Fav no-poo hair routine depends on how much time I have. My least maintenance method was 1 rinse and 1 rye flouring (where you dust your whole scalp liberally with rye flour) a month, plus boar brushing to pull oil down to the ends. This worked fine, but had trouble with buildup
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Eggs and baking soda also kinda worked, but I didn't wanna fuck with the ph balance with baking soda and the eggs still 'cleaned' my hair in a similar way to shampoo, and i felt like that was kinda against the spirit. Plus it was annoyin picking egg outta my hair.
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I tried water-only, a method where you more regularly (once a week?) soak your hair with really hot water and then rub and scratch your scalp to physically loosen all the dirt and grease. This also kinda worked, but not fully, and I got bored with the time it took to do it
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The initial adjustment period wasn't awful, it took me about 2 months for my scalp to adjust to the lack of washing. Afterwards, regardless of the method I was trying, it took my hair around 1 week to start developing oil. Super cool! It's still true to this day.
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Eventually I got tired of the scalp buildup, which is kinda my fault cause the no-poo cleaning methods for treating it are annoying, so I started shampooing again. Right now I use a super gentle, no-sulfate, super-organic etc. shampoo and conditioner, once every 1-2 weeks
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This is also the frequency with which I shower. I also experimented with showering, and when I say this usually the people I'm talking to go oh god oh no you must stink horribly, and I promise this is *not the case*, as verified by people around me who do tell me when I stink
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I wanted to know - if I have a lot of leeway with washing my hair, how much leeway do I have with washing my body? Over the past three years I've stopped showering 'normally'; I've tried not-showering, going soap-free, soaking, dry-scrubbing, and oil scraping.
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I got interested after I went to a festival, went home, showered, and then instantly stunk horribly after the shower. Wtf was that? My theory was a disturbed skin microbiome; using soap fucked with the bacterial balance in some way and made me want to use *more* soap to fix it.
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(to be clear, in all of these experiments, I still very frequently washed my butthole/genital area with soap. I did not walk around with poopy butthole for three years)
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I'm surprised to read that you wash your genital area. This seems strange to me even without the less-washing ethos. It's a self-cleaning area with its own 'biome'. As an adolescent I learned early on never to go near it with soap. (I'm British by the way.)
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I never ever go "in' it, but buttholes arent self cleaning, and the area around the labia can get unappealing for sexual partners if you leave it alone