Greasy hair & frustrated daughter
- My young tween daughter has had oily hair for many years and it seems to be getting oilier. She reluctantly shampoos every other day or grudgingly lets it be very oily. She avoids conditioner or dry shampoo as they add more weight. Stop washing and hope the body will adjust? Shampoo recommendations?
- Would love help on this small but frustrating issue before she enters full-on adolescence.
Mar 9, 2018
Parent Replies
Try a clarifying shampoo!
Hi there. The impulse will be to buy a deep cleansing or clarifying shampoo. Because these are alkaline and strip the skin and hair's acid mantle off, it can trigger more oil production. The best bet is to take her to Ulta, or another beauty supply, and buy a professional brand of "volumizing" shampoo. These brands (like Redken, Joico, Sebastian, Paul Mitchell etc...) all create shampoos with the acid PH (4.5-5.5) and carry volumizing lines.. Ask her to select a volumizing shampoo with a smell that she loves. The volumizing shampoos are light, cleansing, and a smell that she loves will encourage her to use it. Smell is the biggest driver of shampoo sales and use, I've found!
Conditioner should only be used on the ends of hair....never the scalp.
Good luck!
A Hairdresser
It's her hair. Let her handle it.
I was a greasy-headed tween and teen. Back then, my dermatologist suggested Neutrogena T-gel shampoo which seemed to help.