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.........and what exactly are the techniques of these two words?
ou wrote the question I was going to write I'm wondering too.
"Scritching" means massaging your scalp with your nails/fingertips in order to loosen sebum. Important technique for WOers and SO/NWers who cleanse their scalps that way.
"Preening" means getting the sebum you've scritched off your scalp down your length, using your fingers.
I know scritching is a method to relieve sebum build-up on the scalp. It also feels good! I use these instructions (but I use a plastic comb):
As for preening, I have no idea! I'm looking forward to learning all about it, tho.
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July 06 : 21-30 inches, layered . . . Dec 09: 36 inches, still fighting the taper.
If you feel like there is build up, gently scritch it off. Sometimes I feel like I need it everyday, and sometimes I can go a whole week without it. I don't think there is any "normal"! Some people, like me, think/thought they had dandruff, but really their scalp was dry/needed scritching/was sensitive to sulfates/ needed less washing...It's just whatever works for you at any given time.
I use a drugstore plastic comb or a wooden hairfork at the end of the day to scritch. I'd love a horn comb, though. I tend to get too rough with my fingernails, and am afraid there is bacteria in there that my irritate my sensitive scalp.
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How do you get the sebum down the length of the hair? My sebum comes out grainy, like lots of tiny balls of wax. How do I get them to be absorbed by my hair? When I try to smooth the sebum down the length, it just looks like someone scattered some coarse corn meal on my hair.
July 06 : 21-30 inches, layered . . . Dec 09: 36 inches, still fighting the taper.
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For those folks who are extending their washes, practicing WO or not washing or rinsing at all, preening is a desirable addition to scritching and massage. Preening moves sebum from the oily scalp area to the dry hair where it is needed. The following paragraph describes how to preen.
After massaging the scalp, the fingertips are greasy. To preen the hair, grab a bit of hair between the fingers and thumb, and draw the fingers down the length of the hair. Continue drawing the fingers down the length of other bits of hair until the fingertips are no longer greasy and then massage some more and preen again, over and over. It's not a perfect task, because no one has enough time to preen all the strands of hair on their head. I focus on the hair that looks frizzy, because preening eliminates dry and frizzy hair as well as moving sebum from the scalp.
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