i never use anything but water to wash my body(and my body isnt disgusting covered in dirt) and have done the 6 week challenge... i lasted about 14 months with out washing my hair. and now i wash my hair once a fortnight ish
You can use apple cider vinegar and bicarb with a hot rinse.
I think most hairdressers would tell you you have to wash your hair.. its their business and they want you to buy products!
Just water certainly doesn't cut it with my stinky feet or grubby body that's covered in sweat and paint and bubby spew and goodness knows what else at the end of a day. What's wrong with using soap or bodywash anyway.
And my hairdresser is not wanting me to buy her products, she never has ever tried to push anything on me - we were actually discussing how yuck it is for her to have to cut smelly, rarely washed sweaty workers hair when this topic came up.
To be honest, I don't know why anyone would not want to wash their hair anyway -- what's the value of not washing your hair for months and months on end? 14 months, gosh, that's just extreme - what does your hair look and smell like after not being washed for that long - I am truely curious.
it is soft and healthy and had no smell.
too many people are addicted to everything needing to smell like flowers or vanilla.. why can it not just be like hair?
water easily gets rid of dirt and smells, it also doesn't interrupt your natural PH levels and create other skin issues. using chemicals on your body is just that using CHEMICALS.. there isn't a need for it! everything we put on/in our bodies has a huge effect on our health, as women our eggs carry a lifetime of damage because of the toxins we are exposed to.. imagine what that can do to the children from those eggs....
I used to wash my hair daily. Then I decided I didn't have the time, went to washing twice a week. Now it only needs washing twice a week - going to start eking it out further soon! Took about 3-4 months to adjust to this schedule.
FWIW, soap helps get you clean, but scrubbing with water will do just as much good. You don't need lots of product - if any at all. My skin has never been better since I stopped using products on my face (well, eye make-up remover and moisturiser, but no soap or cleanser). Either that or I'm a cheapskate who uses very little shampoo, conditioner and bodywash! And only free bottles of eye makeup remover - although that comes with the pricey moisturiser.
I have naturally curly hair and because of this it has a tendency to be a little on the dry side, which can be made worse by shampoo. I also tend to get a dry scalp.
Although I am shampooing at the moment (once a week max), I have gone for extended periods (months) before without using shampoo and this has been during times when I have exercised frequently.
Wetting your hair and giving yourself a really good scalp massage helps to lift any dry skin and sweat off your scalp, and I find that once I get past the first couple of weeks, my hair is really soft and the curls have never looked better even though I am not putting any product on them.
Because it is mainly the shampoo that drys my hair and scalp, I have also just gone for periods where I only use conditioner. Again, I give myself the scalp massage and then just condition my hair.
I have to admit, during those couple of adjusting weeks, the smell of your own hair (instead of fruit, or whatever your shmapoo smells like) can be a little confronting, but you get used to the natural smell of your hair quickly.
My ABC local radio drive presenter Richard Glover hasn’t used shampoo or any other product in his hair for a while now. He did a “no shampoo challenge” few years ago and encouraged his listeners to join him.
I went for a period of about 6 months without using shampoo, I only used a natural conditioner. I have really curly, frizz prone hair naturally. I usually straighten it, but for this 6 month period I left it curly, and my hair was so much healthier curly, hardly any frizz, unlike when I would shampoo. It took a while to get used to, but felt amazing in the end. It never smelled, I'd give my scalp a really good massage. Only reason I went back was because I prefer my hair straight, and with straightening every day or two, it would get very lank very quickly without shampoo.
I would love to not wash my hair as often (every day - sometimes twice if I have 2 showers!) but if I don't it just feels and looks terrible and I get itchy if I DON"T wash it!!
Manage to now only wash my hair every 3-4 days. I find it is much better now. I used to really suffer from oily roots and dry ends. Kind of happened by accident. We were renoing the bathroom at the same time as having a new bub, I think at that time I was lucky to wash my hair once a week.
I have come across more people lately who just use water and now I remember my mum talking about only ever washing her hair in rain water as a child (she had really woolly hair).
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