The truth about hair washing – how much is too much?
telegraph.co.ukBody Building Weightless Shampoo, £10.50, philipkingsley.co.uk; WOW Color Security Shampoo, £19.50, lookfantastic.com; Charlotte Mensah, Good Hair, (Penguin, £14.99); Kérastase Bain Riche Chroma Respect, £22.40, (kérastase.co.uk); Charlotte Mensah Manketti Oil Shampoo, £24, cultbeauty.co.ukLyons cites another myth – that natural oils travel down the hair length and condition it.“In fact, they don’t travel very far at all.
So unless your hair is incredibly short, it can’t condition the ends. That’s what conditioner is for.” In some ways, it helps if you reframe how you think about washing your hair in that you’re doing more than simply shampooing it.
It’s a ritual that cleanses your scalp, conditions the ends and moisturises and volumises the mid-lengths.Both Whittle and Lyons make the point that if you suspect you’re damaging your hair by over-washing, it might be more to do with how you’re treating it when it’s wet and whether you’re using heat afterwards.“When hair’s wet, it’s at its most fragile.
The hydrogen bonds temporarily break down before reforming when dry – using a wide-tooth comb or a tool designed specifically for detangling wet hair helps avoid damage, while a heat styling protector such as Kérastase Resistance Ciment Thermique is essential,” says Whittle.“However, over-washing can be a genuine problem if you strip away too much of the protective hydrolipidic film because your scalp can be left exposed to external aggressors,” she adds.If this sounds familiar, Brooke Bohan, one of the directors at FOUR London, has seen clients look to “reset” their hair by purposely under-washing for a while to help gauge how frequently they need to wash. “Often, people are shampooing hair primarily to dampen it ready for.
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