This is a post explaining something called no-poo, but since it’s not well known I didn’t want to get you all nervous about what the heck you are about to read. It is not advice to eat 3 pounds of poutine and take a nap; it is a crunchy alternative to washing your hair with shampoo and conditioner. It’s ridiculously easy to do but not that easy to talk about unless you want to drop the lingo and just say, “I don’t use shampoo.” Let’s go with that for now.
It all started in 2011 when I came across this idea on the internet and thought I’d give it a shot. I generally bought shampoo and conditioner on sale, but it never hurts to save a few bucks, and it never hurts to limit your exposure to chemicals, so I was intrigued and decided to try it for the month of May, after I graduated from university (an event which I rightly assumed would require many photos to be taken). Since then I haven’t really looked back – I have used shampoo on the odd occasion over the last two years, and I have tweaked my method over that time, but generally speaking I’ve been shampoo-free and love it!
My favourite thing about no-poo is that it is not a big deal if I don’t get a chance to wash my hair. With shampoo and conditioner, my hair was reliably greasy unless I washed my hair every other day. Last week things got out of hand and I may have passed 5 days without washing my hair. It’s not that I want to only wash my hair once a week, but I’m happy to have a method that lets me get away with it if I need to. Let’s be here to learn, not judge 😉 Continue reading “The No-(Sham)Poo Post”