Truthfully, the shortage of shampoo wasn’t too tough to get used to. I solely wash my hair a couple of times per week, anyway, so it wasn’t an excessive amount of of a routine overhaul. The toughest half, for me, was skipping conditioner: I’m used to making use of a very beneficiant quantity of product till my hair feels silky (and low-key, a bit slimy).

It felt unnatural to step out of the bathe with tangled hair, however my strands felt clean once more as quickly as I utilized the moisturizing hair serum. 

It’s essential to feed vitamins again into the strand post-wash, however hairstylist Adam Reed, founding father of Arkive Headcare, tells me you don’t have to make use of conditioner. You possibly can completely depend on hair oil or serum (like I did) and have your hair end up simply high quality. 

“Conditioners are designed to make your hair really feel nice,” he shares. Your strands may really feel a bit matted with out it at first, however “as quickly as you set the oil in and use that as your lubrication to get that smoothness, it should really get that shine,” he provides. For some finer-haired purchasers, Reed will really skip conditioner, utilizing oil, hair primer, and styling merchandise to attain a bouncier, fluffier ‘do. 

After that first wash, I grew accustomed to how my strands felt with out conditioner—lighter, bouncier, and manner much less frizzy. Consider it or not, my hair really appeared thicker, too. “This could possibly be as a result of your hair just isn’t being weighed down by the fixed buildup of utilizing each shampoo and conditioner frequently,” celeb hairstylist Glenn Ellis tells me after I requested him about my fuller locks.