It’s 6:00am and your alarm is screaming in your ear, begging you to get up and get ready for work. You had a little bit of wine last night, and we all know that makes you want to slap that snooze button on your phone at least 5 times. You want that extra 20 minutes of sleep, and you can afford it because you aren’t washing your hair this morning. You’re dry shampooing it. Spray a little of that magic dust in your hair, and VOILA, clean hair for the day, and an extra half hour of sleep before you get the day started.
It’s 6:00am again. There’s that pesky alarm telling you “GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS?! HUMP DAYYYYYYY!” Forget that alarm. You need that extra 20 again. Snooze it, baby. And throw that phone across the room to spite its best efforts to wake you up. You’re not having it. You, once again, don’t need to wash that hair, because you’ve got the miracle spray. Nobody will ever know you haven’t actually washed your hair in 2 days, because that dry shampoo is doing the Lord’s work. Catch them Zzzs, girl.
“Hello again!” yells the alarm clock, but in a much more annoying, buzzing, headache-inducing way. Another 6:00am rolls around. To prevent becoming a bridge troll, you decide to wake up and actually wash your hair. In the shower, you notice some extra clumps of hair after shampooing your hair (with real shampoo). Why are you shedding like a husky in the summer? Is this permanent? What’s causing it? Why didn’t you just dry shampoo it again and every day for the rest of your life to avoid this reality?!
Well, let me tell you why. Dry shampoo is why. Look, dry shampoo is great in moderation… like once a week. But when you start using it over and over to avoid actually cleaning yourself, it takes a toll on your hair and your scalp. But why is that? How is it so marketable and popular if it causes hair loss? Because, like most things, if you overuse it, there will be some consequences.
Dry shampoo sucks out all the oils from your scalp and hair follicles, even the natural ones. So, if you do this one day, it may be fine and make your hair feel volumized, clean, and lucious. But what it’s doing behind the scenes is irritating your scalp. It’s even clumping together your individual hairs, much like itty-bitty dreadlocks. So what happens when you brush your hair when multiple hairs are clumped together? Well, instead of losing just the hairs in resting phase, or the dead hairs, you’re taking 2-3 other healthy hairs with it. This can cause bald spots, thinning, and patches of hair coming out on your fingers.
Real shampoo, you know, the wet stuff, hydrates your hair and your scalp, as well as cleans it by removing excess oil. It’s strongly recommended to not overuse dry shampoo, and to wash your hair every two-ish days or so. You also don’t need to overwash with wet shampoo. You can use just water to wash the oils from your scalp and hair, and still end up with a clean look. If you must use dry shampoo, use it in moderation, about 1-2 times per week. I suggest not using it back-to-back days. This just suffocates your hair and you’ll see the negative effects before too long.
While it’s a quick fix for the lazy, busy, and oily people out there, the long-term effects can be much worse. So the next time 6:00am rolls around, and you think you can snooze that alarm so you don’t have to wash your hair because of that “miracle powder”, think of the consequences of overusing dry shampoo, and how much earlier you’ll have to wake up in the future to fix the problems dry shampoo cause.
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