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Permalink Reply by Brittany on December 8, 2010 at 11:56am

I love this! Just last year i started going from washing everyday to now I only wash once a week and it has made such a HUGE difference in my hair! It took a good two months before it got over the initial "greasy" stages but now u would have no idea that its been a week. I got hooked on it by thinking one day about my great grandma and how she NEVER washed her hair but it was soo pretty, i think our lives would be alot simplier and healthier if we all reverted back to some of the routines of our past generations :)

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Permalink Reply by Rachel Bond on December 8, 2010 at 12:42pm

I am going no-poo

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StudentPermalink Reply by Mary "Mirage" on December 8, 2010 at 12:50pm

This is such an interesting idea! I have long hair and always dread washing it. I'm going to give the mix a try. Thanks everyone!

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StudentPermalink Reply by pru*dance on December 8, 2010 at 1:06pm

I have hair that is hobbit-curly, and I only wash with conditioner most of the time. That treatment leaves my hair soft, clean, and happy. I use Nature's Gate, which is natural and smells good, too. :)

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StudentPermalink Reply by Shelley "HoopyChick" Gilbertson on December 8, 2010 at 1:10pm

I just skimmed this thread as I'm pressed for time. I'm wondering why people don't want to shampoo their hair. I'm sure there are a multitude of good reasons.

My hair is naturally curly and as dry as a bone. When I'm wearing it curly, I only wash every 3rd day or so with shampoo. The other days I just wet it in the shower and use a bit of conditioner. If I don't use conditioner, my bone dry hair frizzes up and becomes completely unmanageable. When I straighten my hair (which I usually do when I'm trying to grow it through an awkward phase), I go a week between shampoos. I also don't wet it or condition it, because then I have to do the straightening process all over again, and it's a time-consuming PITA. On non-wash days, I just use the flat iron to smooth down any pieces that may have kinked up overnight or from sweating through my morning workout or whatever. (In the summer I usually don't go straight at all because fighting the effects of humidity is just a batlle I can't win.)

You'd think straightening my hair would be bad for it (with the high heat from the flat iron and all), but actually when I go several months wearing it straight, it actually improves in condition. Every night before I go to bed, I brush it with a boar bristle brush to take whatever small amounts of oil that have accumulated near the roots and smooth it through to the ends which conditions is. Whenever I use the flat iron, I make sure to use a thermal protective spray.

Even after a week, my hair isn't greasy at all. That's how dry it is. I can feel a bit of build up near the roots, and I can smell that "unwashed hair smell" a little, especially when I'm working out, but I don't think other people notice it unless they get real close and stick their nose right in my hair. LOL!

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StudentPermalink Reply by luluperuse on December 8, 2010 at 2:29pm

For me, I have the opposite problem to you. I have fine, straight hair that is oily. I tend to be an oily person in general. Even if I use the finest and most natural shampoos, my hair gets greasy really really quick. If I started to wash it everyday, I would soon have to wash it that morning and that night. Once washed, my hair is fluffy, soft and heck, even a bit curly (I think this a hormonal thing tho, my hair used to be bone straight). But it soon can get oily, lanky, flat, and, I believe, unattractive.

Why I want to shampoo less:

First, I don't believe in over cleaning anything. That's not to say I don't bathe. For me, for example, my skin was really prone to break outs and I tried everything, but as soon as I only washed my face with water only, they lessened. Maybe by pH is really prone to getting out of wack?

Second, I don't want to be a slave to the shampoo bottle. I want to go camping or traveling and not have to worry about the state of my hair.

Those are my main concerns. Yes, a lot of supermarket shampoos are bad for animals, us, the environment, but I would use natural ones. Of course, saving money and packaging materials is always a good thing!

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Permalink Reply by Rachel Bond on December 10, 2010 at 10:42am

you state you use water only on your face, if you wear makeup how would you remove it with water? I dont wear base, but I like to decorate my eyes once in a while.

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StudentPermalink Reply by luluperuse on December 10, 2010 at 11:32am

I don't wear makeup unless I am performing dance or sometimes hoop, which is like, maybe once a month.  Then I use soap to wash my face.  And I have eye-make up remover which I just started using because I was like, hey!  This is way more effective then scrubbing my eyes with soap!

 

I just use water on a daily basis, I mean.

 

I heard unscented baby wipes, and there are more natural brands, are good make up removing tools.  Anyone else have a suggestion for good make-up remover?  Perhaps another discussion topic!!

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Permalink Reply by Rachel Bond on December 10, 2010 at 5:59pm

well maybe we should start one, I am curious how to remove eye makeup without soap?

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Permalink Reply by Amanda Blaxton on April 23, 2012 at 6:35am

I use sesame seed oil to remove my eye makeup... you could also use olive oil or really almost any kind of oil.

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StudentPermalink Reply by luluperuse on December 8, 2010 at 2:36pm

So I buckled and cleaned my hair today, the NO POO WAY!

I had a really important meeting this am where I had to look professional and no decent toque to cover my lanky coif so I tried the no shampoo, or no poo, or pooless method. I used the baking soda paste and apple cider vinegar and it was awesome! My hair is clean without it over drying my scalp, because even when I used good quality shampoos, my scalp felt so clean it felt 'stripped,' a little dry. Even if the shampoo was designated for my hair type and condition.

So, the little experiment on my head will continue as I monitor how greasy it will get and how quickly. I am happy with the no poo method, over all.

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Permalink Reply by Briiii ((*Cosmic Breeze*)) on December 9, 2010 at 12:22pm

Honestly.. the last time I washed my hair was probably somewhere around 4 months. My hair hasnt looked clean in a while... I dont really care about what clean looks like though. Being "clean" is soo overrated! :)

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