When I’ve been rendering or in the barn all day, one of my own felted Castile bars. Olive-oil base + raw alpaca fleece cleans gently and never strips.
Shop the felted Castile bars: [Alpaca-Felted Castile Soap Collection]
→ Daily conditioning: raw ACV + aloe + virgin coconut oil mix
After a wash (or just water), I pour on raw apple-cider vinegar, pure aloe vera gel, and melted virgin coconut oil (roughly 3:2:1). Finger-comb, let it sit a minute, rinse lightly or leave a little in. Keeps my fine hair from frizzing or flying away.
→ Weekly deep treatment: castor oil + coconut oil + rosemary
Once a week I melt equal parts castor oil and virgin coconut oil, add a generous splash of my own rosemary distillate (or a few drops of rosemary essential oil if I’m out of fresh). Slather root to tip, throw on a thick shower cap, and let it soak 2–6 hours while I’m doing chores. Rinse with warm water and a quick Castile swipe if needed. This is the single routine that slowed my hormone-related thinning and made my fine hair grow faster and stronger.
→ Herbal Hair Oil – extra insurance when I want it
Cold-pressed hemp seed, jojoba, and castor infused six weeks with rosemary, nettle, horsetail, and cedar tips from the property. I swap this in for the plain castor/coconut/rosemary mix when I want maximum growth support.
Shop the Herbal Hair Oil: [Herbal Hair Oil]
→ Boar bristle brush + wooden comb every night
Distributes sebum without snapping fine strands. That’s the shine and body people notice even though my individual hairs are baby-fine.
The Real Timeline for Fine, Hormone-Thinning Hair
Week 1–4: Transition + extra shedding (scary but normal).
Week 5–12: Shedding slows, baby hairs pop along the hairline.
Month 4+: New growth is still fine, but there’s way more of it. Overall density increases.
The Results After Eight Years
- Still fine hair (genetics don’t change) but a lot more of it than I had at 35
- Shedding back to normal instead of handfuls in the brush
- Growth speed noticeably faster
- Zero scalp issues, wash every 7–10 days
If you’ve got fine hair and you’re tired of watching it disappear, burn your bottles.
Throw out everything with silicones, sulfates, or fragrance. Grab one felted Castile bar and the Herbal Hair Oil. Start the weekly castor + coconut + rosemary hot-oil treatment. Three to six months from now you’ll see the difference in your brush and your ponytail.
Part 4 (Face Care) is next – no $200 serums, just rosehips and beef fat.
Everything I actually use is live in the shop right now. Nothing in there I couldn’t eat off a spoon if I had to.