Tips on avoiding hairwashing battles

PinkLipgloss

For those of you with issues detangling long hair - this product is a MUST HAVE (it genuinely works and is AMAZING!)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tangle-Teezer-Professional-Detangling-Hairbrush/dp/B00264NW7G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1366725003&sr=8-1&keywords=detangle+brush

mrcow

Are you getting the water into her eyes/face and that's what she doesn't like?

If so, then just be more gentle. Get her to tip her hair back and wash the hair with a cup and push the water away from the face so none goes into the eyes or face. It's easy doing it that way.

If it helps too, given her a dry flannel to hold over her eyes whilst you're doing it is extra protection.

My daughter will scream and cry if anyone else washes her hair because they'll happily get water everywhere and she doesn't like it in her face.

jenhug

my daughter was the same. i made her stand in the bath, back to me, with her head tipped back and she would tolerate me doing it this way as it was off her face.

you could also try a mobile back wash unit hairdressers use.

LannieDuck

She's 6 years old, so able to have sensible conversations. I would go down the route of asking her why she doesn't like it. If she can't give you a reason, I might let her just not wash her hair for a couple of weeks. When it's all greasy and dirty and itchy, I bet she'll let you do it...

Of course, that does rely on her giving in before you do :P

jenhug

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Fen1

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We had one of these shower tap heads. She could stand at the sink and wash her own hair ( so having control over what she is doing ). Or, she could sit with her back to the sink on a high stool, with you washing the hair hairdresser-style. No problems at all with shampoo in the face.

The problem may not be the shampoo, but that her head gets cold after hair washing whilst her body is still warm in the bath. The temperature differential between a cold wet head and a warm body might be very unpleasant for her.

TopQuark

Fire Fox, thanks for the links; interesting! I must admit that it's true, I've not done any research on this and you seem to have been busy investigating and testing suitable conditioners that can function as shampoo, so I bow to your greater knowledge here! (I have a PhD in chemistry but I work in particle physics now so my chem. brain is rusty and I just posted the response without verifying!).

Out of interest, which product do you recommend above others? I've got long, blonde and unruly hair so maybe I'll give this a try!!

bedpotato_2

PinkLipgloss wrote: »

For those of you with issues detangling long hair - this product is a MUST HAVE (it genuinely works and is AMAZING!)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tangle-Teezer-Professional-Detangling-Hairbrush/dp/B00264NW7G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1366725003&sr=8-1&keywords=detangle+brush

I think what you are trying to say is that it genuinely works for you personally. For me personally, the tangle teezer was a complete and total waste of money. It's basically just a curry comb.

It might work well on thin hair, but the bristles are nowhere near thick or long enough to get through thick hair like mine.

lostinrates

TopQuark wrote: »

Fire Fox, thanks for the links; interesting! I must admit that it's true, I've not done any research on this and you seem to have been busy investigating and testing suitable conditioners that can function as shampoo, so I bow to your greater knowledge here! (I have a PhD in chemistry but I work in particle physics now so my chem. brain is rusty and I just posted the response without verifying!).

Out of interest, which product do you recommend above others? I've got long, blonde and unruly hair so maybe I'll give this a try!!

There are some threads on 'no poo' or conditioner only washing in the health and beauty section. I 'low poo' I only shampoo occasionally. I last shampoo'd, um.....not sure actually, probably this year though but will be shampoo'd this week at the hair dressers. I usually use a thing marketed as 'conditioner only' but its much cheaper to do it by label reading and using other conditioners. (I do a bit of this too, particularly when my hair 'expresses other needs').


Just a note on brushing when wet....one curly mama on this thread said she never does, in contrast I only ever brush hair dry for highlight and very rarely for treatments (I usually work them in with my hands). Brushing dry is painful for me, with spextremely curly hair, and doesn't look good, so really is done for a need basis. Most knots I can get out with my fingers and lots of conditioner. It takes a little longer but is so much gentler. When its knot free I double check with a comb specifically for curly hair, or an Afro comb or occasionally a tangle teaser.

My opinion contrary to many, is that while brushing wet IS damaging, it looks worse on curly girl maintaining curries because our shed hair is probably held in the curls and falls less. I keep a close eye on breakage etc because I have suffered from alopecia and I am content that with my gentle comb or brushing wet, conditioned hair I am losing no more than I was dry, and my hair is happier.

Edit: a note on hygiene...my hair smells good (of the conditioner I use) and is neither greasy at all nor too dry (usually, sometimes its prone to be a little dry). I am seeing a new hairdresser this week and met him last week, I warned him I 'low poo' and he was intrigued and said he would never have guessed...he sniffed it, looked at my scalp and generally prodded and felt it. I can tell he didn't like it...and I understand that, to most of us the idea of shampoo then conditioner is normal...even to those of us who opt against it it can be a difficult emotional hurdle, but he did agree its probably why my hair is in 'decent' condition)

LisaLou1982

I hated having my hair washed too when i was little.

There was no discussion in our house. Mum washed our hair regardless of whether you wanted it or not!