We don’t think about how we are going to shampoo this evening. We simply walk into a tub or shower and do what we do as we have done every day. But let’s think for a minute and see if we are doing it right, or perhaps wrong. I promise you, it will not be boring. Matter of fact, you may thank me after reading this instruction.
The Right Way to Shampoo and Condition
| CORRECT WAYS TO SHAMPOO | WHEN USING COMMON SENSES |
|---|---|
| STEP0: Apply any treatment, conditioner, oils that you wish to put inside your hair. Longer is better but even 2~3 minutes are worth it. | The porosity of your hair is at the highest when hair is completely dried. Now is the time to add anything. It will penetrate hair the best. |
| STEP1: Apply shampoo right onto the scalp with a pointy tip applicator (PoinTip Shampoo). Apply about 3 straight lines from the front to back. Using the soft part of your fingertips, massage shampoo evenly on the scalp. | The shampoo is made up of oil. Clean oil capturing dirty oils and debris. Leave it on for about a minute for it to catch-all. You may wash other parts of your body while the shampoo is working. |
| STEP2: Under the running water, massage your scalp and help your shampoo to complete its job. Rinse out the shampoo. | Naturally, shampoo from the scalp will spread to the hair and wash the hair as well. |
| STEP3: Now you can pour PoinTip Shampoo or your favorite “hair shampoo” in your palms and wash as usual. | You may skip this STEP if your hair wasn’t oily to begin with. But if your hair was oily or applied oil base conditioner before shampoo, this STEP is necessary. |
| STEP4: Apply a generous amount of hair surface conditioner evenly on the hair and rinse it out with water. You don’t have to keep it on for long since it is solely for the surface of the hair. | Most shampoo has a hair surface conditioning agent, commonly known as silicon, and you may not need to use an additional conditioner. If your hair feels soft and silky, you can skip this STEP. |
| STEP4 ALTERNATIVE: Instead of using a surface conditioner, you can apply a small amount of hair serum after a brief towel dry. | This is a more effective and precise method to apply a thin layer of film on the surface of your hair. This silicon and oil mixed serum can seal the cuticles and keeping your hair manageable. |
The Wrong Way to Shampoo
| HOW “They” TOLD YOU TO SHAMPOO | WHEN USING COMMON SENSES |
|---|---|
| STEP1: Thoroughly wet your hair. | Hmmm, It will conflict with STEP4. Hair absolves water about 25.8% by weight. When water occupies inside the hair, how nutrients from the conditioner will penetrate? |
| STEP2: Lather a quarter size amount of shampoo in your palms and then work into your roots. You don’t need to shampoo the tips of your hair. | Tens of thousand strands of hair and the added water is blocking your palms from the roots, isn’t it? When lathered, shampoo changes its shape into bubbles which are even harder to get to the root. It sounds easy to say than done. The real delivery method of shampoo to the roots is your fingertips but how much shampoo can it deliver? Your hand will feel the shampoo, but your scalp doesn’t. |
| STEP3: Rinse out all of the shampoo. | Yes, it’s really bad. The shampoo hasn’t even met the scalp yet and has to be washed away. Wonder if we are washing our scalp or the shampoo itself. |
| STEP4: Apply conditioner, concentrating on the ends. | By now, hair is filled with water and it swelled by it. How on earth the expensive vitamins and nutrients will penetrate the hair? I think we should call it “hair surface conditioner,” aren’t we? If not, you guys are misleading us to believe the conditioners are to keep our hair rich with proteins and vitamins. |
| STEP5: Rinse with cold water. | Cold water? Because your shampoo with poor instruction disturbed, damaged and open up our cuticles, you want us to suffer from cold water to close the cuticles down? |
