I've been doing a lot of reading about ways to increase the volume of my hair and how to make my body looking much more healthy. And I recently wrote this post here at EF about skin care, but I made the decision yesterday to pack up everything and go natural for one month to see what happens not to just my hair, but my skin as well.

So today is day two of thirty of a shampoo free life style. No body soap either. No more face soap. All natural.

Here is the blog post where I talk about how I am going about to make the baking soda and body scrub up Woman's Science Project. I'll be writing an almost journal post every couple of days to let my readers know how often I've had to wash my hair and the transition from shampoo to no more 'poo in my hair.

So, I have to ask, how often do you wash your hair? What do you use? Have you ever thought of going poo free? Would you consider going poo free for the month? less

I also use WEN & I haven't used anything that lathers on my body in over 8 years. I only have to wash my hair once a week, but if I get sweaty, say during the Summer, I need to wash the sweat off my skin & scalp because it is irritating to me, so I will do it more than once a week then. In the Winter, I can more than a week if I want to. I have been fortunate enough to find a source of the gallon sizes of WEN at a discount & that, coupled with not needing to wash my hair as much, has actually made it affordable. I will say, that I dilute it, too. If they made an unscented one I would jump on it in a heartbeat! That is the most difficult part of it for me, the scents! I tried other products that work well, but not as well as WEN & I don't have the energy to fool around anymore, so I just stick to it. Of course, you don't need to use the brand, there are lots of expensive ingredients in it, but not necessary to have. I bought a gallon of Unicure & used that just fine, but it wasn't as conditioning as the WEN for me.

If you want to stick with shampoo, but use better for you ingredients, I recommend the OJON line! less

I'm actually thinking of going this route with the baking soda and apple cider vinegar. I'm already comfortable with the vinegar bit (thank you, Grandma!), but never tried the baking soda. At least C will be in cahoots with me on this scheme, as he's always looking for natural bathing stuff.

Since my hair is stick-straight and fine with an oily scalp the day after washing with regular shampoo (but no conditioner), I'm fairly certain this will work out after the adjustment period.

Incidentally, this very subject was an article at Offbeat Home today (5/2/13) - although the writer called it "shamPHree" because she hated calling it "poo-free". less