 | How many times to wash hair
First of all, the frequency with which you wash your hair depends on your desire. As for a specific period of time, it’s difficult to give a single-valued answer to this question. In most cases, it depends on the condition of your hair including its type and length as well as your physical activity and seasonal conditions.
 Without any doubts, you should wash the hair as frequently as you need. Healthy normal hair maintains the brightness within 4-6 days after washing. Therefore, try to avoid washing your hair within this period of time. Greasy hair becomes dirty more quickly and it’s connected with activity of oil glands. In this case, the frequency of washing depends on how quickly your hair achieves the greasy-looking brightness. Usually, you can have your hair looking greasy in 2-3 days after washing. You won't have to worry if your hair looks greasy a little bit. It’s permitted. But it shouldn’t look unpleasant in your appearance. If your hair is dry, try washing them no more than once in 8-10 days without worrying about getting something unpleasant in your appearance. Mixed type of hair requires cleaning in 3-4 days.
However, many other factors and  conditions influence the hair washing frequency. Thus the hair can lose its brightness before the periods mentioned above. Hair washing is required in a short period of time if hair seems to be dirty because of dust influence (indoors, outdoors, industry and so on). Also, the headdresses have a great influence on hair. Hats, caps, as well as any other head coverings have their detrimental harmful effects on your hair. Firstly, in themselves they may increase the dirtiness of your hair. Secondly, any head covering blocks the hair from breathing. The last-mentioned factor leads to the over secretion of sebaceous glands and as a result your hair starts looking dirty more quickly.
Nevertheless, summarizing the above mentioned, it’s necessary to repeat that the major factors and conditions influencing the decision of each person are his own physiological sensations. Here, it’s impossible that your hair looking greasy and sticky as well as to keep the skin of your head itching and dandruffed.
 As to unhealthy hair in this respect, the greater value has no the frequency of hair washing, but the frequency of using of special hair products overwhelming activity of sebaceous glands, a microscopic fungus and cleaning a skin of the head from sebum.
So, if you use soft shampoos (containing Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, TEA Layril Sulfate, ТЕА Laureth Sulfate) you can wash the hair everyday without worrying about harmful effects – washing out of sebum and drying out your hair.
Contrary to a popular belief that the frequent washing does not cause increased secretion of sebum.
During washing your hair and scalp is cleaning of sebum, dust, and small parts of dirt.
When you use shampoos the surface-active substances attract the greasy substances to itself and then are washed away cleaning the scalp and hair.
Hair Care Products
It’s not worth saving on shampoos. The disappointment of a horrible looking hair lasts longer, than the pleasure of having saved money.
 Water, and exactly its quality, also plays an essential role. If your home is found to have hard rusty water it is better to avoid washing hair under a shower. You can take the following tip on how to soften hard water. Add a cooking soda (1 teaspoon per 1 liter of water), aqueous ammonia (1 teaspoon per 2 liters of water) and glycerin (1 teaspoon per 1 liter of water) into a basin of warm water. Also, you can use a filter to remove contaminant substances of muddy water (it can be attached both to the tap and to the water-pipe).
As to folk methods of hair washing offering to wash your hair with water from melted snow, first, you are necessary to be well informed about the ecological situation in your local district. Hardly the rain and water from melted snow that you can find near to chemical factory will help your hair to look better.
As to temperature try to avoid washing your hair in hot water. It stimulates work of sebaceous glands that, in its turn, can increase the greasiness of your hair after washing. The general rule here is that the greasier hair you have got the cooler water you should use. At the same time, the temperature of cool water should be kept at about 30-35 degrees. In all other cases, water temperature can be from 35 to 45 degrees. The quantity of foam does not depend on the size of shampoo and water temperature you use.
How to wash hair
 Before hair washing it’s necessary to comb hair thoroughly. It stimulates the blood circulation of head skin, and as a result improves feeding of hair.
The main purpose of combing the hair is to provide with the uniform distribution of shampoo or any hair care product.
The hair should be thoroughly combed if you use conditioners, balsams and if you have the dandruff. The hair brushed before washing will be combed more easily after washing. Try to brush hair thoroughly. Don’t break out the hair if it is tangled. Long hair is necessary to brush moving from the ends towards the roots. Although, firstly, try to use a brush and then a comb with wide medium and fine teeth.
It’s not necessary to use too much shampoo (to pour it directly on a head from a bottle or “cap by cap”). The result of your hair washing will not change if you pour a bottle of shampoo on your hair. It’s enough to take a little shampoo and apply it to your hair.
If a shampoo does not lather well it means that you have taken not enough, your hair is too dirty or it does not fit to you.
 Applying shampoo to your hair try to massage it with the fingertips (using pressing movements of the arms and massaging movements of fingers). Rinse the hair and lather again. Repeat 2 times until the hair becomes clean (if your hair gently scratches when you are moving your hand down then it is clean).
Rinsing
The next step of washing is rinsing. Wash your hair out until all the suds are removed. You can use special hair care products including rinsing ingredients (it can be as the rinse hair care product as the rinse shampoo, for exam, two-in-one).  You can prepare the rinse by your own hands. The rinsing is used as one of the hair restorative methods. It’s necessary to rinse your hair with soft cool water, as mentioned above. It will help to remove all the suds of your hair.
Alkali substances used in hair care products (such as soaps, shampoos with pH7) affect the brightness of your hair, at the same time; the acid liquors add more brightness and volume to your hair. The professional rinse hair products adding brightness to your hair are called acidifiers. You can use your own rinsing solutions. For exam, if your hair is blonde you can squirt a half of lemon juice per 1 liter of water. Dark-haired people can use vinegar: 1 spoon of vinegar per 1 liter of water (so, pay attention that vinegar is a dilute acetic acid). After rinsing you are necessary to comb your hair. If before washing you use any combs be careful that after washing you should not use metal combs as well as hairbrush. It would be better to use wood or plastic combs. Wet hair is more vulnerable if you use rough combs after washing.
Written by Trisha Wood
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