Friendly reminder you can make your own soap at home with lye and fat.
Now you can get lye from hardware stores at a reasonable price. But you can get literally tons of fat for free from the dumpster behind the local cosmetic surgery center.
That will save you a few bucks on these pricey mass produced soaps. And hey maybe you could even start your own little business selling at craft fairs or to local boutiques.
I started a club of soap makers using this one simple trick!
Dunno about shampoo I literally use dawn soap in the shower. But fragrances are ABSOLUTELY worth the extra money. I’d rather smell like nothing if I’m not wearing Creed or Le Labo… it’s like a real, actual difference; stop buying your shit from Sephora and invest in a special occasion smell
Recently moved to an area with hard water. Wife and I were noticing more hair loss while showering. Turns out an ingredient “EDTA” can help remove buildup from hard water that damages hair. This is a common ingredient in expensive shampoos but it’s also in Head and Shoulders. Wife started using expensive shampoos to help and I switched to Head and Shoulders. She just ended up using my shampoo(much cheaper) and it’s been working well for us. Hope this helps others.
We’ve got hard water and I’m trying to get my partner to try a chelating (mineral-removing) shampoo on his long, curly hair. His poor scalp is so itchy and I think it’s the hard water.
That’s because well know brands like head and shoulders are incentivized to make their product actually decent if not good.
In general, people aren’t dumb. They can tell if something is crap or something is good.
The real fact of the matter is making good shampoo or shower gel doesn’t cost a lot.
Personally for me Old spice with a hint of sandalwood, top notch.
We usually only talk about stage 3 of enshittification but in stage 1 the product is amazing and affordable.
Fringe benefits of going bald early.
kirkland for the win
Friendly reminder you can make your own shampoo with Rosemary and coconut oil
And soap I hope…
Where do you get stock images of a person crying in an outdoor shower, anyway?
(Don’t worry, I’m not going to use them without copyright, it’s purely for a sex kink)
Stock image libraries are staggeringly comprehensive for having images of {person} in {oddly specific situation}.
It’s not the cost.
The nicer shampoo is made by a company that supports the IDF
Is this specific to a particular brand?
L’Oréal (Garnier), but probably all of em tbh
Ethnic Cleansing
2/10
I have dandruff issues and basically tried everything. The only shampoo that seems to work is this$40 little bottle from Ulta. I’m pissed, is there anything else?
Check what the active ingredient is, then find that cheap
Hibiscus leaves, flowers and egg white from one egg (little bit coconut oil is optional). Blend them in a blender, leather all over your hair and scalp, leave it for 30 to 40 minutes and wash with water (don’t use shampoo). Do it once a week.
I got some weird dry skin/dandruff/oily scalp issue combo. Things that I have found working over a very long time struggling:
- Out of all shampoos Head and shoulders actually has the best effect. Anything else not-specialized doesn’t. Ketozonol/Nizoral does help but I am not feeling much better over HnS. And these are not suppsoed to be used long term.
- I have tried SLES shampoo from Neutrogena. Didnt work for me like at all.
- Water hardness is super important. My hometown had much softer water that allowed me to not to wash my head for a week and it would be fine. My current location has fucking insane hardness and I have to wash my head each 2-4 days or it starts to itch very badly. Whenever I travel, some of the time my hair feels great and I suspect that water hardness in the hotel might be much lower than at home. Maybe look into installing some kind of filter. If you live in a house, 100% invest in reverse osmosis filter at least for your bath/shower.
- My head also gets oily quick. I usually wash with 3 shampoos. 1st shampoo - cheap 1 euro shampoo that I use just to wash majority of oil off. 2nd shampoo - deep cleaning shampoo that is also cheap - 2.50eur but it does have an effect. 3rd is HnS. The longer I soak hair with 2nd and 3rd shampoos, the better it feels afterwards.
- Adding up to soaking point: if I take bath I soap my head quick, and each shampoo soaks my scalp for 20 minutes or so. This way head feels much nicer over the next days. In shower, 2-5 mitnues or so.
- adding up on deep cleaning shampoo: I found a few shampoos that claim they are deep cleaning/cleansing. But upon trying, only one felt effective. If you seek for these shampoos, try more options til you find something that works.
- Conditioners have no effect to me. I have heard that it might help in certain cases, so maybe you should try that too.
I really do hope you will find a solution to your problem. This shit sucks donkey balls and is so annoying to live with.
silly question, what is wrong with having dandruff?
No one likes a flake
Itchy
You might have scalp psoriasis. I always thought I just had bad dandruff and tried shampoo and leave in treatments and they didn’t really work. I got it checked and it’s actually just psoriasis (plus regular dandruff too, but the dandruff was exponentially worse because of my psoriasis). You could maybe get a dermatologist to prescribe a topical steroid. It helped for my case (you might still need a dandruff shampoo to go along with it)
i go to sally’s beauty supply and get the knockoff brand (basically what’s in the little expensive bottle but in a big white bottle and no brand labeling) for hella cheap. i smell delicious all day and my beard is lush and smooth
Nizoral didn’t work?
I have a nicer shampoo that’s about 3x as expensive, but it’s also at least twice as strong so I only need about a teaspoon for a shower (including neck, armpits and crotch). And it smells like a spa. Makes me feel great, and my partner often compliments how good I smell after I’ve taken a shower.
So yeah, I think it’s worth it.
You’re washing your crotch with shampoo?
Everyone should shave their head and reject bourgeois shampoo.
Err I’m good thanks
I literally did this at the first sign on a receding hairline. I already had a beard and glasses so I figured it was time to complete the look. You still need to put something moisturising on your head though and so I do still use some shampoo so the damn capitalists win again…
Shampoo is like the opposite of moisturizing.
I just use my face lotion.
Uhhh the point of shampoo is to remove oils…
Is there a reason you can’t just use moisturizer?
That’s what the Big Moisturizer Conglomerate wants.
Big Moist dont play!
Why should baldness go with a beard?
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I did it last year and it was so worth it. I’m not close to having a receding hairline or anything. I just said “fuck washing and styling hair” and now I have a chrome dome and I love it.
And now you need to shave often.
This is true, but I do that with an electric razor in the shower. It takes just a few minutes and I’m nice and warm and cozy in hot water while I do it. And if I skip a few days, it doesn’t matter (unless you don’t like the look of a little fuzz)
It takes just a few minutes and I’m nice and warm and cozy in hot water while I do it.
The same for me with shampooing my hairs 😀
Yeah the difference is I don’t have to deal with hair outside of the shower :) It used to get in my face, I had to cut it, I’d have to get it just right when putting headphones on, and it would look weird after taking off a hat. To be fair, it was more than a couple inches long.
What’s the shampoo
It’s BOSS Bottled Tonic. The idea I had originally was to not mix different scents randomly (soap, schampoo, deostick, EdT), potentially creating a dissonance or “frankensmell”.
I don’t know enough about this to select a combo that works, but I can make sure to use the same scent across the board. BOSS Bottled Tonic existed as combined bodywash/shampoo, deostick and EdT. Unfortunately they seem to now have discontinued the deostick variant so I’m using the standard BOSS Bottled deostick as a replacement. It surprises and annoys me that companies aren’t consistent with the available scents across their product lines - did this mode of usage never occur to them? In my mind it should be a kind of baseline default.
i use the paul allen (i think) tea tree lavender stuff and i have been getting compliments on my scent forever. occasionally i switch it up and just use their tea tree stuff but i like lavender. don’t forget the conditioner, i shampoo the hair at the beginning of the shower and then just let the conditioner soak in the scent into the hair all the rest of while i’m soaping up and &c. in the shower. it is luxurious
Go bald and use Dr bronners for everything.
Can’t get past the religious schizo ride of a bottle.
All part of the charm.
Apparently you can also just use bronners ok your hair.
Depends on if you have hard water or not. I tried it with wicked hard water and it just never washed out, my hair ling felt so gross and greasy. (it was mid move and my regular shampoo was already packed :( )
I mean, I used to but it’s been awhile. You’d definitely want some conditioner or oil afterwards though.
I did with long hair. It does keep the grease down but you don’t get that shampoo commercial silky smooth feel. But you do get compliments from ppl in hair styling for having healthy hair.
I arrogantly treated myself to a $90 bottle of shampoo, and it ended up lasting 12 whole months.
$90?! Do they put gold in it?
Not gold but some kind of magic, because one pump of it foams up a crazy amount, and it was a 1L bottle. I think it was intended for salons because I’ve never seen it at a regular supermarket.
Ah ok interesting.
Probably Olaplex, so basically
Don’t even get started on conditioner.
With fine hair this is especially true omg if a cheap “moisturizing” shampoo even looks at my hair I turn into a greasy puddle
