There is a huge difference between not washing your hair vs not washing your hair with shampoo. I'm just throwing this out there in case he didn't catch that. He could easily wash his hair routinely, just don't use shampoo.
Yep, I do that. Just water 90% of the time and shampoo when it really feels like water isnt enough. Same with shower gels. You dont need shower gel to rinse off a bit of sweat. And you dont need tons of skincare products to counter the other skincare products.
Came here to say the same thing: not *shampooing* your hair isn't the same thing as not *washing* your hair. I think if Mike had used a washcloth each time he showered and spent just a few minutes rubbing his head while the water ran over it, his scalp would have been healthy and sebum-free.
I thought that was what he meant - no shampoo. I didn't think he absolutely didn't wash his hair. If he hadn't washed his hair at all, I think we would've seen a way, way different picture.
I was disgusted to learn that SLS was an ingredient in dandruff shampoos, considering that It is used as a skin irritant to test the effectiveness of lotions and other products on irritated skin. Imagine a dandruff shampoo that kept your scalp just irritated enough that you never wanted to stop using it. That's how you get repeat business.
Pharmacist here. The thing with most substances, be it medicine or additives in shampoos, is that the amount of substance used and the time it's given to interact with your body both influence the effects. Yes, pure SLS that you don't wash off acts as an irritant - as does plain and simple soap. SLS is water soluble and cannot cross cell membranes - if you rinse your hair properly and don't wash your hair several times a day each day, it's rather unlikely to cause problems.
actually I stopped using it for years until I lived in Hawaii and was sweating pretty regularly. I got some kind of rash around my scalp line and researched it. It was dandruff and H&S got rid of it.
Not washing and not using shampoo are two different things: I used to jump into a lake year in and year out, with beautiful water quality, washed my hair a few times a week. Soft, beautiful hair, no shampoo or conditioner needed
that lake absolutely was not cleaning your hair better than just taking a shower lmao why tf do people still think that lakes/rivers are like these magical cleansing things like we live in the 1500's? animals shit and piss in there, there's parasites in there!
I feel the specialist is quite biased, since she works in a cosmetic clinic that offers hair care and treatment. Even if she agreed with you, would be strange for her clients to know that 'it does not matter much to spend so much in 'hair health''.
@Jake-oq2bq same lol its their job to get more clients. XD But yes it seems its ok to go days with out shamooing. Just make sure to wash ur body. Especially if really active.
Yeah, should at least made cross references with good researches. You could zoom in on some random part of the human body and feel that its disgusting even if it is completely healthy. Also to trust just an app to recommend you what to buy or not doesn't makes sense, as the app is basically a marketplace for brands to buy a spot at this point.
I'd recommend investigating on your own if you distrust an specialist, investigating on the same topic, so if you distrust the clinical opinion of the expert, read clinical books. Short answer, no wash= body oils+ no removing of dead cells + no stimulating the shed of the new hair = perfect home and food for bacteria = infection or folliculitis, in the best case just baldness since the body won't maintain a body part that doesn't looks useful and it's involved in some harming it's recieving
It's frustrating how, in the U.S., we consumers are the ones responsible for researching every ingredient in cosmetics and food so as to not inadvertently make ourselves sick or contribute to environmental degradation, especially when the EU Cosmetics Regulation demonstrates it doesn't have to be this way.
In the United States, farmers give ractopamine to pork, which coupled with other hormones, causes a pig's skeleton and tissue mass to grow at twice the speed. But, it also causes cancer cells to grow at twice the rate. That's why US pork is illegal in a 141 countries, even Botswana and Chad. That's telling about the US; our politicians can easily, and now legally, be bought. The EU parliament has so many different members, from different countries, political parties, and ideologies, that no single group has an overwhelming concentration of power. Thus, when it comes to consumer protection, the EU is much harder to corrupt.
I haven't used shampoo in about 3 years. I met a young woman who was a dollar-store cashier. She had the most beautiful hair I had ever seen, and I asked her what she used. She said nothing. No shampoo, no conditioner. She'd just run some water through it and keep it brushed.
@@starbright144When you brush your hair often those oils balance, nourish, and clean your hair. It didn't happen over-night for me, it took a few months before my hair really began to morph, but I'll NEVER go back now I've seen the changes for my own hair. Saved a lot of money too. If I do decide to go extra, I'll wash my hair with fresh rice water. The lectin we wash out of the rice is amazing for hair & skin. For nutrition, mixing a good fatty long grain rice with an oily fish, spicy pepper, and avocado will make your hair shine within 2 hrs depending on your metabolism.
This might be TMI but living in a cabin up north where hot water is a luxury for SHOWERING, I stopped washing my hair. After a week it seemed greasy but nobody but bears and coyotes gonna see me. I just brushed it out. After awhile ... my hair felt improved quality, thicker strands, less scalp showing thru. My gray wasn't all crinkly and wild anymore, but smooth and swung around when I tossed my head. I'm hitting 70 and I miss hairs per square inch, but what's left is definitely better quality. The only time it looks 'greasy' now is sweating under a hat, but when my hair dries out, it doesn't have that clumped 'dirty hair' look anymore. It looks and feels clean and shiny. People's biggest worry is their hair might smell. I'm not seeing it, nor anyone when I ask. You'll know from your pillow if there's a problem. If you like that essential oil scent, then comb it thru, but it's not necessary for going out in public. Natural skin oils have a neutral, NOT game-y, scent so essential oils aren't covering anything, they're just a little extra if there's anxiety about it. A gallon of hot water and a hair brush are fine. I'm almost 70 and grew up on preservatives and additives and artificial colors. They're not going to kill you or guarantee cancer. But if you don't need them, leave them out of your routine. Just don't obsess about it. Live your life.
I'm only 20, but I've been slowly but steadily washing my hair less and less often. Went from daily, to twice a week, to once every two weeks, and the less often I wash my hair, the less greasy it becomes between showers. The only mistake I made was that one week where I completely forgot to brush it and it went WILD.
I stopped using shampoo uhhh... six years ago, or something like that? Was a little rough in the transition phase, but since then I've never gotten more compliments on my hair. I use nothing at all.... NOTHING. AT. ALL.
For all its faults, the EU is still the best place to live when it comes to your health. I'm forever grateful for being born here. I hope you guys in the US manage to change things.
I’ll be honest, if I could own a gun and had freedom of speech in the UK or EU, I’d move in a second. American greed and capitalism has wrecked this country.
@@config4052 To my understanding you can get arrested for saying discriminatory things and such in the EU and UK. Are you allowed to own semi-auto high capacity guns in the EU? I know you can’t in the UK.
@@thomascraig6814 My dude, we have freedom of speech in the EU. And several EU countries have guns too. As for the UK, I advise against ever considering that toilet. I lived there for two years and leaving was the best choice.
If you're not using shampoo, you have to brush your hair every day for a few minutes, using very dense, natural hair brush. It removes the excess sebum, dead skin and loose hair. Apple vinegar helps to keep hair and skin healthy.
Ah yes washing your hear with gasoline was all the craze for delousing in the 1900s. Don't use vinegar products as its basicly transmision oil. Don't believe me? Go on a northern european diet for 6 months and then enjoy some greek/italian food for a week after that to see the wonderfull effects of vinegar on the human body. Green soap as we call it over here is great for either skin or hair as its simply citrus soap. (animal fat/ash + dehydrated citrus fruit) Main reason the other family of citrus fruits are not used like tangerines and oranges is because they get fully grinded up in to juices where as with citrus the anti-toxin skins are basicly a waste product in juice manufacturing. Still better making your own as with mass manufacturing lubricant* oils will always get in to the product regardless. Atleast its no engine oil product such as vinegar. If a product is made out of seeds it will have toxins in it that will harm the body so stay well away from any form of seed oils. But yes brushing your hair 2x a day is a requirement as old dead hair will knot up and might end up pulling out the good hair that way.
The best stuff is probably going to be artisanal. If anything has a brand name that is bigger than your town, it's likely to get co-opted very quickly. Best to make something simple yourself or find someone who does
Not washing your hair is a lil dif than not using bad shampoo! It's crazy we let them do this to us though, and the FDA just laughs all the way to the bank.
Realize the FDA is kneecapped by republicans, but really, both parties. Last Week did a segment about how a republican and a democrat both passed a bill letting anyone do anything with suppliments, taking away the FDA's ability to regulate. In the USA, the FDA has to prove something is bad. In the EU, they tell companies to prove their stuff is safe.
Sometime around the year 2000 this experiment of not using shampoo and washing/scrubbing hair with just water, was quite common and the fad talked about on major radio stations in Sydney Australia where I was then living. At the time I was about 50 had a greasy scalp and had noticed that my thick head of hair had become thinner and I found allot more hair on the shower floor and drain. It took about a week to ten days for my hair to adjust to this new routine of only using water on my hair, and scrubbing it vigorously with just running water, daily. The first thing I noticed was that both my scalp and forehead were LESS greasy. At my next, and occasionally at subsequent haircuts, I would ask the hair dresser what they thought of my hair condition and she always had positive things to say about it (she new from previous experience not to attempt to market products to me). I am now 70 and my routine is still the same except my hair is thinner now but I still have a full head of hair and no one has ever commented negatively about it. Not even my massage therapist, from whom I always get a scalp massage as part of my regular monthly neck and shoulder stress reduction treatment. I do use a moderate strength bristled brush to help scrub my scalp whilst washing it with water daily.
6 months with no shampoo, my hair smells fine, I wash it with water almost every day, no more flakiness, itchiness reduced significantly and I even save like R$20 every month.
I've been doing it for a while now, and it literally looks as healthy as it did before I stopped using it. We should all give it a try at least once, and by the way, I also wash it with water almost every day, and no complaints in my behalf.
In high school, I did an experiment like this. I had very long hair for a guy. It was well past my shoulders, but the ladies in the cosmetology department LOVED messing with it, so I kept it long. I had a hard time with it getting dry, no matter how I conditioned. Brushing, combing, or even putting my conditioner covered hair for hours, had little to no effect. Well, after going camping for several days, and not having access to an easy way to clean my hair, I found it to be in the best condition ever. I brushed and combed my hair and scalp every day to help keep out debris, but that was all. Then I got to thinking about it. We are using industrial detergents to remove our natural oils to then try to replace them with oil from other animals. It's dumb. So, I started a 3 week cycle. I would wash my hair like normal 2 times a week for 2 weeks, but the 3rd week I left it alone. I would, however, still brush and comb my hair like normal. After 2 months, I had the best looking hair in the school. When people asked me how I did it, they would get grossed out at first, but then try it themselves.The concept spread like wildfire. Use mechanical means to remove physical debris, and only shampoo to remove excess oil when needed. The more you brushed, the less it's needed. This does, however, increase the necessity to clean your brushes and combs more regularly. I promised myself if I ever started going bald, I would keep my head shaved. The Sand Hill barber took care of the first cut for me, and I've kept it shaven ever since. I do rock an epic beard now. It gets the same treatment as my hair did. I even use the same brushes and combs from 20 years ago.
You are a good candidate for merino wool socks. Darn tough for regular feet, or smartwool for wide feet. I have worn the same pair for three days with no smell or discomfort. -Life-Changing
Shampoo works to wash away dirty and oil buildup on hair. But it causes a problem when people do it every single day. It's normal for our hair to have oil because it protects it. Constantly stripping all of it off only tells the body to make more to maintain the equilibrium, resulting in greasier hair and it doesn't do any favors to the overall hair health. It's also why for some people, washing less reduced dandruff because it allowed their scale to retain its oils and reduce dry skin. Also why conditioner exists to reintroduce some of the moistures. But this is only one part of the equation and it takes some testing to figure out what works for you.
@killme5630 yes and no. You are distributing the oils that are there already while freeing light soiling from dust and dander. The soiling that is removed takes some of the oil with it. Through the course of the day, additional oil is naturally shed as well as absorbed into the hair from sun and wind drying it out.
this video gave me cancer turned me into a woman and now I suffer from allergies thanks a lot. But fr everything today can harm or kill you, just gotta use common sense and not give in to fearmongering like this that gets thrown around the internet, not using shampoo isn't gonna extend your life.
but wait, how do we know that a scalp full of crusty bits is bad for us? edit: BRO COME ON of course the people that are selling you scalp facials and shampoos and hair treatments are going to say "you need to buy our stuff for healthy hair."
Tbf we should have gotten multiple trials. He said he didn’t wah his hair so he may not have even used water. I’m curious to see if the scalp results would have been different or the same with just a water based treatment
@@BoomBurster I think he meant he didn't shampoo his hair. Surely he atleast scrubbed his hair with water. The no poo movement doesn't advise not washing your hair at all
Im sad he didnt listened to an actual expert rather than a cosmetic worker. Her response was the most biased thing ive heard in a while. Such a good start to end up like this...
From the same creators of: "I discovered the truth that scientists hide from you!" and "Scientists don't want you to know about this revolutionary technique"
yeah, i pretty much stopped the video at that point. Plus I don't believe he spent a year with NO water on his hair. that seems unrealistic but he was not clear if he rinsed his hair and massaged his scalp or just literally never touched his hair with water. I don't like his ambiguity.
"I experimented by eating nothing but meat for a year, and went to see how I was doing at my vegan doctor's office. They recommended I immediately switch to a vegan diet or I will die of a heart attack."
I've started washing my hair just once a week. I'm 58 and my hair has become dryer as I age. Results have been great. Less dryness, and I've noticed less hair falling out.
Ones a week is fine! I'm in my 70's. I remember the shampoos back in the 1960's. They were VERY strong because people didn't shampoo often. Shampoos now are very mild. I can tell the difference between yesteryear HALO and PRELL. They were like strong detergent!
I’ve always been surprised at the cultural difference between North America and Europe when it comes to personal hygiene. Being one of those “filthy” Europeans that washes her hair twice a week and showers every other day (unless I sweat a lot because of sports, heatwave etc), I was often met with disbelief and disgust by people from the US and Canada. Them being so surprised that I don’t shower and wash my hair daily was kinda an indirect proof of it not being an issue. In case I smelled or looked dirty, there wouldn’t have been a moment of surprise I assume!
I am European and I shower every day, so do many people here in Spain. 😮 I wash my hair every two days, sometimes three. Every day in Summer, when it's hot and you go swimming, for instance. I don't use perfume or make up, but I use deodorant. I agree that many cosmetics are unhealthy but not washing isn't good either, and it's not socially acceptable here, not among ordinary people. There are huge differences from country to country here in Europe.
@@nurnu349 just to make it clear, I never promoted “not washing”. And I do of course use deodorant and on the days I don’t shower, I wash myself with a wash cloth (face, armpits, feet and private parts). You really don’t need to wash your arms and legs every day unless you sweat a lot. It’s also unhealthy as it can strip your skin of healthy bacteria. We also have extremely hard water where I live and using it too much dries your skin out. Obviously not ever washing is worse but I think overdoing it is also not ideal for your health nor for the environment.
@@linibellini Yes, I see your point. Washing very often and with chemicals is not good for your skin, agreed, however, I will still have a daily shower and wash my clothes often. It's a personal choice, after all. The environment, that's the ultimate excuse, isn't it? People think they are saving the planet using electric cars when the reality is that electric cars are highly pollutant and a nightmare when it comes to the disposal of the highly toxic and non-recyclable batteries. The materials mined to manufacture them use slave labour and DESTROY the environment of the far away places from they are sourced. The life of batteries is peanuts and the bulk of batteries needed humongous, so it's a nightmare. They explode and cause fires that are impossible to extinguish, imagine that happening near a forest... You probably hadn't thought of it. Many people eat "healthy " and environmentally friendly, because no pesticides were used on the mangos or avocados or X they bought, those products were not proximity products though, but people keep thinking they are OK to save the planet. People don't want to use wool and leather, because poor animals, and they use synthetic fibres instead, or plastic. They take drugs imported from developing countries, but that's ok, the long flights included, 😂 haha, they want their mary juana at any human or environmental cost. They fly to exotic places, they use plastics, many of them do. It's again a delicate balance of options and choices and I don't like it when people play the environmental card, in general, they are not environmentally friendly, just play pretend. May be you use a composting toilet, never fly, avoid plastics, use only organic cotton, eat only regional products and don't do drugs, if that is the case, I respect your environment argument and you, for being so disciplined, so consistent, and so authentic. Otherwise, please, stick only to the dry skin argument, which is objective and true. Thanks for the tip though.
Yeah, I already went down the "shampoo is bad" rabbit hole. Here's what I found. 1. Hair can be refreshed with cornstarch. Just sprinkle some on your palms and add it to the greasy areas and massage in. Leave for a few minutes, then brush out and \or use a towel. 2. Shampoo bars are very useful. For awhile there only Lush or homemade soap makers were making them. They were pricey! But, they've caught on and are less expensive. You just have to search. Be aware many contain sodium isothionate which is less harsh than sodium laureth sulfate. You have to make up your mind if this is important to you. 3. Handmade or store bought bar soaps can leave a residue. You can rinse with dilute vinegar to remove some. Syndet bars (synthetic detergent bars) such as Dove can be used as substitute. They usually contain sodium isothionate and no lye soap. They are called beauty bars because of this. Read labels. 4. Some people just use conditioner in place of shampoo. 5. Don't let videos like this and articles scare you. Do research on ingredients and decide which ones are problematic for you.
I just started using cornstarch and it works really well! But what would you suggest if you want to wash your hair under a shower? what is the least bad "cleaning method" ?
@@unknowngeezer5029 different person, but a little vinegar once or twice and less-hot showers help with dandruff. Dandruff is, in most cases, just dry skin on your scalp. Clean it, moisturize it, avoid drying it out and you're good
Before mass produced shampoo and marketing, most people washed their hair only once a week which was a perfectly healthy thing to do. But shampoo manufacturers used marketing to get people to wash their hair daily and thus sell more shampoo.
The ingredients used like skin cleansers also strip natural oils and trigger more sebum/oil and issues. This incr need for moisturizing/ conditioning etc.
Washing with shampoo once a week is fine. Some people do over wash their hair. It really depends on how much hair product, sweating, etc ... Most people don't need to wash every day.
I have stopped using shampoo for over a year and instead i use a natural soap and some essential oils and the result is amazing. My hair literally revitalized. If not for that i would 100% be bald by now. I have almost zero hair shedding now and very thick hair
Hey, I want to do this too, but I don't know how to start. Or how to stop. I mean, I used shampoo at least 5 times a week. If I didn't wash my hair 2-3 days, it immediatly became itchy and oily. I think I can't work like that. What kind of soaps do you use and how long does it take your hair to become normal again? I am going bald. Top of my head has much less hair compared to a few years ago and I don't know if it can be revitalized but I wanna try...
@@FaithfulComforter I use a local soap called "Bittim soap" here instead of shampoo. I have a mix of 1 teaspoon each lavender oil, peppermint oil and 1 tablespoon of coconut oil. Every three days I apply this mix to my scalp and massage it and then cover it for one hour and then I get into the shower and wash it with the bittim soap. The rest of the days I wash my hair with just water since I take a shower everyday. This has been working for me and you can notice the result in a couple months and as you keep doing this it will just get better and better. You need to trust the process and know that all those chemical shampoos actually harm your hair. I use this specific soap here but i think you can use anything natural instead of shampoo
@@uchihaitachi3307 We have that soap here in Turkey too. Even the name is same. I saw it many times but never tries it before. Since you used it and recommend it, I want to try it now. Thanks for the suggestion.
Pretty sure baldness is a natural process related to frowning, muscle tension, increased inflammation in the hair follicles, a reduction in follicle size and calcification of said follicle and not just oil build up and a diversity of micro-organisms.
I had a bad psoriasis combined with some yeast infection on my scalp; imagine thumbnail-sized bloody flakes. The special shampoos prescribed by a dermatologist kept it somewhat in check; these soothed the ichiness and bloody crusts but it never really got better. Needless to say that these medical shampoos were insanely expensive. Then I read an article about Aleppo-Soap für skin care and gave it a try. For two years I wash my hair once a week with this traditional Aleppo Soap (the 40% type) and my scalp is almost clean. Only minor rashes and some fine dandruff. Almost cured and a block of soap for 8€ last me four months. For the medical stuff I spent 200€ every quarter.
Im male with regular hair cuts. Did have mild dandruff and used different shampoos but could not get rid of it. The last four years I've only used shampoo occasionally. Every second day body shower only water on hair and used comb or brush. No more dandruff.
Not sure what you mean by the 40% type. I'm looking on Amazon and there are many different Aleppo soaps to choose from. Please advise and many thanks in advance.
I was applauding your "read the ingredients" advice and was then blown away by the Hidden Ingredients app. I didn't know those existed, thank you. I avoid products from the US because of hidden ingredients and this is really gonna open up my dietary options. 🙏
I just had this conversation with my wife yesterday regarding the stricter guidelines Europe has for chemicals in their food and health products. I think most people nowadays are aware that something in our (American) environment is contributing to all the ailments we face today. We were talking about allergies when this all came up. Is all natural food and health supplies the answer? Where indeed are the best places to shop for these goods. We owe it to our kids and grandkids to demand corporations change how they’re literally poisoning us and the environment. Please continue these videos for information untainted by corporate interests and others.
It's also why you need free government-funded healthcare. In the US, the less healthy you are, the more the medical industries profit. And your politicians are all on the medical industries payroll (in some form - backhanders, that sort of thing), so everybody in power wants to encourage you to eat shit, have an unhealthy lifestyle, have exposure to dangerous chemicals, etc. In Europe, unhealthy people COSTS the government money, so they do everything they can to avoid it. Eg the NHS spending £1 million on TV adverts deterring people from doing something unhealthy might save the NHS £20 million in treatments for it. Whereas in the US it's the opposite - spending £1 million on TV adverts encouraging people to do something unhealthy can result in £20 million profit for the medical industries.
Seriously? Free what? What in your life ever was free of any substance? Getting government out of our lives is the answer not making it bigger. Think Obama Care!@@mrfish9876
@@mrfish9876 It's not as simple as that. Because of the salary, being a doctor is attractive in the US. Believe it or not, they don't make tons if you bring the number of hours into it. I remember that about 20 years ago there was a nursing shortage and I could have taken in just about as much OT as I wanted. I could have worked weekends in Chicago for around the same as I made working three 12 hour days at home. If I worked as many hours as he, I would have brought home more than my PCP did. In Canada, the wait time to see your provider can be much longer than in the US. In Nova Scotia (2021) the average wait time between a referral from your GP to getting treatment by a specialist averages more than a year. That doesn't include the time it took you to get in to see your doctor. Wait times for treatment have big medical & financial consequences. A reversible disease could become permanent if you have to wait for treatment. Take me, for example. I fell asleep watching TV & woke up two hours later unable to feel & move my arm below my elbow. Got inpatient CT, MRIs & outpatient EMG but they couldn't figure it out. The local neurologist watched to see if it got better in time (which it did very slowly) but I was disssatisfied with that. Went to a large Chicago specialist with lots of experience in weird things. Got a sonogram a week or two later & had four surgeries shortly afterwards. I couldn't have done this in Canada. If did somehow manage to see a doctor hundreds of miles from home, I'd have taken a very, very long time so have surgery and my injury would have been permanent by then. After the initial injury, the same issue slowly slowly in my other arm & I had surgery on it after the first arm was better. It takes a long time to get imaging like CTs, MRIs, & ultrasounds. I doubt that I'd ever have gotten the sonogram elsewhere. If I'd lived almost anywhere else but the US, I would have to be wealthy to get such good & timely treatment. I would be unable to care for daily needs such as cooking, cleaning, and in time, dressing. Since hubby is older than I, I would end up in a nursing home at a young age. In Canada, my injury would be both personally disastrous and financially disastrous for the Canadian government. People with oddball diseases deserve great care too.
There are bound to be some good wholefood and organic food companies online with a good reputation in America. Always follow the reviews... Here, in the UK, we have a good number of organic wholefood suppliers. Our supermarkets are getting better at supplying organic foods, and with companies like Aldi and Lidl obeying the strict rulings set down by Germany, we can trust these companies pretty much. The other thing you could do is start doing some permaculture. There are some truly amazing American and Canadian permaculture growers with channels on TH-cam, so you are bound to find one that lives in a similar horticultural zone to yourself. Between them, they are growing an ever expanding number of fruits and vegetables that you will never find in a supermarket, as well as the more traditional types. It doesn't matter if your garden is small, you don't need to grow 'everything' you want to eat. Growing just one or two of the simplest types of veggies and/or fruits is the best start, and you build up from there. Don't bite off more than you can chew if you start growing your own. That's the best advice. Some people, especially during lockdown, went garden crazy and wasted a lot of money because it was all new to them. I live in Scotland, and so the best fruits were berries (blueberries, blackberries, gooseberries, currants. These will pretty much look after themselves, need minimal care, and are very easy to propagate. I must have about 40 Blueberry plants in the garden now, in about 8 different hybrids - different hybrids improves yield). For me, the easiest veggies are green onions (Welsh and Egyptian Walking onions), which are both perennial. Also, courgettes do well here, and tomatoes did well in our hotter summer last year. Oh, and definitely grow your own herbs. The more the merrier. If you are eating at least 'something' you can trust to be healthy, then at least a part of your diet is trustworthy. Plus, your little grandkids will just love helping out in the garden when it comes to harvest time. Some of my earliest and most precious memories consist of me helping my grandmother, my great-uncle and my childhood friend's mum with their harvests. Once you grow your own carrots and smell them as you're lifting them fresh from the ground, you'll never be satisfied with carrots from the supermarket again.
I think saunas are great for unclogging pores and keeping the skin's oils flowing. Definitely notice hair and scalp improvements when I use a sauna regularly. @@steffenfrost995
I'm glad you explained that if something is natural it is safe. I'm going to start washing my hair with a mixture of arsenic and anthrax. You saved my life!
Since I stopped using modern shampoos, my seborrheic dermatitis has calmed down tremendously. From time to time I use a kind of tar shampoo or such with ketoconazole, but nothing more. It was an advice from my dermatologist and so far its working wonders:)
You can put coconut oil (cold pressed ) on your hair, a lot, and then wash it with water, do this once a week. It will help you with seborrheic dermatitis, coconut oil has antibacterial and antifungal properties.
@@galga637 Yes, you're right, but that's why they only do it once a week, and only for a few hours on the day of the treatment, and if you wash it well, there's no reason for your pores to be clog.
Thanks for getting an experts view for the results and not just go like "Okay I did for a year and my hair is okay". I've been rocking the long hair for over 5 years and I also go with natural shampoos, the scalp is no different than any other part of our body so it's just nasty to literally stop washing it. It's no different than stopping to wash one of your arms or something it does not make sense but you are completly right about the shit going on with the cosmetics industry. It's a great idea to go with natural products and not wash your hair more often than you wash your body.
Oooooo. Watch out, everybody. The EXPERTS are here! They were so helpful during COVID. I'm SO anxious to hear what they have to say so I can throw my own experience and common sense under the bus and obey THEM.
I stopped using shampoos and conditioners in 2006 and joined the No Poo movement. My hair took two years to recuperate from all the chemicals that I had previously washed my hair with for 30 years. Nowadays, I use 1 teaspoon tea tree oil, 1 teaspoon eucalyptus oil, 1 cup apple cider vinegar. Mix all that and pour into a 32-ounce, dedicated "shampoo" bottle. Fill the rest of the bottle to the top with as hot tap water as you can stand. Mix it all and immediately head to the shower. It takes less than 5 minutes to make, is all-natural and feels really good on your scalp. Everyone asks me if the apple cider vinegar leaves a strong smell and no, it does not. Also, I only wash my hair once per week. When I stopped using chemicals, I also stopped using blow-dryers. Now, my hair is shiny, healthy and strong. I could never say that pre-2006. Before, it looked dry, split a lot, and had no shine. One final thing I use is extra virgin olive oil, the same stuff I cook with. Once per week, I put a very light coating of EVOO and cover my head with a wrap. One hour later, I then wash the EVOO out with the apple cider vinegar-mix shampoo. Everyone's hair is different, so this may not work for everyone, but please, try anything but putting those horrid chemicals into your hair.
Silicone free shampoos are usually pretty decent, and doesn't clog your pores or cause dandruff :) Edit: Also you should never shower every day unless you're really, really sweaty. It strips the natural oils from our skin, including your scalp. Every other day is better, every third day is the best. In the meantime, you obviously need to wash under your arms etc. Just use common sense and clean the places you know need cleaning and change all necessary clothes, ofc. xD I'm just saying what is recommended. Both for your skin and general health. Do what you will with the information. :) And yes, i smell good, and my skin and hair are both great :)
I’m a heavy duty mechanic and I walk around 4-6 miles everyday at work. My job gets filthy. So I have to take long showers every day to get myself clean or I pose a hazard to my home and co workers. Unfortunate but this is good news. I’ll have to try some experimenting. Some places need to be washed every day though 😂
My hair is super oily the day after the shower, I don't know what to do, and I'm kinda forced to shampooing every day, the least I can do is using an extra delicate shampoo...
I haven’t washed my hair with shampoo for years .my hair is clean, shines and healthy .its never greasy or dry , it remains the same , healthy and full . I am 58 years old now and still have the same hair I’ve always had . Giving up shampoos will firstly cause hair to become greasy as it tries to rebalance its natural condition .after three of fou4 weeks it will regain its normal natural balance and look perfectly good .
I used ash when camping in the mountains in Scotland, I couldn't believe how soapy became, the ash with water and how soft left my skin after! The best soap !
@@iscander_s ... yes, bleach. A caustic solution capable of sterilization, burning, and/or leeching chemicals out of a medium. If you look at the hygiene practices of select African tribes, they will use the pee from their cows to wash their hair. Their hair will turn from black to a yellow hue from bleaching it. If you put lemon juice and hydrogen peroxide on your hair while in sunlight, it will bleach your hair. If you use dilute sodium hydroxide on hair, you can bleach it. I don't recommend any of those, but they all represent bleaching. Bleach is not limited to household sodium hypochlorite. But I appreciate your statement that if you were to pick up a bottle of bleach, the ingredients would not be sodium hydroxide and water. From that perspective, you are correct.
I did the water only for abt 6 months. my hair got used to it slightly but by no means was it not greasy. I started using more natural shampoos and chilled out only using it abt twice a week and my hair is better than ever. I will say it varies from person to person so I would try it yourself and see what works for you.
Very interesting experiment! I have spent time on this subject too. The so called no-pooh method usually replaces shampoo with a weekly baking soda wash and a vinegar rinse. The problem with most of the methods is that neither of the replacement substances are skin compatible, especially if left on the skin. Baking soda works partly because it is an alkaline, and as mentioned it will irritate the skin if left behind or used too often. It is however rinsed out and a vinegar rinse will hopefully lower ph to a healthier level. Vinegar is considered highly irritating too, but weak solutions is often tolerated. Many use it like a conditioner and rinse it out after a couple of minutes. You can always claim the solutions of baking soda and vinegar are diluted to a safe concentration, but so can be claimed with lauryl and laureth sulfates. Shampoos are made to be rinsed out, neither of these are likely not a bad thing used properly. For many lukewarm water can be sufficient to keep skin healthy, and the no pooh methods turns out to be a success. Part of the explanation is their skin manage to keep an healthy lipid barrier with this method; they have no problem with dandruff, clogged pores, and hardened sebum. For some, it is enough to use a sea salt rinse or spray now and then to keep things healthy. There are success stories with oil massages before hair wash, diy lactic acid toner after a wash,... The factors that keeps the lipid barrier healthy and skin in good condition are complex. Most things we use on our skin interfere with the lipid barrier but in the long run basic skin care is beneficial. The skin has usually no problem with it and quickly recovers. If the skin is left to fend for it self, it can suffer, so it`s hard to vilify the basic things we do to maintain it. Regards
wow this was incredibly informative. I've started to lose some hair up top but thought it was weird because my younger brother has lost so much more than I have and he's ten years younger than me which led me to believe that maybe it was hormonal hair loss. thanks to this video I will definitely be researching our shampoos among other things.
Glad you found the middle ground. I see the merits of no poo, but I don't think going to the opposite extreme is usually the best way. I only wash 2-3 times a week, and I use a shampoo that doesn't contain these ingredients, and isn't very stripping. Removing dead skin is important for strong, lustrous hair. I'm sure no poo has its merits for some people. I could also see it as being a way to restore natural oil production if you do it for just a few weeks or a couple months, then resume with a gentle shampoo
I slowly reduced my shampoo usage by buying a gentle one and then only shampooing when my scalp felt oily. At first it was four days a week, but now I shampoo only once a week and my hair is much better. I also got a shower filter to reduce mineral buildup and my hair and skin are definitely smoother now that they're not getting blasted by chlorine and other minerals.
The human scalp evolved for 10's of thousands of years without 'products' to keep it "healthy". With evolution, only the healthy survive to breed more humans so, products do not necessarily mean healthier, although they do make someone richer.
I haven't washed my hair with shampoo for 5 years now and now all the issues are gone, now my hair isn't overly oily, and all my dandruff is gone. Zero itching as well.
Bro I get greasy hair after working out and after 2 days of no shampoo I’m forced to shampoo for my hair to be fluffy shiny and look good if I don’t it’s greasy and looks flat no volume or anything Soo what the fuck? Water dosent work I’m sorry but that shit is bullshit
@@toddspangler6669 I avoid overly warm water, but basically just wash my hair with only warm to cool water, and use my hands to really rub the water through my hair so it's entirely soaked. Sometimes I shower twice a day because of gym. I just towel dry my hair but and let it air dry the rest, I comb it. That's it.
is the amount of dead skin cells within the scalp really a sign of something bad? there's dead skin cells dropping off your body everywhere - but in the scalp its harder for it to go anywhere. I find that washing my hair causes the skin to get dry and flaky - thus more "dandruff"
significant buildup of dead skin on the scalp isn't good for your hair. your hair will grow a lot stronger and more lustrous if it isn't being bogged down by excess dandruff. i like to grow my hair out moderately long. when i don't exfoliate, the hair on the top of my head wilts down. i started using a salicylic acid shampoo once a week, and now it stays up fine
@@apondo100 well, i do not have a 10 000 participant study to pull out of my anus unfortunately. i do have the recommendation from my dermatologist, as well as the advice from derms you can find online, such as Dr. Dray who has a video on youtube about scalp care that you can check out. but this is something you can just try for yourself. add it to our routine for a few weeks and see what happens. if your hair looks better or maintains styling better, then there's your proof. if it doesn't, then no big deal, you only lost the 10 or 15 bucks you spent on a bottle of shampoo. my hair used to wilt the next day after styling, now it maintains its structure for a few days. bear in mind that some will benefit more than others for a variety of reasons (ex. people who use lots of styling product are more likely to get product buildup, people with thinner follicles will be more vulnerable to buildup than others, etc.). just give it a try
I haven't shampooed my hair in almost 5 yrs & I LOVE IT!!!! My hair was never on the thick side, but after turning 55 & going through menopause for 15 yrs, I had such thin, fine hair with a noticeable bald spot on my crown. After reading up on the no poo trend I decided to give it a try. It's been about 5 yrs (I'm now 60) & my hair is thicker than it ever was in my youth. My bald spot has been gone since 6 months in & my scalp is very healthy. The trick to the whole thing is brushing with actual boar bristle brushes. I will never shampoo again!!!! Oh, & just in case you're wondering, I've asked my husband, kids, & friends to smell my hair & they said they couldn't smell anything. Occasionally, if my hair feels a bit oily I will put some loose body powder in it....usually with a lavender scent, so this may help, but honestly if you keep it brushed there's no odor at all. One more thing: I've been a hairstylist since I was 18 & always used the best, most expensive products on my hair. If I had known about this when I first started out I would have definitely tried to get my clientele to stop shampooing or at least shampoo a whole lot less.
its been my experience that smelly hair is actually residue shampoo that can be smelled, that stuff can take months to leave ones scalp. havent used shampoo for years either and made sure to ask different people, but there are no smells. for me it smells about the same as trying to get a smell out of the top of ones hand. barely no scent, nothing unpleasant. if you would scrub the top of your hand with shampoo daily and then leave it be for a few days, i am sure the smell would be different and much more unpleasant too. that stuff seeps into the skin and makes a nasty literal comeback
I interviewed a retired couple who were industrial chemists employed by a hair products manufacturers and they told me that when handling deliveries of chemicals used in the products they had to wear Haz-Mat protective clothing!
Do you suppose because that was the quantity they were dealing with? I mean if you pour 2 gallons of straight bleach on your clothes it’s going to rot and eat them up but if you toss 1 tablespoon in the washing machine is going to disinfect.
I tried the no shampoo or conditioner trick for 9 months, in all honesty i think my hair is thinner now, as my hair is down to my waist in length at the time i felt like i was dragging a lot weight and i gave up in the end because i literally couldnt stomach the smell off sebum, and i felt itchy and grubby even after a shower, so yeah total fail !!!🤦♀️🤷♀️
@@Gauravkumar-jm4ve yeah that too but it wasn't dry and flaky, it was like oily cream, I noticed that when I scratch my head it would be under my nails 😳 pretty disgusting!!
The coronal area of my scalp sometimes leaks sebum like a drippy old window shaker Air Conditioning unit does on the outside and always smells of HONEY like BEE's honey or something closer to adolescent's facial acne's pus. Also, when it is "leaky" my head will literally become GLUED to whatever I lean back of my head on. Thankfully, anyway, I have hair and skin good enough I've been sought after in both skin and hair "industries" ever since my toddler years but my fam knows better.
My hair had a much worse texture when I washed it once a week versus washing it every other day now. It's soft as baby hair. It was super rough back when I washed it once a week. This whole no shampoo thing needs to be taken with a grain of salt. It might work for SOME people with specific types of hair, but it's definitely not a one size fits all kind of thing.
@@mrsrimskie5493 Think about it from the point of view of keeping a dog clean. You can give them a wash once in a while when they get stinky, but if you do it too much you can cause them great harm since they need the grease to protect their skin. The same probably applies for a human being. Perhaps you can try washing your hair with some natural shampoo once every couple of weeks as a compromise to get the best of both worlds. Also, did you wash your scalp with water when showering? How about brushing your hair after showering?
I stopped using shampoo 10 years ago because I was getting such itchy scalp with lots of dandruff. I tried all the anti dandruff shampoos and nothing helped. At first I started with baking soda to wash and vinegar to finish (it helps make your hair more smooth and removes water impurities). However, baking soda is very abrasive. It damaged my hair over time (especially since I was growing it long at the time). Over time, I just started heavily scrubbing it with my hands under just water and bingo, I haven't turned back since. Many people would never know I don't use any hair product. Pushing 40 now and my hair is thick and lush as ever. However, to be fair, I have a good amount of genetics to thank for that.
This is on the edge between a conspiracy theory and shocking truth. And tbh the second one is more believable (or I want to believe it) since there are examples of companies promoting dangerous products for the sake of profit
It's probably a combination of people believing that "nature is not enough" and merchants wanting to sell them things they don't need to capitalize on, and perpetuate, that belief.
@@LowSlungBadBitch Because there is no proof that shampoo is highly toxic. No death has been tide to shampoo or soap usage. Sure it has chemicals that cause cancer at higher exposer rates and doses but at a low enough dose it's totally safe. Almost everything that we use or consume is a carcinogen or is toxic. Our exposome is influenced by everything we use, consume and breath. The air in your home might be more toxic from the drywall and furniture gassing off, then your shampoo. You might be absorbing alot of plastic in your skin from all your polyester clothing. Also from the water you drink. New car smell, yup toxic .Do you live in a major city and have bad air? .......etc......
Start with a legitimate correct question, end with a conclusion that is unsatisfactory. First, I don't think you would have lost your hair because you don't wash it, because otherwise all wild animals would be glabrous. Second, the solution is not to read labels but just use the first soap you mentioned in your video, oil and ash (or lye), it is so simple that you can do it at home by yourself. Industries really have no good motivation to keep intoxicating us with chemicals except to cut costs or deliberately hurt us, the real information campaign is to explain to people how to stop funding these mad scientists.
If you continue for several weeks it will adapt to it and be less greasy The greasiness of your hair is because you wash it so often and your hair will produce more oil than usual. So, stop shampooing for 2 weeks and after the first week you'll be fine. Just wash it with water and make it dry with a towel if you feel it's so greasy. Keep it up champ
Don't follow their advice, I did "no poo" and had a horrible skin infection that hasn't gone away in years. It was painful, smelly, itchy and just disgusting. No poo is a scam.
I haven't shampooed my hair in 6 months. For the most part it looks and feels as if I did. I take a shower every day and wash with just water. Occasionally (once a week to 2 weeks) my hair starts to feel weighed down or oily. When that happens, I take a cap-ful of apple cider vinegar in a tea cup and fill the rest with water, in the shower, and then when my hair is fully wet, I pour about 1/3 to 1/2 of the cup in my hair and scrub it in then add the other half and scrub it in then rinse it out. This process only takes 1-2 minutes. It only smells like apple cider vinegar until the rinse. After that my hair is light and fluffy just like I had used regular shampoo.
I haven’t used shampoo in 8 years. I like using clay and rinsing with apple cider vinegar (diluted) every month to 6 weeks. My hair is long now and thick….no scalp issues. P.s. when my hair was short I used baking soda to wash then the ACV. It worked great! Blessings to all.
@@Veilamia I use a tsp of bicarb in a cup of water to wash my scalp, rinse well, then rinse with 1tsp AC vinegar in a cup of water. I don't rinse the AC out. We have ticks where I live and I never get one on my head.
@@vonn2221 I take the baking soda…add water…enough to make a liquid paste. Rub into scalp and rinse. I hope you will not find this offensive but my husband healed his scalp by using his urine. He gathered his urine in a cup, brought it into the shower,poured it on his head then rinsed with water. Followed by the baking soda and then diluted ACV(apple cider vinegar) after doing this 3 times in a week he cured his scalp issues. Blessings
From a hairdresser of many years from a family of hairdressers, teacher, platform artist, and award winning competition hairdresser. A ph scale, percentage of hydrogen, tells us the acidity or alkalinity of many things but in this case about our bodies. A reading from zero to seven is acid and 7, neutral, to 14 is alkaline. Hair, scalp and skin, yes scalp and skin are one and the same. Most apple cider vinegars have a ph of 2.2. Aloe vera is about 4 and hair and skin are 5.4to 5.6. Average hair has 6 to 10 layers of scales that lay down and protect the inner structure the hair. When an acid rinse is used, it is used to close down these scales after the hair has been exposed to an alkali. It is the only use for an acid rinse besides the closing down of the scales, will in theory make the hair shiny. If you are using chemicals on your hair a diluted vinegar rinse, an ounce of vinegar to a larger glass of water, followed by a good conditioner for your hair type should do the job. In buying shampoo and conditioner a good mildly acid shampoo and conditioner are a must. I recommend a good professional product designed for your hair type because the actual active ingredients are usually about 5 times better than drugstore product. It takes way less to work. Ypu see there is a reason the "other products " are so cheap. I f you see professional products in discount stores you need to know manufactures change their packing every three years so we know when the 3 year expiration ends. In most cases you are buying old product. Try to use mildly acid products on your skin as well as your hair. Alkaline products are peroxide hair color, some perms, bleaches, relaxers and at 14 on the ph scale you find lye.
As soon as I started washing my hair and scalp with just water, the itching and dandruff stopped in less than a week. I spent a lot of money on anti-dandruff shampoo and medication and nothing helped.
I've just scrubbed my hair with water for two years and it's great. It's really mostly a caucasian person thing to wash your hair multiple times a week, my black family members only wash their hair every few months because they already know how shampoo damages their hair. Flat profile hair gets damaged easier as apposed to european hair. If you don't clean your hair, it stops making large amounts of oils and stays clean on its own for the most part.
I just want to add my two cents since I heard no mention of it. When I eat a diet heavy on sugar or refined carbs it immediately causes inflammation on my scalp and messes with the delicate balance of my scalp biome. Those things can make your scalp unhealthy and mess with your experiment. Wonder what a good diet + no shampoo would look like?
Swap dairy products with plant based ones, and quit on sugar, sweets, cocoa, they all cause acne and worsen skin condition in general; magic happened to my prone to acne and extremely sensitive skin after I switched to plant based food; I also tried washing my long hair with water only for 6 weeks once but couldn’t bare the smell; although my scalp was the happiest back then and finally stopped feeling itchy during those 6 weeks contrary to my regular routine of shampoo washes twice a week; then I experimented with chickpea flour, then with glassoul clay; I ended up using some natural shampoos produced locally in my country, I don’t believe they ship to other Europe countries even but if you grab few natural ingredients like Castile soap, ghassoul clay and essential oils you can get yourself a healthy mixture that will also exfoliate dead skin; putting moderate amount of natural oils like sesame oil or marula oil on your hair regularly also helps its overall condition and you don’t have to wash it off with Dawn dish liquid, I use my gentle shampoo and am not to specific about removing 100% of it during washing, my hair is thin and slightly wavy but this routine repeated once a week keeps my scalp happy and doesn’t look greasy at all; it’s a bit flat on days 5-7 but it’s a matter of training your hair I guess;
I've developed so many random skin conditions over my lifetime thanks to Axe, Old Spice, and Irish Spring... I never had sensitive skin as a kid, now I cant use scented detergent to clean my clothes. I also developed eczema at age 18... My skin is ruined for life.
Autoimmune diseases are related to the intestine and bacterial flora, you just need to eat well for a few months, and you will notice a tremendous difference, diet without sugar, without coffee (stimulants), eat lots of apples, they have the ability to cleanse the intestine, you can also ingest a tablespoon of cold-pressed coconut oil every morning, coconut oil feeds the good bacteria in your intestine and helps repair holes you may have in your intestine that allow toxins to pass into your blood.
What I did was start eating only meat and fruit, I didn't consume fast food, sugar or carbohydrates, the only sweet thing I could have was an apple , I put coconut oil in the water and drank it during the day. I did all this, and my eczema disappeared, you need to heal the gut, and I only followed this diet for 2/3 months
I KNOW MY COMMENT ISN'T ABOUT SHAMPOO. BUT I JUST WANTED TO ADD THAT WHEN I WAS IN MY 20'S I USED TO CLEAN MY FACE WITH THAT POPULAR ORANGE COLORED LIQUID FACE SOAP, THAT WAS FOR TREATING ACNE. I WOULD USE IT FOR YEARS.AND NEVER NOTICED ANY HELP FROM IT. IT SEEMED TO MAKE IT WORSE.THEN ONE DAY, I STOPPED USING IT. AND MY SKIN NEVER LOOKED BETTER😊
I did the no hair wash thing for a couple of years a while back. I didn't tell anyone and nobody noticed. However, i found that my pillow cases were getting dirty and greasy really quickly, so my hair obviously wasn't really clean. I started washing it again, but much less often and found that once every few weeks was about right. There's no reason to wash your hair multiple times a week unless you're doing something that actively makes it badly dirty. In a lot of cases a rinse with water in the shower is enough. I started using really simple shampoo bars and they were great. I found that when i used the fancy shampoos with stupid food ingredients like coconut and jojoba in them was when i got the sour 'hair' smell after a few days. My theory is that the sour 'hair' smell is really the nasty stuff that your shampoo leaves behind in your hair going off.
plant greases and oils have a higher capacity to go rancid due to oxidisation, and cause damage due to absorption and replacing more stable saturated fats, The alternative is that humans plainly don't like plants on a hardware level.
@@DolphinsPlayingInAquaMoonlight I've read enough toddler ad libitum feeding studies to understand this. Children are a lot more sensitive to the tastes of sour and bitter because that is how "rancid" and "toxic" are taste encoded to humans. Children are particularly vulnerable to such things compared to adults. This is not even talking about how easy it is to get children off of plants. Or the robust improvements in all developmental metrics as a result of this. (The benefits being very significant even if you start this diet even at the age of 70 as well) What is human? We know from the fossil record, that the ones that ate plants are now was/were as a subspecies, and species.
I found an ancient reference for hair care. It said that we should rinse our hair once a week. Rinse. Not wash with shampoo and conditioner. So I decided to try that. My hair is the healthiest it's ever been. It doesn't look like a salon commercial and I am A-OK with that. I no longer get itchy, dry scalp. It grows much faster, and is stronger than it was before. All I do is brush it and rinse it and once a month or two I will use a very light non commercial soap for a cleaning. When I go for a cut is the only time I get that salon shampoo in my hair and I always refuse the conditioner. I only get my hair cut once a year.
It probably does not grow faster. I and many others also often have the feeling that doing something specific, such as using certain product,s increases hair growth but that is almost always unlikely. Hair growth is genetic and consistent. You'd need some very special things like ingesting endocrins, to make the hair grow faster.
I have a few Aloe Vera plants growing and once in a while I put its gel on my hair and let it dry and then just rinse it out in the shower. It leaves my hair clean and very nice. Coconut oil also works nicely.
@@Crispywithextrabutter Simple after using CO as a moisturizer in the evening, just wash it out in the morning. But i love it along with castrol oil. Transfered my very dried air, rough texture into soft shiney manageable hair
I stopped using shampoo (poo) years ago. I have saved so much money and my scalp is so much healthier. It took about a year for my hair to adjust. I would never go back to using shampoo.
Im 19 and I have sooo much hair and it’s long. I only wash once a week with a professional shampoo with no sulfate and no fragrance. And honestly my hair doesn’t get oily because: I don’t touch the scalp with my hands and I wash my brush every time I wash my hair.
I'll be honest, I also watched that Johnny Harris video like I think 2 years ago iirc. And it gave me some proper insight on that kind of thing regarding shampoo, now tbf it was also the year I also was getting into proper skincare, and edit: also got into proper shaving with safety razors like old timey folk(this is a godsend over cartridge razors believe me, try it). For the record, I don't defend these companies using these ingredients, however my skin overall has never looked better in all the years I've became a working adult, and I'm a male who actually thought skincare products was all just bs. One aspect I learn about our skin, is that the oil is definitely one thing that moisturizes our skin, and if you strip that away too much, the skin has a tendency to overproduce until it normalizes for a while, same goes for hair. In anycase, going back to the shampoo thing. I watched that video and since 2021 still have some pandemic lockdowns in some places, I decided it was the perfect time to actually stop using shampoo on my hair and just wash with water since I was staying home most of the time and just working at home as well. And just after 1 month, boi I tell you, it did not sit well for me at all. It was oily/greasy much more than I expected, and I don't know if it was dandruff or not, but since it was so itchy, whenever I scratch some sticky flakes do come in my nails, which I do assume it's dandruff but since there's so much grease it just blended hard. And while I can tolerate it for a while longer thinking it'll just get better since my scalp was probably just trying to compensate for the dryness it had and will eventually normalize, I decided to just stop after 2 more weeks. For one, I actually needed to go to work onsite atleast once a week every 5 weeks at the time, and it does not sit well for me knowing how visible those stuff are and how much I tend to scratch so it's embarrasing to have people see how disgusting it looks, and secondly, on the occasion I do have those flakes or dusts or whatever just fall whenever I scratch, and I do not like it that I had to keep cleaning my shirt, my desk, my keyboard, basically everything practically almost everyday just for that. All in all, that experience made me think while not shampooing your hair might be good for some people. It just isn't for some as well, especially since dandruff is proven to be actually caused by malassezia which likes oily sebum on hair and although I've never actually have experienced dandruff until that time, it most likely happened so because of the excess oil on my scalp. After researching stuff about it those 2 years ago, I think shampooing your hair is still fine, ofc with the proper ingredients like you listed. But overwashing is the actual issue imo, and not necessarily washing in itself. I just wash my hair 1~2x a week these days and honestly I've never had an issue since. Even after working out/gone to the gym, I'd only really wet my scalp and still keep at a frequency of 1~2x a week. The only other time I'd wash my hair again more is if I were to use hair products like wax, which doesn't happen as frequently anymore since I have short hair now.
Not having watched the video yet, I think your right. I think shampoo is made at a higher concentration than recommended because it's supposed to be diluted in the water, however people just use too much of it. Kind of like how toothpaste is supposed to be a single pea sized drop, not the entire brush.
"dandruff is proven to be actually caused by malassezia which likes oily sebum on hair" This is a half-truth. The fungus malessezia is strongly correlated to the intensity of serbohheic dermatitis and its non-inflammatory partner "dandruff" and whilst it is a lipophilic organism (consumes fat as part of its metabolism), this does not mean that malessezia "likes oily sebum" . The lipid composition of that fat MATTERS. Oleic acid absolutely jump-starts malessezia respiration but MCT (Medium-chain Triglycerides) prohibits and is an ANTI-FUNGAL to malessezia and this oil has reduced severity of dandruff in clinical studies Dandruff, as a symptom, exist as a byproduct of a complex process. This is an ongoing field of research. A rhetorical question: Malessezia fungus is estimated to be within the scalps of more than 7 billion people yet the benign dandruff and its more serious counterpart is at much lower percentages, this should naturally raise the question "surely it can't be just oil that causes these conditions, is there something more nuanced to that?". Oil can infact work both ways to enable and prohibit the growth of malessezia; there may be a bacteria (Staphyloccus) that also participates within this interaction. Never knew my solo researching could come to use . phew :)
I stopped using shampoo 10 years ago, and it’s made such a difference to my hair. I wash my hair once a week with water only, it looks healthy, it’s grown very much longer than it did when using shampoo, and it’s much less oily. No stripping, no over production of oils to compensate. My hair is clean, smells good and it’s good for my purse!
I havent used shampoo since 2012 and gave a period of about 7 years where I decided not to cut or comb my hair either and it grew into the most glorious dreadlocks. I felt like a real Viking haha. Anyways in regards to the video, my philosophy is, if I wouldnt put it in my mouth, I wont put it on my body. And besides that, DONT GIVE BIG PHARMA A PENNY OF YOUR HARD EARNED
Yeah, I used to use a ton of soap in the past, and then I started applying dog logic to my washing. Since it's ok to give a dog a bath once in a while, but doing it too much can be harmful, I am doing the same. Now I use like 1/10th the soap that I used to, and use just water on most of my body. Don't know if I stink, but I feel pretty clean after showering with mostly water on most of my body.
For average guys : Don't overthink, just don't use shampoo everyday. Use shampoo about twice a week and use a mild shampoo (you'r have ti research a bit abiut that, which is more health, has less chemicals and more natural elements, etc). Just using a milder shampoo and using it twice a week instead of daily can do you wonders
I haven't used a shampoo for 6 months. Everybody compliments how shiny and smooth my hair is. My hair never itches or stinks. My hair doesn't frizz out after a shower.
I did No Poo for 6 months straight, took a couple of weeks and it seemed to have big positive impact but by the 6th month it was way too oily and had the worst dandruff of my life
I too have scalp that by day 4 is overflowing with oil. I'm OK washing it, but I'd prefer a healthier alternative to commercial shampoo and conditioners.
@@citizendc9 Just use a pure gentle soap like castille soap or similar. No reason to use commercial shampoos. I don't need conditioner most of the time, but occasionally I will use sorbolene or other very basic fragrance free skin moisturiser as a leave in overnight treatment.
Hmmm real dilemma here. Either cancer or a little bit of dead skin you can only see under a microscope. Really going to have to weigh the options with this one.
Your OVER playing getting cancer from shampoo and UNDERPLAYING "a few skin flakes". Ask any REAL dermatologist and he'll/she'll tell you a dirty scalp brings it's own problems after a time. Dirt and grease brings it's own problems. I'm not worried about getting cancer from shampoo! If you feel that way, you better stop using soap on your body, detergents in your laundry. You better stop washing dishes in the sink. Especially, the dishwasher! There's a LOT of food you better stop eating, etc..
I did this too for some time, a lot of time. I remember having problems with cutting my hair. People would be LITERALLY offended that I dared cross their door without shampooing my head. Encountered much rudeness in the process to a point where I started cutting my own hair. stopped at some point. I think my scalp was healthier back then but I am not sure.
Agree with this. I stopped using synthetic shampoos for many years now. No more itch and falling hair. Just water. And occasionally some diluted tea tree oil.
A fact check as an Indian SHAMPO was invented in 16th century in India And shampoo came from the sanskrit word Champoo means massage. I just thought I shud mention it.
Great information! Also the petroleum based artificial colors in many foods, drinks, meds, vitamins we directly ingest are known carcinogens. Many are banned in other countries but they are in foods and candy we eat and we give to children. I talked to a pediatric oncologist at a conference, she believes many childhood cancers are caused by the colors. Yellow5, Yellow6, red 40 and carmel color are in everything. I even found yellow 5 in my shampoo!
That's a little alarmist. You say many, but the only artificial colors that the US currently allows but the EU has banned is FD&C Green No. 3 and Citrus red 2 (which is only approved for orange peels?) Orange B is also banned, but hasn't been produced since the 70's. The other colors you listed are all allowed in other countries (as far as I can see, I'm certainly willing to be corrected here).
@@SavageArms357 several studies revealed those colors cause ADHD and cancer. The oncologist I talked with said she was researching at Duke and she believed the colors were contributing to many childhood cancers. You need to do more research.
@@carriemayes8001 Personally, I would prefer cheese colored with natural dyes if at all, but Yellow 6 does appear to be pretty darn safe based on multiple studies.
Valid concerns ! You got my dandruff up ! Maybe also, all the terrible microplastics are giving us a false sense of health with the hair bounce. I put off washing my hair for about two weeks. After about a week of forgetfulness, even when my good wife and our Labrador reminds me with head licks; I go to the man cave and massage my head with a vacuum cleaner hose. Even after ten minutes of suction, dandruff still comes. So, I believe a healthier natural shampoo is overdue. Homemade ACV and homemade Activated Charcoal works !
The scalp overcompensates for any kind of shampoo currently on the market. Depending how often you showered and with which kind of product(s), your head could take up to half a year to slowly adjust to its new situation, a full year at worst. The first month usually is filled with extra greasy and extra dandruffy hair, because of the no longer being covered up by the shampoo drying up off your skin and the no longer necessary over-production of sebum. True hints at your actual state would only truly be judgable after at least a month of sticking to one chosen plan of hygiene. Two weeks would only be able to tell you wether you have any skin conditions that were being covered up/suppressed by your choice of shampoo. Out of curiosity, you did use cold/warm/hot water to clean your hair once to twice a week, yes? If not, that would have been a contributing factor in your apparent overproduction of dandruff. Not washing at all is just as bad as using shampoo after all. Water is pretty much THE base requirement for your hair to properly function. That and a regular usage of thick/dense bristled brush truly massaging the scalp.
@@LiamDerWandrer Thank you for your kind consideration. To answer, I use unfiltered warm tap city water. Do you have a recommendation on water temperature or filtration? You got me thinking about a charcoal filter OR mixing a little activated charcoal into the ACV mixture. All things considered equally, I have a super-healthy full set of daily brushed hair .
Seems like making one's own cleaning product is an easier and more reliable solution than trying to scrutinize ingredients. There's gotta be something simple that works well. I do like the experiment presented here.
You can still buy and use Shikakai. Shampoo is a word of indian origin. Shikakai is a ayurvadic concoction of Senegalia rugata fruits with soap nuts and indian gooseberry, which has been in use for more than 4000 years.
I really liked the idea of no poo, But I always try and see it if works for me, My main issues is when I cut my hair, it's very difficult to wash it. So in the end I decided to shampoo only once weekly So far so good
I did without shampoo for two months in the hopes my hair would become naturally healthy. I went from small flakes of dandruff to big flakes, lots of itching and greasy roots. 😅
Now I know why some people use gloves when they're cutting hair at the salon! I hate dirty hair! I would never stop washing my hair. I've seen some "no poo" people! Nasty!!! 🤢
Never underestimate hippies ability to rationalize their poor life choices. This was all I could think like a decade ago when all these lazy blogs telling people to stop washing their hair popped up. And the stupid parts about scarrrry petro-chemicals being in the soap. Good lord people yall are ignorant to the max. Funny how all it takes after a lifetime of experts telling one to do it is a few blogs saying dont and that is all people need to hear.
ive went to not washing my hair for 4 days to a week because ive noticed that my hair would be extremely oily the day after washing. but when i stopped washing every day and went to about 3 days, my hair wasnt oily until about the 3rd or 4th day, depending on how active i was. now i only really wash my hair when it needs it, about every 3 to 5 days.b i dont have dandruff and no itchy feeling. some people think its gross, but there was a movie i watched years ago. it wasnt live action but it was like a cartoon, that used mocap for the characters {mocap = motion capture} they use real people in a mocap suit for the movement of the characters so it looks like a realistic casrtoon. but this dude was hearing voices in his head that were driving him crazy etc. im not an idiot, i know it was just a cartoon, but cartoons and movies have silent truths in them. i dont believe shampoo will make me hear voices, but doing research, i realized that shampooing every day like i was "told" to, is not good for us.
I am 37 years old, stopped using shampoo since 30, because I was getting bald BECAUSE of the usage of shampoo + conditioner... A good old fashioned SOAP is enough, and for my surprise, my hair started to GROW BACK!!
@RowOfMushyTiT Alkaline water has a soothing effect on the skin and can help to reduce redness and inflammation. This makes it a great option for people with sensitive skin who are looking for a gentle and effective face wash. Alkaline water can help to remove impurities and dirt from the skin, leaving it looking clean and refreshed.
@@vonn2221very good for dandruff, not so good for oily hair. If your hair is oily, wash with a good quality soap once or twice a week and do this in-between, should be fine.
hahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahaha what terrible advice. i remember the no poo movement and reading all the stories of women being devestated that baking soda made them start losing allot of hair . dont use baking soda to wash your hair
People could always do what I do, use Neutrogena bar soap to wash your body and your hair. It's marketed as a facial soap, but it's very mild and rinses off completely leaving nothing behind to clog your pours. I think they market it as a facial because it dissolves quickly, so using it all over makes it expensive compared to other bar soaps. Back in the early 60's the package said it was so mild you can brush your teeth with it, well being a kid I tried it, and it was true, no bitterness at all. I wait for it to go on sale at around $2.40, sometimes even less than that. I stock up at those times, they only let you order 10 bars at a time, so I order and then reorder another 10 while it's still on sale, usually later on that day, or the next day. It ships free if you sign up for an account. It melt away quickly, so don't leave it sitting in water after a shower, keep it in a dry place. I like the smell of the scented version, they have an unscented version as well. Use it and you'll get hooked, it's that good.
I've been happily using Neutrogena soap for as long as I can remember. I used to pick it off the shelves (I'm in England) till the company decided to stop sending it to Britain. That coincided with Jennifer Aniston saying that she wouldn't put anything else on her face. (A few years later, she said the same thing about Aveeno. 😆) They still send everything else here, including their false hope acne treatments. So now I have to buy it online at exorbitant prices with high packing costs. I don't think Neutrogena make anything else worth buying; just the soap. This may stop now I've discovered an affordable tallow soap. Pretty well everything now is labelled vegan, which is admirable - except I'm not a plant.
My hair in highshool was so dry and thin. I learned you shouldn’t be shampooing so much so I slowed down on that. I had problems with keeping my teeth white because I liked tea and coffee when I got older so I switched to baking soda tooth paste. Some how I’ve been making good choices without even realizing it. I can’t use old spice I learned in highschool because it was making my armpits dark and sometimes almost feel kinda like burning. Never liked axe or sprays but now that I’m older I like cologne. I think we should all listen to our bodies more it probably speaks a lot
There is a huge difference between not washing your hair vs not washing your hair with shampoo. I'm just throwing this out there in case he didn't catch that. He could easily wash his hair routinely, just don't use shampoo.
That's decades of advertising.
Yep, I do that. Just water 90% of the time and shampoo when it really feels like water isnt enough. Same with shower gels. You dont need shower gel to rinse off a bit of sweat. And you dont need tons of skincare products to counter the other skincare products.
you can just wash your hair and scalp with conditioner.. if you're rubbing your scalp, it's getting clean
Came here to say the same thing: not *shampooing* your hair isn't the same thing as not *washing* your hair. I think if Mike had used a washcloth each time he showered and spent just a few minutes rubbing his head while the water ran over it, his scalp would have been healthy and sebum-free.
I thought that was what he meant - no shampoo. I didn't think he absolutely didn't wash his hair. If he hadn't washed his hair at all, I think we would've seen a way, way different picture.
I was disgusted to learn that SLS was an ingredient in dandruff shampoos, considering that It is used as a skin irritant to test the effectiveness of lotions and other products on irritated skin. Imagine a dandruff shampoo that kept your scalp just irritated enough that you never wanted to stop using it. That's how you get repeat business.
Tf
Pharmacist here. The thing with most substances, be it medicine or additives in shampoos, is that the amount of substance used and the time it's given to interact with your body both influence the effects. Yes, pure SLS that you don't wash off acts as an irritant - as does plain and simple soap. SLS is water soluble and cannot cross cell membranes - if you rinse your hair properly and don't wash your hair several times a day each day, it's rather unlikely to cause problems.
It's in almost all shampoo and soaps, they use it for grease remover in auto shops...I finally switch to castile soap to get away from that crap.
actually I stopped using it for years until I lived in Hawaii and was sweating pretty regularly. I got some kind of rash around my scalp line and researched it. It was dandruff and H&S got rid of it.
yes. i always tell people that using shampoo makes your hair greasier
Not washing and not using shampoo are two different things: I used to jump into a lake year in and year out, with beautiful water quality, washed my hair a few times a week. Soft, beautiful hair, no shampoo or conditioner needed
that lake absolutely was not cleaning your hair better than just taking a shower lmao
why tf do people still think that lakes/rivers are like these magical cleansing things like we live in the 1500's? animals shit and piss in there, there's parasites in there!
Water doesn't remove oils on the skin/hair so jumping into a lake isn't going o get your skin or hair clean.
Bro, if you're not using anything to strip away that dirt and grime, then your hair is filthy.
ewwww
@@tylerdurden7142 oils are good though
I feel the specialist is quite biased, since she works in a cosmetic clinic that offers hair care and treatment. Even if she agreed with you, would be strange for her clients to know that 'it does not matter much to spend so much in 'hair health''.
@Jake-oq2bq same lol its their job to get more clients. XD But yes it seems its ok to go days with out shamooing. Just make sure to wash ur body. Especially if really active.
Yeah, should at least made cross references with good researches. You could zoom in on some random part of the human body and feel that its disgusting even if it is completely healthy. Also to trust just an app to recommend you what to buy or not doesn't makes sense, as the app is basically a marketplace for brands to buy a spot at this point.
I'd recommend investigating on your own if you distrust an specialist, investigating on the same topic, so if you distrust the clinical opinion of the expert, read clinical books. Short answer, no wash= body oils+ no removing of dead cells + no stimulating the shed of the new hair = perfect home and food for bacteria = infection or folliculitis, in the best case just baldness since the body won't maintain a body part that doesn't looks useful and it's involved in some harming it's recieving
Well is up to who may concern to wash their hair using a neutral soap maybe avoiding certain chemicals no need to use shampoo.
I think two hair washes per week is totally fine tbh, just enough to remove excess oil, not enough to damage your scalp@Jake-oq2bq
It's frustrating how, in the U.S., we consumers are the ones responsible for researching every ingredient in cosmetics and food so as to not inadvertently make ourselves sick or contribute to environmental degradation, especially when the EU Cosmetics Regulation demonstrates it doesn't have to be this way.
I prefer the freedom to choose for myself. A nanny state will sooner or later make a choice on your behalf that you don't agree with.
@@johnkeyberg3476 Nah
In the United States, farmers give ractopamine to pork, which coupled with other hormones, causes a pig's skeleton and tissue mass to grow at twice the speed. But, it also causes cancer cells to grow at twice the rate. That's why US pork is illegal in a 141 countries, even Botswana and Chad. That's telling about the US; our politicians can easily, and now legally, be bought.
The EU parliament has so many different members, from different countries, political parties, and ideologies, that no single group has an overwhelming concentration of power. Thus, when it comes to consumer protection, the EU is much harder to corrupt.
@@johnkeyberg3476 "eventually" vs force feeding you poison for profit margins. Insane how brainwashed people can et
I haven't used shampoo in about 3 years. I met a young woman who was a dollar-store cashier. She had the most beautiful hair I had ever seen, and I asked her what she used. She said nothing. No shampoo, no conditioner. She'd just run some water through it and keep it brushed.
Well that's pretty interesting. I should try to see if that makes a difference for me.
I wonder about oil though….like oily hair
@@starbright144 maybe warm water will do
If it’s curly hair, the hair by nature is very dry.. therefore you wouldn’t wanna dry it out
@@starbright144When you brush your hair often those oils balance, nourish, and clean your hair. It didn't happen over-night for me, it took a few months before my hair really began to morph, but I'll NEVER go back now I've seen the changes for my own hair. Saved a lot of money too. If I do decide to go extra, I'll wash my hair with fresh rice water. The lectin we wash out of the rice is amazing for hair & skin. For nutrition, mixing a good fatty long grain rice with an oily fish, spicy pepper, and avocado will make your hair shine within 2 hrs depending on your metabolism.
This might be TMI but living in a cabin up north where hot water is a luxury for SHOWERING, I stopped washing my hair. After a week it seemed greasy but nobody but bears and coyotes gonna see me. I just brushed it out. After awhile ... my hair felt improved quality, thicker strands, less scalp showing thru. My gray wasn't all crinkly and wild anymore, but smooth and swung around when I tossed my head. I'm hitting 70 and I miss hairs per square inch, but what's left is definitely better quality. The only time it looks 'greasy' now is sweating under a hat, but when my hair dries out, it doesn't have that clumped 'dirty hair' look anymore. It looks and feels clean and shiny. People's biggest worry is their hair might smell. I'm not seeing it, nor anyone when I ask. You'll know from your pillow if there's a problem. If you like that essential oil scent, then comb it thru, but it's not necessary for going out in public. Natural skin oils have a neutral, NOT game-y, scent so essential oils aren't covering anything, they're just a little extra if there's anxiety about it. A gallon of hot water and a hair brush are fine.
I'm almost 70 and grew up on preservatives and additives and artificial colors. They're not going to kill you or guarantee cancer. But if you don't need them, leave them out of your routine. Just don't obsess about it. Live your life.
I'm only 20, but I've been slowly but steadily washing my hair less and less often. Went from daily, to twice a week, to once every two weeks, and the less often I wash my hair, the less greasy it becomes between showers. The only mistake I made was that one week where I completely forgot to brush it and it went WILD.
Same goes for makeup.
WOUld be nice if everyone was of somewhat similar resistance so the less resistant wouldn't tend to flake out early
#ShoutOut2the Unfortunate Sons
@@anomonyous Oh yeah! Replaced all of my makeup with some cleanser and sunscreen (and sporadic moisturizing cream) and my skin has never been better.
I stopped using shampoo uhhh... six years ago, or something like that?
Was a little rough in the transition phase, but since then I've never gotten more compliments on my hair. I use nothing at all.... NOTHING. AT. ALL.
For all its faults, the EU is still the best place to live when it comes to your health. I'm forever grateful for being born here. I hope you guys in the US manage to change things.
I’ll be honest, if I could own a gun and had freedom of speech in the UK or EU, I’d move in a second. American greed and capitalism has wrecked this country.
@@thomascraig6814 there's freedom of speech in the EU, and a lot of guns. Just no concealed/open carry
@@config4052 To my understanding you can get arrested for saying discriminatory things and such in the EU and UK. Are you allowed to own semi-auto high capacity guns in the EU? I know you can’t in the UK.
@@thomascraig6814 My dude, we have freedom of speech in the EU. And several EU countries have guns too.
As for the UK, I advise against ever considering that toilet. I lived there for two years and leaving was the best choice.
@@razorwireclouds5708 Really? That’s pretty interesting. What made the UK so bad? What countries in the EU would you recommend?
If you're not using shampoo, you have to brush your hair every day for a few minutes, using very dense, natural hair brush. It removes the excess sebum, dead skin and loose hair. Apple vinegar helps to keep hair and skin healthy.
Ah yes washing your hear with gasoline was all the craze for delousing in the 1900s.
Don't use vinegar products as its basicly transmision oil.
Don't believe me? Go on a northern european diet for 6 months and then enjoy some greek/italian food for a week after that to see the wonderfull effects of vinegar on the human body.
Green soap as we call it over here is great for either skin or hair as its simply citrus soap. (animal fat/ash + dehydrated citrus fruit)
Main reason the other family of citrus fruits are not used like tangerines and oranges is because they get fully grinded up in to juices where as with citrus the anti-toxin skins are basicly a waste product in juice manufacturing.
Still better making your own as with mass manufacturing lubricant* oils will always get in to the product regardless.
Atleast its no engine oil product such as vinegar. If a product is made out of seeds it will have toxins in it that will harm the body so stay well away from any form of seed oils.
But yes brushing your hair 2x a day is a requirement as old dead hair will knot up and might end up pulling out the good hair that way.
yeah but then you have the issue of, yknow, smelling like vinegar
@@AnymMusic true. But if you wash in the evening, in the morning smell is fine,. So the only one who complain is your wife 🙂
@@Mescherje yeah it evaporates . . weird how some ppl can't tolerate smell of vinegar - which is SO GOOD for you! internally as well as externally
Only if you have VERY thick long hair. If you have fine hair a few minutes is unnecessary.
If someone could make a list of shampoos that are non-toxic that would be amazing
The best stuff is probably going to be artisanal. If anything has a brand name that is bigger than your town, it's likely to get co-opted very quickly. Best to make something simple yourself or find someone who does
I've used simple soap for a long time.
@@Idrinklight44 why would soap be less harmful than shampoo? Seriously wondering
Some shauma shampoos make me scratch my head for 4-5 days after use. I dont use any shampoo from long time and im good.
@@GrassWarlock1 it's been my experience that it doesn't strip all the oils out of scalp.
I'm about as all natural as it gets. While remaining clean!
Not washing your hair is a lil dif than not using bad shampoo! It's crazy we let them do this to us though, and the FDA just laughs all the way to the bank.
Realize the FDA is kneecapped by republicans, but really, both parties. Last Week did a segment about how a republican and a democrat both passed a bill letting anyone do anything with suppliments, taking away the FDA's ability to regulate.
In the USA, the FDA has to prove something is bad. In the EU, they tell companies to prove their stuff is safe.
„they do to us“?
we do it to ourselves
they just supply it and feed it to become „normal“
@@JensVanDeAarde yes they do it to us, nobody chose this
@@doltBmB
so you don’t choose to shampoo your hair?
do your arms get controlled by the pharmaceutical industry to buy and use shampoo?
@@JensVanDeAarde You don't have to drive that car, just walk! I know its 60 miles but its good cardio
Sometime around the year 2000 this experiment of not using shampoo and washing/scrubbing hair with just water, was quite common and the fad talked about on major radio stations in Sydney Australia where I was then living. At the time I was about 50 had a greasy scalp and had noticed that my thick head of hair had become thinner and I found allot more hair on the shower floor and drain.
It took about a week to ten days for my hair to adjust to this new routine of only using water on my hair, and scrubbing it vigorously with just running water, daily. The first thing I noticed was that both my scalp and forehead were LESS greasy.
At my next, and occasionally at subsequent haircuts, I would ask the hair dresser what they thought of my hair condition and she always had positive things to say about it (she new from previous experience not to attempt to market products to me). I am now 70 and my routine is still the same except my hair is thinner now but I still have a full head of hair and no one has ever commented negatively about it.
Not even my massage therapist, from whom I always get a scalp massage as part of my regular monthly neck and shoulder stress reduction treatment.
I do use a moderate strength bristled brush to help scrub my scalp whilst washing it with water daily.
6 months with no shampoo, my hair smells fine, I wash it with water almost every day, no more flakiness, itchiness reduced significantly and I even save like R$20 every month.
Most human made products are harmful, I also stop using soap and my skin become healthier than ever.
I've been doing it for a while now, and it literally looks as healthy as it did before I stopped using it. We should all give it a try at least once, and by the way, I also wash it with water almost every day, and no complaints in my behalf.
If i use oil then i have to shampoo it for removing oil from my hair?
If i use oil then i have to shampoo it for removing oil from my hair?
@@Ooss455yes, if u wanna do no shampoo, dont use products.
In high school, I did an experiment like this. I had very long hair for a guy. It was well past my shoulders, but the ladies in the cosmetology department LOVED messing with it, so I kept it long. I had a hard time with it getting dry, no matter how I conditioned. Brushing, combing, or even putting my conditioner covered hair for hours, had little to no effect. Well, after going camping for several days, and not having access to an easy way to clean my hair, I found it to be in the best condition ever. I brushed and combed my hair and scalp every day to help keep out debris, but that was all. Then I got to thinking about it. We are using industrial detergents to remove our natural oils to then try to replace them with oil from other animals. It's dumb. So, I started a 3 week cycle. I would wash my hair like normal 2 times a week for 2 weeks, but the 3rd week I left it alone. I would, however, still brush and comb my hair like normal. After 2 months, I had the best looking hair in the school. When people asked me how I did it, they would get grossed out at first, but then try it themselves.The concept spread like wildfire. Use mechanical means to remove physical debris, and only shampoo to remove excess oil when needed. The more you brushed, the less it's needed. This does, however, increase the necessity to clean your brushes and combs more regularly.
I promised myself if I ever started going bald, I would keep my head shaved. The Sand Hill barber took care of the first cut for me, and I've kept it shaven ever since. I do rock an epic beard now. It gets the same treatment as my hair did. I even use the same brushes and combs from 20 years ago.
So you went from long hair to cue ball look because you had norwood 2?
You are a good candidate for merino wool socks. Darn tough for regular feet, or smartwool for wide feet.
I have worn the same pair for three days with no smell or discomfort.
-Life-Changing
Shampoo works to wash away dirty and oil buildup on hair. But it causes a problem when people do it every single day. It's normal for our hair to have oil because it protects it. Constantly stripping all of it off only tells the body to make more to maintain the equilibrium, resulting in greasier hair and it doesn't do any favors to the overall hair health. It's also why for some people, washing less reduced dandruff because it allowed their scale to retain its oils and reduce dry skin. Also why conditioner exists to reintroduce some of the moistures. But this is only one part of the equation and it takes some testing to figure out what works for you.
Wouldn't brushing cause more oiling? Since it is literally moving hair strands, producing sebum
@killme5630 yes and no. You are distributing the oils that are there already while freeing light soiling from dust and dander. The soiling that is removed takes some of the oil with it. Through the course of the day, additional oil is naturally shed as well as absorbed into the hair from sun and wind drying it out.
this video gave me cancer turned me into a woman and now I suffer from allergies thanks a lot. But fr everything today can harm or kill you, just gotta use common sense and not give in to fearmongering like this that gets thrown around the internet, not using shampoo isn't gonna extend your life.
but wait, how do we know that a scalp full of crusty bits is bad for us?
edit: BRO COME ON of course the people that are selling you scalp facials and shampoos and hair treatments are going to say "you need to buy our stuff for healthy hair."
the crust and excess sebum clogs your hair follicles. That's why the lady said it could accelerate hair loss
Tbf we should have gotten multiple trials. He said he didn’t wah his hair so he may not have even used water. I’m curious to see if the scalp results would have been different or the same with just a water based treatment
@@BoomBurster I think he meant he didn't shampoo his hair. Surely he atleast scrubbed his hair with water. The no poo movement doesn't advise not washing your hair at all
Now apply this to the food industry (or any industry that full sends into marketing).
Thought so as well 😅
Im sad he didnt listened to an actual expert rather than a cosmetic worker. Her response was the most biased thing ive heard in a while. Such a good start to end up like this...
From the same creators of:
"I discovered the truth that scientists hide from you!" and "Scientists don't want you to know about this revolutionary technique"
yeah, i pretty much stopped the video at that point. Plus I don't believe he spent a year with NO water on his hair. that seems unrealistic but he was not clear if he rinsed his hair and massaged his scalp or just literally never touched his hair with water. I don't like his ambiguity.
"I experimented by eating nothing but meat for a year, and went to see how I was doing at my vegan doctor's office. They recommended I immediately switch to a vegan diet or I will die of a heart attack."
@@Metqa I don't think anyone's gonna accuse him of having a sound understanding of the scientific method anytime soon.
Also touched all over her arm with her contaminated gloves and all over her computer. Complete incompetence.
I've started washing my hair just once a week. I'm 58 and my hair has become dryer as I age. Results have been great. Less dryness, and I've noticed less hair falling out.
Ones a week is fine! I'm in my 70's. I remember the shampoos back in the 1960's. They were VERY strong because people didn't shampoo often. Shampoos now are very mild. I can tell the difference between yesteryear HALO and PRELL. They were like strong detergent!
I’ve always been surprised at the cultural difference between North America and Europe when it comes to personal hygiene. Being one of those “filthy” Europeans that washes her hair twice a week and showers every other day (unless I sweat a lot because of sports, heatwave etc), I was often met with disbelief and disgust by people from the US and Canada. Them being so surprised that I don’t shower and wash my hair daily was kinda an indirect proof of it not being an issue. In case I smelled or looked dirty, there wouldn’t have been a moment of surprise I assume!
Wait, life expectancy better than US?
Something wrong isn't right!
@@Saberwulfy not sure what you’re trying to say
I am European and I shower every day, so do many people here in Spain. 😮 I wash my hair every two days, sometimes three. Every day in Summer, when it's hot and you go swimming, for instance.
I don't use perfume or make up, but I use deodorant.
I agree that many cosmetics are unhealthy but not washing isn't good either, and it's not socially acceptable here, not among ordinary people.
There are huge differences from country to country here in Europe.
@@nurnu349 just to make it clear, I never promoted “not washing”. And I do of course use deodorant and on the days I don’t shower, I wash myself with a wash cloth (face, armpits, feet and private parts). You really don’t need to wash your arms and legs every day unless you sweat a lot. It’s also unhealthy as it can strip your skin of healthy bacteria. We also have extremely hard water where I live and using it too much dries your skin out.
Obviously not ever washing is worse but I think overdoing it is also not ideal for your health nor for the environment.
@@linibellini Yes, I see your point. Washing very often and with chemicals is not good for your skin, agreed, however, I will still have a daily shower and wash my clothes often. It's a personal choice, after all. The environment, that's the ultimate excuse, isn't it? People think they are saving the planet using electric cars when the reality is that electric cars are highly pollutant and a nightmare when it comes to the disposal of the highly toxic and non-recyclable batteries. The materials mined to manufacture them use slave labour and DESTROY the environment of the far away places from they are sourced. The life of batteries is peanuts and the bulk of batteries needed humongous, so it's a nightmare. They explode and cause fires that are impossible to extinguish, imagine that happening near a forest... You probably hadn't thought of it. Many people eat "healthy " and environmentally friendly, because no pesticides were used on the mangos or avocados or X they bought, those products were not proximity products though, but people keep thinking they are OK to save the planet.
People don't want to use wool and leather, because poor animals, and they use synthetic fibres instead, or plastic. They take drugs imported from developing countries, but that's ok, the long flights included, 😂 haha, they want their mary juana at any human or environmental cost. They fly to exotic places, they use plastics, many of them do. It's again a delicate balance of options and choices and I don't like it when people play the environmental card, in general, they are not environmentally friendly, just play pretend. May be you use a composting toilet, never fly, avoid plastics, use only organic cotton, eat only regional products and don't do drugs, if that is the case, I respect your environment argument and you, for being so disciplined, so consistent, and so authentic. Otherwise, please, stick only to the dry skin argument, which is objective and true.
Thanks for the tip though.
Yeah, I already went down the "shampoo is bad" rabbit hole. Here's what I found. 1. Hair can be refreshed with cornstarch. Just sprinkle some on your palms and add it to the greasy areas and massage in. Leave for a few minutes, then brush out and \or use a towel.
2. Shampoo bars are very useful. For awhile there only Lush or homemade soap makers were making them. They were pricey! But, they've caught on and are less expensive. You just have to search. Be aware many contain sodium isothionate which is less harsh than sodium laureth sulfate. You have to make up your mind if this is important to you.
3. Handmade or store bought bar soaps can leave a residue. You can rinse with dilute vinegar to remove some. Syndet bars (synthetic detergent bars) such as Dove can be used as substitute. They usually contain sodium isothionate and no lye soap. They are called beauty bars because of this. Read labels.
4. Some people just use conditioner in place of shampoo.
5. Don't let videos like this and articles scare you. Do research on ingredients and decide which ones are problematic for you.
I still won't use shampoo. It's created by capitalism.
I just started using cornstarch and it works really well! But what would you suggest if you want to wash your hair under a shower? what is the least bad "cleaning method" ?
Baking soda helps with dandruff
What would you recommend for dandruff?
@@unknowngeezer5029 different person, but a little vinegar once or twice and less-hot showers help with dandruff. Dandruff is, in most cases, just dry skin on your scalp. Clean it, moisturize it, avoid drying it out and you're good
Before mass produced shampoo and marketing, most people washed their hair only once a week which was a perfectly healthy thing to do. But shampoo manufacturers used marketing to get people to wash their hair daily and thus sell more shampoo.
The ingredients used like skin cleansers also strip natural oils and trigger more sebum/oil and issues. This incr need for moisturizing/ conditioning etc.
Washing with shampoo once a week is fine. Some people do over wash their hair. It really depends on how much hair product, sweating, etc ...
Most people don't need to wash every day.
I have stopped using shampoo for over a year and instead i use a natural soap and some essential oils and the result is amazing. My hair literally revitalized. If not for that i would 100% be bald by now. I have almost zero hair shedding now and very thick hair
Hey, I want to do this too, but I don't know how to start. Or how to stop. I mean, I used shampoo at least 5 times a week. If I didn't wash my hair 2-3 days, it immediatly became itchy and oily. I think I can't work like that. What kind of soaps do you use and how long does it take your hair to become normal again? I am going bald. Top of my head has much less hair compared to a few years ago and I don't know if it can be revitalized but I wanna try...
Dude we can get a list or brand recommendations please
@@FaithfulComforter I use a local soap called "Bittim soap" here instead of shampoo. I have a mix of 1 teaspoon each lavender oil, peppermint oil and 1 tablespoon of coconut oil. Every three days I apply this mix to my scalp and massage it and then cover it for one hour and then I get into the shower and wash it with the bittim soap. The rest of the days I wash my hair with just water since I take a shower everyday. This has been working for me and you can notice the result in a couple months and as you keep doing this it will just get better and better. You need to trust the process and know that all those chemical shampoos actually harm your hair. I use this specific soap here but i think you can use anything natural instead of shampoo
@@uchihaitachi3307 We have that soap here in Turkey too. Even the name is same. I saw it many times but never tries it before. Since you used it and recommend it, I want to try it now. Thanks for the suggestion.
Pretty sure baldness is a natural process related to frowning, muscle tension, increased inflammation in the hair follicles, a reduction in follicle size and calcification of said follicle and not just oil build up and a diversity of micro-organisms.
I had a bad psoriasis combined with some yeast infection on my scalp; imagine thumbnail-sized bloody flakes. The special shampoos prescribed by a dermatologist kept it somewhat in check; these soothed the ichiness and bloody crusts but it never really got better. Needless to say that these medical shampoos were insanely expensive. Then I read an article about Aleppo-Soap für skin care and gave it a try.
For two years I wash my hair once a week with this traditional Aleppo Soap (the 40% type) and my scalp is almost clean. Only minor rashes and some fine dandruff.
Almost cured and a block of soap for 8€ last me four months. For the medical stuff I spent 200€ every quarter.
i shower with aleppo and marseille soap exclusively. think im gonna start using it for my hair too.
Aleppo Soap is also one of my fav. with marseille of course. I use artisanal shampoo soap (yes, solid shampoo).
Im male with regular hair cuts. Did have mild dandruff and used different shampoos but could not get rid of it.
The last four years I've only used shampoo occasionally. Every second day body shower only water on hair and used comb or brush. No more dandruff.
Not sure what you mean by the 40% type. I'm looking on Amazon and there are many different Aleppo soaps to choose from. Please advise and many thanks in advance.
@@harrygatto Aleppo soap is made from olive- and bay leave oil. The 40% specify the amount of bay leave oil.
I was applauding your "read the ingredients" advice and was then blown away by the Hidden Ingredients app. I didn't know those existed, thank you. I avoid products from the US because of hidden ingredients and this is really gonna open up my dietary options. 🙏
I just had this conversation with my wife yesterday regarding the stricter guidelines Europe has for chemicals in their food and health products. I think most people nowadays are aware that something in our (American) environment is contributing to all the ailments we face today. We were talking about allergies when this all came up. Is all natural food and health supplies the answer? Where indeed are the best places to shop for these goods. We owe it to our kids and grandkids to demand corporations change how they’re literally poisoning us and the environment. Please continue these videos for information untainted by corporate interests and others.
It's also why you need free government-funded healthcare.
In the US, the less healthy you are, the more the medical industries profit. And your politicians are all on the medical industries payroll (in some form - backhanders, that sort of thing), so everybody in power wants to encourage you to eat shit, have an unhealthy lifestyle, have exposure to dangerous chemicals, etc.
In Europe, unhealthy people COSTS the government money, so they do everything they can to avoid it.
Eg the NHS spending £1 million on TV adverts deterring people from doing something unhealthy might save the NHS £20 million in treatments for it.
Whereas in the US it's the opposite - spending £1 million on TV adverts encouraging people to do something unhealthy can result in £20 million profit for the medical industries.
Seriously? Free what? What in your life ever was free of any substance? Getting government out of our lives is the answer not making it bigger. Think Obama Care!@@mrfish9876
@@mrfish9876 It's not as simple as that. Because of the salary, being a doctor is attractive in the US. Believe it or not, they don't make tons if you bring the number of hours into it. I remember that about 20 years ago there was a nursing shortage and I could have taken in just about as much OT as I wanted. I could have worked weekends in Chicago for around the same as I made working three 12 hour days at home. If I worked as many hours as he, I would have brought home more than my PCP did.
In Canada, the wait time to see your provider can be much longer than in the US. In Nova Scotia (2021) the average wait time between a referral from your GP to getting treatment by a specialist averages more than a year. That doesn't include the time it took you to get in to see your doctor.
Wait times for treatment have big medical & financial consequences. A reversible disease could become permanent if you have to wait for treatment. Take me, for example. I fell asleep watching TV & woke up two hours later unable to feel & move my arm below my elbow. Got inpatient CT, MRIs & outpatient EMG but they couldn't figure it out.
The local neurologist watched to see if it got better in time (which it did very slowly) but I was disssatisfied with that. Went to a large Chicago specialist with lots of experience in weird things. Got a sonogram a week or two later & had four surgeries shortly afterwards. I couldn't have done this in Canada. If did somehow manage to see a doctor hundreds of miles from home, I'd have taken a very, very long time so have surgery and my injury would have been permanent by then. After the initial injury, the same issue slowly slowly in my other arm & I had surgery on it after the first arm was better.
It takes a long time to get imaging like CTs, MRIs, & ultrasounds. I doubt that I'd ever have gotten the sonogram elsewhere.
If I'd lived almost anywhere else but the US, I would have to be wealthy to get such good & timely treatment. I would be unable to care for daily needs such as cooking, cleaning, and in time, dressing. Since hubby is older than I, I would end up in a nursing home at a young age. In Canada, my injury would be both personally disastrous and financially disastrous for the Canadian government. People with oddball diseases deserve great care too.
Profits over people. That’s become the “American way.” It’s really sad….
There are bound to be some good wholefood and organic food companies online with a good reputation in America.
Always follow the reviews...
Here, in the UK, we have a good number of organic wholefood suppliers. Our supermarkets are getting better at supplying organic foods, and with companies like Aldi and Lidl obeying the strict rulings set down by Germany, we can trust these companies pretty much.
The other thing you could do is start doing some permaculture. There are some truly amazing American and Canadian permaculture growers with channels on TH-cam, so you are bound to find one that lives in a similar horticultural zone to yourself.
Between them, they are growing an ever expanding number of fruits and vegetables that you will never find in a supermarket, as well as the more traditional types.
It doesn't matter if your garden is small, you don't need to grow 'everything' you want to eat. Growing just one or two of the simplest types of veggies and/or fruits is the best start, and you build up from there.
Don't bite off more than you can chew if you start growing your own. That's the best advice. Some people, especially during lockdown, went garden crazy and wasted a lot of money because it was all new to them.
I live in Scotland, and so the best fruits were berries (blueberries, blackberries, gooseberries, currants. These will pretty much look after themselves, need minimal care, and are very easy to propagate. I must have about 40 Blueberry plants in the garden now, in about 8 different hybrids - different hybrids improves yield).
For me, the easiest veggies are green onions (Welsh and Egyptian Walking onions), which are both perennial. Also, courgettes do well here, and tomatoes did well in our hotter summer last year.
Oh, and definitely grow your own herbs. The more the merrier.
If you are eating at least 'something' you can trust to be healthy, then at least a part of your diet is trustworthy. Plus, your little grandkids will just love helping out in the garden when it comes to harvest time. Some of my earliest and most precious memories consist of me helping my grandmother, my great-uncle and my childhood friend's mum with their harvests.
Once you grow your own carrots and smell them as you're lifting them fresh from the ground, you'll never be satisfied with carrots from the supermarket again.
I feel this goes hand in hand with the average person taking wayyy too hot showers, further ruining their scalps
What about saunas? Well documented health benefits but is this at the expense of healthy hair?
cold showers 🤤🤤🤤
Warm water for hair, hot water for washing body and cold water cool down is my routine.
i take hot showers i love hot showers
I think saunas are great for unclogging pores and keeping the skin's oils flowing. Definitely notice hair and scalp improvements when I use a sauna regularly. @@steffenfrost995
I'm glad you explained that if something is natural it is safe. I'm going to start washing my hair with a mixture of arsenic and anthrax.
You saved my life!
This is exactly what I've been doing! I'll be dead within the week! Yay! I'm tired of this crap anyways 😂
Since I stopped using modern shampoos, my seborrheic dermatitis has calmed down tremendously. From time to time I use a kind of tar shampoo or such with ketoconazole, but nothing more. It was an advice from my dermatologist and so far its working wonders:)
You can put coconut oil (cold pressed ) on your hair, a lot, and then wash it with water, do this once a week.
It will help you with seborrheic dermatitis, coconut oil has antibacterial and antifungal properties.
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O no, that wil clog the pipes....
@@galga637 Yes, you're right, but that's why they only do it once a week, and only for a few hours on the day of the treatment, and if you wash it well, there's no reason for your pores to be clog.
@@Th3GuyWithPants hahaha i meant coconutoil clogging the drain of the shower....
🤣 my bad, my english sucks@@galga637
Thanks for getting an experts view for the results and not just go like "Okay I did for a year and my hair is okay". I've been rocking the long hair for over 5 years and I also go with natural shampoos, the scalp is no different than any other part of our body so it's just nasty to literally stop washing it. It's no different than stopping to wash one of your arms or something it does not make sense but you are completly right about the shit going on with the cosmetics industry. It's a great idea to go with natural products and not wash your hair more often than you wash your body.
What shampoo are you using?
@@ciw8688 magiforet argan oil
Oooooo. Watch out, everybody. The EXPERTS are here! They were so helpful during COVID. I'm SO anxious to hear what they have to say so I can throw my own experience and common sense under the bus and obey THEM.
@@jonathanpowers U ok bro?
@@uDropper I'm great. How are you?
I stopped using shampoos and conditioners in 2006 and joined the No Poo movement. My hair took two years to recuperate from all the chemicals that I had previously washed my hair with for 30 years. Nowadays, I use 1 teaspoon tea tree oil, 1 teaspoon eucalyptus oil, 1 cup apple cider vinegar. Mix all that and pour into a 32-ounce, dedicated "shampoo" bottle. Fill the rest of the bottle to the top with as hot tap water as you can stand. Mix it all and immediately head to the shower. It takes less than 5 minutes to make, is all-natural and feels really good on your scalp. Everyone asks me if the apple cider vinegar leaves a strong smell and no, it does not. Also, I only wash my hair once per week. When I stopped using chemicals, I also stopped using blow-dryers. Now, my hair is shiny, healthy and strong. I could never say that pre-2006. Before, it looked dry, split a lot, and had no shine. One final thing I use is extra virgin olive oil, the same stuff I cook with. Once per week, I put a very light coating of EVOO and cover my head with a wrap. One hour later, I then wash the EVOO out with the apple cider vinegar-mix shampoo. Everyone's hair is different, so this may not work for everyone, but please, try anything but putting those horrid chemicals into your hair.
Stopped using shampoo in 1984. Never looked back.
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No doubt !@@singaporeghostclub
Once you go bald , you never come back.
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I'm sure ppl look back when they smell that head stench
Silicone free shampoos are usually pretty decent, and doesn't clog your pores or cause dandruff :) Edit: Also you should never shower every day unless you're really, really sweaty. It strips the natural oils from our skin, including your scalp. Every other day is better, every third day is the best. In the meantime, you obviously need to wash under your arms etc. Just use common sense and clean the places you know need cleaning and change all necessary clothes, ofc. xD
I'm just saying what is recommended. Both for your skin and general health. Do what you will with the information. :) And yes, i smell good, and my skin and hair are both great :)
I’m a heavy duty mechanic and I walk around 4-6 miles everyday at work. My job gets filthy. So I have to take long showers every day to get myself clean or I pose a hazard to my home and co workers. Unfortunate but this is good news. I’ll have to try some experimenting. Some places need to be washed every day though 😂
THIS. I just realized this in my 23rd years of life😂 Everyday I used to wash my hair with shampoo and my hair is so cranky and unmanageable
You should absolutely shower everyday, but just use water
You must smell pretty good.
My hair is super oily the day after the shower, I don't know what to do, and I'm kinda forced to shampooing every day, the least I can do is using an extra delicate shampoo...
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I haven’t washed my hair with shampoo for years .my hair is clean, shines and healthy .its never greasy or dry , it remains the same , healthy and full . I am 58 years old now and still have the same hair I’ve always had . Giving up shampoos will firstly cause hair to become greasy as it tries to rebalance its natural condition .after three of fou4 weeks it will regain its normal natural balance and look perfectly good .
I am on 19 years of not washing my hair with shampoo!
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@@Horus-Lupercalnope I've got the same experience
What about the smell, though?
With what do you wash your hair? And the rest of your body? Sincere questions.
I used ash when camping in the mountains in Scotland, I couldn't believe how soapy became, the ash with water and how soft left my skin after! The best soap !
Wood Ash?
That's bleach
@@lemonstealinghorsdoeuvreNo, water + wood ash creates Lye
@@iscander_s ... yes, bleach. A caustic solution capable of sterilization, burning, and/or leeching chemicals out of a medium. If you look at the hygiene practices of select African tribes, they will use the pee from their cows to wash their hair. Their hair will turn from black to a yellow hue from bleaching it. If you put lemon juice and hydrogen peroxide on your hair while in sunlight, it will bleach your hair. If you use dilute sodium hydroxide on hair, you can bleach it. I don't recommend any of those, but they all represent bleaching. Bleach is not limited to household sodium hypochlorite.
But I appreciate your statement that if you were to pick up a bottle of bleach, the ingredients would not be sodium hydroxide and water. From that perspective, you are correct.
I thought ash was toxic.
I did the water only for abt 6 months. my hair got used to it slightly but by no means was it not greasy. I started using more natural shampoos and chilled out only using it abt twice a week and my hair is better than ever. I will say it varies from person to person so I would try it yourself and see what works for you.
with how hard my water is, I cant just rinse, it ends up nasty.
What shampoo do you use?
Very interesting experiment!
I have spent time on this subject too. The so called no-pooh method usually replaces shampoo with a weekly baking soda wash and a vinegar rinse. The problem with most of the methods is that neither of the replacement substances are skin compatible, especially if left on the skin. Baking soda works partly because it is an alkaline, and as mentioned it will irritate the skin if left behind or used too often. It is however rinsed out and a vinegar rinse will hopefully lower ph to a healthier level. Vinegar is considered highly irritating too, but weak solutions is often tolerated. Many use it like a conditioner and rinse it out after a couple of minutes. You can always claim the solutions of baking soda and vinegar are diluted to a safe concentration, but so can be claimed with lauryl and laureth sulfates. Shampoos are made to be rinsed out, neither of these are likely not a bad thing used properly.
For many lukewarm water can be sufficient to keep skin healthy, and the no pooh methods turns out to be a success. Part of the explanation is their skin manage to keep an healthy lipid barrier with this method; they have no problem with dandruff, clogged pores, and hardened sebum. For some, it is enough to use a sea salt rinse or spray now and then to keep things healthy. There are success stories with oil massages before hair wash, diy lactic acid toner after a wash,...
The factors that keeps the lipid barrier healthy and skin in good condition are complex. Most things we use on our skin interfere with the lipid barrier but in the long run basic skin care is beneficial. The skin has usually no problem with it and quickly recovers. If the skin is left to fend for it self, it can suffer, so it`s hard to vilify the basic things we do to maintain it.
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I had problems with my scalp from using those sampoos. Now i have changed to the green olive oil soap and is the best thing ever!
Oh thank gawd, I thought it was the coke and meth I was shooting up. Thank god it's just my shampoo!
wow this was incredibly informative. I've started to lose some hair up top but thought it was weird because my younger brother has lost so much more than I have and he's ten years younger than me which led me to believe that maybe it was hormonal hair loss. thanks to this video I will definitely be researching our shampoos among other things.
Glad you found the middle ground. I see the merits of no poo, but I don't think going to the opposite extreme is usually the best way. I only wash 2-3 times a week, and I use a shampoo that doesn't contain these ingredients, and isn't very stripping. Removing dead skin is important for strong, lustrous hair. I'm sure no poo has its merits for some people. I could also see it as being a way to restore natural oil production if you do it for just a few weeks or a couple months, then resume with a gentle shampoo
I slowly reduced my shampoo usage by buying a gentle one and then only shampooing when my scalp felt oily. At first it was four days a week, but now I shampoo only once a week and my hair is much better. I also got a shower filter to reduce mineral buildup and my hair and skin are definitely smoother now that they're not getting blasted by chlorine and other minerals.
@@TheSpecialJ11 yeah idk why people just immediately jump the gun and stop shampooing at all and wondering why it didn't work for them
The human scalp evolved for 10's of thousands of years without 'products' to keep it "healthy".
With evolution, only the healthy survive to breed more humans so, products do not necessarily mean healthier, although they do make someone richer.
I haven't washed my hair with shampoo for 5 years now and now all the issues are gone, now my hair isn't overly oily, and all my dandruff is gone. Zero itching as well.
What do you wash it with? I'm curious because I've had dandruff all my life while shampooing one every day or every other day.
Bro I get greasy hair after working out and after 2 days of no shampoo I’m forced to shampoo for my hair to be fluffy shiny and look good if I don’t it’s greasy and looks flat no volume or anything Soo what the fuck? Water dosent work I’m sorry but that shit is bullshit
@@toddspangler6669 I avoid overly warm water, but basically just wash my hair with only warm to cool water, and use my hands to really rub the water through my hair so it's entirely soaked.
Sometimes I shower twice a day because of gym. I just towel dry my hair but and let it air dry the rest, I comb it. That's it.
How do you clean it then
what do you think about baby shampoo?
is the amount of dead skin cells within the scalp really a sign of something bad?
there's dead skin cells dropping off your body everywhere - but in the scalp its harder for it to go anywhere.
I find that washing my hair causes the skin to get dry and flaky - thus more "dandruff"
significant buildup of dead skin on the scalp isn't good for your hair. your hair will grow a lot stronger and more lustrous if it isn't being bogged down by excess dandruff. i like to grow my hair out moderately long. when i don't exfoliate, the hair on the top of my head wilts down. i started using a salicylic acid shampoo once a week, and now it stays up fine
"your hair will grow a lot stronger and more lustrous if it isn't bogged down by excess dandruff" - do you have any proof to back that up?
@@apondo100 well, i do not have a 10 000 participant study to pull out of my anus unfortunately. i do have the recommendation from my dermatologist, as well as the advice from derms you can find online, such as Dr. Dray who has a video on youtube about scalp care that you can check out. but this is something you can just try for yourself. add it to our routine for a few weeks and see what happens. if your hair looks better or maintains styling better, then there's your proof. if it doesn't, then no big deal, you only lost the 10 or 15 bucks you spent on a bottle of shampoo. my hair used to wilt the next day after styling, now it maintains its structure for a few days. bear in mind that some will benefit more than others for a variety of reasons (ex. people who use lots of styling product are more likely to get product buildup, people with thinner follicles will be more vulnerable to buildup than others, etc.). just give it a try
I haven't shampooed my hair in almost 5 yrs & I LOVE IT!!!! My hair was never on the thick side, but after turning 55 & going through menopause for 15 yrs, I had such thin, fine hair with a noticeable bald spot on my crown. After reading up on the no poo trend I decided to give it a try. It's been about 5 yrs (I'm now 60) & my hair is thicker than it ever was in my youth. My bald spot has been gone since 6 months in & my scalp is very healthy. The trick to the whole thing is brushing with actual boar bristle brushes. I will never shampoo again!!!! Oh, & just in case you're wondering, I've asked my husband, kids, & friends to smell my hair & they said they couldn't smell anything. Occasionally, if my hair feels a bit oily I will put some loose body powder in it....usually with a lavender scent, so this may help, but honestly if you keep it brushed there's no odor at all. One more thing: I've been a hairstylist since I was 18 & always used the best, most expensive products on my hair. If I had known about this when I first started out I would have definitely tried to get my clientele to stop shampooing or at least shampoo a whole lot less.
its been my experience that smelly hair is actually residue shampoo that can be smelled, that stuff can take months to leave ones scalp. havent used shampoo for years either and made sure to ask different people, but there are no smells. for me it smells about the same as trying to get a smell out of the top of ones hand. barely no scent, nothing unpleasant. if you would scrub the top of your hand with shampoo daily and then leave it be for a few days, i am sure the smell would be different and much more unpleasant too. that stuff seeps into the skin and makes a nasty literal comeback
I interviewed a retired couple who were industrial chemists employed by a hair products manufacturers and they told me that when handling deliveries of chemicals used in the products they had to wear Haz-Mat protective clothing!
Do you suppose because that was the quantity they were dealing with? I mean if you pour 2 gallons of straight bleach on your clothes it’s going to rot and eat them up but if you toss 1 tablespoon in the washing machine is going to disinfect.
I tried the no shampoo or conditioner trick for 9 months, in all honesty i think my hair is thinner now, as my hair is down to my waist in length at the time i felt like i was dragging a lot weight and i gave up in the end because i literally couldnt stomach the smell off sebum, and i felt itchy and grubby even after a shower, so yeah total fail !!!🤦♀️🤷♀️
what about dandruff
@@Gauravkumar-jm4ve yeah that too but it wasn't dry and flaky, it was like oily cream, I noticed that when I scratch my head it would be under my nails 😳 pretty disgusting!!
The coronal area of my scalp sometimes leaks sebum like a drippy old window shaker Air Conditioning unit does on the outside and always smells of HONEY like BEE's honey or something closer to adolescent's facial acne's pus.
Also, when it is "leaky" my head will literally become GLUED to whatever I lean back of my head on.
Thankfully, anyway, I have hair and skin good enough I've been sought after in both skin and hair "industries" ever since my toddler years but my fam knows better.
My hair had a much worse texture when I washed it once a week versus washing it every other day now. It's soft as baby hair. It was super rough back when I washed it once a week. This whole no shampoo thing needs to be taken with a grain of salt. It might work for SOME people with specific types of hair, but it's definitely not a one size fits all kind of thing.
@@mrsrimskie5493 Think about it from the point of view of keeping a dog clean. You can give them a wash once in a while when they get stinky, but if you do it too much you can cause them great harm since they need the grease to protect their skin. The same probably applies for a human being. Perhaps you can try washing your hair with some natural shampoo once every couple of weeks as a compromise to get the best of both worlds.
Also, did you wash your scalp with water when showering? How about brushing your hair after showering?
I stopped using shampoo 10 years ago because I was getting such itchy scalp with lots of dandruff. I tried all the anti dandruff shampoos and nothing helped. At first I started with baking soda to wash and vinegar to finish (it helps make your hair more smooth and removes water impurities). However, baking soda is very abrasive. It damaged my hair over time (especially since I was growing it long at the time). Over time, I just started heavily scrubbing it with my hands under just water and bingo, I haven't turned back since. Many people would never know I don't use any hair product. Pushing 40 now and my hair is thick and lush as ever. However, to be fair, I have a good amount of genetics to thank for that.
This is on the edge between a conspiracy theory and shocking truth. And tbh the second one is more believable (or I want to believe it) since there are examples of companies promoting dangerous products for the sake of profit
"conspiracy theory" lmao ok
It's probably a combination of people believing that "nature is not enough" and merchants wanting to sell them things they don't need to capitalize on, and perpetuate, that belief.
How could it be conspiracy.
@@LowSlungBadBitch Because there is no proof that shampoo is highly toxic. No death has been tide to shampoo or soap usage. Sure it has chemicals that cause cancer at higher exposer rates and doses but at a low enough dose it's totally safe. Almost everything that we use or consume is a carcinogen or is toxic. Our exposome is influenced by everything we use, consume and breath. The air in your home might be more toxic from the drywall and furniture gassing off, then your shampoo. You might be absorbing alot of plastic in your skin from all your polyester clothing. Also from the water you drink. New car smell, yup toxic .Do you live in a major city and have bad air? .......etc......
whooo.. You dedicate a long time to this experiment & video! I am genuinely amazed. Thank you for bringing the truth to us...
Start with a legitimate correct question, end with a conclusion that is unsatisfactory.
First, I don't think you would have lost your hair because you don't wash it, because otherwise all wild animals would be glabrous.
Second, the solution is not to read labels but just use the first soap you mentioned in your video, oil and ash (or lye), it is so simple that you can do it at home by yourself.
Industries really have no good motivation to keep intoxicating us with chemicals except to cut costs or deliberately hurt us, the real information campaign is to explain to people how to stop funding these mad scientists.
As a teenage boy, I try to shampoo as little as possible, but my hair gets so greasy that I can't go more than a few days
Try going for a month. Your hair is trying to rebalance itself and will take time
@@worlore1651 I think you underestimate how bad it gets, especially since I have extremely curly hair and I'm white
If you continue for several weeks it will adapt to it and be less greasy
The greasiness of your hair is because you wash it so often and your hair will produce more oil than usual.
So, stop shampooing for 2 weeks and after the first week you'll be fine.
Just wash it with water and make it dry with a towel if you feel it's so greasy.
Keep it up champ
Don't follow their advice, I did "no poo" and had a horrible skin infection that hasn't gone away in years. It was painful, smelly, itchy and just disgusting. No poo is a scam.
I haven't shampooed my hair in 6 months. For the most part it looks and feels as if I did. I take a shower every day and wash with just water. Occasionally (once a week to 2 weeks) my hair starts to feel weighed down or oily. When that happens, I take a cap-ful of apple cider vinegar in a tea cup and fill the rest with water, in the shower, and then when my hair is fully wet, I pour about 1/3 to 1/2 of the cup in my hair and scrub it in then add the other half and scrub it in then rinse it out. This process only takes 1-2 minutes. It only smells like apple cider vinegar until the rinse. After that my hair is light and fluffy just like I had used regular shampoo.
I don't get it. Should I wash my hair with shampoo or not?
I haven’t used shampoo in 8 years. I like using clay and rinsing with apple cider vinegar (diluted) every month to 6 weeks. My hair is long now and thick….no scalp issues. P.s. when my hair was short I used baking soda to wash then the ACV. It worked great! Blessings to all.
i assume you diluted the vinegar with water but could you share what ratio you use please? thanks in advance
@@Veilamia I use a tsp of bicarb in a cup of water to wash my scalp, rinse well, then rinse with 1tsp AC vinegar in a cup of water. I don't rinse the AC out. We have ticks where I live and I never get one on my head.
How you use the baking soda?
I have oily, dandruff and hair loss, so i indeed want to try it
@@vonn2221 I take the baking soda…add water…enough to make a liquid paste. Rub into scalp and rinse.
I hope you will not find this offensive but my husband healed his scalp by using his urine. He gathered his urine in a cup, brought it into the shower,poured it on his head then rinsed with water. Followed by the baking soda and then diluted ACV(apple cider vinegar) after doing this 3 times in a week he cured his scalp issues. Blessings
@@Veilamia hi, yes, 1 part vinegar to 4 parts water. Blessings
From a hairdresser of many years from a family of hairdressers, teacher, platform artist, and award winning competition hairdresser.
A ph scale, percentage of hydrogen, tells us the acidity or alkalinity of many things but in this case about our bodies. A reading from zero to seven is acid and 7, neutral, to 14 is alkaline. Hair, scalp and skin, yes scalp and skin are one and the same. Most apple cider vinegars have a ph of 2.2. Aloe vera is about 4 and hair and skin are 5.4to 5.6. Average hair has 6 to 10 layers of scales that lay down and protect the inner structure the hair. When an acid rinse is used, it is used to close down these scales after the hair has been exposed to an alkali. It is the only use for an acid rinse besides the closing down of the scales, will in theory make the hair shiny. If you are using chemicals on your hair a diluted vinegar rinse, an ounce of vinegar to a larger glass of water, followed by a good conditioner for your hair type should do the job. In buying shampoo and conditioner a good mildly acid shampoo and conditioner are a must. I recommend a good professional product designed for your hair type because the actual active ingredients are usually about 5 times better than drugstore product. It takes way less to work. Ypu see there is a reason the "other products " are so cheap. I f you see professional products in discount stores you need to know manufactures change their packing every three years so we know when the 3 year expiration ends. In most cases you are buying old product. Try to use mildly acid products on your skin as well as your hair. Alkaline products are peroxide hair color, some perms, bleaches, relaxers and at 14 on the ph scale you find lye.
I've quit using shampoo on my hair about 8 months ago, and my scalp finally started resembling my skin color instead of a gray substance
This explains why my hair both feel and looks so much better during years I don't shampoo as often
As soon as I started washing my hair and scalp with just water, the itching and dandruff stopped in less than a week. I spent a lot of money on anti-dandruff shampoo and medication and nothing helped.
I've just scrubbed my hair with water for two years and it's great. It's really mostly a caucasian person thing to wash your hair multiple times a week, my black family members only wash their hair every few months because they already know how shampoo damages their hair. Flat profile hair gets damaged easier as apposed to european hair. If you don't clean your hair, it stops making large amounts of oils and stays clean on its own for the most part.
I just want to add my two cents since I heard no mention of it. When I eat a diet heavy on sugar or refined carbs it immediately causes inflammation on my scalp and messes with the delicate balance of my scalp biome. Those things can make your scalp unhealthy and mess with your experiment. Wonder what a good diet + no shampoo would look like?
Swap dairy products with plant based ones, and quit on sugar, sweets, cocoa, they all cause acne and worsen skin condition in general; magic happened to my prone to acne and extremely sensitive skin after I switched to plant based food; I also tried washing my long hair with water only for 6 weeks once but couldn’t bare the smell; although my scalp was the happiest back then and finally stopped feeling itchy during those 6 weeks contrary to my regular routine of shampoo washes twice a week; then I experimented with chickpea flour, then with glassoul clay; I ended up using some natural shampoos produced locally in my country, I don’t believe they ship to other Europe countries even but if you grab few natural ingredients like Castile soap, ghassoul clay and essential oils you can get yourself a healthy mixture that will also exfoliate dead skin; putting moderate amount of natural oils like sesame oil or marula oil on your hair regularly also helps its overall condition and you don’t have to wash it off with Dawn dish liquid, I use my gentle shampoo and am not to specific about removing 100% of it during washing, my hair is thin and slightly wavy but this routine repeated once a week keeps my scalp happy and doesn’t look greasy at all; it’s a bit flat on days 5-7 but it’s a matter of training your hair I guess;
@@dominikaaraklimasara8069 no! Go carnivore! Cheers
I've developed so many random skin conditions over my lifetime thanks to Axe, Old Spice, and Irish Spring... I never had sensitive skin as a kid, now I cant use scented detergent to clean my clothes. I also developed eczema at age 18... My skin is ruined for life.
For autoimmune issues, there's a clinical elimination diet that treats mental disorders and autoimmune ones at the same time.
Autoimmune diseases are related to the intestine and bacterial flora, you just need to eat well for a few months, and you will notice a tremendous difference, diet without sugar, without coffee (stimulants), eat lots of apples, they have the ability to cleanse the intestine, you can also ingest a tablespoon of cold-pressed coconut oil every morning, coconut oil feeds the good bacteria in your intestine and helps repair holes you may have in your intestine that allow toxins to pass into your blood.
What I did was start eating only meat and fruit, I didn't consume fast food, sugar or carbohydrates, the only sweet thing I could have was an apple , I put coconut oil in the water and drank it during the day. I did all this, and my eczema disappeared, you need to heal the gut, and I only followed this diet for 2/3 months
@@Th3GuyWithPantsdid you cut out carbs?
@@andrese4438 Yes, pasta, rice, potatoes, basically the only source of sugar and carbohydrates was fruit
I KNOW MY COMMENT ISN'T ABOUT SHAMPOO. BUT I JUST WANTED TO ADD THAT WHEN I WAS IN MY 20'S I USED TO CLEAN MY FACE WITH THAT POPULAR ORANGE COLORED LIQUID FACE SOAP, THAT WAS FOR TREATING ACNE. I WOULD USE IT FOR YEARS.AND NEVER NOTICED ANY HELP FROM IT. IT SEEMED TO MAKE IT WORSE.THEN ONE DAY, I STOPPED USING IT. AND MY SKIN NEVER LOOKED BETTER😊
I did the no hair wash thing for a couple of years a while back. I didn't tell anyone and nobody noticed. However, i found that my pillow cases were getting dirty and greasy really quickly, so my hair obviously wasn't really clean. I started washing it again, but much less often and found that once every few weeks was about right. There's no reason to wash your hair multiple times a week unless you're doing something that actively makes it badly dirty. In a lot of cases a rinse with water in the shower is enough.
I started using really simple shampoo bars and they were great. I found that when i used the fancy shampoos with stupid food ingredients like coconut and jojoba in them was when i got the sour 'hair' smell after a few days. My theory is that the sour 'hair' smell is really the nasty stuff that your shampoo leaves behind in your hair going off.
plant greases and oils have a higher capacity to go rancid due to oxidisation, and cause damage due to absorption and replacing more stable saturated fats, The alternative is that humans plainly don't like plants on a hardware level.
@@Dan-gs3kg Your last sentence is such a dumb statement/theory....
@@DolphinsPlayingInAquaMoonlight not really
Your cat doesn't use a shampoo, just a comb like tongue.
@@DolphinsPlayingInAquaMoonlight I've read enough toddler ad libitum feeding studies to understand this. Children are a lot more sensitive to the tastes of sour and bitter because that is how "rancid" and "toxic" are taste encoded to humans. Children are particularly vulnerable to such things compared to adults.
This is not even talking about how easy it is to get children off of plants. Or the robust improvements in all developmental metrics as a result of this.
(The benefits being very significant even if you start this diet even at the age of 70 as well)
What is human? We know from the fossil record, that the ones that ate plants are now was/were as a subspecies, and species.
I found an ancient reference for hair care. It said that we should rinse our hair once a week. Rinse. Not wash with shampoo and conditioner. So I decided to try that. My hair is the healthiest it's ever been. It doesn't look like a salon commercial and I am A-OK with that. I no longer get itchy, dry scalp. It grows much faster, and is stronger than it was before. All I do is brush it and rinse it and once a month or two I will use a very light non commercial soap for a cleaning. When I go for a cut is the only time I get that salon shampoo in my hair and I always refuse the conditioner. I only get my hair cut once a year.
It probably does not grow faster. I and many others also often have the feeling that doing something specific, such as using certain product,s increases hair growth but that is almost always unlikely. Hair growth is genetic and consistent. You'd need some very special things like ingesting endocrins, to make the hair grow faster.
So basically those from Europe don't have to worry, since a shampoo from the same brand is less "toxic"?
I have a few Aloe Vera plants growing and once in a while I put its gel on my hair and let it dry and then just rinse it out in the shower. It leaves my hair clean and very nice. Coconut oil also works nicely.
Thanks for that! I'm going to try the fresh Aloe....👍
I guarantee you that you're "That Person" that everyone finds gross and smelly but doesn't say anything to you.
Nothing like leaving a wake of accumulated rancid coconut oil that water can't displace.
@@Crispywithextrabutter Simple after using CO as a moisturizer in the evening, just wash it out in the morning. But i love it along with castrol oil. Transfered my very dried air, rough texture into soft shiney manageable hair
Thanks for putting together such a rare (IMHO) video: documenting (in a scientific way) one’s mistakes is direly needed on this platform.
Then he should have followed it up by speaking to an actual expert in ingredients instead of believing TikTok or whatever histrionics.
I stopped using shampoo (poo) years ago. I have saved so much money and my scalp is so much healthier. It took about a year for my hair to adjust. I would never go back to using shampoo.
Im 19 and I have sooo much hair and it’s long. I only wash once a week with a professional shampoo with no sulfate and no fragrance. And honestly my hair doesn’t get oily because: I don’t touch the scalp with my hands and I wash my brush every time I wash my hair.
You look mid twenties, early thirties maybe.
@@jordanunknown5128that’s may not be her in the photo lol
what brand do you use?
@@jordanunknown5128 no she doesn’t. Go outside lol
@@LowSlungBadBitch that guy has a point. defo not a 19 year old looking girl
I'll be honest, I also watched that Johnny Harris video like I think 2 years ago iirc. And it gave me some proper insight on that kind of thing regarding shampoo, now tbf it was also the year I also was getting into proper skincare, and edit: also got into proper shaving with safety razors like old timey folk(this is a godsend over cartridge razors believe me, try it). For the record, I don't defend these companies using these ingredients, however my skin overall has never looked better in all the years I've became a working adult, and I'm a male who actually thought skincare products was all just bs. One aspect I learn about our skin, is that the oil is definitely one thing that moisturizes our skin, and if you strip that away too much, the skin has a tendency to overproduce until it normalizes for a while, same goes for hair.
In anycase, going back to the shampoo thing. I watched that video and since 2021 still have some pandemic lockdowns in some places, I decided it was the perfect time to actually stop using shampoo on my hair and just wash with water since I was staying home most of the time and just working at home as well. And just after 1 month, boi I tell you, it did not sit well for me at all. It was oily/greasy much more than I expected, and I don't know if it was dandruff or not, but since it was so itchy, whenever I scratch some sticky flakes do come in my nails, which I do assume it's dandruff but since there's so much grease it just blended hard.
And while I can tolerate it for a while longer thinking it'll just get better since my scalp was probably just trying to compensate for the dryness it had and will eventually normalize, I decided to just stop after 2 more weeks. For one, I actually needed to go to work onsite atleast once a week every 5 weeks at the time, and it does not sit well for me knowing how visible those stuff are and how much I tend to scratch so it's embarrasing to have people see how disgusting it looks, and secondly, on the occasion I do have those flakes or dusts or whatever just fall whenever I scratch, and I do not like it that I had to keep cleaning my shirt, my desk, my keyboard, basically everything practically almost everyday just for that.
All in all, that experience made me think while not shampooing your hair might be good for some people. It just isn't for some as well, especially since dandruff is proven to be actually caused by malassezia which likes oily sebum on hair and although I've never actually have experienced dandruff until that time, it most likely happened so because of the excess oil on my scalp.
After researching stuff about it those 2 years ago, I think shampooing your hair is still fine, ofc with the proper ingredients like you listed. But overwashing is the actual issue imo, and not necessarily washing in itself. I just wash my hair 1~2x a week these days and honestly I've never had an issue since. Even after working out/gone to the gym, I'd only really wet my scalp and still keep at a frequency of 1~2x a week. The only other time I'd wash my hair again more is if I were to use hair products like wax, which doesn't happen as frequently anymore since I have short hair now.
Not having watched the video yet, I think your right. I think shampoo is made at a higher concentration than recommended because it's supposed to be diluted in the water, however people just use too much of it. Kind of like how toothpaste is supposed to be a single pea sized drop, not the entire brush.
"dandruff is proven to be actually caused by malassezia which likes oily sebum on hair"
This is a half-truth. The fungus malessezia is strongly correlated to the intensity of serbohheic dermatitis and its non-inflammatory partner "dandruff" and whilst it is a lipophilic organism (consumes fat as part of its metabolism), this does not mean that malessezia "likes oily sebum" . The lipid composition of that fat MATTERS. Oleic acid absolutely jump-starts malessezia respiration but MCT (Medium-chain Triglycerides) prohibits and is an ANTI-FUNGAL to malessezia and this oil has reduced severity of dandruff in clinical studies
Dandruff, as a symptom, exist as a byproduct of a complex process. This is an ongoing field of research. A rhetorical question: Malessezia fungus is estimated to be within the scalps of more than 7 billion people yet the benign dandruff and its more serious counterpart is at much lower percentages, this should naturally raise the question "surely it can't be just oil that causes these conditions, is there something more nuanced to that?". Oil can infact work both ways to enable and prohibit the growth of malessezia; there may be a bacteria (Staphyloccus) that also participates within this interaction.
Never knew my solo researching could come to use . phew :)
This is exactly my case! Thanks for sharing your experience! I thought I was missing out on the wonders of not using shampoo!
Mine does the same if I stop washing it
It gets progressively worse
Same for me. My hair was definitely worse when I washed it less often.
I stopped using shampoo 10 years ago, and it’s made such a difference to my hair. I wash my hair once a week with water only, it looks healthy, it’s grown very much longer than it did when using shampoo, and it’s much less oily. No stripping, no over production of oils to compensate.
My hair is clean, smells good and it’s good for my purse!
How did you suddenly stop for enough time for it to stop overproducing? Didn't you have to deal with extremely oily hair during that period of time?
You know your hair smells bad right? Taller people don't like to stand behind you. @@Pearmesan
I tried going shampoo free for about 6 months and I was noticing a large amount of hair falling out, so I stopped
So it would be great if you would tell us what these safe and natural brands are so we would know what to use.😊
Agreed, I have no choice but to continue using shampoos if I'm not given a better alternative.
not until he gets a sponsor deal, like every youtuber -- and then you can't trust that info, obviously
Soap nuts are a good natural and safe option.
@@YellowBriefs no one should trust anyone that does not give 3-5 different brand options
bru just do some research? this guy is all about the information; you guys can do the rest - takes 20mins to find something genuine.
"Mom can we have Johnny Harris"
"No we have Johnny Harris at home"
Johnny Harris at home:
I havent used shampoo since 2012 and gave a period of about 7 years where I decided not to cut or comb my hair either and it grew into the most glorious dreadlocks. I felt like a real Viking haha. Anyways in regards to the video, my philosophy is, if I wouldnt put it in my mouth, I wont put it on my body. And besides that, DONT GIVE BIG PHARMA A PENNY OF YOUR HARD EARNED
Yeah, I used to use a ton of soap in the past, and then I started applying dog logic to my washing. Since it's ok to give a dog a bath once in a while, but doing it too much can be harmful, I am doing the same. Now I use like 1/10th the soap that I used to, and use just water on most of my body. Don't know if I stink, but I feel pretty clean after showering with mostly water on most of my body.
it's not dreads it's matted 😂
For average guys :
Don't overthink, just don't use shampoo everyday. Use shampoo about twice a week and use a mild shampoo (you'r have ti research a bit abiut that, which is more health, has less chemicals and more natural elements, etc).
Just using a milder shampoo and using it twice a week instead of daily can do you wonders
What if I only use soap?
For the past 6 months I’ve been I improving my shampoo usage and now I only do it on Sundays, and I would say that my hair has been so much better
I haven't used a shampoo for 6 months. Everybody compliments how shiny and smooth my hair is. My hair never itches or stinks. My hair doesn't frizz out after a shower.
I use shampoo/conditioner every day and I get compliments on how thick/soft my hair is....zero issues
I use shampoo every day 3 times per day, no hair problems, but if i not use it not become better, if i not wash it become worse.
Wow! what so What exactly do you use? Do you wash it with just water? Do you even wet it? Also what type of hair do you have?
@@darcandelaria no shampoo but daily rinsing thoroughly with water is a must. If you have a lot of dandruff use a natural shampoo 1-2 times a month.
I did No Poo for 6 months straight, took a couple of weeks and it seemed to have big positive impact but by the 6th month it was way too oily and had the worst dandruff of my life
I too have scalp that by day 4 is overflowing with oil. I'm OK washing it, but I'd prefer a healthier alternative to commercial shampoo and conditioners.
@@citizendc9 Just use a pure gentle soap like castille soap or similar. No reason to use commercial shampoos. I don't need conditioner most of the time, but occasionally I will use sorbolene or other very basic fragrance free skin moisturiser as a leave in overnight treatment.
This is why a diluted vinegar rinse is a great solution. Literally.
Hmmm real dilemma here. Either cancer or a little bit of dead skin you can only see under a microscope. Really going to have to weigh the options with this one.
Truly a conundrum. 😂
Your OVER playing getting cancer from shampoo and UNDERPLAYING "a few skin flakes". Ask any REAL dermatologist and he'll/she'll tell you a dirty scalp brings it's own problems after a time. Dirt and grease brings it's own problems. I'm not worried about getting cancer from shampoo! If you feel that way, you better stop using soap on your body, detergents in your laundry. You better stop washing dishes in the sink.
Especially, the dishwasher! There's a LOT of food you better stop eating, etc..
I did this too for some time, a lot of time. I remember having problems with cutting my hair. People would be LITERALLY offended that I dared cross their door without shampooing my head. Encountered much rudeness in the process to a point where I started cutting my own hair. stopped at some point. I think my scalp was healthier back then but I am not sure.
Agree with this. I stopped using synthetic shampoos for many years now. No more itch and falling hair. Just water. And occasionally some diluted tea tree oil.
A fact check as an Indian SHAMPO was invented in 16th century in India And shampoo came from the sanskrit word Champoo means massage. I just thought I shud mention it.
Great information! Also the petroleum based artificial colors in many foods, drinks, meds, vitamins we directly ingest are known carcinogens. Many are banned in other countries but they are in foods and candy we eat and we give to children. I talked to a pediatric oncologist at a conference, she believes many childhood cancers are caused by the colors. Yellow5, Yellow6, red 40 and carmel color are in everything. I even found yellow 5 in my shampoo!
That's a little alarmist. You say many, but the only artificial colors that the US currently allows but the EU has banned is FD&C Green No. 3 and Citrus red 2 (which is only approved for orange peels?) Orange B is also banned, but hasn't been produced since the 70's. The other colors you listed are all allowed in other countries (as far as I can see, I'm certainly willing to be corrected here).
@@SavageArms357 several studies revealed those colors cause ADHD and cancer. The oncologist I talked with said she was researching at Duke and she believed the colors were contributing to many childhood cancers. You need to do more research.
@@SavageArms357 also Kraft specifically made Mac and cheese without Yellow 6 for the UK but kept it in the USA version for several years after.
@@carriemayes8001 Personally, I would prefer cheese colored with natural dyes if at all, but Yellow 6 does appear to be pretty darn safe based on multiple studies.
Valid concerns ! You got my dandruff up ! Maybe also, all the terrible microplastics are giving us a false sense of health with the hair bounce. I put off washing my hair for about two weeks. After about a week of forgetfulness, even when my good wife and our Labrador reminds me with head licks; I go to the man cave and massage my head with a vacuum cleaner hose. Even after ten minutes of suction, dandruff still comes. So, I believe a healthier natural shampoo is overdue. Homemade ACV and homemade Activated Charcoal works !
The scalp overcompensates for any kind of shampoo currently on the market. Depending how often you showered and with which kind of product(s), your head could take up to half a year to slowly adjust to its new situation, a full year at worst. The first month usually is filled with extra greasy and extra dandruffy hair, because of the no longer being covered up by the shampoo drying up off your skin and the no longer necessary over-production of sebum. True hints at your actual state would only truly be judgable after at least a month of sticking to one chosen plan of hygiene. Two weeks would only be able to tell you wether you have any skin conditions that were being covered up/suppressed by your choice of shampoo.
Out of curiosity, you did use cold/warm/hot water to clean your hair once to twice a week, yes? If not, that would have been a contributing factor in your apparent overproduction of dandruff. Not washing at all is just as bad as using shampoo after all. Water is pretty much THE base requirement for your hair to properly function. That and a regular usage of thick/dense bristled brush truly massaging the scalp.
@@LiamDerWandrer Thank you for your kind consideration. To answer, I use unfiltered warm tap city water. Do you have a recommendation on water temperature or filtration? You got me thinking about a charcoal filter OR mixing a little activated charcoal into the ACV mixture. All things considered equally, I have a super-healthy full set of daily brushed hair .
Seems like making one's own cleaning product is an easier and more reliable solution than trying to scrutinize ingredients. There's gotta be something simple that works well. I do like the experiment presented here.
You can still buy and use Shikakai. Shampoo is a word of indian origin. Shikakai is a ayurvadic concoction of Senegalia rugata fruits with soap nuts and indian gooseberry, which has been in use for more than 4000 years.
@@MultiFreak107 Will it make me poop in the street?
I really liked the idea of no poo,
But I always try and see it if works for me,
My main issues is when I cut my hair, it's very difficult to wash it.
So in the end I decided to shampoo only once weekly
So far so good
We OBVIOUSLY aren't testing these chemicals on enough cute BUNNIES to ensure our safety.
9:55 Bro you got a rare disorder called "pili multigemini" where more than one hair comes out of a single follicle.
I did without shampoo for two months in the hopes my hair would become naturally healthy. I went from small flakes of dandruff to big flakes, lots of itching and greasy roots. 😅
Rinse your hair with vinegar water.
Did you stop washing your hair at all? I just switched to soap bars that don't contain the bad stuff instead, and that works wonders.
Now I know why some people use gloves when they're cutting hair at the salon!
I hate dirty hair! I would never stop washing my hair. I've seen some "no poo" people! Nasty!!! 🤢
Never underestimate hippies ability to rationalize their poor life choices. This was all I could think like a decade ago when all these lazy blogs telling people to stop washing their hair popped up. And the stupid parts about scarrrry petro-chemicals being in the soap. Good lord people yall are ignorant to the max. Funny how all it takes after a lifetime of experts telling one to do it is a few blogs saying dont and that is all people need to hear.
ive went to not washing my hair for 4 days to a week because ive noticed that my hair would be extremely oily the day after washing. but when i stopped washing every day and went to about 3 days, my hair wasnt oily until about the 3rd or 4th day, depending on how active i was. now i only really wash my hair when it needs it, about every 3 to 5 days.b i dont have dandruff and no itchy feeling. some people think its gross, but there was a movie i watched years ago. it wasnt live action but it was like a cartoon, that used mocap for the characters {mocap = motion capture} they use real people in a mocap suit for the movement of the characters so it looks like a realistic casrtoon. but this dude was hearing voices in his head that were driving him crazy etc. im not an idiot, i know it was just a cartoon, but cartoons and movies have silent truths in them. i dont believe shampoo will make me hear voices, but doing research, i realized that shampooing every day like i was "told" to, is not good for us.
I am 37 years old, stopped using shampoo since 30, because I was getting bald BECAUSE of the usage of shampoo + conditioner... A good old fashioned SOAP is enough, and for my surprise, my hair started to GROW BACK!!
Screw the shampoo treatment - use baking soda twice a week. 1 cup warm water with 1 oz. baking soda for 30 seconds. Worked for our grandparents.
Baking soda is very basic and natural skin pH is slightly acidic, so this is terrible advice.
@RowOfMushyTiT Alkaline water has a soothing effect on the skin and can help to reduce redness and inflammation. This makes it a great option for people with sensitive skin who are looking for a gentle and effective face wash. Alkaline water can help to remove impurities and dirt from the skin, leaving it looking clean and refreshed.
Is it effective for dandruff and o8ly hair?
Do they scrapping the hair scalp when uisng the baking soda?
@@vonn2221very good for dandruff, not so good for oily hair. If your hair is oily, wash with a good quality soap once or twice a week and do this in-between, should be fine.
hahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahaha what terrible advice. i remember the no poo movement and reading all the stories of women being devestated that baking soda made them start losing allot of hair . dont use baking soda to wash your hair
People could always do what I do, use Neutrogena bar soap to wash your body and your hair. It's marketed as a facial soap, but it's very mild and rinses off completely leaving nothing behind to clog your pours. I think they market it as a facial because it dissolves quickly, so using it all over makes it expensive compared to other bar soaps. Back in the early 60's the package said it was so mild you can brush your teeth with it, well being a kid I tried it, and it was true, no bitterness at all. I wait for it to go on sale at around $2.40, sometimes even less than that. I stock up at those times, they only let you order 10 bars at a time, so I order and then reorder another 10 while it's still on sale, usually later on that day, or the next day. It ships free if you sign up for an account. It melt away quickly, so don't leave it sitting in water after a shower, keep it in a dry place. I like the smell of the scented version, they have an unscented version as well. Use it and you'll get hooked, it's that good.
I've been happily using Neutrogena soap for as long as I can remember. I used to pick it off the shelves (I'm in England) till the company decided to stop sending it to Britain. That coincided with Jennifer Aniston saying that she wouldn't put anything else on her face. (A few years later, she said the same thing about Aveeno. 😆) They still send everything else here, including their false hope acne treatments.
So now I have to buy it online at exorbitant prices with high packing costs. I don't think Neutrogena make anything else worth buying; just the soap.
This may stop now I've discovered an affordable tallow soap. Pretty well everything now is labelled vegan, which is admirable - except I'm not a plant.
People call it a receding hairline, I've always called it an increasing forehead.
My hair in highshool was so dry and thin. I learned you shouldn’t be shampooing so much so I slowed down on that. I had problems with keeping my teeth white because I liked tea and coffee when I got older so I switched to baking soda tooth paste. Some how I’ve been making good choices without even realizing it. I can’t use old spice I learned in highschool because it was making my armpits dark and sometimes almost feel kinda like burning. Never liked axe or sprays but now that I’m older I like cologne. I think we should all listen to our bodies more it probably speaks a lot
I don't trust that guy that you showed on your video, he has a habit of not telling the whole truth, always hides stuff like a clickbait article