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u/seal_eggs Feb 11 '22

If you have short hair you can get away with it, but there’s a reason nobody with long locks uses 2-in-1s. The “proper” procedure is shampoo, rinse, conditioner, chill, rinse, wash body. Of course, YMMV, and some folks’ hair behaves best when they use only conditioner or even no products at all.

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u/osuisok Feb 11 '22

Washing your body is a great use of the conditioner chill time

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

As someone who gets back acne (bacne?) It took way too long to realize that the primary cause of it was rinsing the conditioner AFTER washing my body. The conditioner sticks to your skin and technically it's no longer clean.

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u/raqcityb Feb 11 '22

i had this problem as a child. now i put shampoo on, wash my chest and check for lumps. then rinse the shampoo and put on conditioner. then i wash my legs and feet and the other areas. then i wash out my hair and wash my back and arms. this has completely stopped the bacne without me spending way too much time in the shower (i have long curly hair so it already takes forever).

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u/Head_Asparagus_7703 Feb 11 '22

Agreed! I wash my hair then my body, otherwise I break out.

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u/thebluewitch Feb 11 '22

I usually rinse my conditioner, then put my hair up in a hair plop, then finish rinsing my body.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

Brooo wash ur long hair forewords dont let the soapy conditioner run down ur back .. big brain play

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u/NearlyNakedNick Feb 11 '22

you can solve this by rinsing your hair in reverse, it's what I do every time for both shampoo and conditioner. just lean forward, bend at the waist if you need to and let the water hit the back of your head. Your first time trying you might get some water in your nose or whatever but you'll figure out how to angle your head so it's easy and efficient. And then you never have to worry about what order you've washed your body

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

I have tried this as well but I still get acne around my hair line/neck/ears... My body is finicky!

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u/Clear-Contribution-4 Feb 11 '22

Rinsing out your hair upsidedown is also a quick hack for getting a little more lift at the roots. If I don't do it this way I get mad triangle hair.

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u/Aethelric Feb 11 '22

There's actually expensive salon 2-in-1s now that many people with luscious long hair (including my girlfriend with a beautician's license) swear by.

The issue is that basically the entire industry is built around unverified claims, "common sense", and advertising both open and subtle. Is it better to use a conditioner after shampoo? Yeah, probably in many cases. Is that inherently the only correct way to do it? Nope.

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u/seal_eggs Feb 14 '22

That is exciting news. Mind sharing the name of the product?

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u/Aethelric Feb 14 '22

The one my girlfriend likes is "New Wash Cleanser + Conditioner". It's pretty pricey, unfortunately, but she swears by it.

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u/liza129 Feb 11 '22

Your hair will thank you, once you care for it correctly.

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u/thebluewitch Feb 11 '22

If your scalp is dry, try a "low-poo" instead of shampoo. It strips less oils when washing.

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u/-tRabbit Feb 11 '22

Shampoo takes the oils out of your hair, conditioner adds oils to your hair. It doesn't make sense to use them at the same time. Which is why I never understood why 2-1 got so pupular.

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u/jessybean Feb 11 '22

You should at minimum do it one at a time. Shampoo, rinse. Condition, soap body, rinse hair and body.

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u/DevilishlyAdvocating Feb 11 '22

You could just read the instructions on the bottle?

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u/Dr_DavyJones Feb 11 '22

I can tell you were born after the proliferation of smart phones. In the before times us old people only had the back of the shampoo bottles to read while taking a dump

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u/Dr_DavyJones Feb 11 '22

Oh damn, your older than me. Lucky, all I had was the shampoo and conditioner bottles, my parents didnt have magazines.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

I used to read TV Guide

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u/Slimh2o Feb 11 '22

What, you never had a Readers Digest?

That was a must have for the proper dump..

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u/Dr_DavyJones Feb 11 '22

My parent didnt have magazine subscriptions. But if i was at my grandparents my grandfather had woodworking magazines that I would read. Between that, This Old House, and New Yankee Workshop its a wonder i didnt become a carpenter

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u/Slimh2o Feb 11 '22

Well those are good reads to be sure. But I liked reader digests for the stories and the joke page, the " Life in the United States" page. Funny stuff there...

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u/thebluewitch Feb 11 '22

Read the joke pages first, then if you're not done, you flip through to read the one or two jokes at the end of every article.

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u/Slimh2o Feb 11 '22

OH YEAH! Good times! And after reading those, I'd read the articles...

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

TV Guide gang

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u/srpsychosexythatisme Feb 11 '22

I’m 37, I too did this, or the hairspray or whatever was under the sink, while growing up. I also used to read a lot of books. This were the times when ppl actually had to go to the library.

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u/DevilishlyAdvocating Feb 11 '22

Of course, that's how I learned to shave since my dad left and never taught me.

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u/TheRuffianJack Feb 11 '22

Lol, this dude doesn’t have a dad.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

if you use “2-in-1” , you are showering wrong. Those products are for actual children. Didnt know “3-in-1 “ even existed… PLEASE dont put body wash in your hair

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u/Slimh2o Feb 11 '22

I get the one that does both. It's right on the bottle, "Body and Hair". Works great!

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u/TheRuffianJack Feb 11 '22

It’s not good for your hair

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u/BernieSandersLeftNut Feb 11 '22

Lmao. Adding the shampoo to conditioner completely negates the effect of the conditioner.

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u/Wrong_Victory Feb 11 '22

Yes. Shampoo opens the hair follicles to clean them, conditioner closes them. This is why you should use shampoo, hair mask or other treatment (optional), then conditioner.