How often do you wash your hair?

[AnnaB]

I was just curious how often people wash their hair?
I only wash once a week and was wondering if that's a normal thing to do? If you are like me, do you do anything to it between washes?

[catasa]

Almost every (work)day, sorry to say... Previously my hair simply got oily after one day, however now after first a couple of years on CO and then half a year on diluted non-SLS shampoo, it doesn´t actually get so oily the second day any longer (except during certain times of the month...). Sometimes it even looks quite OK on the third day oiliness-wise. But, even if it isn´t so oily, it simply doesn´t look good! It is scrunched from sleeping, wave pattern/lengths totally disrupted into frizz/fluffiness, and since it is most "disrupted" around my face/scalp it doesn´t look good even if I put it up. So I need to at least wet it down, and I usually get better results if I rinse it with a very mild dilution of my shampoo-and-ACV mix rather than just water (and no, it isn´t enough with a good spraying, it needs a total wet-down).

Or maybe I am just sensitive regarding how it looks unwashed, I don´t know... I just don´t feel nice if I don´t wet it, and I have tried numerous times...

[LadyCelestina]

I wash my hair whenever I want it to look great when down or a couple times a week,ranging from every other day to about every 4-5 day.I usually wash my bangs daily,unless it's windy and I'll be wearing them pinned or braided.

[lunalocks]

about every 3 days or 4 days, or twice a week. The longer it gets, the less often you have to wash! I do occasionally stretch to 5 or 6 days or even 7.

[Sylvestrix]

My washing pattern varies a lot! I experimented with SO last year and loved the softness and the low maintenance, but I do enjoy wearing my hair down every now and then so I've reverted back to sporadic washing. Sometimes the urge to swish my hair about won't strike me for months at a time, but my washing usually averages out to once a month or so- I'm three weeks in now but I'll be washing on Wednesday as I want to see what the famous SMT does for my hair =]

[lapushka]

My hair *needs* about 2 to 3 washes a week, only: it gets 1 wash a week. It's called stretching your washes, and we do it because it's more convenient right now.

[olivelover]

Every three or four days. I actually feel I could stretch my washes more and have my hair look and feel fine, but I'm currently addicted to prewash deep coconut oiling, so there's just no way I can wait longer ˆ)

[NymphSpirit]

I wash every 4 days... roughly... well in reality I only wash when I feel I need it AND I have to go out, otherwise I simply let it be. I tried stretching to once a week, more out of laziness than anything else, but I started shedding so I had to reverse to every 4 days... I'll start CO washing this week so this might change!

(Currently I use 1 part sls free shampoo in 9 parts water.)

[dwell_in_safety]

I wash all of my hair every two weeks, on my Saturdays off work, and on the Saturdays that I do work I do just a scalp wash. So, every other week, I'd say.

[Sarahlabyrinth]

I wash my hair about every 5 days, so that works out at once to twice a week. Sometimes I will stretch to every seven days.