Actually chippy, you are doing yourself a favor. Your body has natural cleansing abilities. If you can get over the first couple of months (when your head overcompensates for all of the natural oils you have stripped off of our scalp from using shampoo) you will actually have cleaner hair than any of us. We use shampoo because we think we have to, and because after a few days, we feel gross, but if you leave your hair shampoo free for a few days, it will become very soft and silky (boy do I sound like a woman)