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Everyone’s talking about not washing your hair today—a ploy we’d never ever consider, even if we wore promised baby-soft hair. But after reading about it twice in one day we had to ask, would you ever really do this? Have you already started doing this? We mentioned it earlier in regard to Proenza Schouler’s CEO, Shirley Cook. Cook hasn’t washed her hair in six weeks and she looks great. (And we’re assuming, because she’s researching fragrances and works in high fashion and socializes, that she manages to smell great, too, despite yoga and 30 minute sprints.) Six weeks would put on her on the tail end of this process, outlined by Lauren O’Neal on the Hairpin. O’Neal basically answers the question we asked this morning, “How?” She says to stop shampooing and start using a mixture of household products instead. First baking soda and water to clean and then vinegar and water to condition, then a few weeks of nothing at all (except for water) and then eventually the baking soda mixture again about once a week or every ten days. O’Neal says it’ll be horribly greasy for about a week and then no one will notice, (she doesn’t actually say it’ll stop being greasy, just that no one will notice it’s greasy…), and that if you have bangs you should probably pin them back—or wear a hat, like she does. At the end, you’ll have shiny soft hair, save money on shampoo and help the environment—but you have to go through almost two months of grease to get there. Would you even consider it?