I stopped using shampoo and conditioner. It's the best fashion advice I've ever had and it's funny that it came from a hn article. Better looking hair, better protection against cold, no more dandruff, much smaller dry scalp patches and so on. Thanks HN!
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#22Fasting (< 500cal) two or three times a week is rapidly decreasing my volume, and bringing increased mental clarity and alertness. It's a good rhythm to get into, has a pretty dramatic (positive) effect on how I feel, and it's a nice way to atone for yesterday...
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#23I stopped using shampoo and conditioner. It's the best fashion advice I've ever had and it's funny that it came from a hn article. Better looking hair, better protection against cold, no more dandruff, much smaller dry scalp patches and so on. Thanks HN!
can you provide a link to the article? thanks!
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#24I stopped using shampoo and conditioner. It's the best fashion advice I've ever had and it's funny that it came from a hn article. Better looking hair, better protection against cold, no more dandruff, much smaller dry scalp patches and so on. Thanks HN!
If you do not use shampoo, what do you use to wash your hair? Genuinely interested, I can't live without Head and Shoulders.
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#25Quitting smoking. Best habit I ever had. It improves my life every time I pick it up.
yes and i am trying so hard to quit already feel like i am getting better in everything
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#26I stopped using shampoo and conditioner. It's the best fashion advice I've ever had and it's funny that it came from a hn article. Better looking hair, better protection against cold, no more dandruff, much smaller dry scalp patches and so on. Thanks HN!
Same here. I used to have really greasy hair and needed to wash it pretty much everyday. I read about this so gave it a try. After a few weeks the grease went away. Note that I still wash my hair, so it doesn't smell, but I just use water.
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#27Picking up the habit of working regularly on side-projects. I am lucky enough to have a couple of friends interested in working on the same project as myself. The habit of all of us getting together for a couple of hours during the weekend has tremendously advanced the project. It helps to work with friends or people in general, because it rarely happens that none of us are in the mood for working. And when we are, w…
That sounds great. Sometimes I really wish I had friends who are into programming.
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#28less worrying about being next billion dollar app and focusing on critical thinking
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#29Stopped eating fast food and drinking any artificial flavored/sweetened/preserved drinks (exception beer).
Closely linked: learned to cook for myself and making an effort to cook something I've never tried once a week.
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#30I stopped using shampoo and conditioner. It's the best fashion advice I've ever had and it's funny that it came from a hn article. Better looking hair, better protection against cold, no more dandruff, much smaller dry scalp patches and so on. Thanks HN!
If you do not use shampoo, what do you use to wash your hair? Genuinely interested, I can't live without Head and Shoulders.
Some help here: http://www.reddit.com/r/NoPoo/wiki/index
After some weeks, your hair gets used to having no shampoo.
I'm doing it since 2 months and all is fine.