In what way? Product quality? Sustainability of ingredients? Commitment to ethics? Stability of price? All of the above?
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.
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.
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.
It’s all the same crap and you’re buying packaging on marketing hype.
Frankly, people don’t even need shampoo, even with long hair.
Yeah, you have to get over the hump of your scalp over producing oil, because you’ve been constantly stripping it needlessly, thus resulting in overproduction of oil. Once you let it get back into balance, you’ll never need shampoo again.
I haven’t shampooed my hair in 6 years, and women absolutely swoon when they touch my hair. I don’t have to do anything to it to make it look like I spent a lot of money.
You know, I’ve heard this, but I think it still must depend on the person. I tried not washing for a year or so and it was a nightmare. I can’t remember how long I would go without shampooing, certainly no more than three or four days, but it was just gross, even brushing and combing the shit out of it.
Now I wash nightly and it’s great and I don’t even think about it.
Question though, were you still washing your hair with water and mild massage with fingertips? Because that’s what I do. Just wondering.
Also you’re replying seems to indicate that you would stop washing but you would shampoo every 4 days or so? If I have that right, then I would suggest you’re not really doing what I’m talking about which is to continue washing your hair with water but just stop the shampoo altogether.
It took me about 6 weeks for my scalp to stop over producing. I can admit that it was pretty disgusting looking for a while until it all balanced out.
