Washing our hair should be an essential part of our daily lives! Even people who don't have hair need to wash their head every few days. We have washed our hair all our lives, but few of us can wash it in the correct way, which leads to the fact that our hair is always not as good as we are happy with, and even causes some problems like hair loss. So, what kind of way to wash your hair is good for your hair? Now I'm going to tell you something about shampooing in four aspects that I hope will help you.

A suitable shampoo is a key to prevention.

Compared to women who always consider various aspects when selecting shampoo, such as price, function and fragrance, men may just buy a normal shampoo that can wash their hair. However, choosing a shampoo that suits you is very academic and plays a vital role in the health of our hair.

The first step we have to take is to choose the right shampoo according to our hair type. More scientifically, the shampoo is matched to the pH level of the scalp. The normal pH of the scalp is between 4.5 and 5.6, which is weakly acidic. Generally speaking, there are four types of our hair:

1. Oily: It is obvious that the hair is easy to oil, very soft and stick to the scalp. You’d better use a neutral, slightly alkaline simple cleansing shampoo.

2. Dry: Dry hair is more fragile, dry and dull. Use a mildly acidic, weakly acidic shampoo with conditioning ingredients, in combination with a conditioner.

3. Neutral: This type of hair is healthier. neutral, slightly acidic shampoo with simple conditioning.

4. Combination: Combination hair is characterized by a scalp that is prone to oil, but dries out the closer it gets to the ends. Cleanse first, then condition. That is, treat the hair as oily hair first, and then treat the hair with conditioner.

After determining our hair type, we can also figure out what problems we have with our hair and further find the right products. Nowadays, businessmen advocate shampoo has various functions, such as cleaning and dandruff, soft and nourishing, anti-hair loss, how to choose it in so many efficacy?

If you are a person with thinning hair and oily hair, which then you can try a silicone oil-free shampoo. It mainly uses mild surfactants and natural surfactants, while using mild oils instead of silicone oil, greatly reducing the irritation of shampoo on the scalp. On the contrary, shampoos with silicone oil reduce friction between hair, increase softness, smoothness, shine and anti-static ability, and make hair less prone to dryness and split ends. So if your hair is badly damaged, you might try a shampoo added with this chemical composition.

Water temperature also needs attention.

Water temperature is very important to the health of the scalp! Stop ignoring this factor! In summer, men like to wash their hair with cold water in order to be cool, while in winter they will turn the water temperature very high in order to keep warm. In fact, the most suitable water temperature for cleaning the head is around 35 degrees Celsius. Remember that the temperature mustn’t exceed 40 degrees C. Why? Once the temperature is too high, it opens the hair scales more easily, result in making the hair frizzy. It is certain that it destroys the healthy environment of the scalp, like the consequences of love oil, etc. To find the correct temperature, you can use your hands to feel the water before each shampoo, a warm feeling will do, because the scalp is more sensitive than the hands, so the water temperature should never be too high.

Mustn’t neglect the washing time.

Many men think that they don't need to spend too much time rinsing carefully because their hair is not long, which is very wrong. Shampoo time is too short, in fact, you only clean the surface of the hair dust, attached to the deep scalp oil, some chemical residues are not clean. In the long run, your hair follicles will be clogged, affecting the normal metabolism of the hair. More serious may be that you will get seborrheic alopecia as a result. This is because seborrheic alopecia is often caused by bacterial infections.

How often should you wash your hair?

The frequency of shampooing is also determined by your own situation. Simply put, if you have oily hair, there’s no doubt that you can wash your hair every day to keep it clean and fresh. Assume your hair is not oily and and not dirty, washing it once every two or three days will be fine. So, the indicator of how often to wash your hair lies in the health and cleanliness of your scalp. Therefore, it is easy to understand that it is not advisable to over-clean or not to keep the scalp clean for too long. If you keep your clean scalp cleaned by shampoo, then the normal oils secreted by the scalp to protect the hair follicles will never work, leading to hair loss. And if the frequency is too low, some garbage will block the normal metabolism of the hair follicles. In short, both of these are not good practices.

After reading these points, I believe you have a better understanding of how to properly shampoo your hair. Always keep in mind that the fundamental purpose of shampooing is to wash your scalp to keep your hair in a healthy growth environment, not simply to wash your hair. Furthermore, under no circumstances should you neglect the four aspects : a suitable shampoo, proper washing temperature, reasonable washing time and the correct frequency. Hope that you can follow these steps to improve your hair health.