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In what way? Product quality? Sustainability of ingredients? Commitment to ethics? Stability of price? All of the above?
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If vanity isn’t your thing, DIY.
It’s not magic. It’s just a combination of non-complex ingredients to clean shit out of something.
You won’t get synthesised super shiny model hair, but it’ll be very clean, smell good, and be tweaked just how your hair and scalp likes it. Much cheaper too.
When I surfed every day for years, I never shampooed my hair, just ocean and shower. Was so healthy, clean, and people said it looked cool—people literally buy product to get that look. It doesn’t take much.
Wow. Where did you surf? Never in my life my hair felt clean after swimming in the ocean. It was always a sticky, smelly mess, even if the waters were in good condition ( such as in Australia). And this comes from someone who did no-poo for a couple years and is still low on shampoo use up to date. No way I’d just brush away after the ocean or fix it with a rinse.
how did you deal with the salt making your hair sticky and crusty?
I think it’s imperative that we know the intent behind this question in order to best answer it.
I don’t really care about trustable, the only shampoo that reliably deals with my dandruff / itchy scalp is Head & Shoulders. It’s a pain in the ass if I don’t use it. I’d rather not, honestly - heard lots of, “You don’t need it, let it handle itself, just rinse it, whatever…” - yeah, I love looking like it’s snowing and scratching all the time.
Had the same issues when I still had hair to manage. Head & Shoulders was the only one for me as well. Until I just started buzzing my hair.
Now I need a good beard wash or my beard deals with the same thing.
I could recommend evaluating if you really need shampoo. Look into no-poo or acid rinse. I use local made soap and acid rinse instead of shampoo, works well for me. Other than that as others said we need more info.
I’m not sure what you mean by this question, but while I’m here can anyone recommend a shampoo/conditioner brand that won’t dry out my hair? I have quite thick hair for context.
Mostly look for things without sulfates or other harsh surfactants. You just want a light wash. Often these can get marketed for coloured(dyed) hair as they are softer and won’t rip out colour as much. A lot of cheap shampoo is just harsh stuff that’ll rip open follicles and then the conditioner is made to get shoved in said follicles to make it look not bad.
I use pacifica or seaweed bath co. cuz I like their mint shampoo (plus they’re cruelty free) but I mean, those are definitely more expensive than they need to be for what you want.
Thanks for this! Do you reckon a product like this (Sukin Natural Balance Shampoo) would be ok? It claims to be sulfate and paraben free
Similarly, make sure if you use any conditioner that it is silicone free. Sulfates also exist in shampoo to strip built up silicones from the hair, so if you’re removing sulfates, you’ll miss removing the silicones. Silicones can be any compound that ends in -cone.
Thanks for the heads up :) The same brand does a conditioner that is silicone free, so I’ll try that out
Yeah that looks good.
Coarse individual hairs? I have that - average number of hairs, probably, but thick because each hair is thick. I use now Innersense Hydrating Cream Conditioner. Have never had anything work this well before, it’s like it was made for my hair. Super concentrated, very expensive but I buy the liter bottle and it lasts half a year.
Shampoo, I don’t think it matters as much, doing it less often matters more. Anything reasonably gentle, low or no sulfate (look for other surfactants higher on the ingredient list) If your hair is naturally dry, not damaged (coarse hair often is) then getting a good conditioner and leaving some in will make the most difference. If it’s dry from damage then a protein treatment might work better.
Check out Miricle Soap. You can find it at nearly any health food store. I use it for everything, head to toes. No bad chemicals. Your skin is your largest organ and it acts like a sponge. Using unhealthy chemicals in our products may be leading to the decline American life-span.
It literally does not act like a sponge. That’s the whole point of skin, is to not absorb shit.
