{"id":1368,"date":"2011-01-06T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/06\/18-months-without-soap-or-shampoo-success\/"},"modified":"2011-01-06T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T13:42:00","slug":"18-months-without-soap-or-shampoo-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/06\/18-months-without-soap-or-shampoo-success\/","title":{"rendered":"18 months without soap or shampoo: success!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/5V2NQSa04OA\/18-months-without-so.html\">18 months without soap or shampoo: success!<\/a>: &#8220;This week Sean Bonner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/01\/05\/i-havent-used-soap-i.html\">reported on his success in staying clean and odorless by showering with water and not using soap or shampoo<\/a>. Sean was inspired by a <a href=\"http:\/\/freetheanimal.com\/2009\/12\/paleo-i-dont-care-i-like-no-soap-no-shampoo.html\">blog post I linked to on a site called freetheanimal.com<\/a>. It&#8217;s run by a fellow named Richard Nikoley, who self-experiments with various types of diet, nutrition, exercise, fitness, and health regimens, based on his research in evolutionary biology.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a little of what Richard has to say about his soap and shampoo free experiment 18 months after starting it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"120940358_4d0204e1c5_o.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.boingboing.net\/120940358_4d0204e1c5_o.jpg?resize=343%2C294\" width=\"343\" height=\"294\">What I&#8217;ve found over these 18 months is that I never even thought of the money I was saving. Hell, a decent sized bottle of shampoo and body wash would last me months anyway. Oh, and then there&#8217;s the travel size versions. No, what has made this experience oh so satisfying is that I don&#8217;t have to worry about any of that anymore &#8212; ever. Don&#8217;t have to buy it. Don&#8217;t have to carry it. Don&#8217;t ever run out of it. Don&#8217;t have to get it tossed in the dumpster by TSA goons.<\/p>\n<p>So what it boils down to is that this has been such a tremendous experience on the pure grounds of liberation. Now, I can wash up anywhere, anytime there&#8217;s a shower, lake, river or stream at hand and feel completely normal about it, not as though it&#8217;s the best I can do because I don&#8217;t have a big bag of &#8216;personal hygiene&#8217; products immediately at hand.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freetheanimal.com\/2010\/12\/a-most-successful-self-experiement-over-18-months-soap-and-shampoo-free.html\">A Most Successful Self-Experiment: Over 18 Months Soap and Shampoo Free<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/34301797@N00\/120940358\/.jpg\">Photo<\/a> by Madaise. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=e745f728fd8b72a57454d8c35d0846b4&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=e745f728fd8b72a57454d8c35d0846b4&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/segment-pixel.invitemedia.com\/pixel?code=TechCons&#038;partnerID=167&#038;key=segment\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?resize=0%2C0\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/haku.vizu.com\/a.gif?resize=0%2C0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/5V2NQSa04OA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 months without soap or shampoo: success!: &#8220;This week Sean Bonner reported on his success in staying clean and odorless by showering with water and not using soap or shampoo. Sean was inspired by a blog post I linked to on a site called freetheanimal.com. It&#8217;s run by a fellow named Richard Nikoley, who self-experiments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-m4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}