Greasy hair problem

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I suffer from greasy hair.

Don’t tell me to stop washing it because it’s so bad on Day 3 it HAS to be washed or I look a tramp

I’ve tried every shampoo going.

The problem I have now is that I cut a fringe in to hide my eleven lines but it doesn’t really do the trick and it’s SO greasy the FIRST day after a wash and looks absolutely shit. Do I just resign myself to the lines and get rid of the fringe? Is there anything I can try?

You could wash just your fringe every day?

Or wash your hair daily with a very small amount of mild shampoo and no conditioner. Could reduce the need to generate scalp oul.

Would you do a full shampoo over the sink?

Yes or in the shower, but only a tiny amount of shampoo.

Wash your fringe every day or couple of days - easy to do, you can even do it over the sink. This is the advantage of having a fringe with greasy hair! Also Superdrug dry shampoo is a miracle worker.

Hmmm worth a try. I’m having a full shower today so I’ll try tomorrow!

I also have greasy hair and I have to wash it daily or I look as if it’s wet. It is revolting but I have been this way my since puberty. The only time it changes was when I was pregnant and then once a week was fine, more like normal people’s hair. I think some of us just make excess oil and there isn’t really a treatment for that (maybe accutane but I managed to control my skin in other ways, so it’s just hair that’s an issue for me).

I have to wash my hair by day 3. I’m pleased to get two days from a wash. I don’t think that’s particularly unusual.

ChatGPT said to go very easy with conditioner and products like serums. Said to use a protein builder instead. Getting older is the thing that has mainly helped me, also leaving it to air dry as blow drying seems to encourage oil.

When I had a fringe I would just wash that bit on day 2.

@Soontobesingles I seem to sweat a lot through my scalp I think that’s why

You're doing well to make it to day 3 really. People with very greasy hair have to wash it every day. I agree that for some people you can't train it to be less greasy as some people claim. The only thing that has (slightly) improved it for me is getting older.

@TheOGCCL so, I have been using a lot of conditioner and serum to stimulate growth speciality ones because I’ve had some hair loss, I realise it’s probably exacerbating the grease

@Gwenhwyfar it I’m honest making it to Day 3 is at a push and it doesn’t look great on Day 2

I can only use clear shampoo. Anything creamy and it's greasy by night time. I'm currently using L'Oréal Hydra Pure which is for greasy roots and dry ends.

Wash hair every day in the morning. Condition only the ends.

I would avoid serums and scalp oils unless put on overnight.

You can get dry shampoo in a slightly dark tone (for brunettes) and a light spray of that over the roots of your fringe and on hair on temples as the last thing you do after drying and styling will help absorb oil there.

Sometimes if i've showered in the eve. and don't need to in the morning i'll just wash my hair by hanging over the bath. Very quick. If you haven't got a shower head which you can bring down like that you can get a rubber attachment to pop onto bath taps or sink taps to make a shower head 👍

Welcome to the 'fringe wash'. As a long time fringe haver, this is the best way!

I have the greasiest hair, I think it's a combination of heat intolerance and medication that makes me sweater but I have to wash twice with shampoo and only condition lengths and ends.

My hair gets less greasy if I fully dry with a hair dryer too rather than leaving part damp.

Any shampoo that says it has argan or coconut oil in, I have to steer away from, and I use olaplex no 5 leave in conditioner and ogx coconut hair oil only on the ends and working my way up the lengths but I leave the top 6 inches at least completely untouched.

I also only use claw clips to tie my hair up so it isn't tight to my head but if I leave my hair even slightly damp at all, the grease seems to travel straight down my hair.

I did have to grow my fringe out though as it was just too much daily maintenance, which doesn't help you. Sorry OP.

I can now go 3 days without washing my hair.

Wash your hair everyday and agree that drying it with a drier makes it less greasy than leaving it to air dry.

Also use a clarifying shampoo once a week.

Hi! I’m a greasy haired girl with a fringe.
I either wash full hair everyday, if working or going somewhere.
If not, the night before I do a dry shampoo blitz, and then in the morning tie my hair up and wash and style my fringe, usually over the sink, it doesn’t take long.
Hope this helps!

I have greasy hair. Have since preteens. I wash it with shampoo daily, I only condition it once ever 2-3 weeks. I used to find that colouring it helped, but now I've developed a dye allergy so I just wash all the time. Occasionally (if I over sleep) I will scrape it back in a bun and just wash my fringe. Head under a tap to wet it, shampoo it, leave the shampoo on whilst I wash face, then rinse fringe and face.

It's fine to wash your hair every day if its greasy. I was my face twice a day because its greasy. It wouldn't get less greasy if I washed it less often. Same with hair. There's some weird old wives tales around about washing your hair every day somehow being bad for it but that's complete nonsense.

I never understand how people seem to think washing your hair/scalp every day is somehow bad for it but they wash all of their other skin at least once a day, and often twice! It's illogical. Especially if you use conditioner every time.

Just wash your hair.

i wash my hair every day and have done so my entire life. What’s the issue?

Have you tried dry shampoo? Batiste is great

There are some constraints time wise/logistics

Thanks everyone who has commented