So you’ve got to get rid of your two-in-one shampoo and conditioner; But now, you have no idea how often you should be using those fancy new shampoo and conditioner bottles sitting in your shower.
Although hair-washing day may seem like a chore, establishing a timely hair routine is actually important for one reason that’s largely overlooked: scalp health. The accumulation of grime and even our own natural hair oil can clog pores in our scalp, eventually leading to infection.
How often should men wash their hair?
“In an ideal world, I would say wash your hair every three to four days,” says hair groomer and celebrity men’s hairstylist Melissa DeZarte, whose clients include Benson Boone, Henry Golding, and Andrew Scott. “The minimum thing I want to tell everybody is literally once a week is the absolute minimum,”
If people want to stretch out hair-washing day for more than a week, Deseret recommends at least using a scalp scrub or detox shampoo to renew the scalp.
Identifying your hair type and scalp needs
Dr. Christina Weng, a board-certified dermatologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who sees patients for hair and scalp health, says how often someone washes their hair depends on several factors, including hair texture, hair length, diet and environment.
For people with thin hair, grease is easier to accumulate and build up, so thin hair needs to be washed more often than thick, coarse hair, which distributes moisture more evenly than thin hair.
Simon Cogen, a celebrity hair stylist and groomer, says that how often one needs to wash their hair also depends on their hair type. jonathan bailey And Nicholas Hoult.
For this reason, one has to wash one’s hair frequently with water only. Dr. Wang recommends doing it five to six times a week for people with thin hair, while people with thick hair can do it two to three times a week.
“Washing your hair less and lengthening the time between washing your hair gives more time for sebum accumulation, and the composition of that sebum, that oil, changes after it’s exposed to air, once it’s secreted by the oil glands,” says Dr. Weng. “It’s exposed to oxygen in the environment, it gets oxidized, and some of it can cause skin irritation and inflammation, and also microbial overgrowth and fungal overgrowth.”
