Stinky Bastard

http://freetheanimal.com/2009/12/paleo-i-dont-care-i-like-no-soap-no-shampoo.html

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I haven't used soap or shampoo anyplace on my body for six months, save hand washing in advance of food prep. That's it. let me just report my observations and leave you to judge.

 

Took about two weeks to normalize. That is, I felt my hair was greasy and skin oily up to then.

Now it's intermittent. It's perhaps a function of water hardness, but sometimes skin and hair feel squeaky clean, and other times indeterminate.

Even when I feel greasy/oily in the shower with just water, once everything dies out, it's always all the same -- fine; soft & dry.

My skin & hair have never been softer. Never.

If anything, my hair is less "greasy" than ever, yet shampoo hasn't touched it in over six months.

Private parts. Have to address this, of course. This is the biggest benefit of all. Surprised? You'll just have to try it, because I'm not going to elaborate. That's why they call them "private parts." OK, a clue: maybe it's the constant cleansing that's the cause of the sweaty-stinky problem in the first place? If for nothing else, I'm soap free for life on this point alone. I feel as though I've been scammed -- and liberated. I can't explain further. You'll just have to try.

You'll save a lot of money, especially you chicks. Grils: you can Google about no shampoo. Lotsa links.

I could go on, but ultimately you're gonna self-experiment or not. But if you do, give it at least a month. Weirdness cleared up for me in two weeks or less, but we're not all the same. I suspect that women who wash furiously and slather all manner of lotions might take a year or two to normalize.

That was very specific and made a lot of sense.

i clean with soap daily but wash the hair every week or two.

i first heard of hair washing itself when someone from take that said he didnt wash his hair. and that it naturally washed itself. i've never managed to try it myself but my younger bro did for along time. his hair always looked like it had product in it but it never smelt.

i believe that soap is a bust. i also believe that head & shoulders gives you dandruff

washing your hair a lot can make it really dry, but i guess that is what conditioner is for. which maybe one big loop of wasted money and time

ITT: mind=blown

This is great I'm gonna give it a go starting......now

wow

once a djinn told me, humanity hasn't changed much over the last thousand years or so... just smells a bit better.

i'ma keep my detergents.

i never use soap in the shower. water will clean you just fine. sometimes girls let me stick my peepee inside them.

  On 12/31/2009 at 10:24 PM, AJW said:

This is great I'm gonna give it a go starting......now

new years resolution... great!

havent used shampoo in years - cant go near the stuff, it totally fucks my hair up,

besides i trust my body more then i trust a multi-billion $ corporation.

showering every day actually makes me feel like a weirdo now....

w/ soap & shampoo i should say

OCD society

When I was at university I didn't wash my hair (with shampoo) for about 2 years. After about a month it was fine.

Its a well known fact that hair will look after itself if you stop washing it.

I hadn't heard of the avoiding-soap-altogether thing though. I suppose it could work.

Joyrex: is your thread title ironically missing the point, or do you really think this person is a stinky bastard?

My hair certainly doesn't wash itself on the dry, wtf?!

Btw you can also just brush your teeth with water, same results! This is true, saw it on TV.

  On 1/1/2010 at 2:47 AM, zazen said:

When I was at university I didn't wash my hair (with shampoo) for about 2 years. After about a month it was fine.

 

Its a well known fact that hair will look after itself if you stop washing it.

 

 

you mean stop using shampoo or stop washing altogether? I think unwashed hair is called dreads.

if you want to avoid irritating your skin, shower anyway, but use lighter water pressure, air dry, don't use soap every day, etc. you'll still be clean this way. dont be a damned fool.

you know there's a tribe in Africa that doesn't bathe because of drought? they have to coat themselves with various odors to cover up the stench. "natural", my ass

  On 1/1/2010 at 6:56 AM, lumpenprol said:

  On 1/1/2010 at 2:47 AM, zazen said:

When I was at university I didn't wash my hair (with shampoo) for about 2 years. After about a month it was fine.

 

Its a well known fact that hair will look after itself if you stop washing it.

 

 

 

you mean stop using shampoo or stop washing altogether? I think unwashed hair is called dreads.

I washed it with water, pretty much every day, but never used shampoo.

  On 1/1/2010 at 2:43 PM, zazen said:

  On 1/1/2010 at 6:56 AM, lumpenprol said:

  On 1/1/2010 at 2:47 AM, zazen said:

When I was at university I didn't wash my hair (with shampoo) for about 2 years. After about a month it was fine.

 

Its a well known fact that hair will look after itself if you stop washing it.

 

 

 

you mean stop using shampoo or stop washing altogether? I think unwashed hair is called dreads.

 

I washed it with water, pretty much every day, but never used shampoo.

Yeah I'm on year one I think...

huh I've never heard of this before. I doubt it'll work but I'm intrigued. My gf likes the smell of my deodorant though. I need one of you guys to fly over to Shanghai so i can smell you.

I stopped washing my hair with shampoo for about 6 months and it was much better, but I started getting dandruff so I had to start using the medicated shampoo. I wish you could get the active ingredient without a bunch of shampoo mixed with it.

Not sure I'd be cool with not washing my pits with soap, I don't think my body could deal with that stinkyness

It's the same with washing clothes apparently. The detergent is a complete waste of money - the only difference you'll notice is the scent that the detergent leaves. If you do your own washing give it a try.

this seems very silly to me. have any of you ever walked past a bum on the street in your life. good god.

there's a difference bewteen spending your life sitting in dirt, wearing the same clothes, without washing yourself and simply washing without using some commercial product.

Purification and finishing of Soap

The common process of purifying soap involves removal of sodium chloride, sodium hydroxide, glycerol and some impurities. These components are removed by boiling the crude soap curds in water and re-precipitating the soap with salt.

Most of the water is then removed from the soap. This was traditionally done on a chill roll which produced the soap flakes commonly used in the 1940s and 1950s. This process was superseded by spray dryers and then by vacuum dryers.

The dry soap (approximately 6-12% moisture) is then compacted into small pellets. These pellets are now ready for soap finishing, the process of converting raw soap pellets into a salable product, usually bars.

Soap pellets are combined with fragrances and other materials and blended to homogeneity in an amalgamator (mixer). The mass is then discharged from the mixer into a refiner which, by means of an auger, forces the soap through a fine wire screen. From the refiner the soap passes over a roller mill (French milling or hard milling) in a manner similar to calendering paper or plastic or to making chocolate liquor. The soap is then passed through one or more additional refiners to further plasticize the soap mass. Immediately before extrusion it passes through a vacuum chamber to remove any entrapped air. It is then extruded into a long log or blank, cut to convenient lengths, passed through a metal detector and then stamped into shape in refrigerated tools. The pressed bars are packaged in many ways.

Sand or pumice may be added to produce a scouring soap. The scouring agents serve to remove dead skin cells from the surface being cleaned. This process is called exfoliation. Many newer materials are used for exfoliating soaps which are effective but do not have the sharp edges and pore size distribution of pumice.

Nanoscopic metals are commonly added to certain soaps specifically for both coloration and anti-bacterial properties. Titanium powder is commonly used in extreme "white" soaps for these purposes; nickel, aluminium and silver are less commonly used. These metals provide electron-robbing behavior when in contact with bacteria, stripping electrons from the organism's surface and thereby disrupting their functioning (typically killing the bacteria when it has lost too many electrons). Because some of the metal is left behind on the skin and in the pores, the benefit can also extend beyond the actual time of washing, helping reduce bacterial contamination and reducing potential odors from bacteria on the skin surface.