One of the major advances in hair care in the past several decades is, surprisingly, cleanliness. You may have erroneously thought that actually, frequently shampooing the hair was always a part of grooming, but this wasn’t true. Today’s “casual” haircut styles, in fact, couldn’t have succeeded even a few decades ago without today’s current crop of her products, because the simple fact was that women couldn’t keep their hair clean enough to let them wear long and casual styles. In fact, a crucial part of hair care is keeping the hair itself clean.

If we really, really want to go back when keeping hair clean was a problem, we begin in the 18th century. Back then, truly towering hair designs were in style, with powdered wigs an integral part of the outfit a woman wore. Usually, a professional barber came to the client every couple of weeks and (if using the client’s own hair) greased the hair, threaded it through wire and cloth, and then stiffened and powdered the hair. The last step was to decorate it with others, jewels, ornaments, ribbons, et cetera.

Except for the barber’s visits, a woman left her hair largely alone except to occasionally repowder it. As you can imagine, this was a decidedly unhygienic thing to do and vermin would literally set up house in there. In addition, in the Middle Ages, average people were not particularly well acquainted with hygiene, nor were most people in general. One example of decidedly unhygienic behavior (although perfectly normal for the time) happened because the Irish were forbidden by the English to wear or own any type of protective headgear, so that they let their front hair grow very thick and long. They plastered this front hair with fat, grease, and other forms of cover so that the hair would harden and literally stand up to enemy blows.

These days, of course, hygiene is an essential part of most of our daily lives. Most women wash their hair every day, and it is especially important for those with loose hairstyles that look “casual” to do this. Depending on your hair type (oily, dry), it may be advisable for you to wash your hair not every day, but every other day, or even a couple of times a week.

Some of the best shampoos out there are liquid or cream shampoos. It’s not usually advisable to use cake soap to wash your hair, because it’s not suitable for hair and will make your hair stiff, give it a “coated” feeling, and may dry it out. If you must use bar soap as shampoo, melt it down before you use it, in a saucepan over low heat and with a small amount of water.

There are a couple of significant techniques when it comes to shampooing. First of all, you should lather and rinse as quickly as possible, because if you leave the shampoo on your hair, you’ll tend to dry your hair out. Use your fingertips and not your fingernails to gently “scrub” your scalp and massage the lather through your hair. Don’t use the palms of your hands because you’ll tangle your hair.

Rinse your hair thoroughly until no lather remains.

To dry your hair, towel dry beginning at the roots. You may wish to blow dry it as well.

To make your hair is beautiful as possible, wash it as often as it needs it using professional hair care products.

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