I want to say this is the 7th day without using shampoo. Every day I have showered and rubbed my scalp under the water, and a couple of nights I brushed corn starch through it.
This is what it looks like at the moment, in the morning before I take a shower.
I have been putting it up with a hairclip every day and when I take it down in the evening, it feels a little bit damp and a little bit oily. It has felt oily consistently since probably the second or third day that I stopped washing it, but I don't think it's getting oilier, it's pretty much the same level of oily. I have also going back to watching my face with just water, and then rubbing a cotton pad with witch hazel over it afterwards.
Why am I doing this? That is a good question, people have asked me and all I can really say is that I've been interested in doing it for a while and I'm very intrigued by this idea that I don't need to live so heavily reliant upon chemicals. I think what led me to try again was reading or hearing something the other day about a mother who never washed her children's hair with shampoo since they were born, and what beautiful hair they have. I thought, I've always wanted beautiful hair, if stopping the use of shampoo is going to give me that, and I can stop producing all this rubbish that's associated with using hair products, and move away from chemical dependence, well that's just great!
The only regrettable thing about this experience thus far is that I believed summer was basically over, but in fact it is not and yesterday it was 90°F. And I had an event for work. And I felt concerned that maybe my hair looked disgusting and smelled bad.
I did ask my husband to smell my head and he indicated it was not offensive, it smells like I haven't washed it but it doesn't smell bad. So there you go, I guess it smells a little, not horrendously as one might expect, and I don't expect that to last forever, I am pretty confident that eventually it will resolve itself.
Yesterday, I was very tempted to wash my hair, but I didn't. So hopefully I can keep this up. It's really not as bad as I thought it might be.
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