Avoid creme rinse, anything with the word “moisturizing”, and head and shoulders/house brand equivalent usually works well.
The nuclear option is diluted dish soap which WILL remove grease and oil, usually too well. I am serious, dilute it, and do NOT use a version with bleach! In that case, he might need a creme rinse afterward.
I’ve basically been doing that for a while, just for convenience. And I’ve found my hair is still always oily the next day.
Pomade? People still use that? I thought it went out of style with brill cream and 5 cent gallons of milk.
Heck yes, my store does a brisk business in the stuff. We also still sell Brylcream.
Modern pomades are often sold under alternatives descriptors like “hair glue” and “spiking glue”, “putty”, and the like.
I’m not familiar with glue, but pomade and putty are two different things. Pomade is usually (but not always) oil/grease based and meant to give a shinier (think slicked) finish. Putty is water based and leaves the hair matte. It’s meant to hold your hair with out it looking like it’s full of product.
Modern pomades are water based but still meant to make your hair shiny and they’re not the same as putty or fiber or wax.
Yes, there are differences between the products, hence the different names, but they’re all under a broader category.
The traditional Brylcream/pomades are very much grease/oil based, by the way, there’s not two ways around it. Originally, that sort of “hair treatment” was a mix of lard/tallow and beeswax. Then grease/petrolatum. Or petrolatum/beeswax. And so forth. The “putty” and the like were modifications intended to reduce/eliminate the greasy feel and look.
Back in the day when “shampoo” was often the same soap you washed your body or your dishes or clothes with, adding grease back into your hair made a lot more sense than when using the weak detergents that are modern shampoos that don’t strip nearly as much natural oil out of the hair.
Totally. My hair goes like this:
Day 1- shampoo. Glorious locks that look like a shampoo ad, full of body and shine.
Day 2- umm…can I get away with a ponytail? Yeah, but it’s pretty flat and shiny in a bad way, with little grooves from my hair bristles.
Day 3- the Saudi ambassador is on the phone, wants to talk about my oil reserves… this is when I do a pony and a headband, like a latte swilling yoga pants wearing soccer mom.
I have not shampooed my hair daily ever. Never ever in my life. But neither do I use product, apply heat, tease it or otherwise abuse it. So very little of the oil it’s producing is actually being used up in protection and repair.
Natural oily hair is perfectly normal for some people. What everyone forgets about nature is wind and sun. When I’m camping, my hair looks great for 3-4 days between shampoos…because the oil is only replacing what the wind and sun are taking away. Get me back into buildings, and it’s back to lankytown. But I assure you, I have the mane to envy on the savannah.
WhyNot, is WhyChild any relation of yours?
Not to my knowledge. 
Must be the other side of the Doper family tree…I know the Nots/Notts, but it’s great to meet a Why! 