Shampoo is a Lie (for me...and maybe for you too??)
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  • TheFriar@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    I went no-wash on my hair for a long time. It really does balance itself out after a while. The baseline isn’t as fluffy and “clean” as you get when you use shampoo, but when you’d wet your head to “wash” on your designated day, it didn’t do much besides let you restyle it and give it a little more volume. Because your hair didn’t get stripped of everything that’s naturally on it. Washing the sweat out is plenty. As a guy in my thirties, I dunno if I’d do it again, but I did for years and have nothing bad to say about it

    • xionzui@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      I did it for a year or two, and I apparently smelled like a wet dog after showering. I also got a really bad dandruff infection which has gone on to cause a lot of other issues for years now. Would not recommend.

    • ProdigalFrog
      OPMAEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      The thrust of the video is that it appears that due to stripping the oils off our hair and scalp so frequently with shampoo, we actually create a situation where we need to use it more often to maintain a non-greasy head. Where as not using shampoo and just washing hair with water seems to eventually make the greasiness stabilize to the point where you don’t really need shampoo.

      Personally, I tried it and found the claim to be true. I still used conditioner, but found that ceasing using shampoo didn’t result in bad smelling or greasy hair, and in fact, my hair was probably the ‘healthiest’ or nicest looking it’d ever been.

      I think there are some people who naturally have overactive oil production, and for them, shampooing is necessary, but it doesn’t appear to be a universal need.

      • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Thanks for the rundown. What about when you’ve been sweating a lot, or when you have dirt or campfire smoke in your hair?

        • ProdigalFrog
          OPMAEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          Hot water alone deals with sweaty hair surprisingly well. For dirt or smoke or some other icky external thing in your hair, that’s where you would want to use some sort of soap/shampoo to get that out.

          Also, I want to mention I still use bar soap everywhere else, just not in the hair.