Recently moved to an area with hard water. Wife and I were noticing more hair loss while showering. Turns out an ingredient “EDTA” can help remove buildup from hard water that damages hair. This is a common ingredient in expensive shampoos but it’s also in Head and Shoulders. Wife started using expensive shampoos to help and I switched to Head and Shoulders. She just ended up using my shampoo(much cheaper) and it’s been working well for us. Hope this helps others.
We’ve got hard water and I’m trying to get my partner to try a chelating (mineral-removing) shampoo on his long, curly hair. His poor scalp is so itchy and I think it’s the hard water.
That’s because well know brands like head and shoulders are incentivized to make their product actually decent if not good.
In general, people aren’t dumb. They can tell if something is crap or something is good.
The real fact of the matter is making good shampoo or shower gel doesn’t cost a lot.
Personally for me Old spice with a hint of sandalwood, top notch.
Friendly reminder you can make your own soap at home with lye and fat.
Now you can get lye from hardware stores at a reasonable price. But you can get literally tons of fat for free from the dumpster behind the local cosmetic surgery center.
That will save you a few bucks on these pricey mass produced soaps. And hey maybe you could even start your own little business selling at craft fairs or to local boutiques.
I started a club of soap makers using this one simple trick!
I have dandruff issues and basically tried everything. The only shampoo that seems to work is this$40 little bottle from Ulta. I’m pissed, is there anything else?
Check what the active ingredient is, then find that cheap
i go to sally’s beauty supply and get the knockoff brand (basically what’s in the little expensive bottle but in a big white bottle and no brand labeling) for hella cheap. i smell delicious all day and my beard is lush and smooth
I got some weird dry skin/dandruff/oily scalp issue combo. Things that I have found working over a very long time struggling:
- Out of all shampoos Head and shoulders actually has the best effect. Anything else not-specialized doesn’t. Ketozonol/Nizoral does help but I am not feeling much better over HnS. And these are not suppsoed to be used long term.
- I have tried SLES shampoo from Neutrogena. Didnt work for me like at all.
- Water hardness is super important. My hometown had much softer water that allowed me to not to wash my head for a week and it would be fine. My current location has fucking insane hardness and I have to wash my head each 2-4 days or it starts to itch very badly. Whenever I travel, some of the time my hair feels great and I suspect that water hardness in the hotel might be much lower than at home. Maybe look into installing some kind of filter. If you live in a house, 100% invest in reverse osmosis filter at least for your bath/shower.
- My head also gets oily quick. I usually wash with 3 shampoos. 1st shampoo - cheap 1 euro shampoo that I use just to wash majority of oil off. 2nd shampoo - deep cleaning shampoo that is also cheap - 2.50eur but it does have an effect. 3rd is HnS. The longer I soak hair with 2nd and 3rd shampoos, the better it feels afterwards.
- Adding up to soaking point: if I take bath I soap my head quick, and each shampoo soaks my scalp for 20 minutes or so. This way head feels much nicer over the next days. In shower, 2-5 mitnues or so.
- adding up on deep cleaning shampoo: I found a few shampoos that claim they are deep cleaning/cleansing. But upon trying, only one felt effective. If you seek for these shampoos, try more options til you find something that works.
- Conditioners have no effect to me. I have heard that it might help in certain cases, so maybe you should try that too.
I really do hope you will find a solution to your problem. This shit sucks donkey balls and is so annoying to live with.
Nizoral didn’t work?
Hibiscus leaves, flowers and egg white from one egg (little bit coconut oil is optional). Blend them in a blender, leather all over your hair and scalp, leave it for 30 to 40 minutes and wash with water (don’t use shampoo). Do it once a week.
You might have scalp psoriasis. I always thought I just had bad dandruff and tried shampoo and leave in treatments and they didn’t really work. I got it checked and it’s actually just psoriasis (plus regular dandruff too, but the dandruff was exponentially worse because of my psoriasis). You could maybe get a dermatologist to prescribe a topical steroid. It helped for my case (you might still need a dandruff shampoo to go along with it)
silly question, what is wrong with having dandruff?
Itchy
No one likes a flake
I arrogantly treated myself to a $90 bottle of shampoo, and it ended up lasting 12 whole months.
$90?! Do they put gold in it?
Not gold but some kind of magic, because one pump of it foams up a crazy amount, and it was a 1L bottle. I think it was intended for salons because I’ve never seen it at a regular supermarket.
Ah ok interesting.
Probably Olaplex, so basically
Where do you get stock images of a person crying in an outdoor shower, anyway?
(Don’t worry, I’m not going to use them without copyright, it’s purely for a sex kink)
Stock image libraries are staggeringly comprehensive for having images of {person} in {oddly specific situation}.
Go bald and use Dr bronners for everything.
Can’t get past the religious schizo ride of a bottle.
All part of the charm.
Apparently you can also just use bronners ok your hair.
I mean, I used to but it’s been awhile. You’d definitely want some conditioner or oil afterwards though.
I did with long hair. It does keep the grease down but you don’t get that shampoo commercial silky smooth feel. But you do get compliments from ppl in hair styling for having healthy hair.
Depends on if you have hard water or not. I tried it with wicked hard water and it just never washed out, my hair ling felt so gross and greasy. (it was mid move and my regular shampoo was already packed :( )
Fringe benefits of going bald early.
We usually only talk about stage 3 of enshittification but in stage 1 the product is amazing and affordable.
I switched to exclusively bath and body works soap. It cuts though automotive grease like no ones business and i feel bonita.
Make your own then?
True story.
I was at the supermarket and I was about to pick up a bottle of premium steak sauce. The guy walking by me says that I should look at the label; it’s just ketchup and horse radish and I can make it better at home. I check and he’s right. I thank him and go on.
A few minutes later I see the same guy buying bottled ice tea.
I his defense, have you ever tried to make iced tea with ketchup and horseradish? It’s fucking nasty.
The ol steak house special brew.
Hold my Brisk, I’m going in
This is why we are social beings. We’re also kinda dumb sometimes and help each other a lot.
I’ve found it surprisingly difficult to make good iced tea.
imho, the secret is to use dried mint leaves, not fresh.
which mint? i was just at the nursery and they had an entire hoop house full of mint.
i also discovered how much fun it is to say hoop house and i’ve been annoying my wife with it. HOOP HOUSE!
lol! I go to the local butcher shop that has a rack of Salma [TM] products and get ‘mint’
Technically, it’s yerba buena, which is Spanish for ‘good herb’
And Cheech and Chong notwithstanding, it’s not marijuana.
A quick search says it’s neither peppermint nor spearmint, it’s a unique herb.
Again, not marijuana
Also, I thought ‘hoop house’ was a typo for ‘hot house.’
Dammit I live near San Francisco. All my searches for yerba buena are going to get me a city. I’ll go check the hoop house
Edit ha I got to say it again
I feel kind of like owly the door right now
Have you tried sun tea?
I want a bar shampoo, because less plastic (hopefully). Any recommendations?
good.store has bar shampoo and a lot of other regular house hold items that you might need regularly. Also all of the profits go to charity.
I can vouch, it’s good stuff, smells good too. I use their cleaning products mostly but stocked my families bug out bags with the hygiene products after trying them out.
I bought the $25 dishwasher soap, and still can’t believe I did that.
Shampoo bars can work well, but keep in mind that if you leave them wet like a soap, they will melt like a soap. I was lazy and that thing disintegrated within no time.
I like Lush’s cinnamon one.
You need to decide what you care about. If the plastic part is important to you just use any bar soap. It’ll clean your head just fine. However shampoo is meant to not only clean but moisturize and protect your scalp so it often has oils and stuff in it. The oils is what makes it runny and not really able to maintain a bar shape. You could just as easily use a bar soap and add scalp moisturizer after you shower but that would just be another plastic bottle.
as someone who has tried to use regular bar soap as shampoo
yeah that shit will WAY over strip your hair oils. at least try using a “moisturizing” bar soap and you’re gonna need a fuck ton of conditioner also
With fine hair this is especially true omg if a cheap “moisturizing” shampoo even looks at my hair I turn into a greasy puddle
I discovered a single bar of $4 pure olive oil soap is all I need to shampoo and wash my entire body. Lasts a month or more. It’s so nice being able to reduce that element to one small thing, especially when traveling. But this depends a lot on the thickness/moisture of your hair and your skin’s oiliness and so on.
i am very oily. this going to give me pimples?
impossible to know until you try. I’m really oily and have intermittent acne, yet can* use coconut or olive oil as a face moisturizer without it triggering additional acne. i don’t understand it at all.
in fact the best facial soap I’ve ever used is my hipster friend’s soap he made in his apartment by saponifying just olive oil
*I usually don’t though cuz it feels gross lol
It’s not the cost.
The nicer shampoo is made by a company that supports the IDF
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Ethnic Cleansing
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L’Oréal (Garnier), but probably all of em tbh
Dunno about shampoo I literally use dawn soap in the shower. But fragrances are ABSOLUTELY worth the extra money. I’d rather smell like nothing if I’m not wearing Creed or Le Labo… it’s like a real, actual difference; stop buying your shit from Sephora and invest in a special occasion smell
