I never used to use soap on my body, but I had a nice bar I put in the shower and added to my routine. I am 100% sure I have gotten smellier, and while it could relate to living in a much drier environment, I resent it. That said? The “your scalp will balance out the oils” is a lie. I really wanted it to be true. I gave it months. But the fact is that different people have different hair types, and the amount of oil that does not register as greasy for coarser hair makes my fine hair look like tar sands crude. Also, since dating a guy who had very … different standards about these things, I trust none of y’all’s personal anecdotes. Maybe you don’t notice your hair being greasy, and people have been polite in mentioning nothing… Here’s the thing: even if there’s an amount of grease and stink that’s Natural or ideally Healthy, that isn’t necessarily the amount of grease and stink which manifests to the modern nose as inoffensive.
An aside: those AOBiome people are nuts if they think that’s an adequate website for a cosmetic type product–especially because even if their Sciencey Sounding Claims are actually valid, the halfway savvy cosmetic consumer knows to ignore all Sciencey Sounding Claims as bullshit.
