Recs for Shampoo, Conditioner, Soap, and other grooming substances?
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Just want to get a list together of types of soaps and hair products and skincare products that could be called "peaty"?
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i have experimented with many shampoos, soaps, moisturizing products that could be seen as peaty that i could get my hands on and i have found the following to be the most agreeable:
shampoo:
pharmacopia verbena shampoo (contains aloe vera, jojoba oil, coconut oil)soap:
aleppo soapi have to caveat this one, although you can find coconut oil soap (kirk's castile bar soap) i must say i was not impressed, i find aleppo soap to be much more agreeable. if coconut oil works well for your complexion then consider the kirk's product.
moisturizer:
whipped organic beef tallow creamthis last one is interesting, usually anything oily reacts poorly for me, but for some reason beef tallow is one of the most agreeable things i can use for my face. gives a nice glow and has the added benefit of smelling like a high quality gourmet hamburger.
also, i find the trick to using moisturizers is to not be so obsessive with making sure you use it 2x a day or whatever the bottle says. it becomes a chore and you will inevitably become burned out, i also suspect overuse causes bad reactions after a long enough period of time. i will sometimes go a couple days without using the tallow and if i dont feel like using it on a given day i wont, i still see benefits. less is definitely more when it comes to putting something on your face.
one thing i could never find was a peaty sunscreen...
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To be honest I just wash myself with baking soda. I remember hearing somewhere that Ray said that soap itself is an endocrine disruptor, even without any additives. One thing I've found (though it may sound disgusting) is that egg whites are very good at cleaning the hair of grease without drying the scalp, and it puts to good use a high tryptophan protein.
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@Orindere How exactly do you use the egg whites for cleaning your hair? How much do you use, etc.
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Here's your list:
baking soda
coconut oil
white vinegar -
@RayPeatFan
What I usually do is I drain the egg whites into a bowl and eat the yolks raw. When my hair is cut short, 1 egg white works fine, and when it grows out I usually use two. I lather it into my scalp, and it makes it a little easier to wet your hair with a small amount of water first. Since the egg whites are very slippery, I lather in a little bit at a time and hold my head over the bowl so that the egg white can fall back into the bowl if it slips out of my hair.After I lather in the egg white, I wait a couple minutes before washing it down in the shower drain, but you usually want to keep the shower water lukewarm so that it doesn't cook the egg whites when you wash them out. It works really well in my experience and better than any shampoo I've ever used. My hair gets pretty greasy so the whites clear it all away, but I've heard of people with dry scalps washing with the yolk included to moisturize their hair a little more.
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@oldchem thanks for the recs! I remember others mentioning aleppo soap. The thing about coconut soap/castille soap is that it's just too strong, has strong antibacterial/cleansing effect. I used to pure coconut oil as lotion but stopped quickly because its too powerful on its own.
I'll keep in mind your other suggestions as well.
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