When it comes to hair care, this is one of the most common questions about the most common hair problem: How do you get greasy hair? or How do you get oily hair? There might be many reasons for greasy hair or oily hair. First of all the first reason is usually how often you wash your hair.
Some of the other reasons are:
- It might be heredity, if the oily or greasy hair runs in your family you might have it too, your mom or most likely your dad might have oily hair so it might be your hair type.
- Hormonal: It might be related to your hormones, for women it might be related to menstrual cycle or birth control pills or for teenagers it might be about the age and hormonal increase.
- Hair type: Usually thin hair tends to get more oily than thick and strong hair, so if you have hair thinning problem or thin hair it tends to get more greasy. You might wanna research reasons for hair thinning also.
- Lack of regular hair cleaning: Hair gets oily if you don’t clean on a regular basis, this is regardless of your hair type you need to clean your hair at regular basis.
How to control greasy hair?
Control excessive hair oils and grease by avoiding the following:
1. Moisture enhancing hair products or shampoo products applied to the scalp section of your hair. If your middle or ends are dry or damaged, apply moisture enriched formulas only to the areas of your hair that are excessively dry.
2. Rinse out conditioners applied near the scalp. Only apply to the middle or ends and keep away from the top of your head.
3. Deep conditioning products applied near the scalp.
4. Styling products such as gels, pomades or mousses that will attract oil to the scalp area.
5. If you use hot water when washing your hair this might help reduce the oil in your hair.
6. Touching, combing or brushing hair except when absolutely necessary. Your fingertips, teeth of the comb or bristles of the brush can transfer oil to and from your scalp causing hair to rapidly become greasy.
7. Wearing forehead hugging bangs. Grease and oils from the hair and skin can easily migrate causing the problem to worsen in some cases.
8. Oil based hair products.