I just buy cheap $2 bottles of shampoo and use it for my whole body. Cheaper than shower gel, and I’ve been doing it for over 5 years with no problems. It’s all soap, right?
Right! I actually worked at P&G in the dawn dish soap division for a while. The same ingredients that go into the dish soap also go into the body and hair soaps. There are some different additives, concentrations, and flavors but it’s all the same based ingredients. Also my entire body is covered in skin and hair so what does it matter?
Exactly! Although I find dishwashing detergent dries out your skin a lot more, so I wouldn’t try using that lol. Shampoo has a pH closer to your skin than a bar of soap, so is really quite well suited for it.
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You don’t even have to go bald; you can just shave your head.
And it’s still cheaper once you include haircuts. Speaking from experience.
I’ve got a beard and my shampoo is way more expensive
Wat? You need special shampoo for hair on your face? Sucker say what?
Wouldn’t regular shampoo also work? Sorry if that was a stupid question
It would. They’re probably snobby about a brand.
Well… I am really picky about a certain shampoo to the point I got a bunch of them on supply in case the brand ever goes out of business so I can relate! :)
So can people who aren’t bald, because you don’t actually need shampoo to begin with.
Yes you do lol, you’d look like one of those greasy hippies that look like they haven’t showered in years.
Nah that’s just what Maybelline want you to think, and you do think it, so they have won.
I haven’t used shampoo on my long hair that is mid back length now. It’s not at all greasy. It was for a month when I had short hair and gave up on shampoo.
Also I no longer have dandruff and my hair is more manageable, so I don’t need product in my hair either.
I “shampoo” with conditioner once a week and just use hot water the rest of the time.
Waste your money on shampoo though, I don’t care.
That sounds disgusting no matter how many times you want to say it’s actually not that bad. I will fall for big Shampoo propaganda because I don’t want to feel extremely gross. That’s why I get my advice from people irl with healthy hair. I also suggest telling this to your barber next time you get a haircut.
Ok thanks for your baseless opinion. I’ll bare it mind when I care very little about what you think.
That sounds disgusting…
Sure. I would have agreed before I knew better. To think you know better without experience though is pure ignorance. You can ignore people wit experience and keep listening to marketing all you want though. Whatever.
Also, my barbers always comment on how healthy my hair is and ask how I do it, and it takes very little effort to do (negative effort considering I’m removing something else).
Nah you don’t, I didn’t use it for a long time and my hair was great! There’s a period after you stop where your hair is greasy, yes, but after ~a month it settles down a lot. You still need to wash it with hot water but, if anything, in my experience it was more resilient to missing a day of washing than it is now that I’m using shampoo/conditioner again.
Edit: I should say though this is probably not for everyone. Depends on your hair type and how healthy your scalp is.
That’s just disgusting.
You still wash your hair. It just produces far less oil because you aren’t stripping it (and then replacing it with another product). My hair is healthier than ever since I stopped using shampoo, but it still gets washed plenty. I wash with conditioner about once a week and wash with water every day.
You’ve been told you need to shampoo and that that’s normal, but it isn’t. It’s just a way to sell a product which also requires you to buy another product to reverse the damage it did (unless you want unhealthy hair).
No, you basically have very poor hygiene and you believe some dumb conspiracy theories.
My hygiene is rather good actually. You could stop insulting people when you have no information. That would be nice. Instead you think your uninformed opinion is better than my (and other’s) informed opinions.
How do you even have an opinion of this without experience? Why do you even care? Just accept that other people have more knowledge through actual experience than you.
Did you know that most of the cleaning action of hand washing is from just rubbing your hands together under water? Soap improves this, but if you don’t have soap you can still effectively clean your hands by just doing the action under water. I’m not eating or grabbing doorknobs with my hair, so I’m not too bothered with it not being as clean as possible (regardless, not 100%). I’ll accept slightly more bacteria that isn’t causing any issue for much healthier hair.
Why? I’ve known several people who do this, it’s totally fine. I’m sure for some people it would leave you with really greasy hair, but otherwise what’s the issue? It doesn’t smell or anything if that’s your concern.
Hygiene, my friend. Hygiene matters. People have been washing their bodies and heads for thousands of years, even many animals do that.
With water, not shampoo. The first shampoo seems to be from 1930. It’s a marketing scheme to sell crap you don’t need.
No, that’s some conspiracy theory. People were using all kinds of soaps for washing in Ancient Rome and Ancient Egypt. Don’t be dumb and disgusting.
Yes, but hygiene does not always = soap. Everyone’s needs are different.
There are different soaps. Please educate yourself.
It’s not needing to go for haircuts where the real money savings are.
No shit, I need to get in on the shaved head deal. The guy who’s been cutting my hair since I was a teenager now charges $80 for a haircut and beard trim. Like man, I’m blue collar, I can’t afford that shit!
$80?! Even places being premium seem to be about $50 from my experience. I guess I haven’t been to one of those in a few years, so inflation may have bumped it up.
Bro what? Just go somewhere cheaper. They’re like $20 normally
I bought a wireless hair clipper in February of 2020 for $50 on Amazon. Every few weeks I go out in my back yard and buzz it all off in about 5 minutes. I’m definately happy.
I’m using my electric shaver to trim my own hair (it came with a facial hair trimmer, and I may have stretched the boundaries of my face slightly)
This is the way.
$20 clippers from the mart of walls. Buzz it all down to an even fuzz every two weeks.
We also save a ton of time in the shower. But I just spend that extra time crying in the shower because I have no hair.
skull shaver
Preach. This thing fucking rules. Honestly probably about as - if not more expensive than shampoo in the long run. I use mine daily and things really start to slow down about 1.5 - 2 months after new blades… which are $30.
i don’t have one but if i needed to have one, i would definitely have two
I found an electric razor to be a nuisance. I just use my Mach 3 to shave while in the shower. It takes less than a minute to get a nice, close shave.
For the same reason, they walk faster, too.
Do they swim faster?
They do everything faster.
Aerodynamic
Maybe they need sunscreen though? I see bald heads in the sun reflecting back at me and wonder how often it gets burnt.
And haircuts
How much money do you really spend on shampoo though?
This. Decent shampoo is only around $10 a bottle, and if you have short hair, you really only need a thimble full at a time. For those who think they need more: the lather is a lie!
I’ve been using the same bottle of shampoo for like 2 years and it’s maybe a little less than half full. I use it to make bubble baths sometimes too lol
True, but I still have all my hair–and haven’t used shampoo in two decades. I use this stuff literally head-to-toe.
Is that milk?
Mmmm hair milk
I think you’re still spending money on that though
Of course, but not soap AND shampoo. Just soap.
Right but if the soap and shampoo are similarly priced you’re spending the same amount of money. I also use Bronner’s and shampoo but I don’t remember how much they cost sadly, though I feel like it’s pretty close?
What shampoo are you using?
It varies. Right now a 2 in one shampoo and body wash.
You, too, could go No-Poo!
I’ve tried it and I turn into a human dandruff machine.
Some of us just have crap scalps.
It’s because you’ve been shampooing daily (or however frequently). Shampoo is designed to remove the oil from your hair/scalp, so then your scalp has to compensate (and also you have to add conditioner to put it back).
The way to switch over to no-poo is to slowly increase the number of days between shampooing until it isn’t an issue anymore. Only shampoo when you need to.
Also, try washing with conditioner instead of shampoo (co-wash). The oils in the conditioner bind with the oils in your hair so you still remove some of them, but it doesn’t strip it all. I (a man with thick about shoulder length hair) only co-wash once every week or so. I wash with water daily. This is what’s worked for me. You will have an adjustment period though because you’ve been putting your scalp through so much, it has to get used to that not happening.
