Inspired by a recent thread. I’ve seen a bunch of people advocating for no shampoo lately, and I want to get to the bottom of this.

Anti-shampoo people, show yourselves, I want answers. Should we all stop doing shampoo? Is it a thing for everyone or only certain hair types? Is it superior to good shampoo + good conditioner? Do you need to do literally anything with it if you’re doing no shampoo or just let it go wild? This whole thing flies in the face of everything I think I know about hair and I want ANSWERS dammit 😤

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No shampoo doesn’t mean you don’t wash at all, lol. It probably does depend on hair type and skin condition though. Personally, I only shampoo twice a week max and have been doing so since I was in college, it’s not a recent fad or anything. (I also use soap/bodywash very sparingly, basically only if I’ve been sweating or in the rain or whatever.)

I have very long hair that’s normally straight (more or less) but goes POOF in humidity, and also very bad/dry skin. I can’t claim to understand the science behind it if there is any, so this is just anecdotal evidence at best, but using dandruff shampoo when I was a kid always made my skin condition worse. Lessening shampoo/soap usage was the only thing that helped. Exfoliating is pretty much all that’s really necessary for the “clean” feeling, and I also stopped getting split ends as much after cutting out silicone-based products (tbh still don’t know if that’ s pseudoscience or not, but it worked for me so shrug).

In fact, when I’m in a humid climate I just wash with conditioner instead. Cleans just as effectively and doesn’t feel particularly greasy if you’re just using a cheap conditioner instead of fancy shit, and really goes to show that shampoo is probably not as necessary as people think it is. (Look into “co-washing,” it was and probably still is a thing on curly hair forums for a while.)

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