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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Until recently, I've had a normal shower roughly once a month over the last three years, and this seems to have been largely fine? I won't say I've been perfectly stink-free, but now, 90% of the time I can tell when I'm stinky, and it's easy to fix without a shower.
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Oil scraping is where you cover your body in a base oil + essential scenty oil combo of your choice, and then scraaape it off with a scrapey tool. This is real labor intensive, would be easier to do with two people, is pretty messy, but end results are INCREDIBLE.
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I think grapeseed? I bought a few to test out but I forget exactly. I think it was grapeseed.