How Often Should I Shampoo My Hair?

Your locks can be extremely resilient to heat, colouring and brushing too hard, but shampooing too often is what will really damage your hair and scalp. Everyone’s hair and scalp are unique, but you typically have one of four scalp types, which determines how often you should wash your hair: normal, oily, dry and mixed combination.

                       

There are also other factors though, simple things you do in your daily hair care routine that might help prolong between washes. How often you change your hair style (wearing it up or down), what pillowcase do you sleep on, how often do you use heat styling tools, do you use dry shampoo between washes? With that in mind, there is really only one answer to how often you should shampoo for your hair: less is more.

                                                      

When you shampoo your hair, you lift unwanted chemical, dirt and product build-up from your scalp, but also, it’s natural oils. These oils are essential to the health of your hair because they are what naturally keeps your locks moisturized. By shampooing every day, or even every other day for that matter, you wash away the oils that are meant to protect your hair.

Don’t like having greasy roots? You are not alone there. You will notice an increase in oils on your scalp between washes when you initially begin washing less, but your scalp and hair will adjust, you just have to give it some time. Soon, you’ll be able to go two, three, even four days before you start to notice those oils. Your hair looks healthy and clean longer! The best products to help you adjust are tea tree oil shampoo and tea tree oil conditioner.

When it comes to the actual product you are using, switch to an all-natural shampoo for best results. Tea tree oil shampoo is a clarifying shampoo that has natural antiseptic properties to cleanses your scalp and remove unwanted build-up. This gentle formula will help sustain your natural oils needed for proper hair growth.

One last pro tip: Wash less but condition more. Tea tree oil conditioner has a special anti-bacterial and anti-dandruff formula which is both moisturising and soothing, which is exactly what your hair needs between washes.