I have always had oily hair, but in the last several months the oiliness has just gotten worse and worse--to the point that I could wash it as usual and it would be extremely oily only a few hours later.
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By no means am I comparing you to a feline. The other evening I stayed up late because I wanted to finish one of my knitting projects. I turned on the TV and watched a cat show on PBS. One of the segments on the program showed a woman bathing her cat in Dawn dish washing liquid because his coat was so oily. Then she followed up with shampoo.
I had to laugh because by the time she finished rinsing him off well in the shower the poor thing looked like a drowned rat. We know how much cats hate water, but he was probably so used to it since he was always before the judges.
Dawn is a saver in more ways than one. I used to live on a boat, and after filling the fuel can for the dinghy, I always would get a fuel slick on the ocean. A little one, but non the less fuel. I would squirt Dawn all over it. and presto... gone!
First off, dawn dish soap is mostly sodium hydroxide & using it all the time, is not a good idea. And anyone who has really oily hair, has an over growth of candida. The dawn will not cure it. You can look up about candida on the net. There hundreds of website about it, but www.earthclinic.com is one of the best. What I did for my hair, which was very oily, I did what I could for candida, & used white vinegar as a rinse like hair conditioner.
I forgot about the vinegar rinse for your hair. You don't rinse out the final vinegar rinse. You pour or squirt it on & dry your hair as usual. It kills the candida, which causes all kinds of skin problems.
It's not a silly idea, when I was in cosmetology school I learned Dawn was the best way to remove oiliness or greasy styling products from customers' hair. We would shampoo with it once, then shampoo with a shampoo for oily hair, then condition with a light moisturizing rinse-out conditioner. Concentrate the shampoo, especially the Dawn, on the scalp more than the ends, and the conditioner more on the ends, and maybe not at all on the 2-3 inches near the scalp.
I agree the Dawn is a good product to treat your hair problem. We once had an older neighbor who washed her hair in Tide all the time. She had no yellow color to her snow white hair. Beautiful.
I have very sensitive scalp and cannot find ANY shampoo that doesn't make pimples and itching on my head. Out of any shampoo one day I used Dawn Ultra and shampooed twice.
If you have dandruff use JOY Lemon Fresh dish soap. The lemon in the Joy Dishsoap balances the ph and floats the dandruff away and cures it. Compare to $8.00 a small bottle of dandruff shampoo.
This also strips the natural oil from your hair, and is not good to use all the time.
And when I told people at work that I used Dawn for my shampoo they thought I was crazy. But let me tell you, I used to wash my hair with regular oily shampoo and by that aftertoon my hair was oily.
I've never tried dawn on my own hair but after reading all these posts I'm definately gonna give it a try. One thing I know it's amazing for is washing dogs with fleas (I'm sure any other animals too since a earlier post said bout oil spill on animals & that's very true) the only thing different though is when washing to remove fleas you have to use the original dawn, the blue one. The others, although I'm sure would work great when out of everything, does not kill the fleas. Only the original blue dawn works! Better than any flea shampoo or flea dip or other pricey pet shampoo.
Never thought of this but it makes sense. Trying this tonight! I need help, I got 12 inches cut off and ever since it has been so oily that I'm embarrassed.
Yes it is. But be careful you don't wash the natural oils out. My young granddaughter had very oily hair, I used dawn & the clarifying shampoos. After a time I noticed her hair becoming dull. She had no shine left. I used a brush with bristles, instead of a vent brush to brush her hair after that. It brought the shine back, with the natural oil that comes from the pores in your scalp, but not Xtra oily. Then used clarifying shampoo 1x wk. Cheap dollar store clarifying shampoo is fine. May need more applications for an adult.
I tried expensive deep cleaning treatments for my hair every so often to remove product buildup. They would only work temporarily. I tried dawn once and then used it every day for 5 years. My hair shined and felt softer and more voluminous than ever before. Removed all buildup. My mother railed against it staying it will cause cancer, how it wasn't the intended use of the product, and begged me to discontinue use. I stopped and went to a daily clarifying shampoo. Product buildup was noticed once again, ends so brittle and breaking off even though I wasn't washing the ends. Just went back to Dawn last week and I've never been happier. I use the Dawn ultra free and gentle with no dyes or perfumes.
I have had fine (dark blonde) oil-slicked hair my whole life - and I was always washing it. Trust me, I have been talked into a lot of expensive shampoo's that didn't do anything for it. I have been using it (diluted, as it is so concentrated) for a week and my hair looks fabulous - shiny, fluffy and very clean. I can't express how happy I am! By the way - hormones have nothing to do with it. It's DNA! You can't change that.
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