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Very fine hair, do I really need conditioner?
  • Ximena
    I've been looking around the forum and most girls seem to have wavy, coarse or abundant hair. They all love using conditioners and I also like the tip the brains give about CWC. However I have very very fine hair (had a massive hair loss during my teen years due to hormonal problems.) It was addressed medically at the time and I'm ok now at 27 but have been left with a finer, more- delicate -than -most hair.

    I've had my hair very short for years and now i want to grow it, it's chin long and want to do everything i can so it grows healthy. I wash it with a very mild shampoo with no silicones or sls (i put a bit of olive oil in it for moisture) and, instead of conditioner that weights my hair down, i rinse it with a cup of camomile tea with half a lemon squeezed. My hair is soft and not tangled afterwards, but maybe it's because it's so short? I do use drops of pure argan oil and tresemme heat protectant.

    After reading so many good things about conditioners here i'm worrying i'm doing the wrong thing by not using conditioner and dont want to regret it once my hair is long and damaged or with split ends. Any light on this for my type of hair?

    Thank you all so so much!
  • sarahf
    Sometimes it is the right thing not to condition if your hair is very fine.  Breakage doesn't happen all at once.  Experiment, and you can always change your approach if you see an increase in the flyaways or split ends.  You might also try conditioning every other day or every third day.  I can't condition every single day or my hair gets limp.  I do have wavy, but baby fine, hair.  I've gone through periods of not conditioning at all.
  • georgia
    My hair isn't fine or thin, but I noticed that it didn't seem to have as much body as it once had.  I stopped using conditioner and a final cool water rinse. Body and fullness returned. I think the conditioner and cool water rinse caused the cuticle to lay flat so that hair lost its fullness.

    Try not using conditioner and see if you get the effect you want. As long as you can use wide-tooth comb to remove tangles, a conditioner may not be necessary.  Or, you can try using a very light conditioner, such as Paul Mitchell's The Rinse. 
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