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Shampoo: Washing away the natural oils in our hair, causing the body to produce them in higher volume, causing our hair to get greasy, creating a need for shampoo.
Recycling: Only about 10% of plastic is actually recycled, the rest is sold to countries without environmental laws, and they are dumped irresponsibly. Composting is simple, effective, and would reduce landfill use by about 30%, not to mention creating a useful end product. Yet it is rarely promoted.
Mattresses and box springs: They are worse on our spines and end up causing neck and back issues. Sleeping on a firmer surface, even a thin mattress or pad on the ground, alleviates these issues.
Lawns: Turning a useful piece of land on which we can grow food into a barren wasteland and making it into a chore that requires expensive equipment and encourages chemical use.
Sales tax on food: Some countries and US states have them. It's a tax on existence. Also, taxes on gym memberships and personal protective equipment. The government simultaneously claims it wants healthy, safe citizens, and charges them when they try to be healthy and safe.
If I don't use shampoo my scalp turns into the Sahara desert with 100% chance of snow showers.
Depends on your hair, also, some shampoos are good at cleaning your hairs without that intense feeling of sucking the oil from your hairs. I like silicon-free shampoo because I have very, very fine hairs, and it gets either too dry or too greasy.
Yes this does happen at first. If you can stick it out for a few weeks your body will adjust. For me it took about a month. Also no shampoo doesn't mean not washing or scrubbing your hair. I use a comb to exfoliate the scalp skin.
Started for me, too... When I was a kid, after I started shampooing daily. I was fine before that.
There is a trend called "no poo" where people try to minimise shampoo use. https://www.nopoomethod.com/ Mailab did a funny video on it in German. https://youtu.be/rcpM3uW86Uk
I've done the nopoo thing. It made my hair so gross for a while, then amazing. Just, absolutely amazing. I used water, baking soda, and tea tree oil. It worked really well. But then tea tree oil became impossible to acquire for a while, and I went back to my old ways.
You do that and then you start smelling like shit, no one would like to be near use, at least use natural shamboo, I had snowlly sculp, with a slightly chemical shamboo 2 times per week and with one natural for the rest of the days I'm fine now and smell like an exotic garden.
About mattresses. I hike and backpack and I can attest that sleeping on the ground (meaning earth and grass) with a tent and a pad is fantastic. But you can't really do that in your house. I'd love to, cheaper, less noise, less hassle, but the floor is hard. Even with a big air mattress I find it extremely uncomfortable. I'd love to try a hammock, but without an expensive stand you can't comfortably set it up in a house. Advice?
We all have different body dimensions so there's definitely not a single solution that works for everyone. My optimal setup is some of those interlocking foam exercise mats, with a thin mattress on top of it. One important thing is to flip the mattress and let it air out once a week or so. Sweat and moisture can't evaporate from underneath like it would with a traditional setup.
I tried a hammock a few years ago but wound up with worse sleeping posture because of the way my back curled. But I also have a friend who loves hammock sleeping.
I regularly sleep on the floor in my apartment, on a mattress approx. 6 inches thick.
Works perfectly for me :) I have no idea, what kind of mattress that is. I inherited from the guy that lived here before me.
The trouble with shampoo is that our hair and skin is not build to handle the pollutants most people get in contact with throughout the day.
Soap and shampoo may not have been necessary in the past, but they are now because water alone and even some natural remedies that would otherwise be preferable, can't reliable wash that gunk of your skin/hair
There's so many bad stuff in a lot of cosmetics, but sadly we do need soaps to wash off some of the other bad stuff from outside.
As far as pollutants go you may be right. I haven't considered that, just the fact that my head always felt greasy before I stopped shampooing. And you can use a soap without chemical additives every few weeks without triggering your body to go ham on oil production.