Wash Your Hair Less and Prevent Hair Buildup With This 2-Second Trick
- Mark Townsend, celebrity hair stylist
- Matthew Collins, Matthew Collins is a celebrity hairstylist and global Dyson styling ambassador.
"Dry shampoo is really such a misunderstood product and people use it the wrong way," Dove celebrity hairstylist Mark Townsend previously told Well+Good. "It's a wet product on the inside of the can, even though it's 'dry shampoo,' so it needs that millisecond of air to dry it before it hits the scalp." To apply it properly, he suggests holding the can 10 to 12 inches away from your scalp (or roughly the area of your forearm). Also helpful? Paying attention to the ingredients that are meant to be super soakers (aka leave your hair without a lick of oil). Powders are more absorbent and do a better job at soaking up thick, greases, while starches help to reset hair with moderate oil.
After spritzing dry shampoo onto your scalp, use a hair dryer (Collins recommends Dyson's) and then use your fingers to massage the product into the scalp. "This is going to break up any of that excess that kind of looks white sometimes with dry shampoo," Collins says. You won't sacrifice volume with this trick.
And voila, say goodbye to greasy hair. For more hair styling tips and secrets, watch the What The Wellness video above.
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