I have very fine hair and took the advice of a 70 year old hairdresser. What a result!

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He said forget conditioner and just use baby shampoo. I did. My hair is shiny, sleek and bouncy!

For years I have fallen for the shampoo/conditioner combo it just weighed my fine hair down.

Try it if you have fine hair for a week or two. A blob of shampoo the size of a 10p coin.

I shall try that. Thanks. I am still trying to recover from a Japanese hairdresser telling me, about twenty years ago, 'Your hair is so thin! SO thin!' My hair is abundant. I sat there thinking , 'You mean FINE! you mean FINE.' and wanting to sob.

Ooh, will fetch some baby shampoo today and try.

Wow - really? Would it not cause a tangled frizz-bomb? Wouldn't hurt to try, I suppose!

I have fine hair and never use conditioner- my hair's much fuller without it.

Can I ask which baby shampoo you used? I've tried Johnson's and Boots own brand and both felt really gacky and heavy on me. Always looking for fine hair advice!

I colour my hair and my hairdresser told me that baby shampoo slowly strips the colour.

If I don't use conditioner on my fine hair, it gets horribly tangled, and then gets all broken when I try to brush it out, then as a final insult, the broken bits all stick up with static when my hair dries!

Which baby shampoo? Some of them got nasty business in them so best avoided but some are quite gentle and nasty free.

Regular scalp massages with rosemary oil stimulates hair growth.

Having oils like coconut, almond or argan oil in over night helps condition the hair you have.

I've heard great things about bioton - but haven't tried it yet.

I very rarely use conditioner on my fine but abundant hair. Not used baby shampoo in years but have recently changed to l'oreal everpure and love it.

Ooh I love the smell of baby shampoo but when I've used it, I scratch like I have fleas

I have recently dropped conditioner as it was making my fine (but plentiful) hair lank. Washing daily with just a little (as natural and chemical free as possible) shampoo has made all the difference. I frequently run out of grown-up shampoo and can recommend Waitrose own brand baby shampoo (especially if you like vanilla smells) and Jason Kids shampoo, both cheap and nasty-free :)

I use baby shampoo and it brings out the newly found wave in my hair which I like as I wanted curly hair my whole life but only ever had straight, limp locks until just before christmas

Faith In Nature do baby shampoo!

Worth a try! Think I'll try just ditching the conditioner first.

hmmm yes, does it not leave you in a knotted mess? I did try conditioning before shampooing the other day but can't say I noticed a huge difference.

I can confirm that baby shampoo works really well on fine hair, at least it does on mine.

I never use conditioner because it just makes it lank, and posh shampoos do the same. Baby shampoo, on the other hand, makes it feel soft & sleek.

I've tried Tesco & Boots, but I like Johnson's best.

I never use conditioner either.

I use whatever shampoo smells nice and is on offer.

My hair is super smooth and silky. Sometimes so silky it won't stay in a bobble.

It's a hard life.

I use a tangle teaser hairbrush and never had a tangle/knot since.

I read somewhere to wash and condition ,then was it again with a drop of shampoo
Haven't tried it yet

I have very fine hair but it's also very dry. will not using conditioner still work or will its just get even more dry and horrible?

I have to say, my (fine but lots of it and wavy below shoulder length) hair looks it's best when I've been swimming and just given it a quick shampoo and no conditioner in the shower afterwards (showers are so feeble I'd be there all day if I did both). But I've never dared stop using conditioners on a long term basis.

I have also rediscovered waves in my hair after just using baby shampoo. I thought I was stuck for life with a limp mess. I have used conditioner every day for nearly 30 years but the hairdresser was right it just weighed my hair down.

I just Tescos own brand.

I have very fine hair and I never use conditioner, and when I asked my hairdresser about it she said I don't need it.

Also from memory when I used baby shampoo many years ago it made my hair very unmanageable.

I also stopped using conditioner a couple of years ago and my fine but lots of it hair is much better. I use Samy Fat Hair shampoo and it really doubles the volume of my hair without having to use anything else. Its sulphate free and vegan too.