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July's Green Challenge: My hair = oil slick

Join the Green Challenge every month and make one small change to help the environment. Then at the end of the month let us know how you did!

I came up with the four minute shower for July's Green Challenge because that's what my shower timer is set for. Plain and simple. It's an hourglass (or "four-minute glass") so if I wanted to do more time I'd have to flip it and measure in very unscientific increments. How I DO WISH that I had a five-or-six-minute glass. Humph.

I knew that this month's challenge was going to be hard in an emotional sense but I had no idea just how fast I had to move in the shower to lather and rinse in four minutes. I have completely given up conditioner for my hair and use it instead to shave my legs (with the water turned off, thank you very much). Moisturizing my hair takes way too much time. Shampooing my hair barely leaves me with enough time to rinse.

I have considered turning off the water while I lather up but it would take me so long to get the temperature back to "just right" once I started the shower again that it seems pointless.

What are ways that you have cut back on your shower time?

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