How often do you wash your hair? (guys & gals)

[Antje]

It depends on the wheater or what I've been doing, but I mostly wash it once or twice a week.
It used to be every other day, but my hair behaves very nice now.

 

[Frankly Scarlet]

I've been using baking soda instead of shampoo for almost two months now and my hair only needs to be washed every 5 or 6 days, which is a great improvent because I washed daily before.

 

[Harp]

Daily. I've thick and wavy hair; a wild Irish shaggy mop.

 

[Kiri]

It depends. Sometimes I can go almost a week, other times only 2 or 3 days. I think I usually wash around every 3 or 4 days. Mostly whenever it starts to get noticably oily or flaky. I don't usually get flakes though thankfully. My mom does. [huh]

 

[Kiri]

Oh, and my hair is about medium thickness and almost to my chest. It's naturally curly underneath and wavy to straight on top. I wish it was all like it is underneath. I get the most perfect curls, but it's all covered up by the rest of my hair.

 

[Scarlet Belle]

This is a bit of a vicious cycle. When I washed my hair every day, it would get to greasy after a day not to wash, but when I backed that down to three days, after a little while it took that long to need to be washed. The body reacts rather badly to its oils being washed out, and goes into overtime to make up of it.

So true! Wash the natural oils away and the body goes into overdrive to produce more!! Its all rather self regulating.

I only wash my hair once a week. I dont even wet it on the other days. Sometimes I may use a spray of dry shampoo on the roots, which gives a nice powdery effect to my blonde hair.

 

[Miss Molly]

I tend to wash my hair every 2-3 days. I should probably wash it less, but I actually really like washing my hair, I look forward to it! I have thick wavy/curly hair and it does need washing fairly often anyway.

 

[Jasmine Jolene]

like Grant Fan, i have very thick, curly hair which never gets greasy. i wash once a week normally, conditioner only. if i have set it, i don't wet it again till i wash it, just re-set it every couple of days and use dry shampoo on the roots if it needs freshening up.

i brush as little as possible and still have split ends straight after a cut [huh] but my hair is about 100 times better since i stopped colouring my hair and using shampoo.

 

[ricki]

A Girl and Her Hair (1947) says a shampoo may be required weekly, and sometimes twice a week! I usually wash my hair every other day. I have thin, straight, oily hair. It's been tough to break myself from the daily shampoo.

 

[RockyHorror]

I have naturally very straight hair and i find that when i leave it straight I have to wash it every other day-at the least!If i've set my hair then I won't have to wash it for about a week. I can usually go about 9 days without it getting too dirty/greasy/losing curl.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I wash mine every other day at the very least. Between brylcreem, a bump cap, and a hat, and working on cars in my free time, my hair gets dirty easily and needs to be washed frequently.

 

[Inky]

One of my favorite blogs "Beauty is a thing of the past" has scanned a great little article about washing hair from 1947

http://beautyisathingofthepast.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-to-shampoo.html

(you can click on the images to view them in a larger format)

 

[W4ASZ]

Every day. It is one of the simple things which I owe to myself.

 

[Hercule]

...It's been tough to break myself from the daily shampoo.

That's the hard part, and once you commit it takes a few of days. I'd suggest, if you have weekend where you're not busy, wash your hair on a Thursday night and aim to wash it again (with shampoo that is) Sunday night or Monday morning and see how it goes. Do rinse it thoroughly when you shower, otherwise wet it down and comb it out.

My hair was always oily, but not any more since I cut back on washing. As I said in the initial post I noticed that my hair always was at its best at the end of the day, and I assumed (perhaps rightly) that that was when the natural oils had regenerated. Of course using a hair product after washing would have done the same thing. But what's the sense of washing out natural oils only to put oily hair products back in it? I can't imagine that naturally oily hair necessarily equates to dirty hair, especially if you rinse it out regularly (which also might be unecessary).

In the end it's all about what you're comfortably with, time and looks. I certainly I don't ever remember my dad or mom (children of the depression) washing their hair more than a couple times a week.

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[BoPeep]

Thanks for the link, Inky. Tons of tips and photos!

 

[palespider]

my hair is around med thickness and iv trained it to not need washing for the most part for around a week. My bangs on the other hand are around every other day in the sink.

I make sure when i get in the shower my hair does NOT get wet. I really need all the hairspray and "crap" thats built up to really hold some of my styles because naturally my hair is so sleek on its own i can't do much with it unless its permed and my luck my perm just washed out this weekend. Off to find some rods.

 

[Retro Chick]

My hair is so fine and flat that I used to keep it fairly short and wash it every day.

I've grown it a little longer now and I've trained myself out of the habit. I probably wash it every 4 or 5 days now? I find it feels thicker and easier to manage. I don't rinse it either as I find that makes it knotty. I wear a lovely spotty shower cap in the shower!

I set my hair on sponge rollers with setting lotion, which is the only way I've ever managed to get it to keep a curl. Every night I but it into big chunky barrell curls with kirby grips and put a head scarf over it and I can get a set to last 5 days before it starts to look greasy.

 

[baby_butterfly]

bit late to this thread...but I wash mine once a week. Maybe twice. I have long, naturally curly/wavy hair

 

[scotrace]

Every day. Sometimes 2-3 times. Much like Hepburn, I shower a lot. These days... cold ones. [huh]

 

[anabolina]

I'll go with the every 2-3 days people, although I've gone as long as 5 days before. Really I wash it more because I realize its been so long since I did then because it actually needs it: ) But I'm lucky. 2 of my sisters were blessed with hair from my Dad's side that it stick-straight and fine and must be washed daily or it would get really stringy... I don't usaully rinse it either, but keep it out of the water in the morning until I feel it needs to be washed. This is probably why I have 4 shampoos in the shower (each with a different purpose from color depositing to clarifying to moisturizing, etc...) and have for 6 months kept the same bottles.