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.
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.
Everyone should shave their head and reject bourgeois shampoo.
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?
Err I’m good thanks
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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
You’re washing your crotch with shampoo?
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.
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}.
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
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.
Nizoral didn’t work?
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.
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
silly question, what is wrong with having dandruff?
Itchy
No one likes a flake
kirkland for the win
It’s not the cost.
The nicer shampoo is made by a company that supports the IDF
Is this specific to a particular brand?
Ethnic Cleansing
2/10
L’Oréal (Garnier), but probably all of em tbh
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
I switched to exclusively bath and body works soap. It cuts though automotive grease like no ones business and i feel bonita.
Make your own then?
True story.
I was at the supermarket and I was about to pick up a bottle of premium steak sauce. The guy walking by me says that I should look at the label; it’s just ketchup and horse radish and I can make it better at home. I check and he’s right. I thank him and go on.
A few minutes later I see the same guy buying bottled ice tea.
I his defense, have you ever tried to make iced tea with ketchup and horseradish? It’s fucking nasty.
The ol steak house special brew.
Hold my Brisk, I’m going in
I’ve found it surprisingly difficult to make good iced tea.
imho, the secret is to use dried mint leaves, not fresh.
which mint? i was just at the nursery and they had an entire hoop house full of mint.
i also discovered how much fun it is to say hoop house and i’ve been annoying my wife with it. HOOP HOUSE!
lol! I go to the local butcher shop that has a rack of Salma [TM] products and get ‘mint’
Technically, it’s yerba buena, which is Spanish for ‘good herb’
And Cheech and Chong notwithstanding, it’s not marijuana.
A quick search says it’s neither peppermint nor spearmint, it’s a unique herb.
Again, not marijuana
Also, I thought ‘hoop house’ was a typo for ‘hot house.’
Dammit I live near San Francisco. All my searches for yerba buena are going to get me a city. I’ll go check the hoop house
Edit ha I got to say it again
I feel kind of like owly the door right now
Have you tried sun tea?
This is why we are social beings. We’re also kinda dumb sometimes and help each other a lot.
I want a bar shampoo, because less plastic (hopefully). Any recommendations?
I like Lush’s cinnamon one.
good.store has bar shampoo and a lot of other regular house hold items that you might need regularly. Also all of the profits go to charity.
I can vouch, it’s good stuff, smells good too. I use their cleaning products mostly but stocked my families bug out bags with the hygiene products after trying them out.
I bought the $25 dishwasher soap, and still can’t believe I did that.
Shampoo bars can work well, but keep in mind that if you leave them wet like a soap, they will melt like a soap. I was lazy and that thing disintegrated within no time.
You need to decide what you care about. If the plastic part is important to you just use any bar soap. It’ll clean your head just fine. However shampoo is meant to not only clean but moisturize and protect your scalp so it often has oils and stuff in it. The oils is what makes it runny and not really able to maintain a bar shape. You could just as easily use a bar soap and add scalp moisturizer after you shower but that would just be another plastic bottle.
as someone who has tried to use regular bar soap as shampoo
yeah that shit will WAY over strip your hair oils. at least try using a “moisturizing” bar soap and you’re gonna need a fuck ton of conditioner also
With fine hair this is especially true omg if a cheap “moisturizing” shampoo even looks at my hair I turn into a greasy puddle
I just use ivory body wash to clean everything including my hair (including beard) so no shampoo required.
Soaps, hair soaps, body soaps, soap soaps. Fuck shampoos
