I’ve been doing no shampoo for 3/4 years now. I shower my hair using just water. It doesn’t look greasy afterwards but maybe feels a bit waxy after drying. I’m fine with the look of it, however my family members say my hair smells really bad, like an ‘tramp’ or an ‘old man’. I’ve tried different methods: acv, baking soda, essential oils, aloe Vera, yogurt. But none fully get rid of the smell. I’m thinking I need to use a natural shampoo everyday instead of doing a cleanse once a week however all the natural shampoos i see contain ingredients which don’t seem natural. Can anyone recommend me a shampoo or home remedy that they use every time they shower. Most cleanses are time consuming as you need to part the hair to apply to the scalp compared to shampoo where it spreads evenly throughout hair and scalp.

So I’ve been on this non toxic shampoo journey for over 10 years. I get an oily scalp after about 4 days depending on how much I sweat and that’s when I wash my hair.

I have washed my hair with non toxic shampoos, clays, soap nuts, baking soda with ACV rinse, Castile soap and shampoo bars.

Rhassoul clay was working great for a while and then stopped. Baking soda cleans my hair soooo well but using it often leaves my scalp feeling stripped. Soapnuts aren’t strong enough. Castile soap didn’t fully clean my hair either. It looked waxy once it dried.

I keep feeling like I’m meant to find something in nature that washes hair thoroughly without stripping my scalp.

I do live in an area with hard water and wonder if that has something to do with some things not working.

The only thing that works wonders is my ACV with hibiscus rinse but that’s used more like a conditioner. It leaves my hair soft and my scalp happy. It unfortunately doesn’t remove the oil and dirt.

Every time I go back to store bought shampoo and conditioner even if it’s considered natural, I’m left disappointed because my hair usually looks really frizzy and it doesn’t feel like how hair should feel.

So what are your best alternatives or suggestions that I can try. Thank you!

I did it and I loved how my hair looked;

However my hair started falling off from excess sebum / dermatitis that I've never had before.

I've now taken medication shampoo to remove excess sebum, but I miss my no poo hair - I don't know how to look after it without it gaining trapped sebum again

So, i watched some dude on youtube who was talking about haircare. He was giving a lot of advice and telling his story, and one of the things he mentioned was how he was losing hair, but after he stopped washing it with shampoo and switched to nopoo it reversed his hairloss and that the shampoo was causing his hair to fall out, something along those lines. i love my hair and that scared me a lot, so i decided to try it out. he did mention a transition period of 1 month from hair overproducing oil

well... it's been about 45 days since i stopped using shampoo, washing it only with water, and i do not see any kind of improvement. i look like im homeless because of my hair. its very greasy and looks terrible. i tried brushing oil out with my hairbrush manually. and that did not go anywhere either, my hairbrush got FULL of oil and i had to continuesly clean it to continue brushing my hair, and after brushing it for a while it did not improve much

at this point i am wondering if it even works and i think today i will probably return to shampoo. but i am scared of that thing that dude said about shampoo causing hairloss. does anybody know anything about that, and how to prevent losing hair? i personally have not experienced that yet but the mere possibility is quite frightening

Question is in the title. Looking to try rye but have hard water. How do I do it?

I’ve used baby powder (when dry shampoo wasn’t accessible) for years before I ever learned of no poo. And I’ve not yet seen anyone in this community talk about using it (most I see report using flour).
Is there a reason?

reposting without naming the products i use

I’ve been looking into nopoo. I have long hair that smells really good from the products I use after showering
like dry hair oil (my hair loves this) and hair perfume. They add gloss and softness and smell delicious together.

I presume that as I wash without shampoo, I will also stop applying these products? If you also are a person that loves well-scented hair — what has been your solution?

With cold or hot water?

Questions are as follows:

What kind of flour?

Where would I get said kind?

What measurements should I use?

How do I prepare it?

How does it compare to bentonite clay?

How does it interact with curly hair?

Thank you for any and all help!

I've been shampoo free for several months now - at least since June. this has involved no shampoo, no conditioner, no gels, no serums, nothing. I've used shampoo only twice since i started my nopoo journey to get hairspray buildup out, and other than that, the only product I've been using is an argan oil after every shower. and my hair has been amazing since!! I've got volume, curl, and no dandruff, which was such a problem before.

now though, I'm wondering if there are other things I can do occasionally to step up my hair game. I've heard of pre-shower hair oiling, but I don't know if it's something to avoid if I don't use any shampoos to get rid of the oil after the fact. I've also considered using a (potentially diy) saltwater spray for texture, and I've heard about using acv in hair but I don't know to what end. I'd like to further define my curls, which I know is normally a gel's job, and get more lasting moisture.

(info if it helps: my hair is shoulder length, thick and coarse, somewhere between 2b and 2c. no treatment or chemicals on this hair. not prone to breakage. i use heat a handful of times a year)

recently found out that i have seborrheic dermatitis, is it even possible to quit shampoo with it?? how to if its possible?

I started no poo like 3 months ago. Loved the texture but recently i noticed like hard bumps on my scalp and more hair dropping

Hey yall - I’ve been on and off shampoo for 5 years or so. I have coarse, dense wavy hair that gets even more volume and texture when I don’t wash it and I love the way that it looks. Only issue is that in the past it’s gotten flaky when I don’t wash it, and I believe it’s just dry scalp, as the flakes are very small but I suppose it could be dandruff.

But over the last 5 years, I was no poo until may of this year when the flakes got too annoying and I started shampooing again, hoping it would help. Right after washing it felt better but they would come back after 2-3 days and just as bad as they were before but my hair looks worse 😭😂.

I come here to ask if anyone has been in a similar situation and was hoping to get some advice on how to handle this situation, so that I can continue no shampoo but at the very least have less flakes.

I also use a shower filter to filter out chlorine and other hard chemicals in the water.

Thanks fellas!

This may not be a correct place to ask but, I shampoo my hair twice a week. There is this oily stench on my hair. I wash it with Pantene, I know it’s not good at all. Can anybody recommend good/healthy shampoos

As a man. I seen people on no shampoo and their hair stay back as messy slickback without any products

I had a dry scalp and visited a dermatologist/GP who recommened nizoral 2% for 30m-1hr everyday on my hair and use a conditioner after. It worked, it’s recently come back and i have tried the same tactic for a week but no results. I used a new shampoo and its made it worse. CAN SOMEONE HELP PLZ

I've got a routine that consists of bentonite clay followed by an acv rinse and then and aloe vera juice leave in of sorts. The only problem is, the clay is the only thing that actually cleans my hair but it leaves it super dry. Especially with the cold season approaching, what should I do to put moisture back into my hair?

What do you think of perfumes and deodorant necessary or not if you eat healthy etc?

Title. I do strict no poo. Looking into hair clay that comes out with water rinse only. I've been suggested reuzel clay works well.

I’ve not used shampoo since August and really want to stick with it but I’m tempted to wash my hair because it feels dull and thinner than when I used to wash it weekly. I also just feel kinda gross, like it doesn’t feel clean. Like many others on here, I did have the frizz issue after shampooing and it was bad, but now it just feels unclean. I tried a mixture of eggs, milk, olive oil, raw honey, and ACV. While it felt cleanser it felt like hay again. Some i’m thinking maybe I’ll skip the ACV and Lemon. this time. I have had hair loss in the past and concerned that the buildup is making it worse. For those who don’t use shampoo but also keep clean scalps, what ingredients/ process do you use, and how often?

I’m really interested in this whole no shampoo thing and I’d love to try it myself but what happens when your hair gets dirty from things like cooking grease going up in the air? Or maybe you fall in dirt? Or what if you get sprayed by a skunk?

Do you ever make exceptions for cases like these? I feel like unless you’re working an office job and never getting exposed to anything dirty, it’s going to be hard to never shampoo your hair.

I feel like my hair looked healthier when I was washing it tbh