{"id":1807,"date":"2010-03-24T21:07:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T03:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2010-03-24T21:07:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T03:07:03","slug":"and-now-for-something-totally-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=1807","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;and now, for something totally different."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seanbonner.com\/2010\/02\/01\/ive-given-up-using-soap\/\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> about a month ago. I was immediately inspired to try something different. What can I say- I&#8217;m just a rebel like that. So, with the exception of my hands, I stopped using soap. Altogether&#8230; no soap for about a month now. I know what you&#8217;re thinking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;EWWW, YOU DIRTY HIPPY! I BET YOU STINK!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I never said I stopped showering, I just said I don&#8217;t use soap when I do it. I won&#8217;t go in to every detail, but it involves a washcloth and the usual warm water shower. I didn&#8217;t tell anyone at first, because I figured I&#8217;d see if anyone noticed, though Ryan didn&#8217;t even know until I informed him two weeks in to the experiment. (I also just use deodorant instead of antiperspirant&#8230; but that&#8217;s been for a couple of years now)<\/p>\n<p>The result? My skin is obviously not dry. It isn&#8217;t greasy, either. It just feels nice. The texture of my hair is different as well. It&#8217;s naturally curly, and, even though I keep it really short, it is less frizzy and the curls seem to form more naturally (I still use a touch of some sort of styling product in it, and as far as I can tell, it all rinses out when I shower). If you&#8217;ve got curly hair, I highly recommend NOT using shampoo. Even if you don&#8217;t take the full plunge into soap-free-ness, the reduction in frizz is pretty awesome.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still considering this to be an &#8220;experiment&#8221; since I haven&#8217;t been out in the real heat yet, but I have made it through a couple of races (road and MTB) as well as some 70+ degree rides, and, as far as I (and any honest friends I&#8217;ve asked) can tell, I smell normal.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone else care to try?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this article about a month ago. I was immediately inspired to try something different. What can I say- I&#8217;m just a rebel like that. So, with the exception of my hands, I stopped using soap. Altogether&#8230; no soap for about a month now. I know what you&#8217;re thinking. &#8220;EWWW, YOU DIRTY HIPPY! I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Uq-t9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1808,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions\/1808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}