You don’t need shampoo or conditioner except sometimes medicinally!

If you do not apply some sort of (proven) cleaning agent to your hair on a reasonably frequent basis, i dont care how in touch with nature and your primal self you are, you stink. If you dont want to deal with the maintenance cut it off, rocking the wrecking ball aesthetic is pretty great actually.

The no-poo (no shampoo) movement is very real and definitely works for many people (dependant on hair type and oil secretions). Basically, once you stop washing away your natural oils daily, the production normalizes and then a regular rinse with water and occasionally something like diluted soap, lemon juice or apple cider vinegar.

I’ve met them, I was one, I know them. You wouldn’t know unless they told you.

and occasionally something like diluted soap, lemon juice or apple cider vinegar.

i.e. some sort of (proven) cleaning agent

By occasionally, they mean once a month at most.

Hair only stinks if you get crap in it.

Okay, but it’s important for everyone elseto know that they aren’t going years without using a cleaning agent like wild animals.

You ever smell an animal’s fur? It’s not great.

If you are brushing them often, feeding them good food, and not letting your dog roll in everything, they smell a lot better.

That being said, animals in general do have stronger smelling oils than humans - often for some evolutionarily advantageous reasons.

On the other hand, dogs don’t sweat.

And sweat rinses off quite easily.

What about sweat that’s been in your hair for 12+ hours? Growing things.

If your sweat is growing things in 12 hours, you need a doctor or an exorcist.

Remember, many indigenous people across the world used steam to bath, as the steam and new sweat rinsed off the old sweat quite effectively.