How long does it take to moisturize hair?

[76561198082423729]

I wash my hair 3 or 4 times per week. I found out that hot water is bad for the hair and I started washing it with icy cold water from Monday. I also bought a conditioner yesterday and applied it after the shampoo but my hair still feels dry.


So I wonder, how much time is needed for a dry hair to recover?

[Papa John]

Use a different conditioner, that might be the problem

[Lusus Symphonia]

You do realise that you don't have to wash it wish icy cold water right? Just normal water would do or lukewarm water.
Do you straighten your hair? Is it dyed? Loads of ways to make your hair look like straw.

[MissCreep]

I read that as "monetize." Either way, I don't know.

[Washell]

Escrito originalmente por A random:

So I wonder, how much time is needed for a dry hair to recover?

6 weeks without shampooing/conditioning it, and then never do it again.

The theory is that shampoo actually destroys the balance of your hair's natural oils. The cycle might go this way: your hair produces natural oils, and after a few days, starts to feels greasy, oily and dirty. So, you wash your hair with detergent, which strips away the grease.
But, as the grease is natural, your hair and head start to fight back by producing more to compensate for the loss, so you wash your hair again. And so on.

But what happens if you don't shampoo your hair? Well, the theory says that your hair will get more oily, greasy and smelly, but after six weeks it will become sweeter smelling, bouncy, the natural balance will have been restored. It will even look more attractive, more sexy and wonderful than every before!

http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2007/04/30/1887681.htm

You have to realize that while the commercials like to show laboratories and the like, the real development of shampoos and conditioners is them throwing the flavor of the month into their product, use some fancy words on a test panel to have them try it, and then only be interested in their experiences and feeling of the product, rather than applying the scientific method to what it did their hair.

The reason for that is really simple. Hair is made of keratin, which is dead, and can't be healed, fixed, revitalized, nurtured, fed, or otherwise treated. At best you can give it a glossy coating, which your own head will supply if you don't keep washing it off.

Rinse with water, brush to distribute the oil. That's all you need.

[76561198082423729]

Escrito originalmente por Red Monk:

You do realise that you don't have to wash it wish icy cold water right? Just normal water would do or lukewarm water.
Do you straighten your hair? Is it dyed? Loads of ways to make your hair look like straw.

I rinse it out with cold water only when I have to remove the shampoo and the conditioner. It's not dyed and I don't have a flat iron or a hair dryer to straighten my hair with. I only use the heat of my body and go nap while my hair is wet.

Escrito originalmente por Washell:

6 weeks without shampooing/conditioning it, and then never do it again.

Really? That would be gross.