how i stopped using shampoo to wash my hair

ok - so it has been easy for me to stop using shampoo.
shampoo wrecked my hair. now my hair is softer and shinier and i don't have to worry about it as much.
i have several gray hairs coming in and i love them so i stopped dying my hair about a year ago and that was when i found out that my hair was very dry and hated to be washed.
whenever i would wash and condition my hair - it would get greasy on the top and dry on the ends. my hair was actually breaking off when i would sleep!

when i first started not using shampoo - my goal was not to go water only.
it just happened over a period of time.
first i was doing conditioner only washing
then i went to indian herbs (shikakai and amla) and pre-oiling overnight
then just amla tea
finally, i realized that my hair was getting much softer and the ends were not so dry... because at first the ends were very dry even with the amla tea

then, i realized that i had actually been going through the transition phase for water only hair washing!!! the tea that i had been using does not clean hair very much and i had been just pouring the tea on my wet hair and then rinsing with warm water and scrubbing my scalp and then rinsing with cold.

well, when i ran out of the amla i panicked and needing to wash my hair -
just rinsed with warm water and scrubbed like usual and then rinsed and rinsed with cold. i could tell no difference!!!
if anything my hair was shinier and less dry than before when i had been using the amla rinse.

i will keep you updated on my progress.