Do you wash your hair everyday?

**meillymiao** · July 18th, 2011, 01:04 AM

i have fine hair, wash it about one times for on da, most time i will use the hair conditioner to protect my long hair.

**amyotaku** · August 6th, 2011, 01:30 AM

Yes. I do it everyday. But shampooing and conditioner is every other day.

**holly** · August 14th, 2011, 05:37 AM

I have thin, fine, curly/wavy (some parts are curly, some are wavy) hair with 3 major cowlicks ~ one on each side of my forehead, & one in the back just to the right of my crown. It sucks! I think I have some of the worst hair on the planet. I absolutely must blow-dry my hair in order to tame the cowlicks.

I rotate shampoos every week or two b/c my hair seems to respond better when I don't use the same shampoo every week.

A few years ago, I managed somehow to grow it past the middle of my back & it was healthy. Then I cut it off in the "victoria beckham" cut, which looked great, but I regretted it soon after cutting it b/c I missed the versatility of the long hair, which for me, was a miracle that it had gotten that long in the first place, & was even healthy. I cut it in 2008 & my hair is just now about 2 or 3 inches below my shoulders & is shedding like mad. I don't want to cut it, but it seems to have gotten thinner over the past two years or so. I only wash every other day & when I can, I squeeze an extra day out of it by using a dry shampoo on the roots.

I usually wear my hair curly, but sometimes I'll flat iron it, maybe twice a month.

I also only color my hair, a dark brown that is almost the same as my natural color (covering those pesky gray hairs). I did make an appt for some highlights, but I might change my mind b/c I'm afraid my crappy hair will not be able to handle it. I do not want blonde highlights, I want either a light brown or a red highlights, or the very lightest I'd go is carmel. I do not want a lot of highlights, just a "partial".
I am just bored to death with my hair, & I don't want to cut it. I guess worst case scenario is that the highlights will damage my hair & I'll have to cut it, but then again, that was really my only other option anyway.

Sorry for the long post, but I am super frustrated with my hair & needed to vent.

**qwerty** · August 14th, 2011, 09:22 AM

I probably commented much earlier in this thread but am too lazy to check.

I wash my hair 1 - 2x a week with a sulfate and paraben free shampoo (Desert Organics is great) and water wash in between.

Since getting off the sulfate shampoo, my hair says cleaner longer. I used to have to shampoo wash everyday.

The withdrawal period was rough in a way, but so worth it looking back.

**Love love** · August 25th, 2011, 10:52 PM

i have very thick straight hair thats very heavy for wearing in ponytails so i just keep it down. i wash and condition everyday because it gets too greasy if i dont

**Kathie_Moffett** · August 26th, 2011, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by qwerty

I probably commented much earlier in this thread but am too lazy to check.

I wash my hair 1 - 2x a week with a sulfate and paraben free shampoo (Desert Organics is great) and water wash in between.

Since getting off the sulfate shampoo, my hair says cleaner longer. I used to have to shampoo wash everyday.

The withdrawal period was rough in a way, but so worth it looking back.

I tried a sulfate-free shampoo but the results were horrible. I feel like I should look into the matter more but eh.

I wash my hair several times a week. Would like to wash it everyday but that really is hard on it and also so time-consuming as my hair is long, curly and thick.

**qwerty** · August 26th, 2011, 02:45 PM

Originally Posted by Kathie_Moffett

I tried a sulfate-free shampoo but the results were horrible. I feel like I should look into the matter more but eh.

I wash my hair several times a week. Would like to wash it everyday but that really is hard on it and also so time-consuming as my hair is long, curly and thick.

Take a look at the no poo thread from last year. Getting your scalp off sulfate shampoo takes time and you have to be willing to have crappy looking hair for a bit. But as I said earlier, it's been worth it. Hair is much healthier.

**levitt** · August 29th, 2011, 12:07 PM

I wash my hair every other day. It's never great on the second day but I wouldn't say greasy, just flat. My hair is super heavy yet fine (I just have so much hair!) so getting any volume is really difficult, even straight after washing, never mind a day after.

**dexter7** · September 29th, 2011, 08:04 PM

i use sulfate free shampoo and conditioner, it has really helped with my "scabby scalp" syndrome. i don't know what that was all about, severe dandruff or psoriasis, but i would have thick chunks of skin clump up and peel off (and bleed or leave scabs). i wash everyother day. my sister recommends the wen shampoo treatment system. has anyone here used it before?

**cherrypye** · September 29th, 2011, 10:37 PM

Originally Posted by dexter7

i use sulfate free shampoo and conditioner, it has really helped with my "scabby scalp" syndrome. i don't know what that was all about, severe dandruff or psoriasis, but i would have thick chunks of skin clump up and peel off (and bleed or leave scabs). i wash everyother day. my sister recommends the wen shampoo treatment system. has anyone here used it before?

I recently tried Wen. My hair looked great at first, but the product is so full of silicones, I was a greaseball within a couple of uses. My hair is very sensitive to silicones, so I use cone-free products.

I condition only (was with a cone-free conditioner) most time. It gets my hair clean without stripping it, which lets me skip a couple days of washing. Before I went condition-only, I had to wash my hair every day.

Once in a while, I use an SLS-free shampoo as a clarifying treatment (perhaps once every couple weeks).

**Kat Scorp** · September 30th, 2011, 01:08 AM

I have near-waist length wavy hair; like Levitt, mine's thin but there's so much of it! I wash and condition with anti-dandruff shampoos & conditioners every second day or my scalp gets itchy. But having read querty's posts, I think I'll try the sulfate-free stuff again; when I originally used it and my hair went flat, I didn't know there was an adjustment period. Thnx

**Beeyotch** · October 14th, 2011, 12:21 AM

Originally Posted by dexter7

i use sulfate free shampoo and conditioner, it has really helped with my "scabby scalp" syndrome. i don't know what that was all about, severe dandruff or psoriasis, but i would have thick chunks of skin clump up and peel off (and bleed or leave scabs). i wash everyother day. my sister recommends the wen shampoo treatment system. has anyone here used it before?

Ok what IS that all about? I have it too, just one tiny patch at the top of my head, like right where the hair changes direction (where a man's bald spot would start.) I just changed back to pureology, which is a sulfate-free shampoo and it went away for several weeks but now it's back. Like a thick scabby, dry and scaly patch of skin that peels off, but just in that one tiny spot. I hate it and want to get rid of it so if anyone figures out wth that is, let me know.