Man Survives Without Using Soap For 18 Months-Could You? [Soap]

What would happen in case you went a year and a half without washing with soap and shampoo? Would your girlfriend ditch you? Friends loathe having to invite you ’round? Or, like Richard Nikoley and Sean Bonner , would life just…go on?

Nikoley’s gone without either for 18 months now, and Bonner, inspired by Nikoley, just a year. Both claim life is far easier now, with Nikoley seeing some pleasant bonuses :

” What I’ve found over these 18 months is that I never even considered the cash I was saving. Hell, a good sized bottle of shampoo and body wash would last me months anyway. Oh, and then there’s the travel size versions. No, what has made this experience oh so satisfying is that I don’t ought to worry about any of that anymore – ever. Don’t must buy it. Don’t must carry it. Don’t ever run out of it. Don’t ought to get it tossed within the dumpster by TSA goons.”

Bonner, writing on Boing Boing, can’t see himself ever going back to buying bottles of chemicals:

” The long run? I’m going to definitely be sticking with this. I’m still annoyed it took me 35 years to benefit what I clearly already knew as a toddler kicking and screaming when my parents tried to clean my hair. At the least that’s what I need to assume I knew back then. I know now, but I’d still rather not take into accounts how much I spent on soap and shampoo and related products over time after they were likely causing the complete problems I was looking to protect against.”

Funnily enough, he recounts a time when a hairdresser washed his hair with shampoo before he knew what was happening-and suffered dandruff and unruly hair for weeks afterward.

Supposedly one in 230 million people all over the world are allergic to water , and cannot bathe without their skin being brought out in rashes, so suffer far worse than Nikoley and Bonner would if forced into a shower with a bar of soap. But would you go 18 months without using cleansing products to your skin or hair? [ Richard Nikoley and Boing Boing ]

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