Contents:
- Medical Video: How Often Should You Wash Your Face?
- How does shampoo work?
- How do I determine whether I have to shampoo every day or not?
- 1. Texture / Hair type
- 2. Hair thickness
- 3. Hair skin type
- 4. Hairdressing
Medical Video: How Often Should You Wash Your Face?
One of the activities most often done when bathing is shampooing. Washing aka hair washing is a treatment for hair by washing your hair and scalp with shampoo mixed with water, then rinsing using water to clean. However, you may have wondered how often you need to shampoo. Every day, every other day, or even once a week?
To find out how often shampooing needs to be done, here are a few things you need to know about shampoo and the frequency of shampooing that you need to do.
How does shampoo work?
When shampooing, the shampoo you use will catch the oil on your hair and scalp, so if you shampoo with shampoo too often (for example, one day once), it will cause your hair to dry out and be susceptible to hair damage. All you have to know is that your hair produces natural oils known as sebum; and the shampoo you use will catch the excess oil, dirt, and product residues that exist so that you can clean your hair and scalp.
Another fact is that everyone produces sebum or oil on your hair and scalp. The production of sebum is influenced by genetic factors and hormones. In fact it turns out, the hormone is responsible for a surge in sebum production during puberty, which will cause you to have lots of oily hair and pimples.
How do I determine whether I have to shampoo every day or not?
The need for shampooing is different. Maybe there will be people who will be fine if they don't wash a few days; but there are also people whose hair will smell or runny when not shampooing even in just one day. However, on average people usually wash at least 2-3 days.
Therefore, here are some things you need to understand before deciding to determine the frequency of your shampoo.
1. Texture / Hair type
The texture of your hair actually affects the speed of sebum or oil on your hair and scalp, towards the hair roots. In rough or curly hair, sebum will be slower to reach the hair roots, so if you have rough or curly hair, you are recommended to wash three days. It is not recommended to wash more than twice a week in people with very curly hair, to prevent hair loss.
For those of you who have wavy hair, you are recommended to wash it three times a week. And for those of you who have straight hair, you have to wash it more often, which is every day.
2. Hair thickness
People who have thin and very fine hair types, people who often exercise, or people who live in damp places are encouraged to wash frequently. The reason is simple, namely because these people are more vulnerable to having oil on their hair and excessive scalp, so to reduce it it is necessary to shampoo with shampoo every day. If not, then their hair will look very oily or limp. Then, if you are among those who have thin and thick hair types, then you are allowed to wash your hair every few days.
3. Hair skin type
How often you need to shampoo is very dependent on the skin type of your hair. According to American Academy of DermatologyIf your scalp is naturally very oily, you can wash your hair more often, even every day, without worrying about damaging your hair. If your skin type and hair are normal (not super oily and not super dry) or tend to dry out, you only need to wash it once or twice a week. If you have an oily scalp but don't overdo it, you can wash it at least every other day.
In addition, the age factor turns out to play a role in influencing the amount of sebum produced, because the more it gets older, the more your scalp will produce sebum, so you don't need to wash it often as before.
4. Hairdressing
Not infrequently, in a modern era like this many people, especially women, try various new hairstyles with various hair styling such as coloring hair, straightening hair, and so on. Of course, if you are among those who do hair styling, you are advised not to do shampoo often.
