Comments on: Shirley Cook, CEO, Proenza Schouler

By: Heidi

Heidi — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 23:00:40 +0000

To be successful going shampoo free you MUST really scrub your scalp with your finger tips, not nails, on the days that you do wet your hair. It is this action that removes the dirt from your scalp. Rinse, Rinse, Rinse! A good a cheap conditioner to try is Sauve coconut conditioner. It does not have ingredients that build up and require shampoo to remove. Another point of failure is the product build up so you have to do your homework. Use only water soluble products. I like Devacurl Angell, but there are many on the market. I have been shampoo free for years. It is wonderful for my curly hair...goodbye frizz! Two great resources are naturallycurly.com and The Curly Girl, Lorraine Massey. Trust me you don't need to be curly to use their suggestions. Works great on my straight haired son to completely get rid of his scalp eczema!

By: Bea R.

Bea R. — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 01:04:52 +0000

Fernanda- you just stop using shampoo - because it is after all detergent. The premise being that detergent is bad for your hair and your scalp and just makes your hair look worse, not better. It makes your scalp so dry that your scalp produces too much oil to compensate for the dry scalp, and that in turn makes you shampoo more, and the whole ugly cycle gets repeated.

You can rinse your hair every day with plain water, or use a lemon juice rinse or cider vinegar rinse. I use a lemon juice rinse (juice from one whole lemon mixed with 8 ounces of water) maybe two or three times per week. If I feel my hair needs it I will use baking soda and water rinse first - but the acid rinse (either lemon juice or cider vinegar) has to follow.

I am still looking for the right balance with these rinses but my hair and scalp are much healthier since I stopped the shampoo. My hair is shinier and more conditioned, my scalp doesn't itch, no more dermatitis on my neck, etc.
I use to use so many products just to make my curly hair manageable (special shampoo, special conditioner, then leave-in conditioner and curl activator) - now I only use the lemon juice rinse, and my hair is soft and shiny and the curls defined.

By: Fernanda

Fernanda — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:42:46 +0000

I'm intrigued aout this moviment, but theres something that i don' understand. You have to stop watering or just stop using shampoo?

By: Cat

Cat — Sat, 07 May 2011 15:56:27 +0000

I started to use these shampoo bars: http://www.savion.de/nc/einkaufen/haarwaschseifen.html. It's very easy to use and the scalp and the hair feels good and clean. It's made of organic oils - so it's pure and natural. I rinse my hair in two steps: 1. with 1l water which i mix with the juice of 1 lemon and 2. with 1l almost cold clear filtered water to rinse out the lemon. Then as the last step i put some argan oil in the ends of my towel dry hair. And I must say that I made the same experience: my light brown hair is getting brighter - so it might be the lemon juice! But the texture of my hair is beautiful and soft and super shiny with this shampoo bars! Some people have also great results with Aleppo soaps.

By: anita

anita — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:43:12 +0000

her ring looks like my Bochic earrings! Very pretty! I love looking at beauty products, could look at them all day!
xoxoxo
anita

By: Lisi

Lisi — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:52:09 +0000

Amazing! I just saw this article featured on Refinery 29 and was shocked about the shampoo thing...at first. Now I am 100% intrigued!! I'd love to give it a try! I'm wondering what font you use, because I love it. I'm not expecting an answer, but maybe you can post it somewhere? It's so professional and fun!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 03:37:17 +0000

An update to the no-washing saga (I started it again after reading the post & helpful comments)

Try 1: Cleaning with sulfate-free/paraben-free silicon-free/ etc conditioner (as per Rach's suggestion): worked nicely but still left my hair "too clean"...it was pretty much like shampoo-ing to me

Try 2: no washing whatsoever, just rinsed with water and diluted lemon juice (as per Camille-- thanks!!). Left my hair shiny and moisturized but still a little too greasy (but I'm still in the "adjustment period")

Try 3: Rinse with water every other day (lemon-water on the ends to condition) and wash 1x a week with this shampoo-bar :
http://www.etsy.com/listing/61966391/short-cuts-sale-pomegranate-juice
I think it leaves my hair with just the right amount of natural oils...and smells nice!

So far I vastly prefer diluted lemon juice (fresh squeezed) to the apple-cider vinegar...both in hair texture and smell. I have medium ash brown hair though and I wonder if the lemon juice may lighten darker brunettes

By: Hannah

Hannah — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:40:32 +0000

I am really fascinated by this not-wash-your-hair thing. I am one of those with "oily hair", and I wash it every second day. I used to wash it every day, but I am trying to be more gentle to it. My problem is that my hair look reeeeaallly oily if I try to leave it one more day. I look like a teenager who haven't had a shower for two weeks. How do I get my hair from teenage to clossy and groomed?

By: Bea R.

Bea R. — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 03:15:28 +0000

Back to the no-shampoo movement.. I was inspired to try this again after reading this post and all the comments and replies. My hair is prematurely gray - and fine but curly, meaning that the curls fall out by the second day, and when I have my hands on it oo much, putting it in a pony-tail, etc.
I had been doing the cider vinegar rinse for about two months - but I seriously think it is changing the color of my silver hair so I stopped for a while. Has anyone else had this problem? I also can't bear the smell of the dirty scalp, and by the second day I notice that dirty hair smell coming back. I am now trying the vinegar rinse as the shampoo step and then the conditioner after to give my hair a good, clean smell, which I seriously miss.
Also in between I rub some virgin coconut oil on my hair when it feels especially dry or seems frizzy.
Such an issue - never knew trying to keep a clean but healthy head of hair would cause so many problems. Would love to hear more tips.

By: Miss. Y

Miss. Y — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:06:27 +0000

I'm from Europe and I'm used to washing my hair just once or twice a week.
I always thought it's quite odd to wash your hair every day of the week, I know nearly noone who does that, except for a few girls who claim to have 'very oily hair', and even they tend to skip a day.
It just saves so much time every morning when you don't have to wash and dry and fuss over your hair! Gives you extra time to sleep and eat and I think that that makes you look better than any hair ritual. Who cares about your hair if you look tired and hungry?

To answer the above question: i have very particular hair in the sense that its curly and when I comb it it usually becomes a huge frizzy bush, so when I comb my hair, I make it a little bit wet. I don't do anything extra such as oils or conditioner or whatsoever