I have always had decent hair. When I was younger, everyone commented on it. As I got older, so did my hair, and it showed – it wasn’t as crazy shiny as it used to be, I started to notice split ends, and it became a little more temperamental. I didn’t invest in a good shampoo or conditioner, and my hair showed it.

I went to get my hair cut and highlighted, and I was going to a new stylist because my old one had moved. When I sat down in her chair, the first thing she did was comment on how dry my hair had been. She asked me if I washed my hair every day. I said yes, probably with a lip-curl and the whole “who doesn’t” attitude  (as if people are crawling with dirt and bacteria).

I was chastised by my stylist and then set on the right track. Since then, my hair has bounced back a bit and is far shinier and healthier looking. There are a handful of reasons why you should skip washing your hair every day, on top of looking pretty.

1) Brittle hair isn’t cute.

Your scalp is made of skin. So are your hands. Think about what happens to your hands when you wash them a lot: they dry out.

Since your hair is fairly sensitive, and your scalp produces natural oils to moisturize your hair, washing it every day will strip your hair of crucial natural oils and leave your hair and scalp dry.

The drier the hair, the more brittle. Even pulling it up in a ponytail can snap your strands, so just think what washing it must do.

2) It styles better when it’s a little dirty.

It’s a fact. The extra oil is crucial for keeping styles in.

Ask anybody who gets their hair styled for any reason; it just doesn’t come out the same when your hair is clean.

3) It saves money.

This is a pretty silly reason to not wash your hair every day, if this is the only reason your doing it, but hey, if you are money motivated and super cheap, all the power to you.

Not only does skipping the wash save on shampoo and conditioner, allowing you to spend your hard earned money on the good stuff, which is really important, it also saves water.

I’m not saying that you shouldn’t shower ever day. I do. But showering and shampooing takes double the time, if not longer, than just quickly exfoliating. Think about it: you have to get your hair appropriately wet, lather up the shampoo, then wait for forever for it to rinse out of your hair, then condition it. Leave that on for about 2 minutes, then finally take a few minutes to rinse the conditioner out of your hair.

Then, you have to blow dry it (if you have longish hair and want to style it). You are saving the environment if you only do so every second day, as a blow dryer (or any hair styling tool for that matter) sucks up a lot of energy.

4) Skipping a Shampoo is Green

See the reason above, as well as the fact that you would be saving water if you didn’t wash your hair every day and saving the environment from all of that extra harmful shampoo being rinsed down the drain. Bonus!

5) Washing your hair is dad for your color

If you have highlights, low lights, or any color, you know that it can be expensive and time consuming to keep up. Even if you don’t, your hair color could be much more vibrant if it wasn’t constantly exposed to the cleaning chemicals in water (lots of water has chlorine in it).

So this really ties into all of of the reasons above. You’d be saving your hair the damage of being coloured more frequently, plus you’d be saving your wallet money, plus plus the environment because of all of those chemicals.

So there you have it, friends. Three really great reasons for not washing your hair every day – hair health, environment, wallet, color and style. Plus, after awhile, your hair gets used to it and it won’t feel dirty after the first day.

Do you wash your hair every day?

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