What Happens If You Stop Washing Your Hair For A Year

What happens when you stop shampooing your hair? Well, your scalp might itch and smell, but in the long run it might lead to healthier and more manageable hair. People who have sworn off conventional shampoo are part of the “No Poo” movement.

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What Happens If You Stop Washing Your Hair For A Year

[gonzier]

This video is kinda inaccurate. The no-poo method is not about never ever washing your hair, it's about using alternative non-abrasive cleaning methods as opposed to using your regular sulfate based drugstore shampoo.

[checkmyplaylist]

Man, the hobo across the street has been doing this challenge for a year now!

[unknow_oh]

But when you’re bald, *you’re good as new!*

[tamiyaharrison]

*Emma Chamberland has entered the chat*

[kyivstuff]

I’m getting itchy just watching this :|

[ericthered]

*Basically the same as with every thing:*
"Don't do it too often or you will have problems."
A life lesson applicable to everything.

[NewbyTon]

Your hair will fall of and you gain an immense amount of power

[gl]

I haven't used shampoo for 8 years. It used to be all dry and frizzy, now it is soft and even looks better. I noticed results after about a month and never looked back.

[TheSouthIsHot]

When he said, "To find out, we asked a dermatologist, " I knew I was going to hear a bunch of nonsense. I was not disappointed. "So what shampoos do is called saponification." WRONG. Saponification is the process that creates soap. It isn't what "shampoos do". Shampoos are surfactants. It's the action of the surfactant that cleans the hair and scalp.

[SweeturKraut]

Haven’t used shampoo in years. Just warm water rinsing in the shower. Hair is as healthy as ever, no negative issues.

[heathermarie]

They don't not wash it. They rise it or co-wash.

[royal_rubii]

You're still washing it, just without conventional shampoo

[strydermclean]

They make this seem so scary, I actually encourage my clients to not wash their hair so regularly.

[Juan-vcnx]

I love how they throw this bullshit directly at our faces as if people hadn't lived for millions of years without shampoo and nothing happened

[spectre]

I use shampoo once a week only. I wash my hair everyday (because I use hair products) with a conditioner, and my hair never gets greasy. My hair is so much softer without shampooing.

[TeraAFK]

This video is a mess. Your title is not washing your hair at all, then you start off by asking what happens if you wash with just water without shampoo, but then abruptly return to not washing at all. I think you should've answered the no wash first with "youll stink and have infections." Then follow up with a proper segment on cutting out shampoo but washing regularly with water.

[danidejaneiro]

I haven't shampooed my hair in over three years. It went through that super cruddy oily stage for the first week or so, but since then, thick full luscious bouncy hair every single day of the week.

[Alia-bcrc]

Rrrright. Try to live in a tropical country and not washing your hair for just a month.

[ChristopherMoom]

Obviously, the solution is to be bald

[kaptan]

Subject is well selected but the answer is not clear. Is water enough without shampoo?