Clarifying shampoo for sticky hair

[sleepyhoglet]

I try not to wash my hair too much as it is coloured. I left it 6 days after having it freshly coloured and now after washing it is worse! It has gone sticky in places and I don't know why! Can anyone recommend a decent clarifying shampoo for coloured hair please?

What are you using just now?

How do you mean sticky? Six days is a long time without a wash.

Might depend on the colour you had done, but I use a dilute apple cider vinegar rinse for clarifying. But I don't have coloured hair, you might want to check first that it won't just strip out the colour. Or try a conditioner only wash? (I.e. no shampoo). I use Avalon organic (might have got the name wrong)

@JaneJeffer so when I washed my hair it wasn't sticky just needed a freshen up after 6 days. I try to leave it a while after it's been coloured to set the colour in so it doesn't fade as much. By sticky, that's exactly what I mean!! It was sticky in patches after the wash- like it hadn't dried and was clumpy. I use a faith in nature brand shampoo which is sulphate free but nothing fancy.

Did you give it a good rinse? I'm afraid anything clarifying will strip the colour.

Boots do their own brand one. I have coloured hair and it makes no difference. Faith in nature is nice but I alternate it as I also get a build up

Build up perhaps? I use a silicon scalp brush to shampoo (a few pounds on amazon) and rinse twice as long as I think I need to.

I think 6 days is ages without a wash though, nothing would get my hair clean if I left it 6 days then did a wash with a sulfate free shampoo. I do use Faith in nature and rate it but every few washes I either shampoo twice or use my areaH20 shampoo which really removes build up, it's designed for hard water areas.

So many conflicting things out there.. I thought washing my hair less frequently was good but clearly not!!

Old school Vosene in the green bottle. Great, cheap clarifying shampoo.

@sleepyhoglet

So many conflicting things out there.. I thought washing my hair less frequently was good but clearly not!!

Six days is a lot though. Mine goes pretty manky if I leave it three days and I have curly hair.

I use OGX charcoal detox shampoo which is nice. Can't comment on the colour though. When my hair is particularly manky, I use DH's TGel, but that does strip colour

Don't use a clarifying shampoo when you have colour. Just use your usual shampoo and do it twice before conditioning.

If your hair wasn’t sticky before you washed it but is now is then chances are you just didn’t rinse it properly. Just get back in the shower and give it a good old lather, rinse, repeat.

Do you swim? Hair goes sticky with chlorine build up.

I use this from boots when I get sticky patches

www.boots.com/boots-expert-build-up-removal-shampoo-200ml-10247057?cm_mmc=bmm-buk-google-ppc--PLAs_HeroCompare--Beauty-_-UK_Brand_Shopping_Beauty+SSC&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5Ze-vf7M8gIVRevtCh2xmgUtEAQYASABEgIorPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

I tried the Apple cider vinegar, etc none of it worked. And I use the Elvive clay shampoo and conditioner all other times seems to have worked for me.

I colour my hair with henna so not sure whether these shampoos would affect coloured hair.

I get this OP and I know what you mean, it's sticky no matter how mich you rinse. I use a Tresseme deep clean shampoo occasionally and have coloured hair and it works really well.