At what point does hair go from "oily" to "dirty?"

why is it bad to wash your hair every day? Just use a milder soap, if youre worried.

Wash your hair. Shampoo does not make you bald. There is no line between oily and dirty; oil is dirty. If you wash your hair every other day, you will have dirty hair every other day.

If you are brave enough, go an entire week without washing with shampoo, you may be surprised.

I have washed my hair with shampoo less than a dozen times in the past year. My hair feels wirey and gross when I get out of a chlorine pool, so I use shampoo then. My hair is shoulder length and badass. Just rock the "no wash" look and save on shampoo costs. Shampoo is right up there with razors as the biggest marketing scam in America

Just use a super mild shampoo, like baby shampoo. Nizoral Shampoo, which is used as a anti fungal dandruff shampoo is reported to keep the hair you still have and in a few cases even grow some back. Aubrey Organics also has very mild shampoo. Easily found in most health food stores and Whole Foods. http://www.aubrey-organics.com/custom.aspx?id=8

Your hair gets oily real fast because you dry it out every day by shampooing. Either get diff shampoo or don't shampoo frequently. If you chose you stop shampooing it will take a while for your scalp to adjust and slow down oil production.

+1 with phreak, but I shampoo a little more @ ~6x a month. Shampoo is fucking ridiculous anyways. Paying 10 bucks because they put a buncha buzzwords on the bottle like "lavender, unicorn sperm, troll sweat..." Come on...

I quit using shampoo about a year ago and haven't looked back. At first I washed with conditioner every other day or so and now I haven't used anything except water for the last 6 months. Except when I got a haircut and the barber washed it (which made it look bad for a few days imo). My head is really small so my hair needs volume to look normal. The best part is nobody can tell the difference. It doesn't smell bad and I expect it's within the normal limits of "clean". Also it's not greasy, but very slightly oily, which I think is natural and healthy, and also looks pretty good. I agree that shampoo is probably bad for your hair or scalp, as it's basically perfumed dishwashing detergent. And then if you want to use product in your hair to style it, I think you're basically robbing your hair of its natural oil and then substituting chemicals to take its place. Simply patting or scrunching my hair with a towel and then letting it dry in the desired position is usually enough for me. I don't think I will ever go back to using shampoo, unless maybe my hair gets covered in mud or something that needs to come out. So far, I haven't gotten sweaty or dirty enough so that a simple water scrub doesn't get it all out, and I usually get pretty sweaty almost every day through some form of exercise. I recommend switching to washing with conditioner for a few weeks and seeing how that goes. Just leave it in your hair for about 3 minutes and scrub it around with your fingers, rinse and repeat.

Because we all dry the crap out of our hair with shampoo, that is why we are sold moisturizers to keep hair healthier but all that is just chemicals. I've heard about some people going poo-less, because your hair is trying to re-moisturize itself, that is why hair gets so oily at first but it usually balances out in a couple weeks to a month.

Most hippies, naturalists don't wash their hair with artificial soaps, they use lemon and cucumber about once a week to keep things clean.

yall some dirty motherfuckers in here.