Conformity Examples Mega-Thread

[Alexop]

2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Shampoo and toothpaste is fine.

But shampooing twice is confirmist. Once is enough.

i did not shamoo my hair for years. It is as majestic as before this experiment. Hot water wash is enough

[Leo Gura]

6 minutes ago, Alexop said:

i did not shamoo my hair for years. It is as majestic as before this experiment. Hot water wash is enough

Soap helps wash out the oil, dirt, sweat. Soap is very effective for washing.

Edited yesterday at 08:17 PM by Leo Gura

[KosmicGeng]

Generally if I am not killed by the stupidity of survival, I use quality soap and some currently cheap 5 in 1 or 3 in 1 shampo, but I prefer soap all over even in hair if it's quality soap, and not showering one day just washing is fine occasionaly, and brushing hair is neccessary sometimes for it in order to grow and take out the dead hair etc. 

If you have long-hair for example brushing it once daily is fine, but being obsessed and burshing it more then 2-3x a day is quiet conformist imo around beauty, it's mostly about how your hair will grow etc. I have to wear mine long in order to prevent oil gland overproduction, the doctor also recommended this. 

Edited yesterday at 08:34 PM by KosmicGeng

[PsychedelicEagle]

Surfactants are helpful indeed, but shampoo often comes with so much extra and unnecessary chemical stuff.

Also, I only soap a couple times per week. Most showers are bare water. Personal preference.

Another thing to consider is the skin microbiota. Some soap makes the skin pH alkaline, which could mess up with the bacteria. Who knows, but I'm a frugal guy so I minimize soap usage

Edited yesterday at 08:33 PM by PsychedelicEagle

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Double shampoo is needed when you have hard water. 

If you haven't had long hair and lived with hard water, you won't need to do this. 

But just try one shampoo with long hair + hard water. The gradual residue buildup is insane. This is without using any products. Just from the shitty water. And hard water is something you can encounter even in gentrified areas.

So while double shampoo is required as a solution for these circumstances - people who blindly follow this are conformist.

So a bit of column A, a bit of column B 😃

Edited yesterday at 09:49 PM by Natasha Tori Maru

[Sugarcoat]

5 meo dmt because youre trying to not be different from anything 

[Leo Gura]

@Natasha Tori Maru You forced my hand:

Edited yesterday at 09:55 PM by Leo Gura

[Sugarcoat]

4 hours ago, PsychedelicEagle said:

I just use nothing. Brush the teeth as you normally would, without toothpaste. Ideally brush it 3x/day; also floss; and optional tongue scraper.

I did some research and I realized there is not enough science to back the use of toothpaste. If you look deep, you'll see that the only thing that could justify toothpaste would be (i) fluoride and (ii) abrasive stuff — silica or calcium carbonate. 

(i) For people who develop caries, fluoride can help. I never had a carie in my life, meaning that my mouth is populated by bacteria unlikely to cause it. So probably I will never have one, despite not using fluoride. This is individual of course. Notice you don't need toothpaste to deliver fluoride into your mouth either.

(ii) The evidence for abrasives in toothpaste is extremely weak. Some research showed no difference. And, notice there are risks with the abrasives, e.g., possibly wearing out dentin and enamel.

Lastly, I go to the dentist every 6 months and they have reported nothing different in their assessment. Of course I don't tell them I'm not using toothpaste anymore, otherwise they'd be biased to find something.

I see, but may I ask do you find it preferable yourself, or is there not really much noticeable difference experientially? 

I never have had carie either for some reason I don't understand, maybe what you said about bacteria population gives a clue.

Edited yesterday at 09:57 PM by Sugarcoat

[Natasha Tori Maru]

14 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

@Natasha Tori Maru You forced my hand:

I made it too easy 🥹 

The top (what the hell animal is that!?) one looks like its taken a turn inside a lawn mower.

[PsychedelicEagle]

12 hours ago, Sugarcoat said:

I see, but may I ask do you find it preferable yourself, or is there not really much noticeable difference experientially? 

Experientially, not much difference. Mentally I prefer without — once toothpaste is in my mouth I feel compelled to rinse everything out to avoid ingesting undesired stuff, which would ironically defeat the fluoride, if any, anyway.

There's some mechanistic reason to think ingredients could have small systemic effects (oral microbiome seeds the gut) — see the Triclosan case. Current ingredients seem speculative and minor compared to diet, but still, who knows.

I prefer to be conservative and expose my microbiota to as little artificial stuff as possible. Better safe than sorry.

Edited 11 hours ago by PsychedelicEagle

[Sugarcoat]

6 hours ago, PsychedelicEagle said:

Experientially, not much difference. Mentally I prefer without — once toothpaste is in my mouth I feel compelled to rinse everything out to avoid ingesting undesired stuff, which would ironically defeat the fluoride, if any, anyway.

There's some mechanistic reason to think ingredients could have small systemic effects (oral microbiome seeds the gut) — see the Triclosan case. Current ingredients seem speculative and minor compared to diet, but still, who knows.

I prefer to be conservative and expose my microbiota to as little artificial stuff as possible. Better safe than sorry.

Ok, a bit unexpected to me that you don't notice much difference, but cool to hear unconventional perspective

[Husseinisdoingfine]

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[Husseinisdoingfine]

On 8/22/2026 at 5:49 AM, PsychedelicEagle said:

• Using toothpaste
• Using deodorant with fragrances
• Using hair gel

I def disagree with this.

But use only ewg verified products.

https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/