I have thick, long, curly hair, white woman hair. If I don’t use conditioner my hair fuses into a rats nest roughly the size and density of a coconut… This is after detangling ahead of washing my hair. I try not to complain because I know what black women can go trough. Absolute queens.
I typically use super cheap conditioner as the lubricant when I shave my head. It works better than pretty much every cream or soap I’ve used (except for the super high end gel that I’m currently using. It’s minty so it tingles and makes the hairs stand up. A regular at my work got a bunch of stuff at a cosmetology conference and gave me a few shaving products that she had no use for.) I also use a beard conditioner when I let it grow out.
@Oneroundrobb I’ve been using conditioner to shave my legs for years. Saves me money and shaving cream has one of the worst packaging to throw into a landfill.
I buzz cut. So soap. That’s not going to change unless a woman insists I grow it out. Not that I have a large sample size but most enjoyed running their fingers over it for some reason. I’m just lazy/used to doing it myself.
If we were talking shaving. Taylor of old bond street but I haven’t shaved in years
@remo28 wait for real? Damn ima have to try that, as I have long hair for the first time in my life and never learned how to deal with all of it’s many issues.
@rogerbacon Yes! It’s really worth the money if you have long hair. I started using it years ago and even when my hair was short I continued. If you use the higher quality stuff it helps, too.
@DVDBZN mostly to keep my hair hydrated. Some days light conditioner, but I have very hard water so some days clarifying shampoo (strips all those minerals) with a deep conditioner to restore the moisture I stripped. If I did a lot of processing (color, flat iron, etc) a leave in like L’azana Trauma Treatment to be extra kind for all that torture…
Eye use 5 different brands of dry scalp care shampoo rotating them alot. In-between some of those shampoos; eye occasionally will use salon grade 2 in 1 hair care products. Don’t ask me why the wife needs many different shampoo and conditioner sets.
@kittykat9180 Eye feel like its the same with just about anything. Changing your shoes half way throughout the day or at least every other day definitely makes your feet feel that much better. That said I definitely try to rotate the chemicals I put on my body.
I haven’t gotten my hair cut since before the pandemic, so my hair is approaching waist length. It’s not whether I use conditioner, but how many I use.
@DVDBZN funnily enough, yes! When it’s super dry out, I need an extra conditioner to keep my hair from going staticky. Then sometimes I need a detangler if my hair is unruly. In the winter, I also need to use a heavier conditioner when my hair is dry and my scalp is angry. Seriously, long hair is a commitment
I use conditioner every single day, lots of it. I only shampoo my hair 2 times a week. I have very curly hair, that needs lots of moisturizer but if i shampoo it more then 2 times a week it drys the fuck out of it and ruins my curl pattern. It’s all about the curls.
@2many2no
Funny story;
Member the duck in the pond that we saw last week?
That’s a sentence I wrote for my weekly language arts and spelling homework back in the 2nd grade. My family (who always loved to tease me about themselves being SO SMART) STILL laughs hysterically when one of us randomly blurts it out. Lol memories ARE the best!!
@2many2no Yeah, central Texas here. I ran my AC some in February when it was in the 80’s about a week before our area had the prolonged single digits and the snowpocalypse and burst water pipes; then some more about two weeks afterward when it got back into the 80’s for a bit. Texas weather can get interesting.
Want to be a Texas hero, right up there with Davy Crockett or Roger Staubach? Find an efficient and cheap way to store heat or cold for a prolonged time.
@2many2no@phendrick Oh! I got this one! I have something that stays relatively cool in summer and relatively warm in winter. I call it The Ground. Many homeowners have access to it.
Will there be a parade or something?
@2many2no@macromeh@phendrick ground source heat pumps are expensive to put in. Idk if mandating then for new construction would help. I’d prefer one for AC That would also be saying you couldn’t use gas for heat where it’s cheaper. Or maybe you could have it as a boost. Where it’s electric only. I would say that would be a good idea
@2many2no@phendrick@unksol Ours was +$4K over a conventional air sourced heat pump when the house was built. But a lot of that was returned in incentive rebates offered by our electric PUD. In 22.5 years of operation, I have replaced one (of two) ground loop fluid pump ($500) and the house air handler blower motor ($900).
Our fluid lines are installed in the ground horizontally (the house is on acreage). I saw an episode of This Old House that featured a new vertical installation method that was being retrofitted to a suburban home. I think the system they used seemed pretty reasonable cost-wise, but I don’t remember the details.
@2many2no@macromeh@phendrick I also forget you want to go at least 4 feet down and in some places that can’t do basements it might be more complicated. Still in some places it would be a minor percentage of home construction and would save the homeowner money long term. I’d be ok requiring it here as building code
I’ve never been one to use conditioners on the regular, they’d weigh down my fine, extremely thick, very curly, has a mind of its own hair that would tend to be super frizzy and unmanageable!! (especially in the humidity)
As a young girl my frustrations were endless! In the late 70’s/early 80’s, the high school year’s, when hair becomes “such a thing”, i’d go back and forth experimenting with newly available styling gels and conditioning products like it was a science project gone wrong!! Don’t even get me started about the DIY straighteners that turned my locs bright orange! OH the tears I cried…
These days I still have the same kind of hair, unfortunately just NOT AS MUCH of it! I do use the conditioner that comes with my “stop the balding” hair care system, Nioxin 3, mostly because it’s included and I need all the help I can get. It doesn’t matter HOW my hair looks IF I DON’T HAVE ANY!! Oh the struggles of getting old ARE REAL, they’re hitting hard, and WAY TOO SOON!!
Wa Wa Wa…
@callow I hope they bring back the blue pro brush so badly. The green one I use in the shower has lost the little green nubs on the bristles but the pro is still going strong.
yes, because if i didn’t my hair would be an impossible-to-comb rat’s nest when i got out of the shower. and since i have fine hair that is also thinning, i like to tear as little of it out as possible. (and stuff like detangler is too heavy for my hair.)
however, my hair/scalp gets greasy at the root and the length is dry, so i don’t apply conditioner on top of my head, i just run it through the ends. (likewise, i shampoo my scalp but don’t rub/lather it through the length. whatever runs through as i rinse is sufficient to gently clean it.)
“I don’t have dreads cause I shave my head daily”
“Top O’ the Morning to Ya” -House of Pain
More like weekly and it is buzzing it with an unguarded hair trimmer so it isn’t a proper shave but that lyric jumped to my head when I read the question.
No because why would I wash the grease out of my hair just to put grease back into it.
@awk Read the other comments to find out.
I would. . .if I had hair. Thanks for asking.
@mlbrink Exactly - I don’t even use shampoo
I have a close buzz cut. Sometimes i just run the soapy washcloth through my head. I don’t know what the other 12 bottles my wife uses do though.
No. Don’t have enough hair left to bother
Yes. Shampoo pisses off your hair and conditioner calms it down
I use my wife’s nice conditioner in my beard… makes it feel so soft
I have thick, long, curly hair, white woman hair. If I don’t use conditioner my hair fuses into a rats nest roughly the size and density of a coconut… This is after detangling ahead of washing my hair. I try not to complain because I know what black women can go trough. Absolute queens.
when my hair gets long enough to need conditioner it get it cut
I typically use super cheap conditioner as the lubricant when I shave my head. It works better than pretty much every cream or soap I’ve used (except for the super high end gel that I’m currently using. It’s minty so it tingles and makes the hairs stand up. A regular at my work got a bunch of stuff at a cosmetology conference and gave me a few shaving products that she had no use for.) I also use a beard conditioner when I let it grow out.
@Oneroundrobb I’ve been using conditioner to shave my legs for years. Saves me money and shaving cream has one of the worst packaging to throw into a landfill.
I buzz cut. So soap. That’s not going to change unless a woman insists I grow it out. Not that I have a large sample size but most enjoyed running their fingers over it for some reason. I’m just lazy/used to doing it myself.
If we were talking shaving. Taylor of old bond street but I haven’t shaved in years
I am still a man.
@hchavers So you use the 42 in 1 stuff?
Yes. I have long thick hair. Conditioner makes it softer and more manageable. It’s easier to brush and doesn’t get as frizzy.
@remo28 wait for real? Damn ima have to try that, as I have long hair for the first time in my life and never learned how to deal with all of it’s many issues.
@rogerbacon Yes! It’s really worth the money if you have long hair. I started using it years ago and even when my hair was short I continued. If you use the higher quality stuff it helps, too.
@remo28 @rogerbacon definitely try conditioner. Try different ones to find what works best.
Yup, daily! I have two or three different ones in the shower to choose from depending on my daily hair goals
@tinamarie1974 as long as you clean the shower drain have at it :p
@unksol yup!! No one else is gonna clean it for me ssoooooooo…
@tinamarie1974 @unksol I’m impressed that your hair has goals. Mine won’t plan past the follicle.
@tinamarie1974 I had 3 sisters. They did not. Not a fan of the woman hair drain sludge plug. I guess if I liked the woman. Opinions/limits change.
@mehcuda67 @unksol my hair does not, I have goals for it. It doesn’t even want to exert enough effort to hold a curl!
@tinamarie1974
What conditioners do you use for what goals?
@tinamarie, do you shampoo it daily too? Hair should not be washed daily? I wash mine twice a week.
@kittykat9180 @tinamarie daily wash nothing else is an option. My hair is way too greasy if I don’t and is quite healthy with the daily wash.
@DVDBZN mostly to keep my hair hydrated. Some days light conditioner, but I have very hard water so some days clarifying shampoo (strips all those minerals) with a deep conditioner to restore the moisture I stripped. If I did a lot of processing (color, flat iron, etc) a leave in like L’azana Trauma Treatment to be extra kind for all that torture…
@tinamarie1974
Thanks! That’s all interesting and new to me.
Eye use 5 different brands of dry scalp care shampoo rotating them alot. In-between some of those shampoos; eye occasionally will use salon grade 2 in 1 hair care products. Don’t ask me why the wife needs many different shampoo and conditioner sets.
@whomeyesu happy wife happy life. If you’ve lost the logic battle best move on
@unksol completely agree
@whomeyesu, I have 2-3 different shampoos and 2-3 different conditioners in my shower at any given time. I like to change it up.
@kittykat9180 Eye feel like its the same with just about anything. Changing your shoes half way throughout the day or at least every other day definitely makes your feet feel that much better. That said I definitely try to rotate the chemicals I put on my body.
I haven’t gotten my hair cut since before the pandemic, so my hair is approaching waist length. It’s not whether I use conditioner, but how many I use.
(Between 1 and 3 depending on the weather)
/giphy static electricity
@jakeline
Oh dear. O.o Why so many? Do they serve different purposes?
@DVDBZN funnily enough, yes! When it’s super dry out, I need an extra conditioner to keep my hair from going staticky. Then sometimes I need a detangler if my hair is unruly. In the winter, I also need to use a heavier conditioner when my hair is dry and my scalp is angry. Seriously, long hair is a commitment
@jakeline
Hmm, maybe I need to reconsider letting my hair keep growing out.
I use conditioner every single day, lots of it. I only shampoo my hair 2 times a week. I have very curly hair, that needs lots of moisturizer but if i shampoo it more then 2 times a week it drys the fuck out of it and ruins my curl pattern. It’s all about the curls.
Only because they combine shampoo with conditioner.
I’ve just been using the furnace, but I expect any day now the 'conditioner will come on…
Wait, what?
@2many2no
memories ARE the best!!
Funny story;
Member the duck in the pond that we saw last week?
That’s a sentence I wrote for my weekly language arts and spelling homework back in the 2nd grade. My family (who always loved to tease me about themselves being SO SMART) STILL laughs hysterically when one of us randomly blurts it out. Lol
@2many2no Yeah, central Texas here. I ran my AC some in February when it was in the 80’s about a week before our area had the prolonged single digits and the snowpocalypse and burst water pipes; then some more about two weeks afterward when it got back into the 80’s for a bit. Texas weather can get interesting.
Want to be a Texas hero, right up there with Davy Crockett or Roger Staubach? Find an efficient and cheap way to store heat or cold for a prolonged time.
@2many2no @phendrick Oh! I got this one! I have something that stays relatively cool in summer and relatively warm in winter. I call it The Ground. Many homeowners have access to it.
Will there be a parade or something?
@2many2no @macromeh @phendrick ground source heat pumps are expensive to put in. Idk if mandating then for new construction would help. I’d prefer one for AC That would also be saying you couldn’t use gas for heat where it’s cheaper. Or maybe you could have it as a boost. Where it’s electric only. I would say that would be a good idea
@2many2no @phendrick @unksol Ours was +$4K over a conventional air sourced heat pump when the house was built. But a lot of that was returned in incentive rebates offered by our electric PUD. In 22.5 years of operation, I have replaced one (of two) ground loop fluid pump ($500) and the house air handler blower motor ($900).
Our fluid lines are installed in the ground horizontally (the house is on acreage). I saw an episode of This Old House that featured a new vertical installation method that was being retrofitted to a suburban home. I think the system they used seemed pretty reasonable cost-wise, but I don’t remember the details.
@2many2no @macromeh @phendrick I also forget you want to go at least 4 feet down and in some places that can’t do basements it might be more complicated. Still in some places it would be a minor percentage of home construction and would save the homeowner money long term. I’d be ok requiring it here as building code
I’ve never been one to use conditioners on the regular, they’d weigh down my fine, extremely thick, very curly, has a mind of its own hair that would tend to be super frizzy and unmanageable!! (especially in the humidity)
As a young girl my frustrations were endless! In the late 70’s/early 80’s, the high school year’s, when hair becomes “such a thing”, i’d go back and forth experimenting with newly available styling gels and conditioning products like it was a science project gone wrong!! Don’t even get me started about the DIY straighteners that turned my locs bright orange! OH the tears I cried…
These days I still have the same kind of hair, unfortunately just NOT AS MUCH of it! I do use the conditioner that comes with my “stop the balding” hair care system, Nioxin 3, mostly because it’s included and I need all the help I can get. It doesn’t matter HOW my hair looks IF I DON’T HAVE ANY!! Oh the struggles of getting old ARE REAL, they’re hitting hard, and WAY TOO SOON!!
Wa Wa Wa…
@Lynnerizer Did you have the Farah Fawcett look?
@Lynnerizer @ParadisePete That was the goal but not necessarily the look.
It’s in my 2-in-1 shampoo/conditioner combo.
Butt length hair requires conditioner if I don’t want to spend an hour detangling. The stack of wet brushes purchased from Meh are great too.
@callow I hope they bring back the blue pro brush so badly. The green one I use in the shower has lost the little green nubs on the bristles but the pro is still going strong.
@Tiamat114 The nubs came off my son’s brush but I think it’s from the blow dryer.
I use cleansing conditioner (aka co-wash) rather than shampoo, almost always. My thick curly hair is happier that way.
yes, because if i didn’t my hair would be an impossible-to-comb rat’s nest when i got out of the shower. and since i have fine hair that is also thinning, i like to tear as little of it out as possible. (and stuff like detangler is too heavy for my hair.)
however, my hair/scalp gets greasy at the root and the length is dry, so i don’t apply conditioner on top of my head, i just run it through the ends. (likewise, i shampoo my scalp but don’t rub/lather it through the length. whatever runs through as i rinse is sufficient to gently clean it.)
No. What little I have left I buzz short precisely so I don’t have to maintain it. Once it’s long enough to need attention, off it goes.
I have all my life but might not now that I have a hydrating shampoo. My hair never felt soft enough after a wash without it, now it does.
as many have said - on what hair? I stopped buying separate products years ago. I just get this :
https://www.amazon.com/Suave-Hair-Body-Ounces-Packs/dp/B00JJ1XINC/ref=sr_1_4?crid=22FYJ6KUHM0H8&dchild=1&keywords=suave+men+hair+and+body+wash&qid=1617554593&sprefix=suave+men+hair+an%2Caps%2C173&sr=8-4
I did try the 3 in 1 that included the conditioner, but i couldn’t tell much difference, and I like the smell of the other better…
my thanks to amazon for letting me borrow their image.
Nope don’t usually use unless my hair is really long and then only on the very ends of it - if and only if it is starting to dry a bit.
It’s like already in with the shampoo, so yes I guess.
Now that I’m old and my hormones are settling down so I don’t always have oily hair…yes. Almost daily.
“I don’t have dreads cause I shave my head daily”
“Top O’ the Morning to Ya” -House of Pain
More like weekly and it is buzzing it with an unguarded hair trimmer so it isn’t a proper shave but that lyric jumped to my head when I read the question.
I do save a lot on hair maintenance.