do i really need to wash my hair everyday?

[eduardmc]

i hear people talking about it so much. i use nizoral every 3 days but that it, does everybody wash their hair everyday if so, why and what shampoo do they use?

 

[Private Ryan]

i wash twice daily as my country climate is warm and i exercise quite often.

you might not need to wash everyday. depend on your climate activity.

 

[EasyEd]

I wash mine every day with AC Revitalize shampoo and use nizoral 1% every third day. Here's some food for thought though:
My best friend went to Florida on Vacation and didn't bring shampoo or anything so he didn't wash his hair and he said it looked awesome. He then returned home to the Northeast and literally didn't wash his hair for about 5 months. When I said didn't wash his hair, I don't mean rinsed with water...I mean he didn't touch his hair with anything for a 5 month period. He said maybe once in a while he'd rinse it with water...maybe once every 6 weeks or so. To be honest, his hair looked fantastic. He's blonde, probably a NW1.5 to a 2, fairly thin hair...definitely thinner than it was 5 years ago. Anyway, he kept his hair spiked up with no gel or anything at all and his hair honestly looked great. How did it smell? Probably not too good. I assume it probably felt gross too but he let his hair grow for a long period of time without ever washing it and it's never looked better. Honestly. He went from looking like he should keep it short because he's balding to looking like Val Kilmer in Top Gun...seriously...We both went to a wedding together and saw some people we hadn't in a while and all people kept saying to him was how awesome his hair looked...
He's now back to shorter hair and washing it constantly and once again looks like a kid who's losing his hair...
Anyway, I'm sure nobody is going to try anything remotely close to this but I figured I'd share it with you guys.

 

[theendoftheend]

yep, my hair looks much better about 24 hours after a shower. The sebum kind of acts like a thickening putty of sorts.

 

[Dinzy]

I used to not wash my hair often because I liked the messy look. Now the randomness tends to reveal thin spots mor often then not. But if I wash it ED/EOD and used AC revitalize conditioner and Spray it looks pretty nice.

 

[chewbaca]

Well there could be an explaination for this;

I notice my hair also looks good if i did not wash for days.It could be because shampoos could be doing more harm than good.....If u ever noticed it, shampooing your hair makes your hair appear thinner possibly because the dozens of chemicals found in commercial off the shelf shampoos could be rotting away the thickness of your hair. .meaning they could make your hair thinner.i noticed this already as far back before male pattern baldness days when i had a thicker head of hair...
If the above theory of mine is valid, then i am afraid to say the consequence of the matter is rather serious..Shampooing may cause more harm than good.

 

[theendoftheend]

Well there could be an explaination for this;

I notice my hair also looks good if i did not wash for days.It could be because shampoos could be doing more harm than good.....If u ever noticed it, shampooing your hair makes your hair appear thinner possibly because the dozens of chemicals found in commercial off the shelf shampoos could be rotting away the thickness of your hair. .meaning they could make your hair thinner.i noticed this already as far back before male pattern baldness days when i had a thicker head of hair...
If the above theory of mine is valid, then i am afraid to say the consequence of the matter is rather serious..Shampooing may cause more harm than good.

No.

Think.

Sebum.

 

[Milks]

Yeah this is true from what i've heard. Shampoo will completely strip the hair shaft of its natural oil and its this oil that gives it its healthy look/shine, it normally takes a day or two for this oil to be replenished.

Some shampoos are made up of like 95% silicone, the idea being it replaces the oil it strips to keep the hairs shine

My hair always looks tonnes better 2 days after washing but then nizoral is especially harsh, I wash twice a week, and have started putting a *tiny* amount of wax in my hair after washing to help retain its shine

 

[Bryan]

Yeah this is true from what i've heard. Shampoo will completely strip the hair shaft of its natural oil and its this oil that gives it its healthy look/shine, it normally takes a day or two for this oil to be replenished.

Shampooing doesn't "strip" the hair shaft of all its oil. Neither is it "replenished" in a day or two. There's a number of Old Wives' Tales associated with what you're saying.

Bryan

 

[Milks]

So what does happen then?

 

[theendoftheend]

Bryan is notorious for refuting statements of other members without further elaboration.

Shame, cause he's usually right, just not very informative!

 

[Bryan]

So what does happen then?

Several years ago, the legendary Albert M. Kligman MD, PhD and some of his colleagues did some exhaustive testing of several typical commercial shampoos (some were advertised as being for "oily" hair, some were for "normal" hair, some were for "dry" hair, there was one "baby shampoo", etc.). They wanted to see just how effective those shampoos were at removing lipid from the hair and scalp, how hair actually re-fats itself, and other related questions. There were some surprising findings, some of which are enumerated below:

1) Even though there was a considerable variation in the amount of detergent in those shampoos (depending on whether they were supposedly designed for "dry", "normal", or "oily" hair), there were no significant differences among them in the amount of oil and sebum that they removed. They all removed between 60% and 70% of the lipid, leaving behind about 100 to 150 milligrams.

2) To COMPLETELY remove all lipid from the hair, they found it necessary to do up to 100 extractions with ether. No, that's not a typo...it took ONE HUNDRED washings with pure ether! :freaked2: Their theory is that sebum gets "sequestered" between the overlapping layers of cuticle cells in the hair shaft, and it's almost impossible to completely remove it. Here's what they say on that issue:

"If our explanation is correct, the sequestration of sebum between cuticle cells is a biologically sound device to assure that there will always be a small amount of lipid to protect the fiber from environmental assaults, including highly efficient shampoos. There would appear to be little ground for the fear that the surfactants will do their work too well, leaving the hair 'squeaky clean.' The formulator does not need to worry that he may be creating surfactant systems that remove more oil than soil. In our studies, even after the two cycle ether extraction of the scalp, the hair was neither dry nor squeaky. Indeed, it was surprisingly pleasing with a high lustre and an agreeable feel."

3) They also found that sebum isn't just naturally attracted to hair shafts, and doesn't flow along them automatically, and doesn't get "wicked-up" by them. Indeed, the only way that sebum gets onto hair at all is apparently just by physical contact, like when we comb our hair, touch or scratch our heads, sleep on a pillow, etc.

Bryan

 

[Bryan]

Bryan is notorious for refuting statements of other members without further elaboration.

Shame, cause he's usually right, just not very informative!

Bullshit. Don't know where you got THAT idea. In fact, I've been accused of being too wordy at times! :wink:

Bryan

 

[arjun17]

Good point!

While I don't have any thinning as of now, my hair is black but not jet black, and rather fine (unlike most other teenagers I see with thick jet black hair), but it is pretty dense as far as the number of hairs per
square inch goes. After washing my hair and letting it dry, it looks kind of "soft and fluffy".This is not just visual, I pass my hand through my hair with no resistance whatsoever. However, when it gets greasy after two days, my hair looks "harder" and "shinier", and can actually hold styles much better than newly-washed hair, W/O ANY GEL OR OTHER STYLING AGENT. (My scalp is so frickin' greasy that the grease is a good , although not perfect substitute for gel.)
But remember, to pull off this greasy, longish hair look, you need to have a good amount of hair. Otherwise, the grease will make the thinning look worse than it actually is.
Cheers,
Arjun

 

[chewbaca]

In fact there was some topic debated before about Sebum, Too much of it vs lack of it.....Both can cause hair loss?

 

[Milks]

So what does happen then?

Several years ago...


...by physical contact, like when we comb our hair, touch or scratch our heads, sleep on a pillow, etc.

Bryan

cool 8)

 

[Armando Jose]

"sleep on a pillow,"

Very cool

Armando