Hair Treatments - Stripping Product and Excess Oils From Your Hair

This is the best way I know of to strip product build-up and excess oil from your hair without buying costly products.

Ingredients: Bi-carb Soda (any brand will do)

There is two ways that I do it:

Lather: once a fortnight I mix 2 teaspoons of bicarb soda with 3 teaspoons of shampoo (any shampoo) in a jar/saucer, the amount of each will depend on the length of hair and thickness, I have medium length hair.
Lather the shampoo/bi-carb mix through your hair as you normally would. Condition the ends of your hair only (only if needed). I do not use conditioner this time, Conditioner puts product back into the hair. If you find that your hair is super dry or tangled use a leave in conditioner instead.

The other thing you can do is make up a hair mask out of Bicarb soda and water.

Mask: Mix Bi-Carb Soda and water into a paste, enough to cover your whole hair, leave in for 10 - 20 minutes and wash out. You can use shampoo and minimal conditioner upon rinsing the mask out.  - this mask should only be used once a month and only if needed. This can dry the hair and scalp out.

Having fine hair I have a lot of problem with dye sticking to my hair and a lot of supermarket brands on shampoo coat the hair, closing off the pores. I use this hair mask before dying to strip all product blocking the pores and prep the hair for the solution. Some hair dies can make the hair even drier so make sure to use the casting cream that comes with the hair dye. (if dying yourself)