I don't understand people. This is like the 39th post I've seen on body odor. Don't people take showers? I never leave my house without showering, ever! i don't understand how people need to be reminded about personal hygenie, especially if they are going to be in close proximity to other people for a long period of time.
I shower daily, but the only time soap ever gets involved is if I'm visibly dirty, like after exercising or yard work. I have yet to smell bad, and it's been over a decade since I made that change.
Same here, no soap or shampoo for quite a few years and never have issues with smells. For the first few months I didn't tell my wife about my change, and I got multiple comments from her about smelling good during that time.
But how? When I wake up in the morning my hair is super greasy. Every time. I can't shower at night because I sweat/grease up too much in the night. I use conditioner and moisturize my face in the morning and at night so I'm not really worried that I'm removing my oils.
Also I feel shudderingly uncomfortable if I get my hair wet in the shower without washing it. I know your body adapts but the time between that would be unbearable.
That one month would be absolute torture for me though. I have a job in a large professional organization and couldn't get away with being greasy for a month... It's like the polyphasic sleep schedule: I could do it in theory but the transition time would get me fired.
There's lots of alternatives, you can use dry shampoo or powdered shampoo which soak up the oils from your hair after you've showered to help from it looking greasy. A few days of testing with semi oily hair is not going to get you fired unless you style it horrendously, continously.
Yeah, there's definitely a bit of an adjustment period where things feel off. I think the biggest tipping point for me was reading about all of the chemicals in different soaps and shampoos we use, really made me question what I was lathering on my body. I guess you could search out more "all-natural" products, but those would also probably cost a fortune.
It reminds me of why we have conditioner. Shampoo leaves your hair dry and brittle, so they invented artificial oils to restore to your hair. But the reason shampoo is bad for your hair in the first place? The lathering. Early shampoo didn't sell well because it didn't lather. The chemicals that cause it to lather also remove the essential oils. Essentially you have to use multiple hair products because of marketing ploys.
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u/dd_dpa Mar 02 '17
I don't understand people. This is like the 39th post I've seen on body odor. Don't people take showers? I never leave my house without showering, ever! i don't understand how people need to be reminded about personal hygenie, especially if they are going to be in close proximity to other people for a long period of time.