How often you wash your hair — and with what — depends greatly on your body, lifestyle, and preferences. The dirtier you get and the more oil you produce, the more often you have to wash your hair.
If you think you are overwashing your hair, try cutting out one wash per week or extending the time between washes by a day. Keep reducing it each week until you like the way your hair and scalp feel.
Alternative shampoos or washing with conditioner are also great options, but for many the adjustment period can be daunting.
If you want to cut back on detergent-based shampoos, try adding in another cleaning method for one of your washes each week. This gives your hair and scalp time to adjust. Unless you apply styling products, your shampoo is only meant to cleanse your scalp. The ends of your hair are the oldest, most fragile portions, and they need special care like added moisture. Conditioner is one of the most important steps for healthy hair, according to a report from Johns Hopkins. While everyone can benefit from conditioner, people with dry hair should use conditioner every time they wash their hair.
Pay special attention to the ends of your hair when you use conditioner. Despite what most people think, applying conditioner to your scalp can also be beneficial if you have a dry scalp or curly hair.
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What influences how often you have to wash your hair? Odds are you're not shampooing your hair correctly. Now that I have your attention, I want you to know you're not alone.
Most people make at least one mistake every time they lather up. Sometimes we don't spend enough time scrubbing our scalps, occasionally we don't rinse thoroughly, and sometimes we skip the deep conditioner.
But, like anything, there is always room for improvement, and taking steps to take better care of our hair is pretty simple to fix. Well, it is once you know where you're making mistakes. With that in mind, we've outlined five common errors people make when shampooing and conditioning their hair. Most people don't wet their hair thoroughly before applying shampoo.
Every strand needs to be soaking wet in order to get a deep clean. The good news is, it just takes about a full minute standing under the shower stream to ensure every strand is drenched. The bad news is, it's different for everybody. If your hair is particularly dense—not even thick, just dense—run your fingers through to double-check that water has made it from the root to the ends of your hair. People generally have no idea how much shampoo to use in the shower.
And if you use a fancy shampoo, you could be washing a lot of money down the drain. At the same time, using too little shampoo won't get your hair clean enough. It won't even coat your strands. There's a way of gauging how much shampoo you need, though. For short hair, aim for the size of a nickel.
For medium-length hair, aim for a quarter. If you have long hair, you'll want to use about a half-dollar. Squeeze the shampoo in your palm, and then use your fingers to apply the product starting at the scalp and crown. Starting at the scalp is crucial. If you've ever had a professional shampoo at a salon, you know how much time they spend on your scalp. It's not just an impromptu head massage. Scrubbing the scalp is a key step to an effective shampoo. The magic number for cleansing the scalp is three minutes, no matter your hair length or hair type.
Learn More. Why does the selection of hair cleansing products and conditioners seem complex? Why are there clear, opalescent, green, blue, glittery, cheap, expensive, thick, thin, fragrant, and unscented varieties of shampoos and conditioners? Why the whole cleansing process cannot be simplified by using the same bar soap used on the body for the hair? Does the shampoo selected really make a difference? What can a conditioner accomplish? A shampoo is technically designed to clean the scalp of sebum and prevent the development of folliculitis and seborrheic dermatitis.
Shampoos are intended to rid the hair of sebum, sweat components, desquamated stratum corneum, styling products, and environmental dirt. Beautifying the hair is really quite a complex task. The average woman possesses four to eight square meters of hair surface area to clean. This may be one of the aggravating factors for seborrheic dermatitis in some older men who use a bar soap to clean the scalp.
Thus, there really is a need for well-formulated shampoos that both clean and beautify the hair. Shampoos are basically liquid cleansers based on synthetic detergents blended to achieve the desired amount of cleansing given the condition of the hair.
Some ingredients are added for actual hair and scalp cleansing, while others are added to impart desirable aesthetic characteristics to the shampoo. The basic recipe for a shampoo is listed in Table 1. Shampoos function by employing detergents, also known as surfactants, which are amphiphilic. This means that the detergent molecule possesses both lipophilic, meaning oil attracting, and hydrophilic, meaning water attracting, sites. The lipophilic site binds to the sebum, while the hydrophilic site binds to water, allowing removal of the sebum with water rinsing.
For example, if the shampoo is intended for oily hair, detergents with strong sebum removal qualities are selected, while if the shampoo is intended for permanently waved or dyed hair, mild detergents are selected to reduce sebum removal.
The art of shampoo formulation is picking the right detergent combination to cleanse the scalp and beautify the hair simultaneously. There are five basic categories of shampoo detergents: anionics, cationics, amphoterics, nonionics, and natural surfactants. While this may seem somewhat confusing, an understanding of the detergents is the key to determining which shampoo is most appropriate for a patient with a given hair problem.
Anionic detergents are the most popular surfactants used in basic cleansing shampoos in the current market. They are named for their negatively charged hydrophilic polar group. Anionic detergents are derived from fatty alcohols and are exceptionally adept at removing sebum from the scalp and hair. Unfortunately, the aesthetics of thoroughly cleaned hair are not well accepted by the consumer. Hair devoid of all sebum is harsh, rough, subject to static electricity, dull, and hair that needs detangling.
The art of shampoo formulation is achieving the right balance between hair that is sufficiently clean and hair that is too clean. There are several common detergents categorized within the anionic group:. Most shampoos designed to produce good hair cleansing will contain lauryl sulfate as the second or third indgredient listed on the label, with water being the primary ingredient.
The detergent listed first is the primary cleanser in highest concentration and the detergent listed second is the secondary cleanser designed to complement the short comings of the primary detergent. Examples of lauryl sulfate detergents include: sodium lauryl sulfate, triethanolamine lauryl sulfate, and ammonium lauryl sulfate.
These ingredients are popular primary cleansers, as they work well in both hard and soft water, produce rich foam, and are easily rinsed. They are excellent cleansers, but hard on the hair requiring careful selection of a secondary detergent and possible use of a conditioning agent as part of the shampoo formulation. Lauryl sulfates are commonly used in shampoos for oily hair.
Laureth sulfates are one of the most commonly used primary detergents in general shampoos designed for normal-to-dry hair. They provide excellent cleansing, but leave the hair in good condition. Consumers like these detergents, as they produce abundant foam.
Examples of detergents that fall into this chemical class, as listed on the shampoo label are: sodium laureth sulfate, triethanolamine laureth sulfate, and ammonium laureth sulfate.
Sarcosines are generally not used as primary detergents, as they do not remove sebum well from the hair. However, they are excellent conditioners and commonly used as the second or third listed detergent on the shampoo ingredient list.
Sarcosines are used in conditioning shampoos and dry hair shampoos. Detergents of this class may be listed on the shampoo label as: lauryl sarcosine and sodium lauryl sarcosinate. Sulfosuccinates are a class of strong detergents useful in removing sebum from oily hair.
For this reason, they are a common secondary surfactant in oily hair shampoos. Examples of ingredients that fit into this class are disodium oleamine sulfosuccinate and sodium dioctyl sulfosuccinate.
Whereas the anionic detergents we have been discussing are named for their negatively charged polar group, the cationic detergents are named for their positively charged polar group. The cationic detergents are not nearly as popular in current shampoos as the anionic detergents because they are limited in their ability to remove sebum and do not produced abundant lather.
They cannot be combined with other anionic detergents, which is another drawback. Cationic detergents are primarily used in shampoos where minimal cleansing is desired, such as in daily shampoos designed for permanently dyed or chemically bleached hair. Here minimal sebum removal is desired, but the cationic detergents are excellent at imparting softness and manageability.
The nonionic detergents are the second most popular surfactants, behind the anionic detergents, and bear the name nonionic, as they have no polar group. These are the mildest of all surfactants and are used in combination with ionic surfactants as a secondary cleanser. The term amphoteric refers to substances that have both a negatively charged and a positively charged polar group.
Thus, amphoteric detergents contain both an anionic and a cationic group, which allows them to behave as cationic detergents at lower pH values and as anionic detergents at higher pH values.
These unique properties make amphoteric detergents quite unique. Within the amphoteric detergent category, there are several subgroups that include the betaines, sultaines, and imidazolinium derivatives. Special uses for amphoteric detergents include ingredients such as cocamidopropyl betaine and sodium lauraminopropionate, which are found in baby shampoos. These detergents are non-irritating to the eyes, accounting for the non-stinging characteristics of baby shampoo.
Amphoteric detergents are also used in shampoos for fine and chemically treated hair because they foam moderately well, while leaving the hair manageable.
The synthetic detergents previously discussed have largely replaced natural detergents, until recently, when botanically based hair care products have made a resurgence. Natural surfactants come from plants such as sarsaparilla, soapwort, soap bark, and ivy agave. These natural saponins have excellent lathering capabilities, but are poor cleansers thus must be present at high concentration.
Usually, they are combined with other synthetic detergents that have been outlined earlier. All shampoo formulations contain the same basic ingredients. The variety of shampoos in the marketplace might be rather confusing, but the ingredient categories are standard to a large extent. The categories of shampoo ingredients are discussed next.
One of the most important attributes of a shampoo from a consumer perspective is the foaming ability. Consumers are convinced that a shampoo that foams poorly also cleans poorly.
This is not the case. Most shampoos contain foaming agents to introduce gas bubbles into the water. The foam, also known as lather, is important, as it functions to spread the detergent over the hair and scalp, but it does not participate in cleaning. It is true that a shampoo applied to dirty hair will not foam as much as the same shampoo applied to clean hair.
This is due to the sebum inhibiting bubble formation. Thus, a shampoo will foam less on the first shampooing and more on the second shampooing. Some of the prescription corticosteroid shampoos do not foam as much as cosmetic shampoos, but this does not mean their cleaning is inadequate.
These ingredients are used to change the physical and optical properties of the shampoo. Thickeners increase the product viscosity, which many consumers feel makes a better shampoo. Opacifiers are used to make shampoos have a pearly shine, which offers no improved cleansing, only an optical effect. Another important shampoo ingredient that does not participate in cleansing is the sequestering agent.
This same film can also form on the scalp contributing to itching and ultimately some of the symptoms of seborrheic dermatitis. For this reason, patients should be encouraged to use shampoo and not bar soap when cleansing the hair.
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