How long do you leave co-wash in your hair?

[doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml]

Co-Wash is not a conditioner.

[communism@lemmy.ml]

My bad then, idk what that is so disregard my answer.

[snek_boi@lemmy.ml]

Sounds like you haven’t been on the same corners of the internet as I have, because reading about co-washing is not strange to me. Have you been to hair care communities?

[miracleorange@beehaw.org]

So... straight hair gets greasier the longer it goes without being washed, right? There lots of reasons for that, a few being brushing, combing, running your fingers through it, or just the oil running down it. Well, the curlier your hair is, the harder those things are to do. In fact, oil often won't run down the strands at all on very curly hair, so you'll be left with an oily scalp and increasingly dry hair. Shampoo is inherently oil stripping, and if you put it on curly hair that's already lacks oil, you'll just make it even more frizzy and awful. Hence, a lot of people with curly hair forego shampoo.