Read the friggin' ingredients on a bottle of shampoo...expensive or cheap. You need to be a world class chemist to know what it all is. I think some of that stuff is used in the making of asphalt, weed killer, and probably 100 other items that are environmentally unsafe.

And we put it on our heads???????

"MontanaBob" wrote:

http://sports.yahoo.com/video/player/news/Sports_Minute/23969987

"Nonstopdrivel" wrote:

Expensive or cheap, the ingredients in shampoos are almost identical -- probably less than 10 cents' worth of chemicals that you're paying anywhere from $2 to $10 for. You're paying for the brand and that's about it. Hell, the only difference between adult shampoo and "ouch-free" or "tearless" baby shampoo is they put a topical anaesthetic in the baby shampoo to keep the baby's eyes from burning. From the first ingredient to the last, it's almost exactly the same stuff.

Not to mention there are innumerable (female) hormone analogues in most haircare products, which are increasingly being linked to reproductive defects in young boys.

Actually, unless you work in a truly filthy, hands-on job (garbage collecting or meatpacking come to mind) regular shampooing is one of the more pointless things Americans do. Americans insist they "have" to shampoo because otherwise their hair feels "greasy." It doesn't, of course, but they're so used to feeling light, frizzy hair that they think any hair with natural weight is "greasy." Yet it's the natural oils released by the sebaceous glands in the scalp that gives hair its beautiful sheen, without which our hair looks flat and dead, so we feel compelled to condition our hair to add back in some natural moisture. The problem is that the more we strip away the oils, the more oils our scalp produces to compensate. I know women who tell me they shampoo multiple times a day, because otherwise they have "greasy hair." Their bodies are in overdrive trying to compensate for the absurd amount of shampooing they're doing.

People in many countries only shampoo once a week or so, more to help clean the hair than strip the oils. As a result, their hair tends to look lush and flowing, without the frizziness so common in America. I encourage people to try the experiment for a couple of months and just see what happens. If you must feed the compulsion to put something in your hair, feel free to condition as often as you want.

I guarantee if you just give it a chance, your hair will look far better and will actually be easier to maintain. The body is pretty good at taking care of itself.

"Nonstopdrivel" wrote: