How much shit do you put on your body?

No, there aren't any pictures or videos of some weird Japanese fetish of smearing shit all over your body, but I mean this in a figurative sense. You can't walk through a Walgreens or whatever without seeing tons and tons of beauty care products from chapstick to dick lube. And have you read some of the ingredients on their labels? Hell, I don't even know how to pronounce some of that shit, let alone know why they put it in or what purpose it serves. And then some stuff is made out of weird animal parts, like sheep's eye or cow's testes, who knows, right? It's like fear factor researching all those ingredients.

Anyway, lately I've been trying to grow my hair out longer, and I noticed that some of the shampoos I use make my hair dry and frizzy, so someone suggested I don't use shampoo so much and just use conditioner more often. It turns out you can get away with not using shampoo if your hair doesn't get too dirty and oily, and it's supposed to be much healthier for your hair since it doesn't strip out necessary oils or something like that.

So what kind of stuff do you put on your body? Being winter time now, my skin is more prone to drying and cracking all over the damn place, especially on my hands, so I've been using some lotion to put on my dry and ashy arms, but I really hate putting on lotion, because it's so greasy and crap. I wish there was some kind of moisturizer out there that was really light and undetectable.

Other than that, I use chapstick for dry, chapped lips, and that's about it. Along with growing out my hair, I hate the feel of product in my hair making it stiff or sticky, so I'll go au natural and not use anymore gels, waxes, or pomades. And then other stuff that I put on that doesn't last the whole day would be like soap, shampoo, conditioner and a face cleanser. If I could get away without using anything at all on my body then I would, but I must be victim of cosmetics companies or something. At least I don't underline my eyes with dark eyeliners and look like an emo bitch or something. Oh and a face moisturizer, because most cleansers dry the shit out of my face, I guess throw in shaving creme too.

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Originally Posted by pandaswan

Deodorant, and hair wax occasionally.

It's interesting that you bring up the point about shampoos taking necessary oil off your hair. My hair starts to stink if I don't shampoo, but I realized that if I shampoo, dandruff comes back after 2 days, but if I don't shampoo for more than a week, my hair won't flake.

Do you still wash your hair regularly? I still wash my hair everyday, once in the morning, and once after I get home from the gym, but I just use a lot of conditioner instead of shampoo, and my hair is clean and smells good, so I'm not sure why you would have stinky hair. I don't know what you can do about the dandruff though, maybe some scalp oil to keep it from getting dry and crackly, since I'm guessing the shampoo is overdrying your scalp?

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This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.