It’s obviously a great time to be a dirty bird. In July we confessed our hatred of soap and in November we felt vindicated by a New York Times article about people who are forgoing soap and other cleansers in an effort to embrace a more laissez faire (and healthy) approach to personal hygiene. Now, there’s a piece flying around the internet about a guy who stopped using soap and shampoo for a whole year, and liked it so much he has announced he’ll be sticking with it. My friend Patrick James, a great writer who I used to work with at GOOD, alerted us to it the other day with his post, which you can—and should—read here.

It probably goes without saying that this great unwashed boy blogger Sean Bonner is our new hero. We haven’t smelled him or anything, but we believe him when he says he banished his BO and finds his hair more manageable than ever before.

He wrote about it for BoingBoing last week and here are his results:

—My skin feels better than ever before. Not that it ever felt bad, really, but it feels awesome now.

—Still no stink at all. I swear even when I’m really active and sweating I don’t notice any B.O., and I used to be über self-conscious about this and would think I was stinking if I walked up a flight of stairs too quickly.

—Dandruff is history.

—My previously wavy and mostly unmanageable hair now seems much more willing to bend to my will, a dream of mine since I first looked in a mirror, brush in hand, then tried and failed to make any sense of that monster.

—Unexpected bonus: travel is much easier.

We agree! His conclusion:

I will definitely be sticking with this. I’m still annoyed it took me 35 years to learn what I clearly already knew as a baby kicking and screaming when my parents tried to wash my hair. I know now, but I’d still rather not think about how much I spent on soap and shampoo and related products over the years when they were likely causing all the problems I was trying to protect against.

Amen.

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