Should I Shampoo After a Workout?
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Words Anthony Vincent
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Our tips for re-styling after sweating
After a session at the gym, the prospect of shampooing seems vital. However, it’s avoidable as the hair isn’t necessarily dirty. Spacing out a shampoo wash is better: once to three times a week is sufficient. If you haven’t been able to match your workout with a wash day, how do you style your hair after you sweat?
Is the hair dirty after a workout?
It all depends on the intensity of the effort and your propensity to sweat. After exercise, the hair sometimes appears greasy because the evaporated sweat from the scalp attracts sebum. Add some styling products and you end up with what looks like oily, dirty hair. This can be remedied by coming, rinsing with clean water, or shampooing as a last resort.
Light Sweat: Skip the shampoo and comb
After a 7-minute wake up workout, like Marc Briant-Terlet, a yoga class or a visit to the gym, your forehead is unlikely to be dripping with sweat. In this case, your hair has also been spared. Just a quick stroke of the comb or brush can be enough to distribute sebum and reduce the greasy effect. It also removes large impurities that may have gotten into your hair through humidity. You can then gauge whether you need to add a styling product. With the beach effect from a texturising styling spray, you can always pretend you just returned from a surf. Your hair will serve as proof.
Moderate sweat: Substitute shampoo with a water rinse
After a quick cardio session or gym visit, you will have traces of sweat on your shirt. It’s up to you how much, of course, but in this case, a simple rinse with clean water can suffice. In addition to refreshing you, it will remove most of the impurities, the smell of sweat and some of the sebum that has evaporated into the hair. Our styling-products are also easily rinsable with clean water, so you can apply more after you dry your hair.
Heavy sweat: Ok, give into the shampoo. You deserve it.
After an hour of muscle training, a long cardio session, or hardcore crossfit like Dan Tovar, there’s a good chance you’ll have Stallone levels of sweat dripping from you. This is where shampoo comes in. A sulfate-free formula, like ours, allows frequent use without attacking the scalp or drying out the hair. The Sebocyte active ingredient, a sebum-regulating agent derived from rosehip berry, in our gentle purifying shampoo prevents hair from becoming instantly greasy again. In addition to cleansing the scalp, the essential oils of grapefruit, lemon, sage and rosemary, will refresh you after your sporting activities. A win-win for Hercules.
As pleasant as it is to apply shampoo after a workout, it isn’t mandatory. It helps to have a gentle formula, which you can carry with you in your gym bag in case of a harcore session. After the effort, comes comfort.
