How to wash your hair less often folk remedies. Why does hair get dirty quickly and how to wash your hair less often? How often should you wash your hair: experts answer

Washing your hair daily, morning or evening, has become a kind of ritual for most women. Naturally hard water and aggressive detergents negatively affect their condition. Hair becomes dull, thinning, split. How to wash your hair less often and keep it healthy?

Daily hair washing is a novelty of the last 20-30 years. Previously, women washed their hair once a week, or even less often, depending on their condition. What is the result of such a rare wash - just look at old photographs or portraits of our great-grandmothers. For example, the famous Empress Elizabeth, better known as Sisi, washed her luxurious hair to the toes no more than once every 2 weeks, but more often once a month. Remarkably, they looked clean and lush, with volume at the roots.

First, let's look at the causes of severe hair pollution.

Frequent washing

The main reason. Human skin is such an organ that adapts to external conditions. If a woman is washing her hair daily for more than a month (the adaptation period is considered to be 30-40 days), to restore the fat balance and natural microflora sebaceous glands will secrete fat in excess. This is a natural reaction of the body to frequent shampooing.

A vicious circle is familiar to many - the more often you wash your hair, the faster it gets dirty. BeautyHack, together with expert hair stylist Hari Paanem (Finland), tells how to keep your hair fresh and full.

Hari Paanem stylist with 25 years of experience, worked with KC Professional, Four reasons, No Nothing, Color Mask

Increased sebum production can be the result of stress or hormonal imbalance. I do not advise washing your hair every day - with constant cleansing, the scalp gets dirty even more actively. To extend the interval between washing your hair, simple rules of care will help:

Do a head massage

A common mistake is to "scratch" the scalp with your nails while washing. It is better to gently massage with a little pressure - the shampoo will distribute itself through the hair, it does not need to be rubbed along the entire length and applied to the ends of the hair. For blood circulation, it is useful to first massage the neck, then move to the back of the head and finish the massage at the temples.

Do not expect a stable wow effect from restorative care

Products with keratin and oils are able to make hair silky in one application, but next time this effect will not be repeated. However, they continue to work - and at some point they will "overload" the hair to such an extent that it will quickly start to get dirty. Conclusion: you can not constantly use restorative agents.

Vary your care with the seasons

Hair needs moisture winter time due to heating and frost, and in summer - in additional protection from ultraviolet radiation. In spring and autumn, it is good to carry out a restorative course of masks, and for a while add more nutrients- oils and sprays.

Try co-washing

Using a conditioner as an alternative to shampoo once every one to two weeks will help to normalize the lipid balance. The conditioner needs to massage the scalp longer than the shampoo, about ten minutes. You can use it without shampoo only if the hair is not greasy at the roots and there are no styling products on them. In the first case, the air conditioner will only make it worse, and in the second case, it will not wash off the styling. You should not completely switch to co-washing, it will only become a “respite” from shampoo.

Give your hair a break from styling

Styling products, masks and conditioners interfere with the hair structure. When you use a lot of styling or care, you need to give your hair time to rest, treat it with repair treatments and use shampoo for deep cleansing.

Use dry shampoo

A variety of absorbent styling powders or dry shampoo will help refresh your hair when you need to take emergency action. The effect of these funds is noticeable not immediately, but after a few hours.

Change care to the right one

You need to change shampoo and conditioner when the condition of the hair does not suit you: they are either too weak, brittle and frizzy, or vice versa, too oily and lose their freshness the very next day. In the first case, leaving is not enough, and in the second, it is too much. If the hair has been dyed, use masks and serums to maintain the color. An irritated and itchy scalp will also be a signal to change care - examine your shampoo and conditioner. Read the instructions for shampoo and conditioner: sometimes we misuse the most simple means, do not wash them off on time or do not keep them on the hair long enough.

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Hello dear girls.

Today I want to touch on such a hot topic as oily hair. With the advent of summer, this problem has become more and more urgent, and it seems that there is no escape from it. But that's just how it seems.

Oily hair is not a sentence, but just a type and can be tamed.

Let me tell you a little about my scalp type.

I have oily hair. Really oily, although I know that someone will want to prove to me that my type is normal, because oily hair becomes so by the evening of the first day after washing, and mine lasts a little longer. But, I have something to compare and I know what I'm talking about. Therefore, I will tell you a few details.

I have had oily hair since childhood. Somewhere on the 2nd day, the hair is already losing significantly during appearance and the front strands of the face turn into sebaceous icicles. In a good way, at this time you already need to wash your hair, but I always endure until 3 days. Simply because it is simply inconvenient for me to wash my hair more often. Day 3 I can no longer afford to wear loose hair and always do my hair and wash my hair in the evening.

With the problem of fat content, I tried to fight for about 10 years and tried everything that was possible. And I will tell you about this by rating the funds by efficiency.

10th place - clay
This also includes mustard and soda. In many ways, their action is similar.

Clay is a very popular remedy, so it is not surprising that it has also found use as a remedy, which is credited with the properties of removing greasy hair.

The simplest clay mask is prepared according to the following recipe:

a couple of tablespoons of clay
a couple of tablespoons of water

Everything is mixed to the consistency of thick sour cream and applied to the hair before washing for 15-30 minutes.

I conscientiously did a lot of courses with clay. I liked blue the most, but white was just as attractive.

I liked the clay masks for the feeling they left on the scalp after washing off: it seemed to start breathing. Plus, the clay was washed out of the hair to a rather strong squeak and I enjoyed it. At that time, it seemed to me that this creak was nothing more than a guarantee of the quality of cleansing. How wrong I was!

Each time, I looked forward to the next moment of washing my hair to make a clay mask. And when we were relaxing by the sea and there were whole mountains of clay ... In general, then I made masks with clay every day.
I even show rare photographs, where I make a mask in the sea with a jar of clay.

Well, you can imagine how people looked at me. I think that you, my dear hair maniacs, will understand me like no one else.
But I was relentless! What do I care about those sidelong glances, if I was driven by a completely lively interest and I believed in the result!

By the way, about the result. The expected result did not follow. All that clay masks gave me was an amazing feeling at the roots and further dryness of the tips. At that time, I did not seriously care for the length of my hair, so when I wrapped the ends of the hair in a bun and they came into contact with clay, it's clear that they dried out significantly.

So, if you still decide on these masks, I strongly recommend that you apply oil or a mask that suits you to the ends, and even better, to the entire length of the hair.

Instead of solving the problem of oiliness, my hair, on the contrary, began to become oily faster. By the evening of the second day, they urgently need to be washed, and not by the evening of the third.

It's all about the drying effect of clay. Due to deep cleansing, which borders on a drying effect, the glands begin to work more actively, releasing the amount of sebum that is necessary to eliminate the dryness caused from nowhere for the body.

So that clay masks the opposite effect can be achieved.
After stopping using them, my hair began to get greasy as usual.

So I give clay the last place in my top.

9th place - essential oils

I am generalizing this point without highlighting anything specific. Although, the most popular essential oils are lavender and mint.

First of all, I would like to strongly caution anyone who does this. This cannot be done with all shampoos. Shampoo is a chemical product that has a certain pH level and the addition essential oil changes his recipe. In which direction, we do not know, we are not chemists, therefore, in order not to harm, I recommend refraining from such experiments.

exception is adding essential oil to organic shampoo. You can experiment with it.

What did adding essential oils to shampoo give me?

First of all, a pleasant aroma procedure. Lavender essential oil is pleasantly soothing, especially if you wash your hair before going to bed. And peppermint essential oil leaves a pleasant chill on the skin.

Adding any essential oil gave me only one thing: a feeling of toning.

But, unfortunately, it also did not help me solve the problem of oily scalp.

8th place - rinsing with decoctions

I love this business. Especially harvest herbs in summer.
I have tried so many different things.

The most popular are rinsing with nettle, mint, lemon balm and hop cones.

All this has a great effect on the roots, significantly strengthening them. But many herbs are dried, so you should be extremely careful about this procedure. I gather my hair along the length with my hand and lift it above my head, and with the other I pour the decoction on the roots, after which I wring it out on the hair, approximately at shoulder level, so that the decoction does not flow down my damaged length. Then I put on a mask. It can also be applied before, this will completely protect your hair from overdrying if the herbs are drying to you.

As for the effect on fat content - no.
From a strong mint decoction, for example, a slight tonic effect can be noted, but that's all.

The procedure is good, but within the framework of the issue under consideration is useless.

7th place - wash your hair less often

For a very long time I considered this advice meaningless. Somehow throughout all summer holidays, I washed my hair once a week and for half a week I went with terrible greasy hair. Then I could not wait to finally wash my hair and look like a normal person.

I always considered it normal (however, I still think so) to wash my hair as it gets dirty, but this should be done with the most gentle shampoos. I will talk about this in more detail, a little further.

The fact is that I did not succeed in retraining to wash my hair in 3 months and I began to consider this advice as sheer nonsense.

Until I met girls who really managed to retrain to wash their hair. But for this they needed a different amount of time and great fortitude.

We also once talked with the master, who at one time enlightened me on the topic of hair care, and I casually talked about my experience. I thought that he would say that this is nonsense, but not at all. He supported this idea and explained why I couldn’t retrain to wash my hair in 3 months. Apparently, my glands are already very accustomed to the amount of "secret" produced and they needed more time to rebuild. But then I did not have time to repeat the experiment, and by the time I was ready to repeat the feat again, I no longer needed it.

So this position does work, but it takes courage and patience.

6th place - salt scrub

In principle, this position could simply be called a scrub, since there are a huge number of scalp scrubs from different manufacturers, but I noticed the greatest effectiveness from home-made salt scrubs.

I think no one needs to explain what a scrub is for. We all enjoy using facial scrubs, but why is the scalp worse? She also needs cleansing, the results of which, at times, are surprising.

There are a lot of cooking recipes and the scrub can be easily adapted to suit yourself.

I'll give you the basic recipe:

a couple of tablespoons of salt (it is better to take fine grinding)
a couple tablespoons of water

I usually take 50 to 50. Mix everything and rub it into the head with massage movements before washing the hair. You can leave it on your hair for a couple of minutes before rinsing it off.

This is the easiest recipe. But scrub can be enriched. Instead of ordinary water, use a decoction, you can also add a teaspoon of clay and a couple of drops of essential oil to it.
This combination of ingredients will only help improve its properties.

What effect?

The effect is very pleasant. After the procedure, the skin begins to breathe, and basal volume may even appear. Plus, if shampoos containing silicones have been used before, the hair stays clean longer after about 3 treatments.

But the effect is rather short-lived. It only works while you're using the scrub, so I can't recommend it as a panacea. When using the course - yes, good. But it is not suitable for a permanent basis, because if you overdo it, you can get the opposite result.

5th place - henna

It's no secret to anyone that Henna has a drying effect, especially with constant use. Therefore, both the coloring itself and the henna masks can prolong the freshness of the hair, but only during the course.

Definitely, henna masks are not suitable for girls who dye their hair, including blondes, even when using colorless henna. All the same, everything is complicated with herbs, and no one knows how the paint will behave if you get carried away with such masks.

Henna masks are perfect for those who paint with henna, as well as owners natural color hair who do not plan to change it.

Important: the mask should be done after washing the hair and rinsed off with just water. This eliminates the addition of oils to it, so it can really dry out the hair.

The mask is easy to prepare. For her it is necessary:

15-25 gr henna
water or decoction

On the eye, henna is mixed with water to the consistency of thick sour cream, applied to washed wet hair It stays on for 30 minutes and washes off with water.

4th place - dry shampoo

I just want to say that dry shampoo is not a way to fight, it does not eliminate the cause, but only temporarily helps to cope with it.

Now there are a huge number of dry shampoos, they can be easily found in any store. Their principle of operation is simple: dry shampoo absorbs the amount of sebum already on the hair, due to which the hair becomes clean again for a while.

Dry shampoo is easy to use. It needs to be shaken and sprayed on the hair, from a certain distance, after which it is good to comb out with a comb.

As the owner of a rather dark hair color, I was afraid to try them, because I was afraid of a raid on my hair and that I would not be able to comb out the shampoo completely. But after trying it, I realized that my fears were unfounded. Dry shampoo is a really cool thing and I definitely recommend it to anyone who hasn't gotten to it yet.

Also, if you still do not have the opportunity to purchase dry shampoo, do not be discouraged, there is a completely affordable alternative and this is baby powder or regular cocoa powder.

Of course, they cannot be sprayed and must be carefully applied along the partings. The easiest way to do this is with a slightly damp sponge. She dips into your homemade dry shampoo, picks up the product and then it needs to be parted. Then comb out.

I don’t want the effect at all than from a purchased product, but with a home-made one you will have to get a little confused.

3rd and 2nd place - hair and comb

Hairbrush

It is very important to use a clean comb.. Especially if you comb not with a comb, but with a massage or tang teaser or an angel. They very well “gain” “fat” on themselves, which aggravates the situation of fat content.
The more often you wash your comb, the better.

Facial hair

This interesting feature I noticed just recently. I always thought that my facial hair gets oily the fastest because I touch it a lot. I like to wear loose hair and often I remove it from my face by the front strands. By the way, yes, it’s really better to touch your hair less often, but now it’s not about that.

I have oily skin faces. And the front strands get greasy much faster than the rest, because his hair is touching. Such an obvious fact, but it became clear to me quite recently.

Therefore, it is better to pin your hair, minimizing such contact.

By the way, second interesting observation I was overtaken when I started to deliberately remove the hair from the face.

The fat content has really decreased and I was pleasantly pleased with it.

But we can't control our hair while we sleep, and that's when it can get in our face again. This is what prompted me to clean my hair before bed. I'm not a big fan of braiding at night, so I found a solution for myself and this mesh for hair. It is sold in any professional store and looks like a gossamer, but it is easy to put on your head and hide your hair in it. So they do not climb into their face, into someone's mouth, and to everything else, they practically do not get confused during the night.

Perhaps this point will be a pleasant and useful discovery for many. Just like it was for me at the time.

The control of the front strands really has a great effect on the moment of prolonging the purity of the hair for the better.

1st place - switching to sulfate-free shampoos

I would even say that it is better to switch not just to sulfate-free, but to natural and organic shampoos.

For owners oily hair shampoos with silicones are a particularly disastrous option. It is after using these that it can be noted that the hair becomes untidy much faster than usual. So first step- This is a rejection of funds with silicones.

Second- switch to sulfate-free shampoos.

This was also suggested to me by the master. If not for him, I would still suffer from the problem of oiliness, but now I was able to shift the feeling of freshness of my hair by a day. Now my hair becomes oily only by the evening of the fourth day after washing, which I consider quite normal.

And it was precisely the transition to sulfate-free shampoos that helped me come to this. After a year of constant use, I got the result I had been looking for for 10 years.

Why sulfate-free shampoos?

It's all about the harmful effects of SLS. I'm not saying that Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (sls) is a terrible scourge and should be banned, no. In fact, I think that modern shampoos are just pretty good, because the cosmetic industry does not stand still and constantly creates new recipes. The only thing is that SLS is a fairly aggressive surfactant that cleans after all not delicately and gently.

We have all been using SLS products for a very long time, so our skin is used to a certain “rhythm of life”. SLS has a drying effect, so the skin produces the amount of secretion that neutralizes its effect. There is nothing abnormal about this and if you are satisfied with this, then everything is fine. But I believe that since you are reading this post, you are fed up with fat, and you want to deal with it. Therefore, I share with you my experience and knowledge, as they once shared with me.

It was my master who suggested this method to me and now I am talking about it. I hope that this information will be useful for you and will help as well as it helped me in due time.

Switching to sulfate-free shampoos is a kind of analogue of position 7, but not at all complicated. I didn't try to walk longer with dirty head, and washed my hair in my usual mode, to be honest, without even expecting anything, but when the result appeared, I was incredibly and extremely pleasantly surprised.

My journey and search for the perfect shampoo has been a long one, and I think that I can't do without advice here. I tried a lot of things, but in terms of action and quality I can single out shampoos from the following companies: Grinfarma, Milorada and. I would recommend starting with Greenfarma.

I also cannot but highlight one moment and this is the moment of transition.

Switching to sulfate-free shampoos can be far from painless. For example, when I started trying really organic shampoos, at the beginning I had completely incomprehensible flakes in my head and some kind of itching. I could quit everything, but it wouldn't be me. I continued to use the remedy, because everything was not so catastrophic, if the discomfort were more tangible, I would, of course, quit, but I continued. But by the end of the remedy used, all the symptoms disappeared and never recurred.. The same thing happened to my friends who also switched to organic. Therefore, I consider this moment of transition to be quite normal and, even more than that, I will say - natural.

But, of course, if it scares you, you should not try.

For me, the risk was fully justified and I enjoy my clean hair, which remain so for four days after washing your hair. And I am very glad that I found my own way and means that helped me.

Hope others find it just as useful.

Thank you for being with me

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Looking neat and tidy is an important task for every person. And hair is the first thing that catches your eye when communicating, so they should always be at least clean. But is it bad to wash your hair every day?

How often can you wash your hair?

It is believed that to maintain clean hair, they need to be washed at least once a week, but for most people on the planet (especially active ones), after a week, their hair will look catastrophic, and their scalp will itch and itch. It is worth remembering that this period is conditional. Undoubtedly, if the hair has become dirty, greasy or has an unpleasant shine and stickiness, it is not only possible, it must be washed.

There are many sweat glands on the scalp, so hot weather, while wearing a hat or playing active sports, you will have to wash your hair more often. But it is worth remembering that daily washing can be harmful to your hair: due to the frequent use of shampoos (even the mildest ones) and hard water, your hair can become drier and brittle, and dandruff may appear due to overdrying of the scalp. In addition, washing too often can even lead to hair loss.

Also, the type of hair has a significant influence on the frequency of hair washing. If they tend to be oily and you manage to wash your hair every three days, that's an incredible success. Many girls with this type of hair have to wash their hair every day. But dry hair is enough to wash every 3-4 days to make it look great.

As you can see, there are many factors that affect how often you wash your hair. Therefore, a reasonable question arises - how often should you wash your hair? Remember, to choose the optimal time to wash your particular hair, use the only effective rule - wash your hair as it gets dirty.

Looking neat and tidy is an important task for every person. And hair is the first thing that catches your eye when communicating, so they should always be at least clean. But isn't it bad to wash your hair every day?

How often can you wash your hair?

It is believed that to maintain clean hair, they need to be washed at least once a week, but for most people on the planet (especially active ones), after a week, their hair will look catastrophic, and their scalp will itch and itch. So this term is very conditional. Undoubtedly, if the hair has become dirty, greasy or has an unpleasant shine and stickiness, it is not only possible, it must be washed!

There are many sweat glands on the scalp, so in hot weather, while wearing a hat or playing active sports, you will have to wash your hair more often. But it is worth remembering that daily washing can be harmful to your hair: due to the frequent use of shampoos (even the mildest ones) and hard water, your hair can become drier and brittle, and dandruff may appear due to overdrying of the scalp. In addition, washing too often can even lead to hair loss.

Can you train your hair to wash less frequently?

If you notice that every time you have to wash your hair more often, you may have impaired sebaceous glands. It is possible to restore their normal functioning, but for this you will have to be patient and work fruitfully with your hair and habits. And then you can wash your hair less often.

Care from within

The first thing to do in order to keep your hair clean and fresh longer is to create ideal conditions, thanks to which the sebaceous glands will work much less actively. To do this, you will have to slightly change your diet. It is necessary to exclude from it those products that provoke the production of sebum, and these are any fatty and fried foods, sugar and white bread (this also includes muffins), as well as any canned food. Instead of these unhealthy foods, it is much better to eat vegetables and fruits, dairy products, lean meats, and nuts.

Multivitamin complexes have an excellent effect on the condition of the scalp and hair due to the normalization of the endocrine and nervous systems. Therefore, taking a multivitamin will help prevent washing your hair every day.

Take good care of your hair

Accustomed to washing our hair every day, we often do not notice that we are not doing it quite right. And the hair needs special care and the right approach so that it pleases you with its freshness longer.

First of all, monitor the quality and temperature of the water with which you wash your hair. It should not be hot, as taught in childhood, the water should be warm or even slightly cool (but not icy, of course). Too hot water is harmful, as it increases the amount of sebum secreted by the scalp. This is one of the main reasons why you have to wash your hair daily.

In addition, an important condition is the use of soft water to wash the hair. Hard water, which flows from most taps, is not able to clean the hair with high quality, and, besides, after it the hair becomes hard, naughty and very dry, and then tends to “moisturize” itself with the help of sebum. If your area has hard water, you can use thawed water or boiled water or install a properly selected filter.

Only use shampoos that suit your hair type. Using the wrong shampoo can damage your hair. At the same time, follow the reaction to the chosen shampoo, it may not be suitable, and in this case, the hair will look dirty and stale ahead of time.

When applying a balm or hair conditioner, remember that you do not need to apply it to the roots. From this, the hair will look untidy the next day, and you will have to wash it again.

In addition to all of the above, try to use a hair dryer less often, let your hair not lose natural moisture due to hot air. You can alternate between blow-drying and natural drying to keep your hair looking healthier and fresher.

If you decide to wash your hair less often, we can make it happen. But it is worth remembering that this process will take more than one day, so you should be patient and steadfastly go towards your goal.

How quickly can you reduce the frequency of washing

Switching to a more infrequent washing should be gradual, increasing the time between each washing of the head. To do this, during the first week, wash your hair every other day, the next week - after two days, later - after three days. In this way, you can bring the intervals between each shampoo up to a week if your hair is prone to dryness. If the hair is oily, then you should stop when you wash your hair every three days.

As you get your hair used to a new washing routine, don't forget to use the hair care tips and sebum reduction tips listed above. In combination, this will help you get the desired result faster - you will quickly wean your hair from frequent washing.

Folk ways prolonging the cleanliness of the hair

During the period when you will restore the normal functioning of the sebaceous glands of your head, you can use proven folk remedies to help keep your hair healthy and beautiful:

After you have washed your hair, you can rinse your hair with an infusion of medicinal herbs. To prepare it, you will need one teaspoon of herbs (coltsfoot, St. John's wort, nettle root, horsetail) and one liter of boiling water. Pour the mixture of herbs with hot water and let it brew longer. Before use, the herbal infusion must be well filtered so that grass particles do not remain in the hair.
Rinse your hair with nettle decoction. Even alone, nettle can make hair more beautiful.
One more effective remedy for rinsing hair - lemon water. To prepare it, simply mix the juice of one lemon and half a liter of cool water.
Rinse your hair with mustard. To do this, mix equal parts mustard powder and shampoo suitable for your hair type. Rinse your hair well after washing and do not use conditioner this time.

If you are satisfied with daily washing

Remember, if your hair has become dirty, then washing your hair every day is of course possible and even necessary, but weaning from washing it so often will help make it healthier, stronger, softer and silkier.

If you still wash your hair every day, then you should use shampoo for daily washing accordingly. In this case, it is better to give preference natural shampoos. It is important to remember that for the best result, shampoo should be applied only to the scalp, gently massaging it. After all, the entire length of the hair is washed at the time when you rinse off the shampoo. But the conditioner - on the contrary, must be applied, stepping back 5 cm from the roots.

By weaning your hair once and for all from daily washing, you will greatly facilitate your life. Stock up on patience and willpower, and you will achieve the desired result!