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Do you wash your hair every day?

Posted: Jul 2, 2010

I know they say to only wash your hair every other day but I have never been able to do that. I shampoo/condition my hair every day as I cannot stand the feeling of my hair being dirty or greasy-looking or whatever. I am 28 and have pretty long hair and my hair has always been really healthy so I have never tried to force myself to not wash it everyday.

Does it really damage your hair?

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I wash it every other day. - I just read an article

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I feel like I just read an article on Shine or something on Yahoo about this... They say it "strips" the natural protectants or whatever your hair has. I am 29 and also have long hair. I dunno... I am lucky that I don't have greasy hair though. I will wash it every day if I am going somewhere, but if I am sitting at home working then I do every other day, and sometimes on those second days I use conditioner, sometimes I just put a shower cap on and dont even wet it...

I did read in this article about a product by Tressemme called "fresh start". I was going to buy it this weekend during my weekly shopping trip :) Supposedly you put it on your roots and it helps to freshen up your hair? We will see!

Unless it's really greasy, it does. - But who knows what the truth is

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I only wash mine at most once a week. I've got dry, coarse, curly hair. If I'm going some place, I'll wet it down to re-curl it. I finger-comb, but that's about it. If I've flat-ironed it, I will brush it, but that's about it. I always envied the people that had enough oil at their scalps to get "greasy". Maybe I'll put on my bucket list going without washing my hair long enough for it to get greasy, although I'm guessing the smell and small animals taking up residence in it will get to me long before that happens.

I used to wash it every day, but (sm) - dln

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I used to wash my hair every day, but a friend of mine, who is a hair stylist, has finally broken me of the habit! She had been nagging on me to stop washing every day as it does strip your hair or something to that effect. Plus, if your hair is colored (which mine is), it's evidently not good to wash your hair every day as it will evidently strip the color faster.

I now tend to wash it every other day or sometimes every three days depending on how it feels. I do wet it down every day, though, as it tends to get frizzy and unmanageable if I don't, and I also use a bit of Paul Mitchell Super Skinny Serum to help manage it.

Don't use shampoo - b

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It's better for your hair not to use shampoo and conditioner and not to wash often anyway. I use diluted baking soda and a diluted apple cider vinegar rinse twice a week and my hair is great now.

Don't use shampoo either - curly

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I use conditioner to wash my hair. I have curly hair, and curls tend to be dryer. I used to spend hours flat ironing my hair and blow drying, but I have since learned to care for my curly hair and really love it. It also has freed up a lot of time! I wash it with conditioner every other day. My hair loves it!

It takes me 45 minutes to blow and straighten my hair - BushyMT

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...so I only wash mine every third day. I use a root freshener in between, but if I had to spend all that time straightening my hair every day I'd go insane, lol! (It's an asymmetric 'shattered' bob that doesn't look right unless it's stick straight, plus the highlights wouldn't lay right).

I'm such a slave to my hair... :-(

Yes! Too oily otherwise. - nm

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Yes, every day - Stella-JRG

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I can't stand it if I don't.

the more frequent you wash your hair the greasier it gets - nm

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