How often do you wash your hair?

Ravenlady_2

I went no poo ages ago, didnt wash it from 17-25 and now about 4 months ago stopped again.

Apple cider vinegar rinses stop you smelling like wet dog while your hair is adjusting to it, you can use bicarb too.

Mad-Frog

I have long fine and I mean really fine as in perms (in the eighties :eek:) lasted about a week

I tried head and shoulders a few years ago and it made my hair really really greasy that I stopped and chucked it out. I use tresemme and that's okay to miss one night shampoo, although as a standby I use dry shampoo in the morning if I haven't washed my hair the night before

My SIL uses body shop shampoo and conditioner I borrowed some when we went on holiday and it is fab, sorry forget the exact type but if you can afford it I thoroughly recommend it my hair after two days felt brand new

flippin36

You could try clarifying it with a sulphate shampoo (anything that doesn't have a lot of oils and silicones). Pantene do a clarifying shampoo. The reason I need to clarify is because the oils and silicones in my lovely s&c's end up coating my hair over time, making it both greasy and tangly at the same time.

Floralise

every 2/3 days

lostinrates

Ravenlady wrote: »

I went no poo ages ago, didnt wash it from 17-25 and now about 4 months ago stopped again.

Apple cider vinegar rinses stop you smelling like wet dog while your hair is adjusting to it, you can use bicarb too.

I low-shampoo, not no-poo. I wash my hair with conditioner, and shampoo ''when I think I need to'' that could be weekly, fortnightly, or longer.

I have dry hair, and spent a lot of time around animal barns/muck and the smell sticks to my hair if I don't condition and the problem is worse when my hair is more dry.

I recently bought a bottle of shampoo for the first time in AGES (I use so little now) and its lovely and I got lured into washing my hair a few times in the last fortnight because of ''new bottle by the bath syndrome'' but I really notice how dry my hair has become over the same period of time.

re shower atachments for taps, yes you can still get them, we bought on last year. BUT, its fairly pants. I keep a plastic jug by the bath and after a first couple of rinses in the bath water I use fresh water from the taps mixed to temperature in the jug then poured in a decent deluge over my head.

adamantine

i do mine 2-3 days and use dry shampoo inbetween if needed.

sounds like you are washing your hair too much and not rinising the product out properly by rinsing your hair in the bath.

Murtle

Rinse with cider vinegar it will get the dregs of shampoo out and you won't smell like a chip shop for long! I started using it when the build up of shampoo left my hair feeling ick and itchy.

Dontknowanymore

At the very least once a week, sometimes once a fortnight.
I am mixed race and have semi afro hair that I relax. It is natrually really dry so If I washed it all the time it would be awful.

19lottie82

Generally every other day. Day i wash it, it get's worn down, the day I don't it gets worn up.
However, not washing it every day is just down to sheer laziness I'm afraid...... my hair is reasonably long (not too bad), the thought of washing it doesn't bother me, it's just the effort of drying it and straightening it after that is sometimes too much to cope with after a hard days work!

onlyroz

As others have said, you don't need to wash your hair every day. Basically, the more you wash it the more you need to wash it - because you strip out all the natural oils and so the scalp goes into overdrive to replace them, hence the greasy hair the next day.

I typically wash mine twice a week.