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Originally Posted by dagon
I'm jumping on this ban wagon. I have noticed that when I wash with shampoo and conditioner my hair falls out in a alarming way. my hands are full of hair. all over the place. in the brush. in the drain. all over my body. so I have been trying not to wash but only make it a few days. but I notice that no or little hair falls out when just rinsing. I start to get itchy after about day 3. and well I start washing again. If you say it go's away. I'm cool with that. I was hoping to find a thread on this subject. thanks for posting. 
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Not washing with soap or shampoo has an initial breaking in period, depends on each persons chemical and bacterial make up. I found my head itched a bit when I first stopped the shampoo but I just persevered. I stood under the shower and just kept giving a good but gentle scrub of the scalp with my finger nails (which is good for the skin anyway), and then a good drying with my towel. I don't like hair driers as I personally believe they damage the hair if the heat is too high or close and can irritate the skin also. Try washing with some Bicarb if the greesy feeling is too much (if you get this), then rinse out. Within a week without shampoo my hair started to settle down no trouble. I never need to use Bicarb, but others do or like to, but my diet of recent has been rather rotten and have noticed my hair being a bit greesy, so might have to use some bicarb.
It is hard to over come years of psychological conditioning by commercials that we are only clean people if we have washed with soaps, toothpastes and whatever else they can convince us to use to kill off natural bacteria. The more of their products we use the more the body smells so the more we use and so forth. They are laughing all the way to the bank.