In what way? Product quality? Sustainability of ingredients? Commitment to ethics? Stability of price? All of the above?
All of the above
If vanity isn't your thing, DIY.
It's not magic. It's just a combination of non-complex ingredients to clean shit out of something.
You won't get synthesised super shiny model hair, but it'll be very clean, smell good, and be tweaked just how your hair and scalp likes it. Much cheaper too.
When I surfed every day for years, I never shampooed my hair, just ocean and shower. Was so healthy, clean, and people said it looked cool—people literally buy product to get that look. It doesn't take much.
Wow. Where did you surf? Never in my life my hair felt clean after swimming in the ocean. It was always a sticky, smelly mess, even if the waters were in good condition ( such as in Australia). And this comes from someone who did no-poo for a couple years and is still low on shampoo use up to date. No way I'd just brush away after the ocean or fix it with a rinse.
East Coast, Australia. I just showered. Lots of beaches here also have outdoor showers at the beach.
how did you deal with the salt making your hair sticky and crusty?
Shower. Home was a couple mins walk away, or used the ones at the beach if not at my local.
I think it's imperative that we know the intent behind this question in order to best answer it.
I don't really care about trustable, the only shampoo that reliably deals with my dandruff / itchy scalp is Head & Shoulders. It's a pain in the ass if I don't use it. I'd rather not, honestly - heard lots of, "You don't need it, let it handle itself, just rinse it, whatever..." - yeah, I love looking like it's snowing and scratching all the time.
Had the same issues when I still had hair to manage. Head & Shoulders was the only one for me as well. Until I just started buzzing my hair.
Now I need a good beard wash or my beard deals with the same thing.
I could recommend evaluating if you really need shampoo. Look into no-poo or acid rinse. I use local made soap and acid rinse instead of shampoo, works well for me. Other than that as others said we need more info.
It's all the same crap and you're buying packaging on marketing hype.
Frankly, people don't even need shampoo, even with long hair.
Yeah, you have to get over the hump of your scalp over producing oil, because you've been constantly stripping it needlessly, thus resulting in overproduction of oil. Once you let it get back into balance, you'll never need shampoo again.
I haven't shampooed my hair in 6 years, and women absolutely swoon when they touch my hair. I don't have to do anything to it to make it look like I spent a lot of money.
You know, I’ve heard this, but I think it still must depend on the person. I tried not washing for a year or so and it was a nightmare. I can’t remember how long I would go without shampooing, certainly no more than three or four days, but it was just gross, even brushing and combing the shit out of it.
Now I wash nightly and it’s great and I don’t even think about it.
Question though, were you still washing your hair with water and mild massage with fingertips? Because that's what I do. Just wondering.
Also you're replying seems to indicate that you would stop washing but you would shampoo every 4 days or so? If I have that right, then I would suggest you're not really doing what I'm talking about which is to continue washing your hair with water but just stop the shampoo altogether.
It took me about 6 weeks for my scalp to stop over producing. I can admit that it was pretty disgusting looking for a while until it all balanced out.
Yeah I was washing with just water nightly and brushing after, but still shampooing every few days (expecting I would eventually stop shampooing altogether). Maybe that was the problem.
One day I’ll try again using your method :)
Thanks for replying!
I'm not sure what you mean by this question, but while I'm here can anyone recommend a shampoo/conditioner brand that won't dry out my hair? I have quite thick hair for context.
Mostly look for things without sulfates or other harsh surfactants. You just want a light wash. Often these can get marketed for coloured(dyed) hair as they are softer and won’t rip out colour as much. A lot of cheap shampoo is just harsh stuff that’ll rip open follicles and then the conditioner is made to get shoved in said follicles to make it look not bad.
I use pacifica or seaweed bath co. cuz I like their mint shampoo (plus they’re cruelty free) but I mean, those are definitely more expensive than they need to be for what you want.
Thanks for this! Do you reckon a product like this (Sukin Natural Balance Shampoo) would be ok? It claims to be sulfate and paraben free
Similarly, make sure if you use any conditioner that it is silicone free. Sulfates also exist in shampoo to strip built up silicones from the hair, so if you're removing sulfates, you'll miss removing the silicones. Silicones can be any compound that ends in -cone.
Thanks for the heads up :) The same brand does a conditioner that is silicone free, so I'll try that out
Yeah that looks good.
Coarse individual hairs? I have that - average number of hairs, probably, but thick because each hair is thick. I use now Innersense Hydrating Cream Conditioner. Have never had anything work this well before, it's like it was made for my hair. Super concentrated, very expensive but I buy the liter bottle and it lasts half a year.
Shampoo, I don't think it matters as much, doing it less often matters more. Anything reasonably gentle, low or no sulfate (look for other surfactants higher on the ingredient list) If your hair is naturally dry, not damaged (coarse hair often is) then getting a good conditioner and leaving some in will make the most difference. If it's dry from damage then a protein treatment might work better.
I use Aleppo soap. One of the last remaining export products of Syria, still made the same way it's been made for millenia, wth 3 ingredients (lye, olive oil, laurel oil).
And my long hair has never been better.
You must have very soft water. Natural lye soap in hair is dangerous business. Soap scum can lock onto hair and not let go. If you live where soap builds up on your tub, do not use soap in your hair.
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Check out Miricle Soap. You can find it at nearly any health food store. I use it for everything, head to toes. No bad chemicals. Your skin is your largest organ and it acts like a sponge. Using unhealthy chemicals in our products may be leading to the decline American life-span.
It literally does not act like a sponge. That's the whole point of skin, is to not absorb shit.
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