To not get this not washing your hair thing?!

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Recent trip to the hairdresser resulted in me getting told off (gently) for washing my hair every day. Post pregnancy my hair is a lot thinner and prone to breaking, and in the last few months I’ve had the nastiest greasy roots. I mean proper crispy hair, it’s grim!

I’ve always washed my hair daily since childhood, but now I’m told I shouldn’t.

Problem is by the end of the day I haven’t washed I look a mess! My fringe looks like a oil slick, it is horrible.

Do I go back to daily washing and just go bald? Or am I missing a trick that everyone else knows and I don’t?

Hairdresser or not, you are simply repeating utter rubbish you have been told is true. It's not.
Guess every single hairdresser and book is wrong

morphe you're wrong

Oh fgs stop talking such shit. Hair follicles are not glands. They have glands (sebaceous) next to them, but that is not the same thing. How active a persons sebaceous glands are and how much sebum they produce has little if anything to do with their shampoo and washing frequency.
I know hairdressers don't need a good grasp of biology but stop lecturing others when you don't have a notion.

For every hairdresser that says washing your hair every day damages it there is another who says it doesn't.

As I said before, you wash your body and face every day so why not your hair? I jump in the shower every morning and wash every bit of me including my hair. I would feel unclean if I didn't.

all cells can respond to having their external environment depleted of the substance they are producing by producing more.

This is why PPIs are more effective than antacids.....

Why are you so wedded to the idea that a gland who's job it is to surround its location in oil would not respond to that oil being chemically stripped away?

Why do you think hair follicle glands are so unique as to totally ignore all environmental stimuli?

What mechanism do you ascribe to the evidence presented by any number of people on this thread that their hair gets greasy less quickly when they wash it less frequently?

Is it that the shampoo is actually grease? (I mean if we are talking conditioner than that isn't such a stretch...but shampoo is a surfactant ie. not a grease).

Greasy hair is sebum, right? From pilosebaceous units, which comprise gland + hair follicle + something else I can't remember from my biology years ago!! I have no idea whether frequent shampooing would increase secretion or not; if I had to take a wild guess, I'd say it would probably depend on the precise chemical contents of the shampoo. I bet some could trigger it and others not.

HAIR FOLLICLES ARE NOT GLANDS. YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.

existential - OK, technically hair follicles aren't glands, but they are closely associated with them, right, in pilosebaceous units? But that seems to be a question of semantics more than anything - the real issue here seems to be another question: does shampoo affect sebum production? You say it doesn't, Morphene says it does. I don't have a clue! A quick Google seems to reveal conflicting evidence, but this is not my area!

Actually what I said upthread was that while it might be true for some, it is by no means universal and people should stop presenting one approach as a stone fact.
For many people, not washing hair will have zero effect on how greasy their hair is. Any person, hairdresser or not, who says that it absolutely will help is wrong.

Why people would go to all the faff of washing just the fringe is beyond me! Just wash the whole lot and be done with it!
Also dry shampoo is rank. It doesn't clean your hair, just soaks up the grease and grime - yuk!
It's also not particularly good for your hair as it clogs up the hair follicles and can cause it to be dry and to break easily.

I used to need to wash mine daily as it tended to be quite oily but hormonal changes mean I could now leave it for a couple of days but it just doesn't feel clean and also as it's styled it needs to be blasted with the hairdryer in order to look anywhere near decent so I still wash it most days. A few of my friends have longer hair that doesn't get greasy and can be left longer between washes with no discernible difference to their appearance which is great but if you have oily hair then for gods sake just wash it!

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I co-wash once a week - and most days wet it and spray with curl reviver or rose water. My hair has a tendency to be dry; if I washed it more frequently it would get drier and frizzy.

@FakePlasticTeaLeaves

Does it not take ages washing your hair everyday? totally misses point

Another vote for dry shampoo here!

Nope I have long finr hair that is poker straight. Wash it in the shower, blast it dry with a heat spray and brush it...15 minutes including washing tops, I never use straighteners as my hair is naturally straight and shiny;her asked all the time what I use as mine is so shiny).

Try building up your tolerance to not washing. My hair was terrible after baby number 2, the only upside was I didn’t go out much so was able to leave it for days without washing it. I also invested in decent shampoo and got to the point I could almost go a whole week without washing it.

I never liked dry shampoo but have become more of a fan recently, I also use just plain baby powder to help absorb the grease.

If I have to go out, to the shops or something, then my hair goes in a bun with a thick headband.

Try giving your head a rest and listen to your hairdresser, putting up with crappy hair for 6 months to get it healthy is better than going bald.

putting up with crappy hair for 6 months

Well it's 3 and a half years since the OP posted.
She's probably sorted it by now

Your hair needs washing every day BECAUSE you wash it every day. Hair can be manipulated so if you start washing every other day and just dealing with the greasiness for a while, it will soon stop being so greasy between washes. Invest in dry shampoo! I used to wash my hair only once a week! I then got into doing it every other day and it gets greasy quicker now! It’s not good to wash it every day

@spermbrows

Dry shampoo makes my hair mank. I've tried a million different ones. I wash mine everyday but I'm not having issues with it thinning. Can you use a shampoo for thinning hair to help it?

Dry shampoo is awful, I agree. It’s all I can smell all day, just reminding me how lazy I am fit not washing my hair!

It feels claggy against my scalp. Horrid stuff.

I also have been told off several times by the hairdresser for washing my hair every day.

I have tried lots of different shampoos, expensive ones & cheaper ones. I might get an extra few hours, (maybe two lunchtime on the second day), but in the end nothing has worked. My hair feels greasy, feels stuck to my head.

I’m told it looks fine, so I do wonder sometimes if I’m imagining it, but then I noticed the spots. I get large painful spots on my scalp it it’s not washed everyday. Obviously from the grease.

My hair otherwise is in great condition despite it being highlighted every few months fir over 20 years. So I’ll keep washing it daily. I do treat it with olaplex weekly too.

One good thing of WFH is if I don’t have any Teams meetings for a couple of hours after my start of day, I don’t blow dry it, so there’s some saving from ‘further’ damage there.

I wash mine anything from every day to every third day, depending on what I've been doing and what it looks like. It's definitely dryer now I'm in my 50s than it was in my youth.

I can't bear my hair smelling of food which happens after some cooking, so it gets washed the next morning if I can smell it, even if it looks okay.

I have shortish curlyish hair - sometimes grappling with it enough to make it look presentable in the morning is more of a hassle than just washing it

I’ve never washed my hair more than once a week, but it is on the dry side of normal.

Saying that not washing your hair everyday is rank is so offensive. It may be rank if you have naturally greasy hair but for those of us with a dry hair type it isn't rank at all - we don't need to wash it everyday because it doesn't resemble an oil slick if we don't :D

Cutting down on shampoo has made a huge difference to my hair, I have very fine, dry and wavy/frizzy hair which splits easily, and washing it every day was making it even drier and more frizzy/crispy at the ends.

I wash my hair twice a week on average, but I only use (sulfate-free) shampoo once a week. I alternate between using shampoo/conditioner on a weekend, and conditioner-only in the middle of the week. Less shampoo and more conditioner is the way to go for me. If I can stretch it out (say over winter) I'll do it even once a week!

Occasionally I do use a sulfate shampoo, but that's only after I've done a oil mask (soak my hair in coconut oil for several hours before washing).

My hair used to be so fragile with constant breakage and fallout, but since doing this I now have far less fallout and it is definitely healthier now than it has been for a long time.

Just realised how old this thread is!

FFS! Who has someone resurrected an old thread from bloody 2017 to state their wise opinion! Start a new one ffs!

*Why?

Ffs not Who*

I use the curly girl method, no shampoo ever, but if I had straight hair, I think I’d go for no silicate shampoos and wash as infrequently as possible.

I used to be the same but when I went on maternity leave I decided to use the time to "train" my hair. I put it in a plait and didn't wash it for a week. Ngl it was absolutely disgusting but after that initial period it guy a lot better. I wash it twice a week now. Oh and I had horrendous post partum hair loss too and Biotin supplements helped. You can buy them on Amazon.

@Userguaranteed

FFS! Who has someone resurrected an old thread from bloody 2017 to state their wise opinion! Start a new one ffs!

Oh I hadn't even noticed.