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How Often Should We Wash Our Hair?

Since you searched for this article among the 190,000,000 (yes, one hundred and ninety MILLION) articles on the subject of hair washing, you won’t be surprised that this simple act of ablut...

How to Wash Your Hair: The Method You Never Knew

You’ve been washing your hair for decades, perhaps, and you’re wondering what we could possibly say that you don’t already know. But when we do things so automatically without much thought, the ...

Hair Volume: 10 tips for fine-haired folks

Damn that gravity! It keeps making things droop when you really want them to rise – as fine hair can. If adding hair volume to your story is a glamour goal, you’ve come to the right place f...

Conditioner: Everything You Need to Know

These days, you’ll probably be warned not to skip conditioner every time you shampoo your hair. The important part is the “every time you shampoo” part because while your hair can theoreti...

The Product That (Almost) Does it All: How to Use Leave-in Conditioner

Consider leave-in conditioner a hair styling product straddling two categories: moisturizing and styling. It may not completely replace the conditioner in your shower if you have tangle-pro...

What is Sulfate-free Shampoo: Myth or Must?

In the constant quest for professional hair products that are good for us, or at least not bad for us, there’s a lot of chatter about dangers both real and imagined. Sulfates are one of those th...

Sulfates in Shampoo: Are They Bad for Your Hair?

The field of skin surface lipids (“lipidomics”) is constantly evolving and is open for many new discoveries. But here’s what we know so far: In nature, layers of waxes act as protection for...

What is My Hair Type?

We humans love to categorize things. So did hair stylist Andre Walker, best known as Oprah Winfrey’s hair guru and creator of the hair type system used to categorize the most common types o...

How to Care for Coarse Hair

Coarse is an inelegant word for hair strands that are larger than average in diameter, or thicker. Coarse hair isn’t a problem to be corrected or a condition to be relieved; it’s simply a f...