I went for almost a year never using soap or shampoo. Shampoo I still rarely use. I rinse my hair with hot water and brush it sometimes. If you don't use pro

I went for almost a year never using soap or shampoo. Shampoo I still rarely use. I rinse my hair with hot water and brush it sometimes. If you don't use product in your hair you only have the daily sweat, dirt, and sebum to get rid of. Brushing and rinsing is almost always enough. As for soap I use it as I need to. Sometimes I can't get whatever is living in my pits to go away with any amount of hot soapy water and scrubbing. I posted on reddit about not using soap about 6 months into it and caught a lot of flack from people who just assumed I was a stinky hippy that didn't realize it. A relatively healthy person with good hygiene can definitely get by without soap: sweat, rinse, dirt, rinse.. it's pretty easy to stay clean. I shaved (with a buzzer) my pits around when I started this and kept them short; this seemed to help a lot. As to why people would do it; I was literally getting compliments on my skin. Your skin gets nice and soft after a while and then, when you use soap your skin isn't adjusted to it and it gets sucked dry. That being said, I use soap regularly these days (just on pits/groin/ass).