Challenge: No soap for one year - Page 3

A SOAPLESS SHAMPOO

Hair washing presents a special problem . . . again, because it's very difficult to rinse off the suds. Leftover soap or shampoo is bound to make your scalp itch, but you can get your "crowning glory" clean — and avoid the "itches" — by using baking soda!
You see, all soaps are made by combining a fat and an alkali (usually lye) . . . and baking soda — itself a mild alkali — seems to react with hair oils to produce its own natural, mild washing product. Under the proper conditions, soda will even create a copious lather.

On June 10 2008 08:53 Mischy wrote:


Why am I your girlfriend?????!!! ><

On June 10 2008 10:04 Falcynn wrote:
Also if you want an extra challenge you can try washing your hair with baking soda instead of shampoo.

According to this
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/1981-03-01/Keep-Clean-Without-Running-Water.aspx
It supposedly does a decent job. You might even be able to use the resulting lather as a substitute for body soap (this part I'm not actually sure of).

On June 10 2008 10:15 DTF-ZeRo wrote:
Well i don't really see the problem in this.
So you still use shampoo for your hair and soap for your hands and shower every day. If you don't have a really dirty job or something i don't see why you would need soap. Shampoo and water will be enough as long as you shower every day like normal.

On June 10 2008 10:24 Falcynn wrote:
Alright, since I was bored I decided to try this out real quick since I was curious about it. It actually does work pretty well for your hair, however it doesn't really create enough of a lather (in fact there was hardly any at all) to use as a body wash. Although as I said, if you want an extra challenge you can try to substitute shampoo with baking soda for a year as well.

On June 10 2008 06:50 AcrossFiveJulys wrote:
Here's an add on to make your challenge more interesting:

Carefully stitch the hole of your penis shut. Make sure to minimize bleeding as much as possible or you'll have to use soap to disinfect the area which is a BIG NONO according to your plan. Since your penis is shut, urine will have to find a different way out. Now there are 3 options: your mouth, your ears, or your anus. To make this experiment as efficient as possible, seal the non used soap in the anal opening and staple that shut as well, forcing the urine to gush out of your ears while being cleansed by the soap plugging your anus. To lower the pressure of the urine coming out your ears, cut your ears off and swallow them, and at the end of the experiment restitch them back to your skull. Measure how much urine comes out of your mouth and nose:

Total Flow = Flow_ears + Flow_mouth

and report it! Cmon guys, let's compare all of our Total Flow values and see whose is the largest!

On November 09 2008 16:39 AttackZerg wrote:
Micro, quit now. Personally challenging yourself to be a bum is useless, go a year without watching 1 minute or tv or something productive .....

On November 10 2008 05:34 CharlieMurphy wrote:
lol, give us an update.

On November 10 2008 10:13 Demoninja wrote:
I've done this for the past few years, but I'm doing it because my doctor told me to.