How To Care for Oily Hair Bethesda MD

1. Shampoo. If you have straight, fine hair and an oily scalp, it won't take long for the hair to become oily. You'll probably want to wash your hair more often than three or four times a week. For people with really oily hair, washing once a day is not too extreme. In fact, it may help to leave the shampoo suds in your hair for a couple minutes before rinsing. But rinse the suds and residue completely from your hair.
   
   Also, consider using a normal-to-mild shampoo, rather than the ones that promise to banish oil forever. If your scalp and hair are naturally oily, then trying to dry them out by washing all the time with a ruthless shampoo could potentially make matters worse; the human body has a way of trying to restore balance, and will kick its sebum secretion into high gear, resulting in more oily hair!
   
   
2. Conditioner? You probably won't need conditioner if your hair is really oily. But those of you with longer hair may want to condition the further reaches of it. If you condition your hair, apply the conditioner to the hair well away from the roots. Because you want to limit the amount of hair that is conditioned, don't use a shampoo-conditioner combo in oily hair.
   
   
3. Hormones. Teenagers often suffer oily hair because their scalp is more sebaceous (it secretes more of the oily sebum). Teens with straight hair have more problems with oily hair than those with curly locks, but the real reason for their age-based oiliness is hormones. For this same reason, pharmaceuticals that affect our hormonal levels can also have an effect on the oil in our hair.
   
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