Can you shampoo too much?

Yes, you can shampoo too much because it dries out your hair.  Moisture is extremely important to us curly-girls!  I use shampoo only twice a week, and use conditioner on the days in between. 

I can't answer your questions about the best moisturizing products because my hair isn't African, so I'm not sure what to tell you on that.  I do love shea butter though.  I know many African women use that.  It comes from Africa!  I smooth a tiny bit of pure raw shea butter on my ends after washing, while my hair is still wet.  (works lovely for skin too, btw)

I agree with the above posters, there is such a thing as shampooing too much. It dries my hair out when I use it too often. you need to replace the moisture you lost with a good moisturizing Con, leave-in and moisturizer. I only use shampoo (organic which doesn't have harsh sulfates) every two weeks or whenever I use hair gel and I conditioner wash everyday. I always follow up with a leave-in (Cantu) and moisturizer (Profectiv)

Thats what I do! If my hair is feeling dry I will condition wash it everynight for about a week alternating between moisturizing and protein conditioners. Then I will take the time to shamp, deep cond, apply moisture and flat iron. My hair loves the added moisture!

Hi Hungry for hair......change your SHAMPOO and your technique. purchase Ultra black hair growth book,  UBH Publications website.  You will learn a lot about your hair and shampoo for afro amer hair.  we grew up on every 2 week....NOT....we need to wash a min of 1 per week, but really every 3-4 days...many of cant because of schedules....but if you did that, you your hair would be so much more soft and not dried out....these are the steps 1. only shampoo 1 time, do not keep repeating it, you are stripping your hair of what ever nutrients it has 2. alternate your conditioners, 1 time regular kind, next time protien or deep protien conditioner.....3 FINAL rinse- 1/2 teaspoon Cider vinegar and 1 cup of water...this will get your ph level on your scalp back to normal. and allow the natural oil glands in your head to release natural oils, that is why you do not put anything on your scalp other than jojoba oil, why because it is the only oil that does not clog our pores.  Gotta watch out for Shea butter, it is good but can clog pores.  yur hair will not smell like vinegar, so dont worry about that, just pour it on hair and light rinse again. 4. air dry to a damp, then blow dry if you have too, but put a blow dry condi tioner on it.....I use Virgin Coconut oil (do not cake it on, rub it on your hands,watch it melt in yur hand before your eyes, then make sure you rub all the way down hair shaft) you will be surprised in about 2-4 washing the change in your hair.....try it.....the only thing, I do not Hotcurl or put any other heat on my hair, so all I can' tell you is limit heat styling tools

try it let me know...this has change many friends of mines hair, I am getting scubby snacks....Just kidding......Nothing beats a failure but a try. RIGHT. and I dont know my hair type

Oh I forot to tell you.....water is a form of moisture, believe it or not, so when you put the jojoba or coco oil on the wet or damp hair, it is holding that moiture in, it truely is....you will notice that your hair will not dry out, if you cant wash until the end of the week, that reply oils as needed, your hair will talk to you lolol. also I aint on no healthy diet, as a matter of fact I need to drink more water, I dont...so I still have issues that if I work on my consumption I may have more success than I already have had. LOLOL   read up on your jojoba oil and virginCoconut oils and how these 2 oils are the safest for out bodies...remember what you put on you goes inside you.  go to EWG>org and read on SKIN DEEP, you will proably throw everything out I did.  Starting with condtioners, I have been using a healthy non toxic shampoo for yrs.  Aubrey.....I do not buy any products from th beauty supply, when you see what they all contain, you will see why you are constantly fighting dry hair syndrome and unhealthy hair which only looks good when you first leave a salon. LOLOL


Edited by simplired - April 13 2007 at 10:59pm

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if i wuz ya man i'd tell u to keep dem sexy curls and lay off the shamoo

I've heard that shampooing the hair daily makes it grow faster. In fact I found this on the Crown and Glory website.

ladyflash wrote: I've heard that shampooing the hair daily makes it grow faster. In fact I found this on the Crown and Glory website. I have been trying this technique and haven't noticed my hair becoming more dry. But I do notice my ends seem to split more easily. I am trying it again this week. But this time am prepooing my ends with liberal amounts of oil and moisturizer. I try my best to keep the shampoo only on the scalp. Then apply a rinse out cond avoiding the scalp but coating the bottom 3/4 of my hair.   Has anyone found daily washing to aid in faster hair growth??

Shampoo just strips dirt and oils out of your hair. Which is why it would make sense that you have more splits, but not that it would make it grow faster. The only reason why this would make your hair grow faster, would be the scalp stimulation caused by massaging the shampoo into your hair. THis is a secondary effect obviously, and you don't need to shampoo your hair daily in order to get scalp stimulation. It is possible that there could be some ingredients in certain natural shampoos that would help stimulate the scalp, like cheyenne pepper (I've heard this helps, don't really know though) or something. But you could just use those ingredients instead of stripping your hair with shampoo.
Besides getting the adequate nutrition, scalp stimulation is probably the only other way to aid growth, besides preventing damage which would cancel out the growth. You can do this by massaging the scalp, nd there may be certain things you can put directly on the scalp to increase blood flow. Exercise also gets the blood flowing to the scalp.
Also, it sounds like you are shampooing the ends of your hair too? NEVER do that! Even if you still think shampoo could help with growth, how would shampooing the ends help the roots grow? All this will do is horribly strip the ends, since we don't give our natural oils enough time to reach even close to the ends.

Hey ladyflash, yea I need to make sure I was not tripping lol but co washing is suppose to help keep the scalp clean too. I apply a cone free conditioner on dry hair let it sit for few and then massage my scalp using fingerpads and nails to clean the scalp while rinsing out the conditioner. My hair feels clean after doing this but I need to still shampoo cuz I still use cone products in my hair, there is no way I could do a no poo routine lol

btw I know of a modified cowash that mixes conditioner and a mild shampoo that might be a gentleir alt. I have yet to try it though....    

Edited by blackhoney112 - April 26 2007 at 2:38pm

I found when I shampooed very often, my hair dried out, turned redder, and began to split but then again I was using Garnier Fructis' Sodium Laureth Sulfate loaded Shine shampoo. The more acidic shampoos are pretty good. Elasta QP's Creme conditioning shampoo is one and Paul Mitchell's Super Skinny shampoo uses a higher grade cationic surfactant- Sodium Myreth Sulfate which doesn't give me any trouble.