Of *course* marketing for some drugstore brand shampoos want to convince you being "too clean" is a problem.

They aren't good enough to get you that clean. *They* want you to think that's a good thing.

Clean is good. Clean prevents infections. Clean allows Conditioner to do its job, as well as any and all products that come afterwards.

Sometimes the waxy buildup is your own sebum not being removed completely, and just resolidifying further down.

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It is wild to me that regularly washing is seen as controversial just because it's the scalp and not ... say.... hands.

More so if the hair is curly.

More so if the skin is melenated.

Just wild.

Lifestyle dictates routine. Wash when before your scalp gets itchy or more frequently if it gets sweaty or oily.

Scalp produces oil (sebum), oil traps dirt, debris, dead skin, etc and becomes waxy.

Remove it regularly to prevent infections that lead to fungi that lead to hairloss

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The lipid layer of your hair is what protects your hair against humidity and water damage.

Chlorine can effect it, but so can RAW oils.

Oils (like from the kitchen section) contain a lactic acid (or similar compound) that can eat at the protective lipid layer of the hair in large doses (like when it's not formulated into product)

RAW oils also have a boiling point typically around the temperatures we're seeing outside this time of year, and can add heat damage to that mix.

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Nothing on the planet makes your hair grow *faster*.
Denser, yes.
Not faster.

Your hair growth rate is based ENTIRELY on genetics and health.

🍃Eat all your major vitamins A through k, iron, biotin, zinc, 🍃Omega 3s, etc. Your liver breaks these nutrients down to make for healthy hair growth.
🍃Drink water.
🍃Exercise even just walking 10 minutes a day.

This helps get the most out of your genetic hair growth rate. Just take care of it to prevent breakage to retain the length.

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•The Hydrogen bonds in your hair break every time your hair gets wet and don't reset until your hair dries completely.
•Until then, everything you do to your wet/damp hair trains those hydrogen bonds in how you'd like them to reconnect.
•Once hair starts drying, and those bonds start reconnecting, if you're disrupting curls/waves, etc. before they're done, you're telling some hydrogen bonds to set in a different way than the others.
•This is one major way to create frizz.

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Let's talk about the marketing phrase "pH balanced".

What is it pH balanced to? And what do they claim that its a solution for?

Some soaps are known to be "pH balanced" up to a 9. Drano is around 12-13.

Hair and skin is around 4.5-4.7. pH balancing around this knowledge is useful. Nothing you use on your hair or skin needs to be much higher than a 7 (water is typically 6.5-7) or much lower than 3.5.

If it doesn't specify, research further. What's it pH balanced -to-? & Y?

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Fun fact: Grey hair is also called unpigmented hair. It has stopped producing melanin. It's actually transparent, but typically reflects your darker hair to appear grey.

Grey hair, like all hair, does collect various colorings through environmental factors, which is how it can start to gain a yellow appearance through minerals in your water.

Typically, these are solved through a combination of clarifying, and the use of products that can seal the cuticle from these factors.

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We wash our hands regularly, brush our teeth regularly. We know the stink of body odor is because of bacteria in the armpits, or on the feet.

Yet it's somehow controversial to tell people to wash their hair regularly.

I don't know who's marketing campaign is responsible for getting people to fear clean hair, but your scalp produces sebum daily. Dirt and debris get trapped in that sebum. Failure to wash it off results in infections.

Wash it more frequently than once a week.

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What's the difference?

Hair is more fragile when wet. Once it's wet, it breaks the hydrogen bonds and becomes more elastic and malleable. We want this when we're ready to shape it into a style, and it's necessary when cleansing the scalp, but we -don't- want this when we're pulling on it to de-knot-ify it!

However; hair is also the strongest when it's -not- dry, aka. hydrated, moisturized, conditioned, and manageable.

Detangle hair dry, but don't detangle dry hair

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Because the scalp produces sebum regularly which is a kind of oil, your shampoo requires a detergent which activates with water to break down that oil so that it can mix with water and rinse away.

These can include "sulfates" as well as other cleansing agents.

Shampoo should be rinsed and repeated with focus on the scalp until its effectively clean, and all the oils are removed.

Typically clean wet hair has an almost squeaky, rubbery feel.

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Your scalp produces sebum regularly, which traps dirt and debris, if left uncleansed, these can lead to infections. Once you have an infection, you'll need to see a dermatologist to assess and remove what is usually a fungal issue, or it can lead to hair loss.

How fast you produce oils and need to wash is primarily determined by hair length, density, and thickness of texture.

More frequently than 5 days is typically recommended.

Shampoo is for scalp health, less for hair.

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It's amazing how much pushback I get against the recommendation to wash your hair regularly and effectively to prevent infections.

How many of you avoid washing your bodies? Hands? Ass Crack?

For weeks? Months???

Imagine if you avoided washing your hands for 4 weeks. All the things that your hands touch.

Now think of how many times you touch your hair? Scratch your head? Pull your hair back?

Dermatologists and trichologists are far more expensive than shampoo.

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I cannot express enough, the importance of cleansing your scalp effectively, efficiently, and regularly.

Your scalp produces sebum, which is an oil, that traps dirt and debris.

Failure to remove these regularly, effectively, and efficiently leads to irritations and infections.

There has been an influx in yeast infections.

Do not go longer than 5 days, and rinse and repeat until all of your scalp is *clean*.

If you need a better shampoo do do this with, do that.

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It is well known that oil and water don't mix. Your scalp produces a kind of oil, sebum, on a regular daily basis.

If you've ever done 3rd grade science experiments, you might remember that day you took water and olive oil and added a drop of soap.

Soap activates with water to break down the oil and mix the two together so that you can remove the oil from your scalp.

Wash your hair with shampoo regularly to avoid sebum build-up which can lead to fungal infections.

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If you have to "edit" your hair care product by adding something to it, you're not just admitting you didn't like the hair care product, you're also messing with the formulation of that product so it no longer works as it was intended.

It's worth it to find a formulation that actually works well for you, otherwise, you waste your money twice. Once by using a formula that doesn't work for you, and once again by editing it to make it not work as designed.

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On Water-Soluble Products:

If you have soap scum in your bathtub, then there is residue being left behind. The likely culprit is the products used in your shower* (bodywash, shampoo, conditioner, shaving cream, etc.)

If it's left behind in your shower, chances are high it's also building up on your hair.

Completely water soluble products rinse away when you rinse them off with *just* water.

*It could also be from your water, we do recommend filtered shower heads.

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