I haven't used soap or shampoo in a year, and it's awesome
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Re: I haven't used soap or shampoo in a year, and it's awesome
#2Cool story bro, just stay away from me.
Re: I haven't used soap or shampoo in a year, and it's awesome
#3I live in the FWI, in a tropical climate. Outside temperature is quite stable around 30 celcius in the daytime and a little less at night, say around 25. Here, avoiding BO requires a minimum of 2 showers a day. I tried this for a week and went back to soap and shampoo. Maybe in the canadian winter that's possible? Also, why is there all this hype for paleo stuff? Is this the new fad after environmentalist concerns?
Re: I haven't used soap or shampoo in a year, and it's awesome
#4I live in the FWI, in a tropical climate. Outside temperature is quite stable around 30 celcius in the daytime and a little less at night, say around 25. Here, avoiding BO requires a minimum of 2 showers a day. I tried this for a week and went back to soap and shampoo. Maybe in the canadian winter that's possible? Also, why is there all this hype for paleo stuff? Is this the new fad after environmentalist concerns?
I think the paleo stuff is a simple rechecking/rethinking assumptions.
For instance, after I went barefoot, I had significantly less back pain and have been able to triple my walking distance; furthermore, I'm able to run now.
What is going to happen, we are going to learn a few things, uncover old ways of doing things, adapt them to modern time, or toss them back into the trash.
Re: I haven't used soap or shampoo in a year, and it's awesome
#5I live in the FWI, in a tropical climate. Outside temperature is quite stable around 30 celcius in the daytime and a little less at night, say around 25. Here, avoiding BO requires a minimum of 2 showers a day. I tried this for a week and went back to soap and shampoo. Maybe in the canadian winter that's possible? Also, why is there all this hype for paleo stuff? Is this the new fad after environmentalist concerns?
It takes longer than a week for your body to adapt to the new soap/shampooo regiment.
Re: I haven't used soap or shampoo in a year, and it's awesome
#6I'm really interested in giving this a go. I think the secret is to keep showering.
I've often given my hair a quick rinse when I haven't showered in days, and my hair looks and feels great for the rest of the day.
Re: I haven't used soap or shampoo in a year, and it's awesome
#7Discussion from yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2069419
Re: I haven't used soap or shampoo in a year, and it's awesome
#8I went for almost a year never using soap or shampoo. Shampoo I still rarely use. I rinse my hair with hot water and brush it sometimes. If you don't use product in your hair you only have the daily sweat, dirt, and sebum to get rid of. Brushing and rinsing is almost always enough.
As for soap I use it as I need to. Sometimes I can't get whatever is living in my pits to go away with any amount of hot soapy water and scrubbing. I posted on reddit about not using soap about 6 months into it and caught a lot of flack from people who just assumed I was a stinky hippy that didn't realize it.
A relatively healthy person with good hygiene can definitely get by without soap: sweat, rinse, dirt, rinse.. it's pretty easy to stay clean. I shaved (with a buzzer) my pits around when I started this and kept them short; this seemed to help a lot.
As to why people would do it; I was literally getting compliments on my skin. Your skin gets nice and soft after a while and then, when you use soap your skin isn't adjusted to it and it gets sucked dry.
That being said, I use soap regularly these days (just on pits/groin/ass).
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#9A lot of the body smells depends on diet. If a person eats foods that make them smell (and the foods can depend on the person) then you get smelly. If you know what those foods are and you avoid them, you decrease the smells your body produces.
This is true whether or not you shower :)
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#10>Sometime mid-summer I stopped by a barber and before I'd realized it he'd squirted a glob of shampoo onto my head. It was too late to protest, so I just sat through the scrubbing. For the following 2 weeks my hair was a mess: full of dandruff and totally uncontrollable.
I find this hard to believe. My money's on confirmation bias.