Why do you wash your hair in the sink?

[Saavhi]

Aibu to think it's a ridiculous method.

(lighthearted)

I quite like washing air in a sink or over bath occasionally as it tips your hair the other way and water and shampoo goes onto back and neck area instead of top of head. Gets those bits really clean.

My sister does, she has hair down to her bum and can’t stand wet hair touching her back. Sometimes she’ll wash it before work because she showers at night ☺️

I only do this if I've got an issue that means I can't use the shower, it's a right pain for my back & neck.

you don't fill the sink, you put your head under the running tap. Our kitchen sink had a tall mixer tap so it was easy to get your head under it

I misunderstood the entire thread. I stupidly assumed we were talking about the bathroom sink, what with that being the usual place to wash.

I've washed mine in the sink since I was about 11. Hate having it sticking to me in the bath or shower and hate having water running down my face. Washing it in the sink is so quick and rinses better. The rest of the family usually wash their hair whilst they're in the shower, but if they need an extra hairwash between showers then they just use the sink too.

@englishdictionary, we all use the bathroom sink.

@curtains "I sometimes wash my hair that way too" 😂😂😂

I wash mine in the kitchen sink sometimes, easier now it's been cut shorter than it was. Usually when I need to wash my hair but can't leave my shirking dervlish of a 2yr old alone

Not weird though

Brushing your teeth in the kitchen sink is weird though. Never understood that.

People have never heard of this before?! What on earth do you think we did before showers were standard?

Well we didn’t have a shower until I was 15. Hair was washed in the bath. Either by putting your head under the water, using a jug or one of those rubber shower head jobs that attached to the taps.

I never washed my hair in the sink.

I think I would feel odd if I had clean hair and not a clean body. It would feel just yuck

I don’t understand ‘an extra hair wash in between showers’ Even if you don’t shower everyday (which I find odd in itself) surely if your hair is at the point of needing a wash, the rest of you is too!

When I had to wash my hair in the sink I always managed to get shampoo in my eyes. Same if I try to wash it over the edge of the bath which I can't do because of the height of the bath, end up with water all over the room and me.

I find the best way is to wash it in the bath, by leaning back into the water, not forwards, like in the hairdressers, but with the final rinse just sitting up with the shower spray. Can also spray it from front to back so no need to get shampoo on my face at all.

Head down and over a sink knots my hair.

I wash mine over the bath. I have so much hair it wouldn’t fit in the sink.

I'm always a bit shocked that some people are incapable of working out that not everyone does things the same way as them.

I wash mine over the bath, bending over the side, then get in for a shower.

I have rosacea and find the water and shampoo combo on my face causes it to flare whereas washing it over the bath keeps most of it off my face. Well, off the main areas where I'm prone to rosacea anyway.

Not sure how you manoeuvre your head under the bathroom taps to rinse in effectively and if you use a cup then surely you'd have to move out the way to fill it making a wet mess on the floor
I do sometimes wash my hair over the bath if I've an early start I the morning but easier in the shower generally.

I often wash my hair over the sink, pop in a hair mask, leave it half an hour while I have a cuppa and then jump in the shower to rinse

@swapsicles. We've got one of those extra hair wash hose things on our 'over the bath' shower - the ones you use if you just wanted to do a hair wash rather than a full shower. So I use that over the bath then hop in the shower.

@Hiphopopotamus, erm because sometimes hair is grotty and needs washing before going out, but they'd prefer to wait until bedtime for a shower. And no, not everyone is stinky enough to need to shower every day.

Showers are one of the best things ever invented sorry, why would anyone martyr themselves washing their 'bits' at a sink to save water, so weird.

But I didn't have a shower growing up so had to find other ways to wash

In summer I'll have a quick two minute shower if it's really hot at night too, I cant see how that uses more water than splashing over a sink.

DH washes his hair in the bathroom sink and then rinses it in the kitchen sink.

He has some very strange habits.

Used to have a mobile hairdresser come to the house when the kids were small.
Needed to rinse the dye out so washed it over the bath using the shower mixer tap attachment.

Wouldn’t have managed it over the sink though. As I have reddish dyes the bath used to look like a bloodbath

And no, not everyone is stinky enough to need to shower every day

You really don't need to wait till you stink to have a shower.🤮

I’m such a skanky strip washer, I don’t wash my hair in the sink I just do dry shampoo until I next get in the shower. I used to have my hair washed in the sink as a kid, total mare as I would always get water everywhere. Why my mum insisted on me having my hair to my arse AND washing it in the sink I don’t know.