how to properly rinse your hair care?

There are a thousand and one ways to make your daily life easier and we reveal one every week in our Beauty SOS. Every Friday, the editorial staff of aufeminin questions an expert who gives you his best advice to solve one of your beauty issues. Cosmetic solutions, pro tips… There is a solution for each problem! Today, we take stock of the right technique to adopt for rinse your hair care with Gianni Coppas, hairdresser and founder of the R Factory Paris salon.

Dandruff, itchy scalp, sticky appearance at the roots, dull hair and lack of volume, improperly rinsing your shampoo, conditioner or hair mask can sometimes have serious consequences on the hair. Rinsing your hair care well is also just as important as adopting a good gesture and an water at the right temperature to wash your hair if you want to keep it healthy and show off shiny hair.

Water: at what temperature to rinse hair care?

The water with which you wash your hair should not be too hot at the risk of burning your scalp or unbalancing it. Excessively hot water could irritate it or excite our sebaceous glands to the point of making it oily. But if you use one that’s too fresh to rinse out your hair care, you should know that it won’t remove greasy residue from your hair care well. This is why Gianni Coppa explains that “we always prefer a temperature rather average (neither too hot nor too cold) to start rinsing”.

Hair: the right gesture to rinse your hair care

If you’re like most people, you probably hold your showerhead above your head and let the water run to rinse your hair. However, this is not the right method at all, according to the hair care expert. Gianni Coppa invites us instead to “start by rinsing the lengths and ends” to remove as much product as possible more easily before “return to the root” with the knob to rinse out the rest of the treatment without it being retained by the clumps of product that are usually nestled in the lengths. The whole, “by performing hair lifting movements” in order to create “small bubbles that evacuate excess care and shampoo”. And finally, you have to then rinse “the spikes again” to properly remove any care that may have flowed over it. In short, we take it step by step to make rinsing easier and to do it perfectly. This is the secret of the lightness of the hair that we appreciate so much when leaving the hairdresser.

The signs that prove that you have rinsed your hair care well

You just need to check two things to be sure that you have thoroughly rinsed all the products put in your hair. Already, make sure there is no more foam in the water flowing through your hair. This indicates that the water is clear. Then, touch your hair: if it is very slippery between your fingers, it is certainly badly rinsed because the hair crunches and catches a little to the skin when it is rid of all care residues.

The extra gesture to adopt when rinsing to make the hair shiny.

We told you earlier that you have to use lukewarm water to properly rinse your skincare products. But once your shampoo and your mask have been well rinsed, the hairdresser still advises you to “end with a cooler stream of water even cold which closes the scales of the hair” to smooth the cuticle (the outer and protective layer of the hair) and make it shiny.

To properly rinse the hair, we will start by rinsing the lengths and ends and then return to the root.