New York freelance writer Sarah Theeboom was inspired to give up using products on her hair after she ran into an old friend whose once dry, frizzy locks were smooth and shiny. When Sarah asked for her secret, her friend explained that she had simply stopped shampooing, opting to partake in the apparently popular “no poo” movement, which Sarah had never heard of until that moment.

    “I wasn’t in love with it, and I just didn’t really know what to do,” she said. “I wanted to try my friend’s trick and stop shampooing.”

    Although her friend warned her that her scalp and hair would go through a nasty adjustment period, Sarah wasn’t prepared for the dandruff and excessive amounts of grease that she first experienced after she started shunning shampoo during a three-week vacation to Thailand.

    Sarah recalled that during those first few weeks her hair was the “greasiest” it had ever been.

    “I was so embarrassed that I didn’t want to show my head to anyone,” she explained.

    Despite the fact that she “almost cracked” and went back to shampoo, she forged on with her mission.

    After vacation she started wrapping her hair with headbands every day. When she showered she would wet her hair and scrub her scalp with her fingers. And even though her boyfriend was critical of the idea, Sarah explained that, by this point, she “felt committed” to her cause.

    It took six weeks for her hair to feel somewhat normal again and then another six weeks of her hair looking “so-so” before the “magic happened.”

    “I started to see what my natural hair was like when I wasn’t constantly doing stuff to manipulate it,” Sarah explained. “It was silky and wavier and totally frizz-free.”

    The “no poo” movement has gained popularity over recent years because of celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, Shailene Woodley, Adele and Jessica Simpson who have revealed that they avoid washing their hair for days — and sometimes months — on end.

纽约自由撰稿人萨拉·希博姆有一回偶遇旧友，发现几年不见，她原先干燥蜷曲的头发变得顺滑光亮，就立马向她求教。老友告诉萨拉，她只不过没再使用洗发水而

已。萨拉这才知道时下非常流行的“戒洗发水”运动。

她说：“刚开始我并不喜欢也不习惯，只是不知道还有什么更好的方法可以改善发质，想试一下朋友的方法。”

尽管朋友当时曾提醒她，刚开始不用洗发水，头皮和头发肯定会经过一段难受的适应时期，萨拉在刚开始的三周还是对过多的头屑和油脂措手不及，当时她正在泰国度假。

萨拉回忆刚开始不用洗发水的那几周，她的头发十分油腻。

“我每天都特别尴尬，完全不想让别人看到我的头发。”她说。

尽管很难熬，无数次想重新用洗发水洗头，但她还是忍住了。

旅游结束后，萨拉每天用束发带绑住头发出门，每回洗澡她就淋湿头发拿手指抓一下头皮。尽管男友曾质疑她的这一做法，萨拉解释道，到了这个时候，她觉得自己“必须坚持履行”计划。

六周之后，她感觉自己的头发恢复了正常状态，又过了没什么变化的六周，奇迹发生了。

“我仔细观察自然状态下的头发，”她说，“果然如丝般顺滑，完全不毛躁。”

金·卡戴珊、谢琳·伍德蕾、阿黛儿和杰西卡·辛普森等名人都透露，他们好几天甚至好几个月都不用洗发水洗头。因为名人效应，“戒洗发水”运动这几年越来越流行。

Words to Learn 相关词汇

【头发】tóufà locks the hair of the head

【头屑】tóuxiè dandruff a scaly scurf formed on and shed from the scalp, sometimes caused by seborrhea