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I have dry hair so i am going to start washing my hair once a week or so. Now when i shower should i still even wet or rinse my hair. And if so, should i still condition it?? I shower once a day. So will the conditioner be ok? I have very dry hair, in fact i dont think once i have had a full head of hair with my natural oils, since i used to shampoo it daily. So if one could answer in detail on all my questions, and reasons why, it would be great help. And can someone tell me the reason and benefits of the natural oils from your scalp?? Thanks a lot people.
dry hair boy
wash ur hair with ivory soap everyday, it won't strip ur hair of it's oils and u won't beleive how fast ur hair will grow, try it out for a month u'll see
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well for anyone else out there, any if u heard of washing with ivory soap?? if u have let me know.... but can someone still fully answer my original question in details. thanks a lot. please fully answer all the questions. even on other messages, rarely do i see someone answer all the questions asked, they mainly focus on just one. I just want to learn all i can. thanks
dry hair boy
As for shampooing with Ivory soap, I never have tried it, and I'm not going to. Ivory tends to leave my SKIN rather dry, so I'm not going to subject my hair to it.
As for giving you blow-by-blow descriptive answers to ALL of your questions, hey - I don't mean to be rude, but you are really giving this business of shampooing your hair waaaaay too much thought. It isn't that complicated. Bill's response has been the best by far. Experiment. Shampoo when YOU feel the need to - condition when YOU feel the need to. Do what makes YOUR hair feel and look its best. Use the products that make YOUR hair feel and look its best. It's really just that simple. There are no rules carved in stone that fit EVERYONE's hair care needs. Again, EXPERIMENT. -Best of luck.
and I'm not going to. Ivory tends to leave my SKIN rather
dry, so I'm not going to subject my hair to it.
of your questions, hey - I don't mean to be rude, but you
are really giving this business of shampooing your hair
waaaaay too much thought. It isn't that complicated.
Bill's response has been the best by far. Experiment.
Shampoo when YOU feel the need to - condition when YOU feel
the need to. Do what makes YOUR hair feel and look its
best. Use the products that make YOUR hair feel and look
its best. It's really just that simple. There are no
rules carved in stone that fit EVERYONE's hair care needs.
Again, EXPERIMENT. -Best of luck.
ur hair of it's oils and u won't beleive how fast ur hair
will grow, try it out for a month u'll see
of washing with ivory soap?? if u have let me know....
but can someone still fully answer my original question in
details. thanks a lot. please fully answer all the
questions. even on other messages, rarely do i see someone
answer all the questions asked, they mainly focus on just
one. I just want to learn all i can. thanks
well that's up to you but i wash my hair with just bar soap and i contenue to do so, i had my long hair cut off for non-imporant reasons and now it has grown back in about 6 months of time i need a trim,,
Ivory soap on your hair? It may work for some people, but that stuff is harsh, despite the advertising claims inferring otherwise. I'd stick with shampoo if I were you. Shampoos are formulated for hair's pH levels, and you can find moisturizing shampoos that don't dry as much.
I wish we could give you a "cut and dried" answer (probably a bad choice of two words there, certainly no pun intended), but dude, you are going to have to experiment. Nature's way is to have oils come out of the scalp and travel down the strands. However, the oils do dry out or get absorbed by dust, either one of which causes a residue to build up on your hair. The residue is as drying and tangly as the lack of oil. The way that nature takes care of the residue is to have us wash it out with cool water, which removes the unwanted gunk and brings fresh oil down with it as it runs off the top of your head where the fresh oil is.
Once you understand this cycle, and once you get to know your hair, you can adjust your washing cycles to fit. There will be no exact answer even then. A day in sun and wind, an activity amid lots of dust, and how much you sweat can all affect your hair. Also, oil production is greatly affected by what vitamins and nutrients you get in your diet.
Some days my hair is still silky as I go into the shower so I won't wash it at all. Some days it is so gunky I'll shampoo it. But most days I'll hit it with a mixture of warm and cool water. If the ends are quite gunky, I might use warm water to get that out, and then use cool water sparingly on the top to wash oil down, making sure it runs through my cascading downward strands, rather than off past my forehead. Some days I'll just moisten my hair to assist in a neat comb, because it looks messy but the oil situation is just fine.
As well as relying on natural oil, you can toss a conditioner into this mix, but it will behave a lot like the oil does. Most when they deteriorate end up gunkier than natural oil, but when you first put them on they are great. They are formulated with a first priority being to look good, and secondly to lubricate. They will most likely out-perform your natural oil in these ways when first applied, but as a rule they are not formulated to last very long.
One other thing you'll have to contend with is itching - if your scalp needs a washing, it will let you know. When this happens, experiment and find the least harsh solution to the problem. You will probably discover it takes a lot less washing to stop the itching than you thought. Often just a washing in a small amount of cool water, with no shampoo even, can to the trick.
The last variable, of course, is your hair. The hair of an Asian or Indian dude with thick straight black hair and lots of scalp oil will have very different needs to that of a white guy with a drier scalp and thinner and curlier strands, or a black guy with kink. Those are just examples I threw out - every race can have most of the variables we're talking about here.
I do not like using a lot of junk in my hair to fix it. there is no way i can comb it after a shower and leave it, it frizzes up and looks so dry and crappy so i have to use something to fix it. While experimenting i found that by using pantene leave in conditioner, i can style it, it will hold well as a hairspray or gel would, and as the bottle says, it is "healthy" i guess. Well i shower everyday, so with this product (or any styling product in mind) should i always rinse with cool water to get the spray out and keep my oils in? i know i may taking this a little too far with the questions, i just want to gain as much input so i know what other guys do, and from there with my experience and testing, come to the nest possible solution. thanks anyways guys.
dry hair
I haven't used that particular product, but my experience has been that any procedure that washes a hair product out will also wash out the oil. One way around this is to consider each area of your hair separately. You may want to put more conditioner on your dry ends, for example, but put very little up on top. Then when you wash next, you can wash all the stuff out of the ends with a medium quanitity of warm water, and follow that up with a lesser amount of cool water up top. The cool water will bring what is up top, which is mostly oil, down into your ends, so the ends are nourished with some oil as well as the conditioner which you then add.
wish i could recall who it was, but someone sent me a detailed email on the subject of washing, i managed to lose the email, but did read it. the advice was, basically, shampoo once a week, on other days, rinse with cool to lukewarm water.
so i've been doing this for two weeks now, and i'm pleased with the results. i have dryish, curly, thinning hair. and right now, 5 days after the last shampoo, it feels more silky and full and nice than it ever has.
My hair used to be oily; here is what I did...
In 1975 I stopped using shampoo/soap/etc.: I use plain water as though I were washing it. I wet it when I start my shower, then I give the scalp a strong fingertip-rubbing (I forgot the word), rinse it to be somewhat straight and that is it.
Mostly. Now I use conditioner. I use Pantene Pro V (I believe the instructions say to use it every day} every two or three days--it depends on how the dry hair feels. If my feels good, then I skip the conditioner.
I have gotten many years' "use" from my hair, and at age forty-five I am happy to still have my hair! Basically, if your hair feels bad to you, then what you are doing does not work, try something else.
By using water, I never have to worry about which shampoo to use (They are not all alike!), or how hard the water may be. And nothing to forget to pack on trips. I am happy with my hair, and have been for twenty-five years.
Keep experimenting, and good luck!
Thanks
I appreciate the help dave. =) Take it easy.
I hope i still have my hair at your age...chances are slim after taking a look at the men on my moms side of the family =(
Dry hair
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My hair used to be oily; here is what I did...
In 1975 I stopped using shampoo/soap/etc.: I use plain water on my hair as though I were washing it. I wet my hair when I start my shower, then, as the last item in my shower, I give the scalp a strong
fingertip-rubbing (I have forgotten the word), rinse it to be somewhat straight, and that is it.
Mostly. Now I use conditioner. I use Pantene Pro V (I believe the instructions say to use it every day} every two or three days--it depends on how my hair feels. If it feels good, then I skip the conditioner.
I have gotten many years' "use" from my hair, and at age forty-five I am happy to still have my hair! Basically, if your hair feels bad to you, then what you are doing does not work, try something else.
By using water, I never have to worry about which shampoo to use (They are not all alike!), or how hard the water may be. And there is nothing to forget to pack on trips. I am happy with my hair, and have been for twenty-five years.
Keep experimenting, and good luck!
Dave
If your hair is dry, you can add some oil directly in it, instead of waiting for your natural oil to pile up between shampoos. I find it better since not washing it for a couple days makes my scalp itchy (and dirty). Of course everybody's hair is different so that might not be the best solution for yours. But you may want to try it. Get some coconut or jojoba oil at your local drugstore. You won't need much. Pour a few drops on your hands and rub them together. All you have to do is "play" with your hair for a while. The longer your hair, the more oil you will need. Insist on the places where it is most needed but don't put too much! The results are immediate.
It works wonderfuly on my hair. I even put oil on the tips before washing and I find it protects them from drying. I have tried a lot of expensive products before and so far, this is what works best. And overall it is pretty cheap since a small bottle of oil will last for months.