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Do cold water rinses also make your hair softer and easier to control?
I did some searching around online to try and answer this question. It seems the temperature of the water doesn't have an affect on how soft your hair becomes or how easy it is to control. The conditioner is what will give you the results, not the temperature.
The cold water closes your hairs cuticle faster does it not?
That's what I've always heard. It does seem to help me although it could be a placebo effect.
wow I was just thinking about asking that exact same question.. lol anyways... the thing with me is that everytime I take a shower, the water is EXTREMELY hot (than my hair gets all puffy and dry) and I feel that its the only way I can relax my muscles after a loong day, but Ive noticed, that when I wash my hair with cold water, there is a different effect on the hair, kinda feels better, I dont know if softer, but healthier... its weird, maybe Bruin is right and there isnt any effect at all.. but I know this by experience.
so who else has noticed this too? cold water = healthier hair?
btw, I know shampoo and conditioner is what makes a hair healthy, Im just saying the cold water somehow contributes..
I heard that hair is kinda scaly and the hot water makes the scales stick out more therefore making your main poofy when it dries. The opposite is supposedly true about cold water.
If this is true you could wash in hot water and then turn the water do be all cold water for you conditioner rinse, this is what I do so that I dont have to stand there in the cold water. I have no idea if this true, but it kinda makes sense.
