I read an article online this morning about the "no-poo" lifestyle, in which one completely stops shampooing their hair. Apparently 'no-poo-ers' are returning to the time before Farah Fawcett started hawking Suave Shampoo in the 70s, when most women only washed their hair once a week. Go back about a half a century and nobody was really talking about washing their hair at all. Now I don't know that I could survive (or remain employed) during the described "2 - 6 week adjustment period" in which you do not wash your hair, yet it continues to produce the same amount of oils as it would if you were still washing. Still the argument being made (despite its magnificently dreadful moniker) combined with the pictures and testimonials were pretty convincing for why it might work for those who can excuse themselves from society for the duration of "adjustment," and who are looking for a more natural, economic and environmentally friendly personal hygiene regimen.
So this got me to thinking...if we can do without shampoo, what else could we do without?
#1: Gym clothes. I was just thinking about how I needed to go shopping for new work out clothes when a woman in khaki shorts and a t-shirt hopped on the machine next to me. Clearly - she was working out just fine without the benefit of "work out attire." Not that I'm about to give mine back - but I can't help but wonder when exactly we decided that regular clothes were just not right for exercise.
#2: Go-Gurt: yogurt on the go! When did yogurt (individually packaged with a foil lid) become labor intensive and binding enough to warrant the new and improved, 'go-gurt?'
Okay...so I only have two at the moment. I'm sure that more will come to me :) But alas, its time for my recently shampooed and gym-clothes clad self to go work out :)
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