Do you experience good results when you wash your hair less?

[bordelond]

@Rubystreak

No one else has mentioned this, so I figured I’d throw it out there: don’t you start to smell your hair if you don’t wash it? On the days when I’m not leaving the house, I don’t wash it, and I can smell the hair oil. It doesn’t reek, but it smells like the inside of my husband’s baseball hat, and I don’t particularly like it. On the extremely rare occasions when I’ve gone more than two days without washing, the smells becomes more pronounced and definitely not OK. I can also smell other people’s hair if they haven’t washed it for a while, so it’s not just a personal thing.

I wouldn’t go out in public without washing my hair, partially for that reason, and partially because my scalp feels oily to me after a day, definitely after two. Could be psychosomatic, as I have very thick, wavy hair, which is the type you all are saying could profit from missing a few shampoos. Damn my overly sensitive nose!

I’m with you on the smell, too.

And I hate to break it to some people … but sometimes when your hair looks OK after not washing it for three days … it can still smell bad. And I don’t even mean from smoking or some other environmental factor – naturally-oily hair often reeks.

EDDIT: Anaamika is right, though, in that the natural-hair-oils smell varies considerably from person to person.

[Unsquare_Dance]

I wash mine every three days or so, but my hair is thick with a very fine texture, and has a tendency to get oily if I use product or shampoo or even conditioner. I don’t style my hair or anything, so I just do this to keep it from looking greasy.

[badbadrubberpiggy]

@Harriet_the_Spry

Hair looks fine if I skip a day, but my face tends to break out. So I wash it daily.

Same here. My hair can actually go for a few days while still looking good unwashed - it’s very straight, but thick & short, so that helps, but either the oils or leftover hair products get on my face & cause breakouts.

A lot of people have good luck using baking soda paste on their hair. I liked it, but I dye my hair and it strips color pretty fast, so never stuck with using it.

[Freudian_Slit]

@Rubystreak

No one else has mentioned this, so I figured I’d throw it out there: don’t you start to smell your hair if you don’t wash it? On the days when I’m not leaving the house, I don’t wash it, and I can smell the hair oil. It doesn’t reek, but it smells like the inside of my husband’s baseball hat, and I don’t particularly like it. On the extremely rare occasions when I’ve gone more than two days without washing, the smells becomes more pronounced and definitely not OK. I can also smell other people’s hair if they haven’t washed it for a while, so it’s not just a personal thing.

A few months ago when I was washing it less (like every 3-4 days), I never noticed a smell. And now that I’m back on my almost every day schedule, of course, there’s no smell. The only problem I got was that when it got oily, it would get super flakey and I had to bust out the Head and Shoulders to get it to stop. Grody!

[Anaamika]

I meant to add one more thing. It also depends on how oily your hair is to start with! My hair was always dry, and after trying everything else I reluctantly started washing it less often, and it made a big difference. It will never be shiny but it is much less dry.

[Missy2U]

I have very fine, straight hair (fine enough that it’s hard to get barrettes and ponytail holders to stay in) that is fairly oily. If I go even one day without washing it, it’s a mess. I only use conditioner maybe three times a week, tops - it weighs it down too.