Skin deep/do you know what you put on your skin?

[Brandi]

Love my Dr. Bronner's! Wash my bod, my hair, my clothes, my dishes, my dog, all with the same bottle.

The lip balm (Dr. Bronner's/Sun Dog Magic) is my favorite lip balm of all time. (much better on my lips than Burt's Bees, which is now owned by Chlorox anyway)

I like the Dr. Bronner's/Sun Dog Magic lotion, but not as much as I like my plain grape seed oil (face and body) or plain olive oil (hands and feet)

I have super coarse hair. Would the bronner's make it really frizzy? Do you use conditioner?

[Eden]

I have super coarse hair. Would the bronner's make it really frizzy? Do you use conditioner?

I have thick curly hair. This sounds nasty and I was super skeptical, but I tried it and it really works. Only shampoo your hair once or twice a week... It took a lot of will power and I cut down slowly going to every other day... every 3rd day. Now I just wash it when it looks dirty, which is usually only once or twice a week, or less depending on how much time it spends in a helmet. I still shower every day of course and my hair gets rinsed and conditioned every day as well, just no shampoo. I find this also means its much less important to be careful about what I wash it with, because it doesn't frizz as easily.

[shootingstar]

Responding to original topic...in a way this is why I don't want to go the hair colouring route at all and be on that path for many years. Hard to believe the chemicals to dye hair, which might touch scalp are all safe products.

It's amazing to look at bottle of shampoo these days to see its ingredients.. not that I've gone "organic" yet... since so-called "organic" shampoos are expensive.

My use of makeup has reduced over the past few years. In my present job, I only wear makeup (meaning foundation and lipstick), um..every 3-4 months.

And it's a predominantly male workplace. 25% women vs. 80%.

I think cycling has made me care about being fit instead of how polished I look on the job. Not sure that's the objective here.

[Jolt]

I have thick curly hair. This sounds nasty and I was super skeptical, but I tried it and it really works. Only shampoo your hair once or twice a week... It took a lot of will power and I cut down slowly going to every other day... every 3rd day. Now I just wash it when it looks dirty, which is usually only once or twice a week, or less depending on how much time it spends in a helmet. I still shower every day of course and my hair gets rinsed and conditioned every day as well, just no shampoo. I find this also means its much less important to be careful about what I wash it with, because it doesn't frizz as easily.

Interesting...you're making me want to experiment--I picked up some soap recently that's not Dr. Bronner's but seems similar (Trader Joe's brand) and plan to try it once I finish the stuff I currently have in the shower. Not sure I could get away with washing only once or twice a week though--on about day 3 my hair definitely starts looking dirty.

[Eden]

Not sure I could get away with washing only once or twice a week though--on about day 3 my hair definitely starts looking dirty.

When I first started my hair would get dirty faster, but now it seems to have reached a better equilbrium - now that I'm not stripping the natural oil out of it so often it doesn't produce as much and it stays clean much longer. I *do* rinse it out and use conditioner every day and that helps a lot. If I weren't doing that I probably couldn't go more than 2 days at a time.

[KnottedYet]

I have super coarse hair. Would the bronner's make it really frizzy? Do you use conditioner?

I don't know what it'd do for your hair. Lucy Liu also uses it, and her hair looks pretty darn good!

I don't use conditioner. (my hair is very thin and fine)