If you tend to keep up with the latest beauty trends taking social media by storm, you’ve likely caught wind of the term “hair cycling.” Even so, you may be wondering what exactly it is and if it’s safe in terms of maintaining hair health and avoiding damage.
According to Ghanima Abdullah, a cosmetologist at therighthairstyles.com, hair cycling is the process of rotating products and treatments to get the best out of your hair care routine. It can refer to varying up your cleansing, conditioning and styling products (including heat tools) to boost your hair’s health and get the best out of your desired look.
“Hair cycling is completely safe; it just might require purchasing different products that you weren't using before,” Abdullah says.
How to perform hair cycling
According to Abdullah, hair cycling routines can vary depending on what you need.
“Hair cycling is an alternative to the wash and condition daily, deep condition weekly routine,” she explains. “If you have oily hair and your wash and condition daily, your scalp will become more off-balanced because you're using too much shampoo, and your scalp reads that process as too drying, so it will happily produce more oil. On the other hand, if your hair is dry and you're washing and conditioning every day, as the rule used to say, you're really setting yourself up for damage and breakage – there's no way that your conditioner will give enough moisture even for one day as you're constantly breaking down the hydration in your hair.”
Instead, if you have oily hair, Abdullah recommends hair cycling by cleansing your scalp with a balancing scalp cleanser twice a week and then washing it through your hair while rinsing. In between that routine, you should use shampoo.
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“So with this [routine], you're only cleansing three times a week and once with shampoo, which gives your hair and scalp a much-needed break while also doing some much-needed work on your scalp,” she says. “[Otherwise], even if you're conditioning the bottom length of your hair daily to avoid adding conditioner to your scalp, it will not be enough with your daily shampooing to bring life back to your hair. Deep conditioning weekly will do something, but not enough, either, and eventually, you wind up with a haystack that's oily at the roots.”
At night on the off days, Abdullah recommends brushing your natural oils into the full length of your hair, but without actually touching your scalp.
“Touching your scalp with the brush is going to create more oil, and you just want the oil to act as its own natural conditioner through your hair,” she says. “So with this, you'll be conditioning your hair naturally three or four times a week. The following day, you're going to cleanse, so it won't be that big of a deal.”
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If you have dry hair, Abdullah recommends alternating between weekly cleansing with a moisturizing shampoo and another week with co-washing, or washing your hair with just conditioner.
“On the night before you use the shampoo, try hair slugging [which involves using oil to lock in moisture and keeping the hair covered in a sock or bonnet overnight] to prep your hair and strengthen it in preparation for using shampoo, which is an enemy to dry hair, even if it's moisturizing,” she says. “Alternate between oil treatments before shampooing and deep conditioning protein treatments, as your hair will need the protein at least once a month.”
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As far as styling products, Abdullah recommends also only using them once between washes and refreshing your hair with a bit of water in between.
“This is particularly important if you use any hold products like mousse, hairspray, curl products, edge creams or anything that can sit on your scalp like dry shampoo,” she says. “These kinds of products can block the hair follicles if they are piled on more than once during a wash cycle. The good thing is that many style products refresh, so adding a little water tends to bring some of these back to life.”
If you use heat tools, Abdullah recommends only using them daily if you have oily hair, as it can tolerate heat better than dry hair. If you have dry hair, she recommends avoiding heat altogether if possible and trying rollers or overnight braiding instead, as heat can be very damaging to dry hair.
The bottom line: Cycling your hair products to meet your hair type’s specific needs can make all the difference in bringing out your healthiest strands yet.
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