How to wash curly hair properly

3 types of hair cleansers you can use to wash curly hair properly

1. Co-wash products
2. No poo cleanser
3. Low Poo Cleanser

Our top 2 ingredients most curlies like to avoid in shampoo

1. Sulfates
2. Silicones

✅ Right ways to wash curly hair

1. Firstly look at your wash habits including how often you wash the hair.
2. Completely saturate the hair with water, then add the cleanser.
3. Use your fingertips or a silicone scalp brush to thoroughly massage and clean the scalp. Rinse and repeat.
4. Leave the hair soaking wet before you apply the conditioner.
5. Squish or scrunch in the conditioner with the water without delay.
6. Use your fingers or a wet brush to detangle the hair while the conditioner is on the hair.
7. Be gentle with the hair because you don’t want to rough up the cuticle layer

❌Wrong ways to wash curly hair

1. Washing the hair too often because you may be stripping the hair of precious oils and moisture.
2. Being too rough as a result you could be causing damage to the cuticle layer or scalp.
3. Using a fine-tooth comb for knots.
4. Not squishing in the water with your conditioner and then rushing and rinsing the hair too soon.
5. Towel Drying the hair before applying conditioner. You need the water with the conditioner to help lock in moisture.

How you can wash hair less often

1. Add co-washing into the weekly hair routine.
2. Wet down the hair thus re-activating the styling products.
3. Wear the hair up in a loose style.
4. Dry refresh the hair.
5. Wet refresh the hair.

How often should you wash curly hair?

Everyones hair wash situation can be different because no one size fits hair washing.

So let’s use the average person’s curly hair wash habit’s for example. In this case,the person may select to wash with a no-poo or low poo cleanser every 7 to 10 days. Ultimately that person would most likely choose to co-wash in between washing because this will help to stretch out the wash day.

To learn more about what co-washing is, please click here.

Co-washing only curlies

Generally speaking some curlies will select to co-wash for weeks. Then only cleanse once every so often or not at all. If you are only co-washing then we would recommend you seek professional advice. Especially with washing teqniques.

Do you need more help with a curly hair routine?

For more tips on how you can stretch out your wash day, book a training session at Curly Cuts or read Curly Hair Routine

Products you can use for washing curly hair

At Natural Eclipse, we have silicone-free and no-poo options for curly hair.

Low Poo

EverEscents

Berry Blonde Shampoo

Remedy Shampoo

Moisture Shampoo

Lavender Shampoo

Fragrance-Free Shampoo

Fresh Mint Shampoo

Rose Shampoo

Bergamot Shampoo

Yes Hair

Nourish and Flourish Shampoo

No Poo

Clever Curl

Cleanser

EverEscents

Lemon and Sandlewood Cleanser

Co-Wash

EverEscents

Bergamot Conditioner

Rose Conditioner

Lavender Conditioner

Fresh Mint Conditioner

Fragrance-Free Conditioner

Clever Curl

Light Conditioner

Rich Conditioner

 

*At Natural Eclipse we understand that there are  many ways to look after curly hair. For this reason, we cater for all methods of caring for curls including, curly girl routines and non curly girl routines. 

Ingredients lists and curly girl rules can evolve to change. Therefore we recommend that you thoroughly check ingredient lists if you strictly follow curly girl methods along with any changes to the method regularly.

Our advice is general curly advice, and product choices can be altered for all methods. 

This blog is a guide only for washing curly hair. Before selecting any curly washing methods, we recommend you seek professional advice. 

We recommend the use of curls bot to check ingredient lists.