Will sweat damage my hair?

[Budgie]

I was wondering if my current hair routine will damage my hair. I work out twice a day (and shower after both), and wash my hair during the night shower. During my morning workout I notice that the bottom-back and sides of my scalp are sweaty. It's not a visible wetness in my hair, but I can feel it if I run my fingers through my hair. Usually I just shower without washing it and let it evaporate since I want to avoid water damage.

Should I rinse it out every morning or should I leave it?

[Wildcat Diva]

I think leave it.

[Anje]

Hair seems to do just fine with sweat. Might look a little greasy since the sweat carries the oils out onto the hair, but it shouldn't be a problem otherwise.

[Nique1202]

Sweat is just water and oils and salts, basically, and while wet hair is more fragile, if the hair isn't totally drenched with sweat and you're not manipulating your hair a lot while it's sweaty, your daily washing is more likely to cause damage to your hair than a bit of sweat. As long as you don't mind the appearance of the sweat after your morning workout and your current routine works for you, it's probably fine.

[Arctic]

It's more likely that your scalp will not like the sweat than that your hair would be damaged. I get irritated scalp if I leave it sweaty, but seeing your excersice so much, it would seem excessive to rinse after each time. I don't know, maybe a quick blast with blowdrier on scalp (on cool setting) would help to avoid skin irritations?

[yogagirl]

Agreed. Your hair will be fine, but watch your scalp. I can't work out, get my scalp sweaty and not wash it. I get itchy scalp, and eventually it lead to SD issues.

If you do notice scalp itchiness after you do this, don't ignore it, would be my advice.

[Budgie]

Thankfully my scalp never itches from sweat.

[Wildcat Diva]

Some times I try a bit of rooibos tea sprayed on my roots to freshen things up if I don't like what sweat does to my roots/ scalp.

[lapushka]

Another vote to leave it. Sweat isn't the end of the world, and if it isn't greasy within a day, I'd leave it until it goes greasy as well; if you don't have scalp issues.

[sarah.j.xx]

I agree with everyone else; I don't think sweat will do any damage to your hair. :)

[Squiggy]

Leave it. I wash 2x/week most of the year, maybe 3 in the summer depending on just how sweaty I've gotten, and run marathons and half marathons year round. I'm a big time sweater (gross, yes) and it gets sweaty at the roots, but a little dry shampoo helps, or blowdrying the scalp on cool. Pay attention to your scalp, and switch shampoos if you find your scalp gets irritated.

[endlessly]

Sweating shouldn't do any damage to your hair, but it can cause some slight irritation to your scalp, so that's what I would really suggest keeping an eye on.