Soap Update

I stopped the not using of soap a while ago. I think the catalyst was when I swapped out the oil pan in my car. I was crawling around under it, my head and hair got pretty much covered in oil, and there was NO WAY oil wasn't coming out of hair without soap.

So I used a minimal amount, but I really enjoyed the way my hair felt after that. I still don't really lather up my body, and I use a washcloth sans soap for that, but I feel like my hair needs a little more love.

There's more going on with me, but I don't think I'm ready to share the rest of it with the internets right now.

No soap!

I remember reading about this guy who decided stop using soap back in February 2010.  Well not ALL soaps, but mainly shampoos and other body-lathering substances whilst showering.  It intrigued me.  Then he updated about his experiences about a year later, and now I think I'm gonna try it.

I took my first soapless shower this morning.  I used a washcloth to scrub my dirty parts, and only used some shaving gel as lubricant to shave my face and head (I recently shaved off all of my hair because I was in a mood).  To be perfectly clear - I'm not against soap in general.  It's good for cleaning dirty hands, and lets face it, you don't want to be handling food with hands that have been stuffed who-knows-where into who-knows-what.  I DO have a problem with those so-called antibacterial soaps, that kill '99.9%' of germs.

Bacteria multiply exponentially, people.  It does not take that long for something to be completely coated in germs.  But I'd rather put a germ that my own immune system can kill into my system than one that has made it past that 0.1%.

But I digress.  Trying this out.  We'll see how things go after a week or so.