No soap, no shampoo = no problem?

[WyxHarmon]

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The adjustment period would be too much.

I didn't take a shower for a week this summer and I literally wanted to die.

[Jgainsey]

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I'm currently doing this, and it works great.

Spoiler

I've also stopped putting gasoline in my car.

Turns out it's all just a scam. The damn thing just runs off air, battery power, and broken dreams.

[dickey1331]

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I cant go a day without a shower with soap and shampoo plus my hair is very oily and the fact Im in the military and I dont think they would approve of this adjustment period.

[TheMatrix31]

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But like, what's the point of it?

[Reaman]

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I was reading this blog this morning about a guy who read an article a while back about another man that stopped using shampoo and soap. He said for the first couple weeks it was rough and it took him a while for his body to stabilize, but since then everything has been much improved. His wife constantly compliments him on the way he smells, he has no dry skin or dandruff, and he said his skin is softer than it's ever been.

Anybody ever done this? It's interesting, I might consider giving this a shot. I have about 2 weeks before the semester starts up again so I can hide from public until I "stabilize."

If you do end up trying it, make sure to share your results!

I'm currently doing this, and it works great.

Spoiler

I've also stopped putting gasoline in my car.

Turns out it's all just a scam. The damn thing just runs off air, battery power, and broken dreams.

[jake44np]

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Cant imagine my wife would ever touch my package ever again if I didnt wash it! lol
Seriously tho how bad would your man parts and butt crack stink if you didnt wash them with soap???

[nemesis04]

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No thanks! That guys wife probably has more hair under her arms then him, if she likes the way he smells with no soap.................Ripe!

[NDAlum]

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I go a few days without shampoo but I work out too much to not wash my body.

[Hassan Darkside]

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But like, what's the point of it?

It appears the benefits outweigh the consequences. Smoother skin, no dry skin, softer hair, cheaper, etc.

Cant imagine my wife would ever touch my package ever again if I didnt wash it! lol
Seriously tho how bad would your man parts and butt crack stink if you didnt wash them with soap???

Private parts. Have to address this, of course. This is the biggest benefit of all. Surprised? You'll just have to try it, because I'm not going to elaborate. That's why they call them "private parts." OK, a clue: maybe it's the constant cleansing that's the cause of the sweaty-stinky problem in the first place? If for nothing else, I'm soap free for life on this point alone. I feel as though I've been scammed -- and liberated. I can't explain further. You'll just have to try.

[Salhus]

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Why do homeless people smell so bad then?

[p_rushing]

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Why do homeless people smell so bad then?

Most don't wash.

Is the guy still using deodorant? Washing will clean most stuff off, but you are going to stink if you aren't using deodorant.

[Hassan Darkside]

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Yea the guy said he still uses deodorant.

[LingeringRegime]

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Why do homeless people smell so bad then?

They are in a perpetual adjustment state.

[chia51]

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I personally have been without soap and shampoo in the traditional sense for about a year now.. and I have never had anyone tell me that I stink or even that something smells.

Alot of shampoo's/soaps have tons of harsh chemicals in them that will be absorbed into your body over time. Which is never a good thing.

Here is a list of the most common toxins put in everyday household items
http://healing-scents.com/toxins.html and here is a link to how "soap surfactants work" http://healing-scents.com/surfactant_chemistry.html

I get all of my soaps, shampoos, cleaning supplies, etc... from http://healing-scents.com/index.html

The deodorant I am currently using is this: http://www.crystalspring.co.uk/natur...rant-p-29.html

A lot of your body smell will depend on what kind of food intake you have had and how many chemicals you have put in it over the years.

Here is an article from NaturalNews.com and there are many other sites, medical, natural what have you that touch on the topic of food intake and body odor.

http://www.naturalnews.com/004417.html

This article touches on a subject that's quite sensitive to many people: body odor. Here, we explore the link between the foods you choose to consume and the odor produced by your body (there is a direct correlation). With all the hundreds of millions of dollars spent each year on personal care products and deodorants, I'm amazed there's almost no discussion about reducing body odor by changing your diet. In fact, when I've mentioned this subject to some people, they look at me in bewilderment. They ask questions like "What do you mean, your foods control your body odor? Body odor is genetic!" -- or some other nonsense. What they need is a crash course in the underlying causes of body odor. We'll call it The Fundamentals of Offensive Personal Odors, or just Body Odor 101, for short.

Lesson number one in Body Odor 101 is that what comes out of your body reflects what you put in. Body odor is something that's strongly affected by what's being emitted by your sweat glands. And remember, armpits are designed to sweat. I know that may sound insanely simple, because everybody knows that armpits sweat, but I'm saying that armpits are supposed to perspire. Yet people go to great lengths to prevent their armpits from sweating using deodorant products containing toxic chemicals and derivatives of heavy metals like aluminum.

But there's more to it than just cooling your body temperature through perspiration -- another function of the sweat glands in your armpits is to excrete toxins from your body. That's why sweating is an important part of maintaining optimum physical health. You have to give your body a chance to get rid of various toxins through a variety of metabolic processes. Those include urination, passing fecal matter, exhaling carbon dioxide and other toxins through the lungs, and, of course, eliminating toxins through the skin. The skin, remember, is your body's largest organ.

Your armpits, then, actually have an important health function in getting rid of toxins. That's why you need to keep them open and unclogged by deodorant products. Sweating is good for you.

But what about the odor? Where does that really come from? Conventional doctors like to say it's due to bacteria living in your armpits. But that's ridiculous: our entire bodies are covered with bacteria, not just our armpits. And if the bacteria alone were the cause of the odor, you could eliminate body odor by sterilizing your armpits with rubbing alcohol or iodine tincture. (Try it, if you like: it still won't eliminate the odor.) The real cause of armpit odor is the intentional excretion of horrible toxins that your body is trying to get rid of. And by using deodorant products, you block the exit door and force those toxins to stay in your system!

The way to eliminate body odor, then, is not to mask it with unhealthful deodorant products, but rather to clean up your body from the inside out. In other words, if your armpits have a horrible raunchy smell, that's an indication your diet needs some adjusting. I'm embarrassed to say that I know this from personal experience. My own body odor used to be rather disgusting when I followed the standard American diet like most people do. I had to use massive doses of brand name deodorant products just to try to cover up the odor. Only later did I learn that those products are made with cancer-causing chemical fragrances that are absorbed directly into your bloodstream, through your armpits, where they enter your liver and promote liver disease, cancer, and a variety of other disorders.

Many deodorants and antiperspirants are made with aluminum in order to halt the perspiration of your sweat glands, and this aluminum is suspected of accumulating in the nervous system and ultimately contributing to nervous system disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. That's why I no longer use any brand name deodorants or antiperspirants. After giving up red meat, junk foods, fast foods and other dietary atrocities, I no longer needed deodorants anyway.

Foods that make you stink

Let's take a closer look at the causes of body odor. What foods really cause body odor in the first place?

Red meat is the number one cause of body odor. Red meat causes stagnation in the body; it putrefies in the digestive tract and releases all sorts of toxins into the bloodstream through the large intestine. I've noticed that people who consume a large quantity of red meat on a regular basis tend to have much stronger body odor than those who avoid it. Some people tell me just the opposite -- they say it's vegetarians who stink because they run around wearing no deodorant whatsoever. But my experience is that if a vegetarian stinks, they aren't following a healthy diet even though they are avoiding meat. (You can be vegetarian and extremely unhealthy if you consume a lot of processed foods.) Overall, though, if you find a healthful vegetarian and put them side by side with a heavy meat eater in a sniff test, I'm confident your nose will lead you to the conclusion that the meat eater is the most offensive of the two. It's weird science, yes, but we are talking about a strange subject to begin with.

As far as other foods that cause body odor, manufactured foods -- those lacking fiber and made with refined white flour, added sugars, hydrogenated oils and other processed ingredients -- are the big culprits. When you eliminate these from your diet and shift to a 100% healthful diet made of whole grains, massive quantities of leafy vegetables, fresh fruits, soy products, supergreens, lots of sprouts, raw nuts and seeds, healthy oils and other similar healthful ingredients, your body odor will all but disappear in a matter of weeks.

That's because a plant-based diet is an internal deodorizer. It's true: the chlorophyll and other phytonutrients will cleanse you from the inside out. Some of the best foods for that include parsley, cilantro, celery and all mint species. The aromatic herbs are also excellent: sage, rosemary, thyme, oregano, and so on.

As a sidebar to the body odor discussion, all the things that come out of your body are strong indicators of your current level of health, as well as what adjustments you need to make in order to be healthier. It's interesting to note that for hundreds of years, physicians actually tasted the urine of their patients and were able to make medical diagnoses by taste analysis alone. As bizarre as this sounds, it actually makes good sense. The human tongue is perhaps the finest natural chemical composition sensor known to modern medicine. (Dogs' noses are also good at this. Dogs have actually been trained to sniff out bladder cancer by smelling the urine of humans. Just search Google for articles on "bladder cancer dogs sniff" and you'll find lots of references to this fact.)

After tasting the urine, skilled physicians were able to offer astoundingly precise medical diagnoses. The problem, of course, is that doctors also tended to become ill from tasting their patients' urine, and so this practice fell into disfavor long ago.

By the way, just to be clear here, I'm not at all suggesting that you should be tasting your own urine. But it's very easy to smell your own armpits and get a sense of what's going on. Try going 24 hours with no deodorant. If you can't stand the smell from the outside, just imagine what your body smells like on the inside! Maybe it's time for some plants in your diet, ya think?

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/004417.html

Also here is a fantastic site that shows all of the ingredients in a particular product and tells you the side effects, etc. The site also gives a grade in # format to help quickly look at products and their overall safety.

http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/

For example; Old Spice classic deodorant, stick form.
http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/pro...resh%2C_Stick/

This particular deodorant is given a 7/10 or high hazard due to the chemicals in the product. Now of course with everything... there is always data gaps. This site also shows a % of how much is missing from a particualr product (research wise).

This old spice deodorant has a 66-70% data gap... so what I do is I look at the overall list of products from a company (Proctor and Gamble for this), look at the data gaps and then decide... do I want to go with this company that is averaging say a 6 on the hazard score or do I want to try the obscure company averaging a 3 or 4?

So don't knock it till you try it... you might be surprised on how much better you can feel without doing much.

Ruff, give it a shot.

Chia

[bluengold34_OS]

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When I lived in Denver(Tree hugger usa) a guy in my office never used shampoo, soap. or deodorant. He said it took him about 2.5 weeks to "stabilize" but has had no issues after that. He has been doing it for about 3 years now, and even went as far as to quit taking medicine for colds. He uses hot sauce/ jalapeño juice and mixes it with water, and squirts it up his nose, down the back of his throat to clear his sinuses.


I am not going to lie though, not a chance in hell I could make it through the stabalizing period.