The best natural shampoo

[Connecting with Sauce]

Since early July I've been using the same thing everyday to wash my hair…. NOTHING at all!!!! Just water and rubbing it! :D

I'm sure this is the best natural hair product, it's own natural oils and just rinsing it daily. I had an itchy head for ~1 week until it sorted itself out… but it doesn't smell or cause any issues now.

[Avid]

Agree - hair is naturally 'self-cleaning', and all you need to maintain it is a rinse through regularly with water. And a rake through with a nit comb of course!!!:naughty:

[alienarena]

That's very interesting...think I will give it a try. I know that normal shampoos contain an ingredient called laurel sulfate (not sure of the spelling) and it completely strips your hair of its natural oils. My hair a year ago was thin, frizzy and looked awful.

I have been using a product by Chaz Dean called WEN for about a year and it contains all natural ingredients with no laurel sulfate and it's the only product I have ever tried that really, really worked. It does not lather at all, smells nice and is almost like conditioning your hair. Put it on like conditioner and let it set while your taking your bath or shower and then rinse out when your done.

So....technically I have washed my hair in a year.

[PodWORLD]

I bought my wife some Emu Oil for her birthday. Amazing stuff. Aborigines have used it for thousands of years. Amazing for the skin and hair and any muscle aches or skin conditions. Nature is a wonderful chemist.

[David]

Interesting but for some reason my head now itches from reading this.

[Phtha]

I agree with the op 100%
I've been washing my hair with nothing but water since I was 16, so thats 14 years.
I never have dandruff, I've gotten comments on how soft my hair is quite a few times in the past, and best of all no cancer causing chemicals absorbed daily!:tongue2:

Dish soap is another killer. I only use very hot water to wash my dishes, and they are always sparkle clean, and never have that film that I used to get
from dish soap now and then.

If I ate meat I would probably be using some sort of organic dish soap though.

[uniconr]

no shampoo for two years now, my hair is healthy shiny smells fine

[bilderburger w/cheese]

its sodium lauryl sulfate and sodium laureth sulfate that are quite bad for your skin. i switched over to dr bonners organic soaps and use the suds from that once a week to wash my hair.
i suppose if one has excessively oily hair, shampooing might be needed.

[davefla73]

hmm glad it all works for you guys, I will keep useing my shampoo though, are you sure it dont smell to other people or maybe you just cant smell yourself? just asking. you wash your body with soap why would you think your hair doesnt need it?

[california]

Great thread. Never even crossed my mind to think this way. The advertising industry had my hypnotized about the 'smell' thing. Hah!:lmao:

[LaRosa]

My thinking is "If you can't eat it, don't use it" I refer to whatever product for the body or the house.
ex: Fluoride-free toothpaste, organic deodorant from tea tree oil without parabenes.
- Some pure vegetable liquid soap that I mix with hot water in a spray bottle. I bought a big bottle 20$ years ago and still have half bottle. My house is sparkling clean. I use for everything. No more ascenic chemical!

If you can eat your product... it's safe.

I'm going to wash my hair with water today, I'll try for awhile to see for myself.

Sidenote: Humanity haven't use shampoo for decenny. I've seen native with hairs so beautiful you just want to caress them. If one use shampoo on a regular basis, I suppose it takes a little while for the hair to adapt to only water.
As for the smell, it's your signature, when you travel a lot you notice that people smell is different, some are repellent but some are quite attractive. We in industrialize country have lost touch with our olfactive function. Your body smell have more to do with what you eat them the use of cleaning product.
The natural body smell carry pheromones and when the person is chemically compatible with me, I can get quite exited, sexually, with the odor.

Thank's for this suggestion, I take good notes and will try water for my hairs.

[Connecting with Sauce]

My thinking is "If you can't eat it, don't use it" I refer to whatever product for the body or the house.
ex: Fluoride-free toothpaste, organic deodorant from tea tree oil without parabenes.
- Some pure vegetable liquid soap that I mix with hot water in a spray bottle. I bought a big bottle 20$ years ago and still have half bottle. My house is sparkling clean. I use for everything. No more ascenic chemical!

If you can eat your product... it's safe.

I'm going to wash my hair with water today, I'll try for awhile to see for myself.

Sidenote: Humanity haven't use shampoo for decenny. I've seen native with hairs so beautiful you just want to caress them. If one use shampoo on a regular basis, I suppose it takes a little while for the hair to adapt to only water.
As for the smell, it's your signature, when you travel a lot you notice that people smell is different, some are repellent but some are quite attractive. We in industrialize country have lost touch with our olfactive function. Your body smell have more to do with what you eat them the use of cleaning product.
The natural body smell carry pheromones and when the person is chemically compatible with me, I can get quite exited, sexually, with the odor.

Thank's for this suggestion, I take good notes and will try water for my hairs.

Just posted a picture of me after ~2 months or more of just rinsing only. No gel, clay or wax hair products either...

http://projectavalon.net/forum/album.php?albumid=450&pictureid=4395

[Swanny]

I use shampoo bars from lush :)

Ingredients
Click on highlighted ingredients to learn more.
Sodium Coco-Sulfate, Glycerine, Nettle Infusion (Urtica dioica), Peppermint Infusion (Mentha piperita), Nettle Absolute (Urtica dioica), Rosemary Absolute (Rosmarinus officinalis), Bay Oil (Pimenta acris), Clove Bud Oil (Eugenia caryophyllus), Cinnamon Leaf Oil (Cinnamomum cassia), *Cinnamal, *Eugenol, *Benzyl Benzoate, *Limonene, *Linalool, Colour 73360, Cinnamon Stick (Cinnamomum cassia)
* Occurs naturally in Essential Oils

https://www.lush.co.uk/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=487&Itemid=80

[LaRosa]

John, I looked at your picture... you look healthy. Funny thing is we have about same haircut. Now i used shampoo yesterday without noticing, the habit is strong. I will continue with just water. Once I used water only for 1 week and my hairs were easy to mold, I gave them a funny shape without any products. Thank's for the picture, it greatly support your suggestion.

[zorgon]

WOW Great advice here folkes :thumb_yello:

No dish soap to wash dishes... just hot water... great way to kill bacteria

You DO know that the water has to be boiling in order to kill germs?... Sticking hands in boiling water while cleaning dishes? bad idea

No soap for the hair?

I wonder how many of you work hard for a living at a dirty job...

Uh huh thought so...

Enjoy your water... Just remember all the stuff they put in that :tongue2:

[She-Ra]

I was thinking along the same lines Zorgon (just not as sardonically ;) ) - I think this is a method that will work well for some and not for others but is easy to try. Personally, I live and work in a heavily congested city and have to blow my nose constantly, anyone heard of 'black bogie'? So I have to use shampoo and because I have a coarse Asian hair type I also need conditioner and leave-in moisturiser - purely natural ingredients though and not tested on animals, I also stay away from controversial ingredients like unenvironmentally friendly and non-fair/community trade palm oil.

Swanny - a fellow Lush lover here :)

[Swanny]

Yea She-Ra they do some great stuff and it's not filled with chemicals :)

[Connecting with Sauce]

WOW Great advice here folkes :thumb_yello:

No dish soap to wash dishes... just hot water... great way to kill bacteria

You DO know that the water has to be boiling in order to kill germs?... Sticking hands in boiling water while cleaning dishes? bad idea

No soap for the hair?

I wonder how many of you work hard for a living at a dirty job...

Uh huh thought so...

Enjoy your water... Just remember all the stuff they put in that :tongue2:

I don't work where I'd actually get my head covered in oil or such but I'm sure 2 or 3 rinses would sort it out. I use soap on the dishes in the dishwasher fairy tablets... I'm sure they aren't too good but technolgy is there to help us in certain respects until I have to wash my dishes or dish in a stream...

I do use soap in the smelly areas :) so not fully doing the caveman thing yet... I suppose if we didn't use clothes we wouldn't sweat as much :D going right back to nature.

[Jenny]

I follow a very easy rule;

If I would eat it, I will put it on my skin.
If I would not eat it, I will not rub it on my skin.

And I follow an even simpler rule for what to eat; If my grandma recognizes it as being food I will eat it.

It keeps me healthy and it is very cheap; Coconut oil...
I bake in it and it is my skincare.

I wash my hair with a shampoo made of oils and herbs. once every 2 weeks.

And I smell like roses.

:wub2:

[Peer]

Interesting but for some reason my head now itches from reading this.
Maybe you have to take of your helmet.....:lightsabre::lol3:

[Peer]

@Jenny::wub2:

[Shellie]

Do all of you who wash only with water have dry hair, normal hair, or oily hair? I have oily hair which if clean, but then gets wets, becomes GROSS. I couldn't imagine using just water- what cuts the oil?

[bilderburger w/cheese]

does anyone have any 'alternative' shampoos for dandruff?
i got dandruff. what am i gonna do. <shrugs> :)

[Harper]

Hello folks,

There is a woman on BBC, whose name I have forgotten, but she makes all her own cleaning products from Lemon Juice, Vinager and bi-carbonate of Soda. This is not her site but has pretty much the same information

http://www.makingyourown.co.uk/make-your-own-natural-home-cleaning-products.html

Enjoy as you can eat all the ingredients !!

[Seeker Mom]

Hmmm, so I've been messaging with a bunch of stinky folks? :lmao:

Just kidding. But I seriously refuse to give up my shampoo and highlighted/colored hair. If and when the time comes when I must resort to no haircare products and cold showers I wish to die quickly. :naughty:

[SamWhiteHopi]

Umm. Dare I say I haven’t washed with soap for some twelve years?
This happened when I read somewhere that soap kills the natural bacteria on the skin that helps control odor. It also removes the natural oils and had the body react by producing more, thus oilier skin. Deodorants also stuff up the natural bacteria balance.

I had already been caring for my quad friend, Robert, for about two years and his skin was so oily and slippery it was dangerous to move him unless I held him with a towel. His body odor was the worse I had encountered and within a few hours of a bath stunk as much as before and his breath smelt like a corpse. Black heads and pimples were a problem also due to clogged skin pours.

So I decided that neither one of us was going to touch any soap, toothpaste, deodorant or shampoo for a week.

Within four days Robert’s oily skin was no longer a problem and the following weeks cleared up his black heads. No more bad breath.

I went from brushing my teeth two to three times a day to brushing with water once or twice a week, as I also had a very bad breath problem. I sometimes break out the baking soda for a polish.

I only use soap to wash my hands. No more deodorant.

I only shower when I start to smell or feel dirty. So to be honest I wash three or four times a week, which is pretty good going since I was showering twice a day and I have a sweating disorder that has me run like a tap. I rub vigorously with a towel after a shower and there is not a lot of dead skin either. Not bad also considering I live in the Northern Territory which is one of the hottest places on earth.

People find it hard to believe when I tell them the above because I just don’t smell. And at the moment my diet is not its best. Though chicken makes me smell fowl [pun intended].

For those who get grease and oil on them, I heard that baking soda is pretty good. It works on cleaning ovens and is a great tea stain remover.

The amount of money saved on toiletries is great, as is knowing I contribute less to land fill. Plus the water saved. I think I use one tooth brush a year. Four bars of soap.

I also cut down on dish washing liquid because I keep my dishes in the fridge in the coldest part so they only get cleaned two or three times a week. I haven’t come down with food poisoning once. My frying pan rarely gets cleaned. Once it cools down it goes in the fridge. Think about it. If there are any germs in the pan they get killed when the pan is heated up and I make sure I don’t leave scraps behind from previous meals. And even if there are scraps any bacteria die in the cooking.

Love&peace,
Sam

[DenisSelivanov]

washing troubles away with bubbles:thumb_yello:

[davefla73]

no shampoo for two years now, my hair is healthy shiny smells fine

is that your opion or have you asked other?! you cant smell yourself!:nono:
I personal will always wash my hair, even if all i have is a bar of soap!sounds to Hippy like for me!

[davefla73]

does anyone have any 'alternative' shampoos for dandruff?
i got dandruff. what am i gonna do. <shrugs> :)

remeber Dandruff Is a fungus, so if it will kill fungus it will get rid of Dandruff. Dandruff shampoo has Zinc Oxide init to kill the fungus. maybe silver water would help if you dont want to do the shampoo thing, Id personla wash with dandruff shampoo mayself.

[dagon]

I'm jumping on this ban wagon. I have noticed that when I wash with shampoo and conditioner my hair falls out in a alarming way. my hands are full of hair. all over the place. in the brush. in the drain. all over my body. so I have been trying not to wash but only make it a few days. but I notice that no or little hair falls out when just rinsing. I start to get itchy after about day 3. and well I start washing again. If you say it go's away. I'm cool with that. I was hoping to find a thread on this subject. thanks for posting. :thumb_yello:

cheers

[MMe M]

No offense to any here but ive a question. For those of you that use no shampoo at all, do you have chlorinated water? If so, that acts as a degreaser/cleaner even in th amounts or ppg in your water. I always bleach my sheets, have for years. It shortens their lifespan but is fabulous for making them sparkling clean and grease free.

We have a well and we soften our water so things we wash including us rinse clean. Thats the biggest difference. Well water before the softener in the line is also palatable, non poisionous and has noone elses medications in it.

For those of you with any type of water, what is it that delivers it to you? Copper, cast iron, or pvc? Even the pvc that is supposedly for potable water is still pvc. Pvc is poison from start to finish.

I really hate city water.

[SamWhiteHopi]

I'm jumping on this ban wagon. I have noticed that when I wash with shampoo and conditioner my hair falls out in a alarming way. my hands are full of hair. all over the place. in the brush. in the drain. all over my body. so I have been trying not to wash but only make it a few days. but I notice that no or little hair falls out when just rinsing. I start to get itchy after about day 3. and well I start washing again. If you say it go's away. I'm cool with that. I was hoping to find a thread on this subject. thanks for posting. :thumb_yello:

cheers

Not washing with soap or shampoo has an initial breaking in period, depends on each persons chemical and bacterial make up. I found my head itched a bit when I first stopped the shampoo but I just persevered. I stood under the shower and just kept giving a good but gentle scrub of the scalp with my finger nails (which is good for the skin anyway), and then a good drying with my towel. I don't like hair driers as I personally believe they damage the hair if the heat is too high or close and can irritate the skin also. Try washing with some Bicarb if the greesy feeling is too much (if you get this), then rinse out. Within a week without shampoo my hair started to settle down no trouble. I never need to use Bicarb, but others do or like to, but my diet of recent has been rather rotten and have noticed my hair being a bit greesy, so might have to use some bicarb.

It is hard to over come years of psychological conditioning by commercials that we are only clean people if we have washed with soaps, toothpastes and whatever else they can convince us to use to kill off natural bacteria. The more of their products we use the more the body smells so the more we use and so forth. They are laughing all the way to the bank.

[SamWhiteHopi]

No offense to any here but ive a question. For those of you that use no shampoo at all, do you have chlorinated water? If so, that acts as a degreaser/cleaner even in th amounts or ppg in your water. I always bleach my sheets, have for years. It shortens their lifespan but is fabulous for making them sparkling clean and grease free.

We have a well and we soften our water so things we wash including us rinse clean. Thats the biggest difference. Well water before the softener in the line is also palatable, non poisionous and has noone elses medications in it.

For those of you with any type of water, what is it that delivers it to you? Copper, cast iron, or pvc? Even the pvc that is supposedly for potable water is still pvc. Pvc is poison from start to finish.

I really hate city water.

Hmmm. Interesting points, MMe M. Have had experience with both chlorinated water (over a period of years while in a city and presently in a semi rural setting) and bore water (for six months while further out bush). Hair was good in both situations without shampoo and skin without soap.

I think most of the water where I am is PVC delivered. Will have to check. I know many fish breeders use PVC in tanks as hiding holes and breeding areas, and they haven't reported toxic problems as far as I know. If I had the time and energy I would set up a couple of bath tubs outside. One with clay drain pipe elbows I picked up some years ago, and one with a stack of new PVC (thoroughly cleaned before hand), and leave the guppies to it (though they may be too hardy for such an experiment). Indoor tanks have never been successful for me, but outside in a bath tub anything breeds. Could be a sort of cannary test. Kribensis lay eggs and are good breeders. Eggs don't do so well in toxic water.

But with so much toxin around in the world, I just don't overly worry and look for things to eat that counteract the poisons.