What do you do with snarls and tangles?

Oh no, you don't want to ask me what shampoo and conditioner I use. It would be shorter to write a list of products I don't use.
I switch products every day to prevent build up. Do you think I should pick one and stick with it?

Our water is kind of hard... but we don't have too much white build-up on the shower heads. I've lived in much-worse apartments.
I used to occasionally rinse with apple cider vinegar, but that didn't help noticeably.

I don't know... my hair has been cornsilk my whole life. That's just it's nature.
You know what I mean, right? You run your fingers through it and it just sticks together.

your hair sounds like mine. i cut the knots out if it's only a few strands and there is no other way to get them out. i've tried alot of things and nothing has helped. i find washing it every other day helps.. the longer i go without washing it the more it gets tangled. when hair gets knotted up like ours it's usually a sign of damage. mines is damaged from coloring/bleaching it alot and then not getting it trimmed every few months.

Hello Supergrover

Your post sent a shiver down my spine.
I have never heard or seen tangles so severe that they needed to be cut off.

My sister has very curly hair which sometimes tangles up very badly, but by......

(a) taking preventative measures i.e oiling, conditioning and sleeping on a satin pillow

(b) unpicking the tangles hair with a saw-cut comb or a tapestry needle

......she can usually fix it.

I suggest you examine the reasons for your hair tangling so badly.
Is it, for example, long curly hair that you wear lose when sleeping and wake up with serious tangles? If so, you will need to lightly oil and braid hair before bedtime.

Prevention is better than cure, especially when the cure involves sissors !!!!

Best wishes.

Am I the only person who is in the habit if cutting bad snarls and tangles out of my hair?

I used to put a dab of conditioner on them and try to smooth them out... But I think once a hair has been twisted into a nasty snarl, it will never be the same again. And then, this damaged hair is likely to become entangled in other healthy hairs since it has a damaged cuticle now. So I like to think I'm preventing future damage by cutting damaged hair off.

Thankfully I only have to do this once or twice a week. They are usually pretty small and near the end of the hair anyway. Maybe I can get away with this because my hair is thick and a little bit wavy.

The biggest self-trim I did was a few months ago, in December. The parts of my hair closest to my neck were really disgusting. Some individual hairs had parts peeling away, all up and down the shaft, like branches of a tree. This small section of hair was constantly getting entangled in the healthier sections of my hair. It was doing me more harm than good, so one evening I just cut it off. It turned out to not be much hair, just the parts that root in my neck. I took my time and spent an hour doing it. I put my hair up in a clip and gradually and gently pulled hair down, starting at the bottom of my neck and working up until I had freed all the damaged hair from the bun, and all of the healthy hair was up. When I felt like I had all the damaged hair (and only damaged hair), I cut it off about an inch above the damaged area. I had my husband help me so it's straight.

I'm so glad I did it! My hair doesn't get tangled NEARLY as often anymore. The only bad thing is that when I put my hair up, there are 2 strange looking tails on either side of my neck. I don't wear my hair up in the winter, so it hasn't been a problem, but in the summer, I think I will clip them up with barrettes.

Does anyone else trim damaged spots out of their hair? Am I a strange egg?