See, I don't know if I could handle smelling like vinegar... Is there something besides herbs you can put in there, like essential oils (thinking rose, lavender)?
Do you have dark hair? I like to steep a bunch of rosemary in boiling water the night before, and use that water to mix with the ACV for the rinse the next morning. It smells nice, and the rosemary water by itself is really nice and conditioning. The days that I do that, I tend to get compliments on my hair so am assuming it works. lol
However, the rosemary does give you red highlights. If you're light haired and don't want red highlights, lemongrass is supposed to work well. My hair is super dark brown with reddish highlights anyway so it works out for me.
An update on the OCM on this end:
So far it's going great. I settled on coconut oil/castor oil blend with a crushed up MSM capsule mixed in. The MSM has really been helping the melasma to finally fade. And my skin just looks way more awesome and clear overall. My acne totally went away, then when I was housesitting I forgot my OCM stuff so was forced to use regular soap facewash.
The next morning I broke out.
Went back to OCM right away, it cleared up and hasn't been back since.