Frequent washers club!

[florenonite]

I'll vote for that. I'm very picky about conditioner, and my hair is pretty fine. And still washing daily, at an inch shy of knee. I couldn't do this without conditioner that's just right.
Even with much shorter hair, it made a huge difference when I switched from the cheap conditioner my mom always had to something heavier when I was in college.

Oh, interesting. My hair is fine and for years I didn't use conditioner at all because it's so easy for conditioner to just weigh it down. I only need conditioner now because I have damage on the length/ends.

I really should have explained better. By "stretching washes" I mean not washing your hair after it seems to need washing. Like letting it be oily and dirty and waiting as long as possible to wash. I've read that for many people this can do more harm than good. But of course everyone is different. I've just read a lot of cases where this turned out badly for people who thought it was the way to go.

Oh, yeah, letting your scalp sit with grease and mank on it for as long as you can stand doesn't sound good. In my experience it's fine to leave it an extra day or so from the point of "yeah, looks like it could use a wash", but I think that's also because my hair is fine and low porosity so you just need to look at it funny for it to start getting greasy around the hairline and someone with coarser hair might find that by the time their hair looks greasy their scalp is getting itchy and needs washed.

[Finda]

My goal was overnight, then an hour, now it's more or less 10 min I try to apply it and then do something "hygiene related" like epilating, plucking my eyebrows... so anywhere from 10-30 min I'd say.

Ah, thanks, I also strive to leave it on overnight but that only works on the weekend. During the week I'm too lazy go get up before work for a hairwash, so an hour in the evening it is

[pinkfaerie]

Me too! I wash every day/ every other day, if I wait longer, I feel like my ends just get drier

[Dark40]

Me too! I wash every day/ every other day, if I wait longer, I feel like my ends just get drier

Me too also try to wash everyday too/every other day, if I wait any longer, I feel like my ends start feeling drier, and I shed more hairs too as I'm washing

[Wendyp]

I have increased my wash to 3x a week and I may go to 4. I really think my hair hates my own oils.

[poli]

I sometimes am tempted to wash everyday. Just for comfort it gives me...