Washing your hair is essential to your overall look, but it’s also a self-care practice. You may need to wash your hair daily, a few times per week, or a couple of times per month.

For such a simple act, washing your hair sure can be confusing. Between figuring out how often to wash and keeping track of new product trends, the shampooing process can leave even the most ...

When shampoo strips the hair of its natural oils, the scalp compensates for that loss by producing more oil. 1  It creates a cycle in which more washing leads to more oil, and so on.