I definitely find more sheds on wash day than any other day, because washing means manipulating the hair a lot more and loosening those already- or ready-to-shed hairs. The problem got a lot better when I started brushing through my hair more often, especially brushing around my scalp.
I find that my hair is just too thick for any of the TT knockoffs that I've seen here, the bristles are WAY too soft to catch on my hair to detangle it, let alone pull out shed hairs. They slide right out of and off past the tangles, and they don't get anywhere near my scalp. Nowhere near where I live carries actual TTs so I don't know if they have the same bristles, but I wonder if it's just that the TT isn't strong enough to get all those sheds out in between? I know when I started using a paddle brush with stiff bristles and not a lot of squish to it, the sheds came out a lot more evenly throughout the week. (I'm using a Goody Jewel Shine Paddle Brush, and it's wonderful.)
My hair is pretty slippery, though, and not everyone can or wants to use a brush every day. If that's the case, you may just have to see more sheds in the shower. It's not a problem, as far as I can tell, just the result of the sheds not having been worked loose from the mass of hair between washes.
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