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Stopped Using Shampoo and Hair is Better
Me | Expatcanuck

Posted on 09/21/2019 9:54:07 AM PDT by ExpatCanuck

I’m almost 60 and have had a full head of obsidian hair all my life. It started thinning out about a year ago. I quit using shampoo about a month ago (just rinsing and scrubbing with hot water) and it has started to grow back in and thicken (caveman like, LOL).

I know a lot of it is genetics, but makes me wonder if the chemicals in the modern shampoos and soaps are screwing us up genetically. Anyone had any similar experiences.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: hairloss; shampoo
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To: setter

Our family doctor recommended collagen for my wife for a different health related reason, but says it will also help hair and nails.


121 posted on 09/21/2019 4:43:40 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: ExpatCanuck
If you have short hair baking soda makes a nice shampoo.
122 posted on 09/21/2019 4:48:28 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Human beings don't behave rationally. We rationalize our behavior.)
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To: yetidog
Downside is accusations of toupee, hair dye etc.

While my [head] hair is the envy of all (har har) my facial hair is 100% gray. I finally shaved off my mustache of 40 years because it made me look even more like I dyed my hair.

When I am accused of dying my hair, I always respond with "Look at my face. Is dying my hair going to get rid of these wrinkles? Be kind of pointless, don't you think?

Both my brothers were gray before 40. The luck of the genetic lottery.

123 posted on 09/21/2019 4:53:04 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: HotHunt

Always tell people you are ten years older than you are. Then they are so impressed with how good you look. Seriously, it’s pretty funny.


124 posted on 09/21/2019 4:55:28 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I might try a mixture of baking soda and apple cider vinegar.


125 posted on 09/21/2019 5:32:37 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: ChildOfThe60s

At 64, my head hair is only starting to go gray, but my facial hair has been gray for at least 15 years. If the head hair gets too gray, I’ll dye it, because I don’t like to drive that slow.


126 posted on 09/21/2019 5:34:58 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Larry Lucido; SaveFerris
Probably save enough time that you'll be able to make a salad in the shower.

Just install a garbage disposal first. And if you buy a Clarkman do realize there is an error in the instructions. You've got to dismantle the latch hasp from the auxiliary drainage line, not the main line


127 posted on 09/21/2019 5:37:18 PM PDT by Gamecock (Time is short Eternity is long It is reasonable that this short life be lived in light of eternity)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
Well, if I tell people I'm 82 instead of my 72, they'll know I'm lying.

I prefer to stick with their opinion that I am in my mid-50s. :-)

128 posted on 09/21/2019 5:45:34 PM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: HotHunt

Well, if I tell people I’m 82 instead of my 72, they’ll know I’m lying.
I prefer to stick with their opinion that I am in my mid-50s. :-)
= = = = = = =

I have same problem at 80 (next week)....

Sport Vietnam tags and keep getting asked if I am using my fathers truck or at least being told there is no way I am ‘legal’..

I keep telling them they must be working for tips....<: <: <:

I quit drinking and smoking at 50(after a HARD 25 years) and a friend of mine tells me I may have quit at the ‘exact moment’ as I hadn’t destroyed half my body and am surviving on the ‘memories’.... Oh, I don’t ‘do’ doctors so am not running the risk of being ‘prescripted’ to an early demise...

Of course life only has one goal or ending, it is basically up to us to set the pace..HA HA


129 posted on 09/21/2019 5:58:26 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is cast as the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: Gamecock; SaveFerris; ExpatCanuck
I've found that waiting for the conditioner to work is a tough minute. It's like waiting for the car to warm up before driving.

By the way, don't go with a low-flow shower head. Try the ones from Bosnia.


130 posted on 09/21/2019 6:26:12 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: xrmusn

But do you shampoo your hair or not? :-)


131 posted on 09/21/2019 6:38:31 PM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: HotHunt

Lets just say I wear a hat so others don’t have a shocking glare if the light hits my gourd correctly.

As you may pick up, I am not a ‘fan’ of the shaved head look (at least on me)

I keep telling my barber he/she (whoever open) should take that crap they rub on the back of your neck and apply it vigorously to the SCALP....

Seems for every hair that goes down the drain 5 replace on the scraggly back of neck...

Like SCHMOOS...


132 posted on 09/21/2019 6:46:12 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is cast as the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: Gamecock; Larry Lucido

How’d you get a webcam into my shower?

BTW, the salad was great.

I’m washing my hair with tomato sauce now.


133 posted on 09/21/2019 7:19:50 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: xrmusn
No bald genes in my family. All the men have all their hair and only one is completely gray. He went gray overnight after a trauma of a severe auto accident.

I have thick, blonde hair, the same as it has been my entire life. Thankful for my dad's genes. He died with a full head of hair.

134 posted on 09/21/2019 7:24:37 PM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: ExpatCanuck
Is thread getting a little gay?

LOL, just kidding. But it is a little more offbeat than the usual here.

Maybe we should talk about motorcycles (the helmet does mess up my hair - so it's kind of on topic.), or babes who have nice hair with motorcycles.


135 posted on 09/21/2019 8:31:47 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: Texan5

I love working out at home. I don’t have to drive, don’t have to worry about other people sweating on the equipment, don’t have to wait to use any of the equipment, have everything I need in one place and don’t have to pack anything up. I used to run outdoors and had to worry about people texting or otherwise impaired in cars.

It’s great.


136 posted on 09/22/2019 8:54:43 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin
Baking soda first and ACV (diluted) as a rinse leaves your hair nice.

The ACV makes sure there is no baking soda left in your hair.

137 posted on 09/22/2019 1:16:26 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Human beings don't behave rationally. We rationalize our behavior.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

That makes sense, but I thought it would be more fun to mix them together and fizz all over the place.


138 posted on 09/22/2019 3:41:50 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Go for it!


139 posted on 09/22/2019 5:10:54 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Human beings don't behave rationally. We rationalize our behavior.)
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