Hair Washing

The formula Aajonus described using himself consisted of one whole egg, approximately ten strawberries (or five to six if they were large), one tablespoon of honey, and enough milk to fill a ten-ounce canning jar. He blended this mixture until it was warm, which he said took about three minutes. He then poured some of it into a separate four-ounce canning jar for use on the hair, keeping the rest for use on the body.

The portion designated for the hair was used without any clay added. He noted that when clay was blended into the same base mixture, it made the hair too dry, so he kept the hair-washing portion clay-free and added clay only to the body-washing portion. The clay-containing version was used on the rest of the body because it draws out impurities.

He applied the egg-strawberry-honey-milk mixture to dry hair, not wet hair, and rubbed it into the scalp. He described leaving it in for up to ten minutes while he soaked in the bath, then rinsing it off. The mixture both cleaned and conditioned the hair. He noted that if the hair remained a little dry after washing, he would take a small amount of butter on his palm, rub it between his hands to create a very thin film, then rub it into the hair, sometimes after spraying the hair lightly first.

In a later, more condensed description of the same practice, he described the formula as one egg, three ounces of vegetable juice, two ounces of milk, and one tablespoon of honey, all blended together and applied to dry hair. He said this version also worked well. He added a conditional note: if the hair was very dry, use milk; if the hair was oily, do not use milk because it would condition the hair and add more moisture.

He described putting this mixture on his hair while he was already in the bath, lying in the tub and leaving it on for thirty minutes to an hour before rinsing. He only bathed every three or four days, and he was explicit that he did not recommend this frequency to people who had not been on a good raw diet for a significant period.

In addition to the egg-based formula, Aajonus described a fermented coconut cream shampoo as a simple and broadly accessible alternative. He instructed letting coconut cream sit out of the refrigerator, unrefrigerated in a bathroom setting, until it turned pink, at which point it had fermented. He then mixed one ounce of this fermented coconut cream into eight ounces of water, shook it to dissolve, wet the hair first, and applied the diluted mixture to both the hair and body as a combined shampoo and soap.

He was specific that the hair should be wet before applying the diluted fermented coconut cream, which distinguished this approach from the egg formula, which he applied to dry hair. The coconut cream formulation served as shampoo, body soap, and general cleanser all in one preparation.

He also mentioned this approach in his newsletters, recommending coconut cream as soap and noting that for people who did not want their hair to be too oily from it, fermenting it until it turned pink and then diluting it with water solved that problem. He noted that historically, up to fifty years before the time he was speaking, ninety percent of all soaps, hair products, and shampoos were made with coconut oil, before the industry shifted to synthetic petroleum-based products and chemicals because they were cheaper to produce.

Aajonus described a minimal version of hair washing that involved applying straight milk to the hair when no other ingredients were available. He mentioned doing exactly this on one occasion when he did not have access to his usual blended formula. The milk both cleansed and conditioned the hair. This represents the simplest end of the range of options he described, applicable in travel or circumstances where the full blended formula was not practical.

In the context of addressing balding, Aajonus described whipped raw egg as a good shampoo. The specific protocol was to wet the hair, apply whipped raw egg to the hair and scalp, let it stand for one to five minutes, and then rinse. This was presented not only as a cleansing method but as part of a broader protocol addressing hair loss, alongside dietary interventions including raw berries with raw coconut cream, raw butter, and raw cream, and topical applications of aloe vera gel combined with fermented coconut oil rubbed into the scalp.

He specifically identified shampoo allergy as a potential factor that could prevent the topical scalp treatments from stopping hair loss, noting that the hair loss and follicle damage protocols would not work unless shampoo use was discontinued. This was a critical edge case: the topical remedy for follicle protection would be undermined by continued use of commercial shampoo because the shampoo itself was damaging the follicles.

Aajonus described dandruff as one layer or more of dry dead skin on the scalp caused by hardened fat or unutilizable fluid fat, with bacteria accompanying the condition as a sign that the body was trying to detoxify the fat. He was direct that antibacterial shampoos poison the scalp and that the poisons are often absorbed into the body and brain, causing impatience, discontent, and irritability.

His dietary approach to dandruff was to eat plenty of raw fat and alkalizing foods, which he said usually ended dandruff within one to two months. He acknowledged it might return for a week or two as the body discards old stored unutilizable fat and other toxins through the scalp, causing the scalp to dry and the upper layer to flake.

During those recurrence periods, he described a topical remedy applied once every second or third day: massage one and a half tablespoons of cold-pressed-below-96-degrees-Fahrenheit fermented coconut oil or stone-pressed olive oil blended with one teaspoon of fresh cucumber into the scalp, and let it stand overnight. Then wet the hair, wash the hair and scalp with a whipped raw whole egg, let the egg remain for three to five minutes, and rinse the hair and scalp thoroughly. This sequence integrated the overnight oil treatment with the raw egg washing method, using the egg as both cleanser and rinse medium following the overnight application.

Aajonus described store-bought hair sprays as damaging to the hair and very toxic to the sinuses, bronchi, lungs, blood, scalp, brain, and entire body. He presented a natural hair spray substitute made by mixing one and a half teaspoons of unheated honey into one cup of good mineral water, poured into a spray bottle and used in the same way as conventional hair spray. He noted the mixture would eventually ferment, lasting as little as three days in warm temperatures and up to ten days if kept in a cool place.

He described aerosol hairspray in a salon setting as capable of disrupting the body's E. coli bacteria for three months, which he framed as a serious consequence given his understanding of intestinal bacteria as essential to health. He treated hairspray as among the most immediately toxic substances a person could be exposed to in a normal daily environment, placing it alongside nail polish and nail polish remover as chemicals that are so toxic they are illegal to open in airplane environments.

Aajonus taught that the skin was the body's largest eliminative organ, larger even than the intestines, and that the hair and follicles were a primary pathway through which the body discarded toxic minerals, particularly heavy metals. He described the hair as containing high concentrations of mercury, cadmium, lead, and aluminum, more concentrated than in most other tissues unless a specific area of the body had been damaged. He said that hair could safely contain these metals precisely because the hair shaft itself is dead outside the follicle, so the body could build toxins into it without those toxins causing damage in living tissue.

The consequence for hair washing was that applying toxic shampoos to the scalp during this elimination process was working directly against the body's detoxification effort. Toxic metals were being discharged through the follicle and scalp surface, and commercial shampoos added new chemicals to that same surface, which would then be absorbed into the body and brain rather than eliminated.

He also noted that aluminum specifically destroys parabenzoic acid, which is a B vitamin that regulates pigmentation and is produced within the follicle. When aluminum passes out through the follicle and damages this gland, hair turns gray. Mercury similarly causes both hair loss and graying. This was his explanation for why hair analysis shows such high concentrations of heavy metals, and why the choice of what is put on the scalp matters so much in the context of the body's ongoing elimination of those metals through the hair.

Aajonus described a topical scalp application intended to support hair regrowth and thickening, developed through experimentation with himself and five other people. The formula consisted of roughly half butter and one-third bone marrow, applied to the scalp two to three times a week without washing the hair afterward. The hair was left with the mixture on it rather than being rinsed.

He noted that using butter alone helped thicken the hair, and that adding bone marrow produced more significant results, including hair growth in people who had not been growing hair in certain areas. His explanation was that bone marrow contains stem cells that are not restricted by specific DNA programming, giving them the flexibility to support follicle regeneration in ways that other substances could not. He reported that five people experimenting with this formula were all experiencing hair thickening, and some were growing hair in previously bare areas. He encouraged people at workshops to try it and described the amounts as roughly four ounces total, adjusting for the individual.

This protocol was presented specifically as an alternative to washing the hair, since the instruction was to leave the mixture on without rinsing. It sat alongside his other observation that just using butter on its own helped thicken the hair, and that his Primal Facial Body Care Cream, which included butter, coconut, a tiny amount of honey, and oil jelly, was excellent for the skin by extension.

Aajonus bathed every three or four days and described this as appropriate for someone who had been on a good raw diet for a significant period, while noting he did not recommend that frequency for people who were newer to the diet. His hair washing was integrated into his bathing routine rather than being a separate daily activity.

He described a full bath session as involving: standing in the bath to apply the clay-based body mixture, including on the face for shaving preparation; shaving; getting into the bath to use a brush on the skin to stimulate circulation; then applying the egg-strawberry-honey-milk mixture to the hair and lying in the tub for thirty minutes to an hour before rinsing.

For people with concerns about body odor between baths, he suggested rinsing underarms, the crotch, and the neck with water containing a little coconut cream, then applying diluted lemon juice to those areas. This was framed as a targeted approach to odor management that did not require full body washing or any commercial soap.

Aajonus placed current hair-washing practices in historical context, stating that historically soap was used on hair only, not on the whole body, because hair would become thick and matted without it. Whole-body washing with soap was described as rare, perhaps once a month, and not the norm. He framed the modern insistence on daily full-body washing with multiple chemical products as a commercial project rather than a health practice, designed to sell chemicals rather than to support the body.

He described the entire commercial soap and hygiene industry as operating on manufactured fear of bacteria and body odor, and said that this fear was being exploited to sell products that then cause real damage. His position was that bacteria, including the bacteria normally present on skin and in body secretions, had been the body's cleaning system for millions of years, and that disrupting it with soaps, antiseptics, and shampoos produced more harm than it prevented.