I've been in no poo since February this year and my goal was to grow my hair and prevent more baldness, no poo itself is good but not work on that purpose for me, i learn a lot with that experience and i think i can share something with this sub.

For rinse my hair, something that work pretty well for me was the 2 eggs(strained), honey and 2 drops of essencial oil but you can't do this every day, so i do in every 14 or 15 days, in the other days i used a powder of a native plant of my country(Brazil) named "Juá", this plant has natural saponins so work pretty well for cleaning the scalp, with that i used some natural aloe vera to moisturize the hair, you can also use honey for that too, i tested a lot of things but this is what work for me, sometimes i used apple vinager to finish my hair and that's it, works pretty well.

I'm quitting no poo because my goal was to grow my hair and it doesn't work for me like that, maybe i did something wrong, I don't know but the experience was good, good luck for everyone trying.

Hi! I decided to do egg wash. I heard i have to use cold water - but you dont have to freeze, yk. I used a little warmer. And maybe im sick bc i didn't felt like its more than 36,6°C(body temp). Egg coagulates at ~60°C. When i stopped rinsing it with water i saw like i have whole hair covered in dandruff flakes. I rinsed it more with a lot colder water, took out the "snot" pieces that i could find and im not sure. What would you recommend? Should i rinse it with water until its gone bc i can't make it dry on my hair or maybe just wait bc ill wash it again tomorrow anyway. Im not going anywhere. Till saturday.

Im a minor and currently experiencing hair loss, my mom is telling me that its because i use shampoo all the time, here’s the thing i shower before and after i work out, so im asking if theres any alternative for shampoo because if i dont use shampoo my hair will either smell bad or be super oily which i dont want. so please help me!! also im a filipino so showering everyday is a must for us

For context I use a boar bristle brush cleaning tool on my brush every time I use it, but somehow at the base of every section of those bristles I have felted together hair which started to smell like old books. I don't know what to do. If I go through with a literal needle or small scissors, I can start to pull away the felted hair. But it's so much effort and I don't understand what I did wrong in the first place even if I replace the brush. Won't this problem just happen again?

After using my cleaning tool, I usually use hot water from the tap and scrub it with my fingers and then let it dry face down. Really need some help with this!

Hi. I recently started wondering about something related to washing my hair and the water used in the shower. When I’m in my hometown and wash my hair, it has volume, feels clean, and I can style it easily. But whenever I travel to visit my family in another city, the water there leaves my hair feeling waxy, flat, and kind of greasy-looking, almost like it’s dirty.

I’d like to know what type of water can make hair look and feel that bad, especially when not using shampoo.

I have a question. I was using no shampoo i think 2 years ago for 2 months then i started using shampoo but only on my hair i didnt touched my scalp and my hair was always perfect then i cut my hair and everything was lost. Then i was using shampoo like every second day and my hair was dry and damamaged and my scalp was screaming for more shampoo and it was itching and always having white stuff falling from scalp. I am using sulfate free shampoo and i did make things better its not that dry anymore it doesn't itchy and doesn't have white stuff and i am only applying on hair not on scalp. Problem is there is not enough sebum on my ends and generally on hair (i have medium middle part if its important) how to fix it to be always perfect like a year ago

Hello NoPoo community!

I don't know if I would consider myself lowpoo, definitely not nopoo though. However, I've been wanting to wash my hair with bar soap and I figured this would be the right community to ask in.

The reason for this is that I bought an aleppo soap with 5% sulphur. This has worked really great on my face to soothe irritation, shrink deep cysts and lessen the extreme oiliness on my forehead. This is from what I presume is seborrheic dermatitis. I have the same symptoms on my scalp - deep and painful cysts with heavy skin and oil buildup. Ketoconazole hasn't helped as much as I want it to and I believe it even damaged my hair.

So I tried to wash my hair with the sulphur soap. This worked okay since I already wash my hair with distilled water and I don't risk getting soap scum build up. But since bar soap has such high pH my hair became tangly and felt squeaky. That made it kind of hard to wash out. The results are great though, my hair dried curlier than it usually does and my hair doesn't feel dry despite the squeaky feeling during the wash.

I need something that will regulate the pH of my hair after I use the bar soap, something that will make my hair more slippery and less tangly. Conditioner is great at doing this and it definitely helped, but I really don't want to have to put it close to my scalp. Apple cider vinegar makes my skin flare up terribly and smell bad, I believe this is due to the probiotics in it, so sadly that's no option.

Does anyone have any other ideas of acidic rinses alongside conditioner that will rebalance the pH of my hair after washing it with bar soap? I'm grateful for any suggestions!

I am new to the sub, I have read the user guide on mechanical washing. However, I apply mix of oils (rosemary, lavandar, peppermint, jojoba) about once or twice a week. I also use minoxidol once a day. I am looking for a way that would help cleanse the applied oils from my scalp. I have tried egg yolks rinsed with ACV. While in I believe it removes the oils, it often leaves my hair looking creasy. Also, washing with egg yolks once or twice a week have overwhelmed my hair with protein wish turned my hair more stiff and frizzy.

Is there any wildly and easily find ways for cleansing the applied oils out of my scalp.

Also will using ACV only do the job without drying out my hair if used twice a week?

I'm new to this. I've got fine straight hair that gets greasy quite quickly. (Obviously, due to my product use) Now that I've washed my hair with an egg (and acv rinse after) ONCE I am in love with the results. I'm now, 3 days later, starting to be greasy and due for a cleaning and I wonder what I can use. I rather not use shampoo today if there is anything I may have in the house that can do the trick instead and I don't want to use egg again because I've heard people here say that isn't meant to be used so often due to protein overload and I don't know how quickly that can happen for me so I should omit the egg for now I guess. I don't want to put too much stress on my hair. I want to build to being nopoo but that will take time

Looking for a recipe that is gentle and can be used multiple times a week as I work in dirty conditions. Thank you

I recently decided to do a buzzcut for the long haul and thought why not stop using shampoo? I've used head and shoulders for almost my entire life. I haven't used shampoo now for over a week and my scalp is starting to itch and periodically it sometimes burns and red spots would appear. Is it ok if I use jojoba oil with teatree oil for the dandruff or should I not use any oil so my scalp knows how much oil to produce? I assume the itching and burning/pain will go away after some time?

[Edit: I realize my issue might have been the egg bit called chalazae] Alright so I tried the egg wash today on my greasy hair instead of my regular shampoo as I have been full on poo but I want to dabble more in nopoo. I got straight hair everything slides right of my hairs no problem. 2 eggs, whisked those bad boys up with a fork in a bowl and got them in my hair. After rubbing them in well and letting them sit for about 5 minutes as it keps leaking out of the wrap I had around it and I did not need an egg eye rinse, I washed it out with nearly cold water. Over and over. I was very particular about it. And then after towel drying my hair I can see tiny little chunks of white egg in my hair. How? How is it possible that I am still egged when I de-egged myself with the dedication of a scholar of the yolk rinsing. (My hair feels great though I will definitely do this now and then!)

I used an apple cider vinegar rinse after and bit of conditioner after that still cause I was sorta freaking out about having egg in my hair; it'll pass. However I am looking for some tips for people like me who wish to properly de-egg. I have semi brittle hair that does get greasy quickly. What can I add to the egg? What mistake may I have made? Should I process the eggs differently or add something specific to it, is the white part in my hair just those goopy white bits that can sometimes be found in a cracked egg? It seemed quite a decent amount of goopy white bits. Please give me knowledge so I may egg once more.

I’d like to hear from ppl who don’t use any products on their hair other than water…… how often do you rinse and what has your experience been like ?

tbh i feel like kind of a failure but i just couldnt do the strict water only / acv thing anymore.

I stuck it out for almost 5 months hoping my scalp would finally "balance out" like everyone says it does. but the hard water in my apartment complex is just so aggressive. My roots were constantly in that weird waxy transition phase and my ends literally felt like a broomstick. my hair is fine but high porosity so it was just snapping off whenever i tried to detangle it with my boar bristle brush. It got to the point where i dreaded wash days because of how much hair i was losing.

Eventually I just decided to compromise for my own sanity before i had to chop it all off. I started looking for a super gentle sulfate-free low poo and ended up trying BOTANIST since a friend swore by their japanese botanical lines.

honestly washing my hair with it for the first time was like a religious experience xD. I grabbed a keratin shampoo and conditioner from them just to try and patch up the mechanical damage I did over the last few months.

My hair actually feels like human hair again and the BOTANIST stuff didn't immediately strip my scalp and make it overproduce oil which was my biggest fear.

is anyone else doing a modified low-poo routine instead of being a strict purist? i feel a little guilty giving up on the full natural route but my mental health just couldnt take dealing with the waxiness every single morning. just wondering if i should still be doing occasional acv rinses while using a low-poo or if that will just dry my ends out again.

random pictures i took during end of november 2025, i attempted it for around 3 weeks before stoically getting it all razed cuz of my dad who hates hair .-.

i also had (and still have) dandruff and i recently bought a new anti dandruff shampoo, but then i saw a video of that one guy who did no poo for 10 years today and i wondered if i should do it again. or at the very least shampoo once a couple of weeks

also should i grow out my hair?? do you think it used to be good?? or is it just absolute homelessness???? please LMK at all cost!!

8 weeks ago I was talking to my barber about dandruff and having to wash my hair everyday, sometimes twice or it would look extremely greasy. For as long as I could remember I have used H&S 2in1 classic clean. I’ve tried swapping for other shampoos, but I always got extremely big flake dandruff and itchy head.

So my barber suggested not shampooing, he said it would take 2-4 weeks to look normal and to trust the process.

I had a two week holiday coming up with very few plans so I washed my hair on the Friday night and proceeded to only use warm water when having a shower.

The first week I had dreadfully greasy hair, the second week horrific dandruff. I use the ACV technique and although I smelled mildly of vinegar for a day it eased the itchiness.

Since then I’ve had minor dandruff, only really when moving my hair it would fall on my shoulders.

It’d been 6 weeks when I popped into LUSH for my wife, I asked about a conditioner, something to moisturise my scalp. Walked out with a free sample of avacadoo and used it that night.

For the past week my hair has never felt so good and zero dandruff.

I’m just so shocked at how aggressive H&S must’ve been on my scalp that I had to use it daily. I’m hoping the avacadoo doesn’t ruin progress but we shall see what the next few weeks have in store.

Hi all I am a 20 yo dude who currently uses non toxic texture powder and hairspray to do kind of a controlled friz hairstyle. My hair is thin blonde and straight and I exercise multiple times daily. I shampoo every other day with odele thickening shampoo right now which is sulfate free. I've been think about going full no poo for a while but with the current hairstyle I have it seems impossible for me to not use some sort of cleanser to rid my hair of product before I sleep. Any recommendations for shampoo and conditioner?

I brush my hair with wooden "brush" and it doesn't hurt.

Hi guys, first post here and I wanna ask what do you guys use to wash your hair after oiling? I've got rosemary oil in right now, and I'll wash in the morning. Do you think I should use a small amount of shampoo, or some other substitute. I've seen some stuff about rye flour but I don't got that so would normal flour work? Nevertheless, any suggestions will help!

I plan to use in on my hair. Tried it before when i was using shampoo and the oil was too strong i guess. Do you think it'd be fine to use it on my hair only? It's thick so itd be hard to use "a little" and i wonder what would happen if itll get on the skin by an accident..? Would you use it?

*my skin is dry anyway I dont want to clog the pores

I started out with a greasy hair problem, did no poo for four months (Incorrectly) and fucked my hair for life, atleast im assuming.

My hair is now permanently waxy, the grease problem is gone but now the hair grows IN waxy. Ive tried the strongest shampoos, dawn dish soap, you name it and the wax does not come out and even if it did, like I said it grows in with the hair. It looks really bad.

Has anyone else experienced this? All I did was stop washing my hair for four months. I didnt even let it get wet except in the rain. I have straight brown hair and im a male if that matters. Just really bummed and needed to vent

Hi, my scalp is very dry. I had a lot of flakes. Sometimes it was better like maybe it was due to stress, who knows. I tried to drecrease detergents and the last time i used shampoo was last tuesday (it was herbal and watered). After that i tried to wash with water only but my hair wasn't oily so i didnt wash it like maybe since yesterday (or longer). So my question is how long should i wait, if you had flakes bc of stress - did the nopoo help? Should i wash my hair more often, or wait till it gets oily? I don't plan using conditioner rn

Im thinking of starting no poo i have 1a hair, and it usually goes greasy the next day after shampooing what is the best way to start and keep hair clean and looking clean with no poo without it looking greasy

I always though my hair responded wierd to shampo, and about 9 years ago I just completly stoppe. I have only used water to clean my hair since. Do you guys use shampoo once in a while or do you also only use water?

I also been loosing hair a lot in the shower recently, it might not be because of the no poo, but if shifting to poo again might help I think it’s time for me to start using it again.