I found a really interesting article in the UK Daily Mail about how often you need to wash your hair. The article claimed that you don’t need to wash your hair with shampoo at all. Ever. The theory is we screw up our hair’s natural oil balance by washing it with shampoo way too often.
This is the article I read:
Could you survive without shampoo?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=
394226&in_page_id=1879
The no shampoo challenge
My hair is long, fine and oily and usually needs washing every two days. I’ve thought about taking the no shampoo challenge but by day three I always chicken out. I have red hair that gets even redder when it’s oily, and people really start noticing. I’ve even had work colleagues ask if I’d coloured my hair because it was looking a lot ‘brighter’ or ‘redder’. Eww.
I showed the article to two girlfriends of mine who were brave enough to take the challenge. Ideally you want to try for a whole six weeks but both girls only lasted a week (still more than I could handle).
My theory is the no shampoo thing only works with dry hair. I think my hair is so oily that it needs a little assistance. I encourage anyone with dry hair to take the challenge to see if it works. I love the idea of no longer having to buy shampoo!
Frances Kerr
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I don’t wash my hair very often but if I stopped washing and conditioning altogether I would worry that my “birds nest” hair might really attract some wildlife.
Although it probably would not be too bad for my hair since it’s not oily. If I stopped using my leave in moisturizer then it would be frizzy every day.
Hi
You can read http://www.naturalalchemist.com/hair.shtml
I have used natural products that leave my hair feeling like straw (so I’ve always given up on them). My hairdresser recently told me that this is the silicons etc from commercial shampoos being stripped away. After three weeks or so, the straw feeling disappears leaving you with natural, healthy hair. Mark’s mother has rinsed with cider vinegar for years. Her hair didn’t start going grey until she was in her mid 60s.
What’s wrong with red hair? ‘The Redder the Bedder’ I say!
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