[Migrated, see pinned post] Casual Conversation

I commented elsewhere about the excellent deodorant tip, but about soap... have you tried... not really using soap? Or extremely minimal amounts?

I stopped effectively using soap on my body about 8 years ago and I'll talk about the reasons later. To refine that a bit more, it takes me about a year to go through one 700mL bottle of body wash. That might conjure immediate thoughts of oily hair, blackheads, greasy complexion, body odor, and so forth. In my personal experience what happened was the exact opposite!

My persistent flaky skull went away, my bodily psoriasis improved dramatically, my constant accumulation of facial blackheads stopped, acne became a distant memory, frequent earwax plugs stopped, hair became supple and lustrous, skin looked oxygenated and uniform. My whole life shaving left my skin a rosy, seeping, abraded mess and after stopping the soap I can say with no hyperbole I can shave with only water and my skin looks and feels happy and unbothered. My overall stink level probably went down by a factor of 10, no joke.

This might venture into the realm of kookery somewhat, but I believe humans did not evolve to use soap to the degree it's used overall in society.

We should use soap, we must use soap. I don't want to cook out of my cast iron that's not been washed out and has sat there with congealing pork gravy for 2 days. There's no problem with soap, but I take issue with whatever 'force' took root sometime in the 50's that made people believe they must obliterate all the scary things everywhere infinity always via it's over-application.

Edit: To give an example, I don't think we should be washing the oils out of our scalps with soaps. Our scalps made that sebum for a reason. Then we buy products to try to undo the damage of the soap but can we just geodesic this problem and not disturb our scalps in the first place

Thoughts?