Well, baldness also requires care. A shampoo will be fine for your head-skin. Also, moisturise. Especially important for people who tend to have dry skin like me. There aren't many good moisturisers for men around though. (At least none which I found good so far.) So, moisturisers marketed towards women it is.
And if it smells like peach, roses and aloe vera paired with coconuts, even better. If your girlfriend/wife likes to smell herself that way, you can bet she would also like to smell your floral skin-desert.
Yes, but I think the (true) point was that male-marketed products are always either:
Arctic freshness 0°K we'll make you feel like you're naked on an iceberg in the middle of the North Pole
Or:
Now you smell like your grandfather! Some wood, musk, and cedar cones
Why is it so and what does it tell of our society and weird expectations? A great deal of men do NOT appreciate this approach, and sure turn to the products marketed for women.
We should either break that insanely entrenched stereotype about "masculine" scents, or better just ditch product gendering altogether.
Yay for men smelling like vanilla and strawberry yoghurt!
Old Spice has some "island" scents that smell like fruits and flowers for men. I am currently working my way through a bottle of "Fiji" smells like papaya and vanilla.
I am at a loss to think of a more man oriented brand of hygiene products than Old Spice. Maybe Axe, but do we really consider teenage boys men?
My teens (one girl one trans boy) are crazy about that Old Spice Fiji scent, and the laundry scent Suavitel Fresca Aroma Del Sol. I think the Fiji does smell a lot like the clean clothes.
Axe makes me break out something awful. Only been two periods of time I wore it, both because the lady I was with commented on it smelling nice when we were in a store, and then only wearing it on nights I was going out with her and hoping I'd recover before next time.
I have little or no allergies regarding anything else, but deodorants for some reason are prone to setting me off (my suspicion is that it's particular fragrances used in some of them). Currently Dove Men + Care is safe for me, so I use that.
What does that mean, exactly though? Will it make a man sick if he uses it? Or is it just a way for a company to appeal to a certain customer who believes men and women are too different to enjoy similar things?
If the man gets his hair really dirty, like farm dirty with diesel and moly grease and itchy chaff bits, then it means it probably doesn't have what it takes to do the job.
My wife bought endless shampoos, I tried them for sport and none ever impressed me. Our hard water laughs at fancy shampoos and soaps.
I always told her to forget it and use my big jug of Pert. A classic that says something on the back like "Pert wasn't designed to waste your time and money. Pert was designed to get your hair clean" but she was sure there was something wrong with it because it was only 5 bucks.
Finally one day she gave it a try and has used Pert ever since. It made her hair smooth and soft, it even washes moly grease out and it smells "fine", men's shampoo is the winner IMO
And now my shower is so tidy with only one jug of shampoo
But what about that makes it "men's" shampoo, chemically? Do women never need to wash grease out of their hair?
I understand you're point. I'm just reiterating that the formula is needlessly gendered. "Shampoo for hard water and heavy duty cleaning" just doesn't sell in our version of socialized society I guess.
Actually come to think of it, I don't think Pert is actually gendered. But everyone knows it's a "man's shampoo", because it isn't actively marketed as a "women's shampoo"... Yeah, pretty stupid, isn't it.
My regular shampoo is Malibu C Hard Water Wellness, it is not too harsh and works so well in our water. Not Pert cheap but can get it for around $30 a liter usually and that lasts me a looong time. I love that stuff. Doesn't dry out my hair, does clean and rinses clean.
I mean that is great and obvious and all but it is completely the case that they are women's products. They are on all the boxes, ads and testimonials. In the women's aisle.
What a weird generalization to make. Maybe you’re referring to grocery stores, that have a small selection of beauty/health products.
My local Target here in the US (CA) was recently renovated to expand the body care section of the store, and now has two large distinct sections that obviously cater to specific genders:
The men’s section (deodorant, hair care, face wash, shaving supplies, etc.) is set apart by “wood” flooring, dark wooden display tables, and a kind of minimalist atmosphere. Several aisles away, the women’s section (hair care, makeup, face wash, nail care, etc.) is bright and colorful and chock-full of product signage.
Lol I just checked target. You're right. I guess I never get the "men's shampoo", mainly because it's low quality with a crappy "wood" fragrance. Of course women's deodorant is a rip-off too. Better to just look up the brand you like.
What's funny is that I'm now at the point of using bar soap as my "shampoo", but the store currently only has heavily scented bar soap, so I do actually smell like 🍑 and 🍊.
That doesn't work here. Natural soap, saponified fats, causes soap scum in hard water. If it puts a mineral coating on your tub, it will do the same to your hair.
I too prefer unscented, and usually the women's version. Current one I usually use is the thin Tom's of Maine unscented, which I think is the one for women. The thick blue body has the powdery deodorant while the thin white body has the smooth solid.
Same as the shower gel, where there are lots of "flavours" and then some just labelled "MEN" with no indication of what they smell of.^[Engine oil and Swarfega]
If you want to make a footnote, try this^[Hit the "view source" icon to see how. It looks like a text file.]. This is going off a default web client, but I think the others should support it too.
Out here in hard water country we just call that "Dove"
Seriously if you're looking for a soap that just plain works in ANY water and doesn't leave your skin feeling like it shrank a size, a good old bar of Dove is the answer.
Then the fuckers start putting more perfumes in it.
Goddamn, that pisses me off. Had to find another AIO shampoo that didn't make my eyes burn when I used it. Used Pert for 20+ years until some marketing asshat forgot who the demographic was.
I went to get a massage for the first time. You can have a scent during your massage, so I was like why not? So they listed a huge list of smells and flavors. And one of the scents they had was cedar. Of course I picked that one. The masseuse was immediately like "I would say like 80% of all of the guys that come in here pick cedar."
No regrets, it smelled great. Reminded me of woodworking.
Sounds nice (the massage, not necessarily that particular scent). I've never gotten a massage before but I've been thinking about getting a couples massage with my wife. There's so many massage places though. How do I choose one?
chose the one nearest to you or the most convenient to get to (maybe a place that's along your daily commute). If you like it, kepp going there. If the result is unsatisfactory, chose another one next time.
Maybe a full serving of fruits and veggies, but there's no protein in there, at least not what we mean when we talk about protein in nutrition. Probably not many carbs either. I would also suspect that the rest of the product is undigestable, if not straight up toxic
Women sometimes have big vats of products too. I learned years ago that if my SO had a large bottle of lotion it cost $5.99, but the 3 oz. bottle was $59.99.
I believe in taking care of myself and a balanced diet and rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy I’ll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. I can do 1000 now. After I remove the ice pack I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower I use a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb-mint facial mask which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.
"Essence of Whispered Dreams."
That actually sounds crazy cool, I would definitely buy that for my wife if it was available. Also the color is absolutely perfect.
I stopped using shampoo. My hair and skin have never been better. Shampoo takes away the skin oils, so the skin needs to compensate by producing more skins oils, making your hair greasy. Stop using shampoo makes it worse for a week, then it gets better and the hair stops being greasy. Shampoo is just an unnecessary addiction.
I've tried stop using shampoo but my scalp feels super itchy after about a week. Is there an alternative to shampoo that don't remove skin oil or removes less?
If you want to get into soapmaking, you can regulate the lye to fat ratio.
I think the word is superfatted soap. You could search for that. Or soaps made from different fats (f.ex. olive oil or lanolin).
Lanolin is apparently the best oil for our skin, but it's expensive.
For what purpose? Shampoo is for ungreasing hair. A great alternative is water. Any soap is for bonding with fats. You could start washing your hair with shampoo less often, like once every month or so. But imo it's fine with not washing with shampoo at all. Just water. I have to say, I do not have a job where my hair gets dirty. I wouldn't recommend stop using shampoo when you work in a coal mine or as a firefighter for example. Also, I do wash it with shampoo after I swam in open water or a swimming pool for example. Washing away chlorine and bacteria.
Oh yeah, any kind of dusty or gritty job shampoo is a requirement. Having natural hair oils is like inviting trouble in those situations. I tried to go the route of just water and my pillow slips noticeably suffered.
Yeah.... But mine started developing a ring of concrete dust and I got tired of looking like a dingy anime character. Bodily fluids were not my problem.
I've been using natron (backing powder) for a couple of years now twice a week. I had no need for shampoo ever since. You just mix one tablespoon natron with water in a cup and are good to go. To even out the ph of the hair use a teespoon of cider vinegar mixed with water in a one of those spray cans used to water flowers. Works well for children as well, as none of this burns your eyes. As a side effect I stopped getting red eyes from using shampoo.
Hey, this wasn't my intention at all. I'm mixed race and don't have coily hair but need products. I was speaking from my experience- "no-poo" methods don't work for me. My scalp gets itchy from product build up.
Do you then ONLY wash the with water or do you wash them with something special from time to time? I use a little hair soap and apple vinegar maybe once a week, as they still tend to get a little "heavy" after days with just rinsing them with water.
Only with water (it stabalises after a while). I do use shampoo after swimming in open water or a swimming pool, or after it gets dirty by anything else. Which is almost never.
At my family's house, the men's shampoo is of the same brand and packaging as some of the women's shampoo, just with less floral names like "ocean" and "gingham legend," whatever that's supposed to mean.
This is so close. I make my own washing powder with some sketchy russian powdered curd soap probably made of animal fat. Cheap and efficient while smelling neutral.
…and they’re both just repackaged Suave®…
48% less hog fat? Shrinkflation strikes again.
Not my shimpoo :(
The bastards are taking away my damn shampoo and I’m furious!
Seriously. Where can I get that shampoo that just pure hog fat?
But at least Chimp poo.
Listen, I like my shampoo like I like my man. White, pasty and offensive.
negging works for shampoos
It's been a long time since I've seen an iFunny watermark.
Same tbh
In return, Women get to smell like coconuts and vanilla, while we men are relegated to scents like "burnt charcoal and 7 year old engine oil"
There's no laws preventing you from using what you perceive as women's hair care products.
My baldness sufficiently prevents me from using them.
There's always butt hair.
That's true, my butt hair could do with an occasional shampoo. Maybe a fresh style too, I've been wearing it for ages just parted in the middle.
I like a nice French braid in mine
There is always butt hair...
My husband is bald but like to use my nice smelling shampoo on his beard every now and again. Pamper yourself.
Well, baldness also requires care. A shampoo will be fine for your head-skin. Also, moisturise. Especially important for people who tend to have dry skin like me. There aren't many good moisturisers for men around though. (At least none which I found good so far.) So, moisturisers marketed towards women it is.
And if it smells like peach, roses and aloe vera paired with coconuts, even better. If your girlfriend/wife likes to smell herself that way, you can bet she would also like to smell your floral skin-desert.
Yes, but I think the (true) point was that male-marketed products are always either:
Or:
Why is it so and what does it tell of our society and weird expectations? A great deal of men do NOT appreciate this approach, and sure turn to the products marketed for women.
We should either break that insanely entrenched stereotype about "masculine" scents, or better just ditch product gendering altogether.
Yay for men smelling like vanilla and strawberry yoghurt!
Reject marketing. Reject gender roles. Reject artificial constructs that only serve to oppress and control you.
Easier said than done, but seriously fuck marketing.
Indeed! Marketing in general is evil by itself
Also, as a man generally into gender role reversal, fuck gender stereotypes!
All hair is fur. Doesn't matter which mammal it's found on.
Old Spice has some "island" scents that smell like fruits and flowers for men. I am currently working my way through a bottle of "Fiji" smells like papaya and vanilla.
I am at a loss to think of a more man oriented brand of hygiene products than Old Spice. Maybe Axe, but do we really consider teenage boys men?
My teens (one girl one trans boy) are crazy about that Old Spice Fiji scent, and the laundry scent Suavitel Fresca Aroma Del Sol. I think the Fiji does smell a lot like the clean clothes.
Old Spice's "wolfthorn" scent reminds me a lot of fruit candy. loke orange flavored hubba bubba or something.
Axe makes me break out something awful. Only been two periods of time I wore it, both because the lady I was with commented on it smelling nice when we were in a store, and then only wearing it on nights I was going out with her and hoping I'd recover before next time.
I have little or no allergies regarding anything else, but deodorants for some reason are prone to setting me off (my suspicion is that it's particular fragrances used in some of them). Currently Dove Men + Care is safe for me, so I use that.
Thanks, will check out! Most of Old Spice falls under "smell like your grandpa" in my opinion :D
Axe - true, though this is an abomination and I would definitely build a restriction zone around people who use it
Easy, it’s the more expensive ones.
Sometimes it says straight on the box "women's shampoo" lol
What does that mean, exactly though? Will it make a man sick if he uses it? Or is it just a way for a company to appeal to a certain customer who believes men and women are too different to enjoy similar things?
Marketing, I suppose. Or just old custom from a time when gender roles were more strict. Maybe both
If the man gets his hair really dirty, like farm dirty with diesel and moly grease and itchy chaff bits, then it means it probably doesn't have what it takes to do the job.
My wife bought endless shampoos, I tried them for sport and none ever impressed me. Our hard water laughs at fancy shampoos and soaps.
I always told her to forget it and use my big jug of Pert. A classic that says something on the back like "Pert wasn't designed to waste your time and money. Pert was designed to get your hair clean" but she was sure there was something wrong with it because it was only 5 bucks.
Finally one day she gave it a try and has used Pert ever since. It made her hair smooth and soft, it even washes moly grease out and it smells "fine", men's shampoo is the winner IMO
And now my shower is so tidy with only one jug of shampoo
But what about that makes it "men's" shampoo, chemically? Do women never need to wash grease out of their hair?
I understand you're point. I'm just reiterating that the formula is needlessly gendered. "Shampoo for hard water and heavy duty cleaning" just doesn't sell in our version of socialized society I guess.
Actually come to think of it, I don't think Pert is actually gendered. But everyone knows it's a "man's shampoo", because it isn't actively marketed as a "women's shampoo"... Yeah, pretty stupid, isn't it.
I've always thought of Pert as non-gendered. In fact, that's what my mom bought for the family in the 70's.
I remember the green gel.
My regular shampoo is Malibu C Hard Water Wellness, it is not too harsh and works so well in our water. Not Pert cheap but can get it for around $30 a liter usually and that lasts me a looong time. I love that stuff. Doesn't dry out my hair, does clean and rinses clean.
I mean, I do, despite being bald. But its still quite jarring how much worse products for men smell.
"products for men" are made up nonsense from companies who are trying to profit off of people's insecurities.
We have been deeply conditioned as American consumers, but I'm sick of it! Fuck marketing. Fuck gender roles.
I mean that is great and obvious and all but it is completely the case that they are women's products. They are on all the boxes, ads and testimonials. In the women's aisle.
You have two separate aisles for men's and women's shampoo? Do you live in Saudi Arabia? In the rest of the world they're right next to each other.
In Germany (dm), they have a separate isle for men‘s products, and „normal“ (less gendered) products everywhere else. Kinda weird.
DM is notoriously weird in how they place products to begin with :D
Good prices though!
What a weird generalization to make. Maybe you’re referring to grocery stores, that have a small selection of beauty/health products.
My local Target here in the US (CA) was recently renovated to expand the body care section of the store, and now has two large distinct sections that obviously cater to specific genders:
The men’s section (deodorant, hair care, face wash, shaving supplies, etc.) is set apart by “wood” flooring, dark wooden display tables, and a kind of minimalist atmosphere. Several aisles away, the women’s section (hair care, makeup, face wash, nail care, etc.) is bright and colorful and chock-full of product signage.
Lol I just checked target. You're right. I guess I never get the "men's shampoo", mainly because it's low quality with a crappy "wood" fragrance. Of course women's deodorant is a rip-off too. Better to just look up the brand you like.
Yeah we have an aisle with typically male hygiene and beauty products and another with typically female products.
Very sorry that your weird world view doesnt correspond to reality.
Do you have something against 7 year old engine oil?
Anything less than 10 years didn't have enough time to ripen.
1965 chateau de Castrol. Very good harvest, that year.
gonna smell like that anyway.
Seriously. My goals today are to change my oil and grill some chicken.
And I'm all out of of oil and chicken...
I don't mind swapping the vehicle shop for the wood shop. I often walk in the house after a long day smelling very lightly of oak.
What's funny is that I'm now at the point of using bar soap as my "shampoo", but the store currently only has heavily scented bar soap, so I do actually smell like 🍑 and 🍊.
That doesn't work here. Natural soap, saponified fats, causes soap scum in hard water. If it puts a mineral coating on your tub, it will do the same to your hair.
Yeah I just use bar soap and I've got fairly long hair. Works well enough as long as you're not too aggressive with it.
I love the tar smell tbh
Ah, a sham-shampoo.
Sham-shampoo is better than sham-poo.
At least it's not chimpoo
I wonder why
IMO people should just use medical (smelless) deodorant, as smell is subjective, so there is a smaller chance to annoy someone.
But what if smelling like earl grey makes me happy?
I'm using one that's labeled as "Cobalt". Smdh doesn't smell anything like actual cobalt, what a ripoff
It had better at least be blue.
Lol, jokes on us they're all blue, cobalt or not
I don't use deodorant with aluminum and parabens. Today I prefer to use a solid stick deodarant made from magnesium and other components
Does cobalt have some particular smell?
I don't know but I think a deodorant with cobalt doesn't seem like a "healthy" thing to put under the armpits lol
I was just joking, I don't know what cobalt smells like. Unfortunately I don't think it actually includes any cobalt. That would've been metal as fuck
*Transition Metal as fuck
It's not even partially radioactive
If it were possible to have a deodorant that itself had no odor at all, that's what I would choose.
"Unscented" still has a very clear scent.
I too prefer unscented, and usually the women's version. Current one I usually use is the thin Tom's of Maine unscented, which I think is the one for women. The thick blue body has the powdery deodorant while the thin white body has the smooth solid.
I want gunpowder or sawdust scents.
Same as the shower gel, where there are lots of "flavours" and then some just labelled "MEN" with no indication of what they smell of.^[Engine oil and Swarfega]
Cool Sport Rush
Let's not forget Barb Wire and New Yacht.
Sharknado Impact
I'd buy that.
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Thanks, have edited. Somebody did tell me that ages ago, but I'd forgotten!
I have no idea what’s supported where, but the client I use doesn’t do anything with the
^[text]markup. It expects^text^Fingers crossed this actually renders correctly 🤞
Does nobody use 17 in 1 hair detergent, body wash, conditioner, deoderant, moisturizer, hand soap, shaving cream, beard oil, lip balm, callous remover, hand sanitizer, bubble bath solution, epsom salt, dandruff treatment, cologne, hair gel, and junk defunker anymore?
Don’t forget leather conditioner, rust remover, engine degreaser, paint thinner, weed killer, barbecue charcoal starter, epoxy cure accelerator!
In a pinch, it can also clean windows.
Does it work on Linux? If so I think if could take off on Lemmy
Yes, but it's a snap.
Lol no serious Linux user bathes
Only if it has at least 93 octane rating and no less than 40% alcohol content.
Out here in hard water country we just call that "Dove"
Seriously if you're looking for a soap that just plain works in ANY water and doesn't leave your skin feeling like it shrank a size, a good old bar of Dove is the answer.
All one God! Dilute! Dilute! Exceptions eternally? NONE!
10-in-one from hair to car
The swiss army knife of liquids.
Then the fuckers start putting more perfumes in it.
Goddamn, that pisses me off. Had to find another AIO shampoo that didn't make my eyes burn when I used it. Used Pert for 20+ years until some marketing asshat forgot who the demographic was.
From your hair, to your car, to your industrial kiln, Shimpoo will make it shine.
Keep your shampoo away from my kiln. You'll wreck the heating elements.
I went to get a massage for the first time. You can have a scent during your massage, so I was like why not? So they listed a huge list of smells and flavors. And one of the scents they had was cedar. Of course I picked that one. The masseuse was immediately like "I would say like 80% of all of the guys that come in here pick cedar." No regrets, it smelled great. Reminded me of woodworking.
Sounds nice (the massage, not necessarily that particular scent). I've never gotten a massage before but I've been thinking about getting a couples massage with my wife. There's so many massage places though. How do I choose one?
chose the one nearest to you or the most convenient to get to (maybe a place that's along your daily commute). If you like it, kepp going there. If the result is unsatisfactory, chose another one next time.
I don't think you've seen the massage parlors near me
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U r supporter of sex trafficking?
I am not sure how you got that from my comment.
Reviews, I did a couples massage with my wife. It was my first time. I would highly recommend.
Call around, ask for prices and availability. The good ones are usually booked up, though often not terribly expensive.
Also ask if they take insurance; most of the shady rub and tug places do not, but the legit ones sure do
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I used cat shampoo on more than one occasion simply because the human shampoo was out of reach.
Cat shampoo? Oh the one with blood marks all over it. I see.
Fuck, we're old... 😞
I know I know that show, but I can't remember what it is...
It’s Ranma 1/2 (and for anyone who didn’t get the joke, the character’s name is literally “Shampoo”)
They forgot to add a list of ingredients that makes it sound like it is a fruit salad.
I'm convinced my wife's shampoo could be considered a full meal of you drink it.
Maybe a full serving of fruits and veggies, but there's no protein in there, at least not what we mean when we talk about protein in nutrition. Probably not many carbs either. I would also suspect that the rest of the product is undigestable, if not straight up toxic
...
Those are both fancy. I use bicarb
A bread roll in each hand?
Bicarb means being attracted to both bagels and baguettes
I thought it meant ‘once every other carb’…?
I'm guessing, they mean baking soda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_bicarbonate
95% similarity in ingredients, save for a small amount of extra moisturizer and scenting in the wife's.
Shimpoo also doubles as all purpose lubricant, engine oil, degreaser, pipe declogger, raticide, barbecue sauce, hair pomade, and SPF 50+ sunscreen.
Women sometimes have big vats of products too. I learned years ago that if my SO had a large bottle of lotion it cost $5.99, but the 3 oz. bottle was $59.99.
In the Netherlands, they stick English on packaging for prestige rather than French. Makes me laugh fairly often to see.
That’s because the French don’t use deodorant.
So Euro Shopper / AH Basic is prestige now?
English is prestige! I don't think that's a controversial statement at all!
Wait till I tell you about the $1000s I spend on skin care…yep I said it
I believe in taking care of myself and a balanced diet and rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy I’ll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. I can do 1000 now. After I remove the ice pack I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower I use a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb-mint facial mask which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.
American Psycho?
I wash my face with my shampoo and then bar said the rest of my body
"Essence of Whispered Dreams."
That actually sounds crazy cool, I would definitely buy that for my wife if it was available. Also the color is absolutely perfect.
*has totally been looked at by a dermatologist
Samurai shampoo
In college we just used a communal refill sized jug of softsoap.
I stopped using shampoo. My hair and skin have never been better. Shampoo takes away the skin oils, so the skin needs to compensate by producing more skins oils, making your hair greasy. Stop using shampoo makes it worse for a week, then it gets better and the hair stops being greasy. Shampoo is just an unnecessary addiction.
I've tried stop using shampoo but my scalp feels super itchy after about a week. Is there an alternative to shampoo that don't remove skin oil or removes less?
Edit: typo
A week is actually way too fast, it took mine like 4 months to stop greasing up lol
If you want to get into soapmaking, you can regulate the lye to fat ratio.
I think the word is superfatted soap. You could search for that. Or soaps made from different fats (f.ex. olive oil or lanolin). Lanolin is apparently the best oil for our skin, but it's expensive.
For what purpose? Shampoo is for ungreasing hair. A great alternative is water. Any soap is for bonding with fats. You could start washing your hair with shampoo less often, like once every month or so. But imo it's fine with not washing with shampoo at all. Just water. I have to say, I do not have a job where my hair gets dirty. I wouldn't recommend stop using shampoo when you work in a coal mine or as a firefighter for example. Also, I do wash it with shampoo after I swam in open water or a swimming pool for example. Washing away chlorine and bacteria.
Oh yeah, any kind of dusty or gritty job shampoo is a requirement. Having natural hair oils is like inviting trouble in those situations. I tried to go the route of just water and my pillow slips noticeably suffered.
My pillow suffers far less from bodily fluids since I stopped using shampoo.
Yeah.... But mine started developing a ring of concrete dust and I got tired of looking like a dingy anime character. Bodily fluids were not my problem.
I've been using natron (backing powder) for a couple of years now twice a week. I had no need for shampoo ever since. You just mix one tablespoon natron with water in a cup and are good to go. To even out the ph of the hair use a teespoon of cider vinegar mixed with water in a one of those spray cans used to water flowers. Works well for children as well, as none of this burns your eyes. As a side effect I stopped getting red eyes from using shampoo.
Pro tip: shampoo is supposed to go in your hair, not your eyes.
I use conditioner - it reapplies some oils to your hair and scalp.
Conditioner isn't meant to go on your scalp. Tips of your hair, really.
Scalp oil is for oiling your scalp.
There's lipid balancing ones. Ones with Urea might be good too.
I'm not putting piss in my hair.
This works if you use zero products. No gels, no mousses, no hairspray.
‘zero products’
cough ……racism…. cough
Hey, this wasn't my intention at all. I'm mixed race and don't have coily hair but need products. I was speaking from my experience- "no-poo" methods don't work for me. My scalp gets itchy from product build up.
True. My hair has never been better.
Do you then ONLY wash the with water or do you wash them with something special from time to time? I use a little hair soap and apple vinegar maybe once a week, as they still tend to get a little "heavy" after days with just rinsing them with water.
Only with water (it stabalises after a while). I do use shampoo after swimming in open water or a swimming pool, or after it gets dirty by anything else. Which is almost never.
All you people must smell like ass in rl if you workout every day and not wash your hair ever though. Head sweat is a thing.
I do not.
my dad did this too and everyone was weirded out, but he's hairs is just normal. I've tried to get rid of products too but dandruff keeps still coming
Painfully accurate.
It'd be more accurate if it was pointed out that they're identical outside some food coloring and perfume
And hers is $20/oz and his is 0.20/gallon
At my family's house, the men's shampoo is of the same brand and packaging as some of the women's shampoo, just with less floral names like "ocean" and "gingham legend," whatever that's supposed to mean.
This is so close. I make my own washing powder with some sketchy russian powdered curd soap probably made of animal fat. Cheap and efficient while smelling neutral.
Its for my laundry, not my head :D
I just buy a large bottle of 3-in-1 shampoo + bodywash that smells reasonable enough and call it a day.
That's two, what is the third?
I just checked my shampoo bottle:
Face, hair, and body. So basically what it's saying is that it's soap.
I have that one now. It’s not as good as the one where #3 is conditioner instead of face.
Body, hair, car
Herbicide
This feels like a boomer joke.
The fact that my wife washed her hair with hand soap before we got together, counterpoint this cartoon...
Wait until someone tosses into that big tub...
"Why, your hair is really shiny today!"
Umm the incel right can't meme? Or a commentary on CPG industry?