Don’t wash your hair everyday … dry shampoo it instead!

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If you exercise a lot or if you tend to have oily hair, you might have been washing your hair on a daily basis to keep it clean. Washing, blow drying and styling your hair on a daily base will cause a lot stress and will end up damaging it in the long run.

Now that summer is finally here and a lot of us will have many more social events than at any time of the year, it might mean that we’ll have weeks where we are party hopping and washing our hair before every event might not be a possibility.

A good alternative for women who exercise a lot, have oily hair or have a calendar jam-packed with events had been the fashionable ponytail in between washes. But what if you don’t want to pull your hair up? What if you are pressed for time or simply choose not to wash your hair every morning, but you still want to leave it out?

The answer is to use a “dry shampoo”!

Dry shampoos have only become popular in recent years, but sales have been rising sharply because they allow you to cheat the regular wet shampoo process and still be able to style your hair before an event.

Dry shampoos are talc based and they contain refreshing and volumizing agents that work by soaking up excess grease from your roots and scalp and leave you with a matte finish that creates the illusion of clean, plumped-up hair.

Currently there are three very popular brands of dry shampoos on the market: Oscar Blandi Pronto dry shampoos, Rene Furterer Naturia Dry Shampoo and Ojon Rub-Out Dry Cleanser (voted 2008 Best of Sephora Winner).

Using a dry shampoo is a huge time-saver because it takes only a few minutes. You simply spray your roots, wait a few minutes for the product to soak up the grease, then brush through to remove any chalky, white residue … and voilà!

Dry shampoos will never leave you feeling as clean as a good hair wash does, but they will extend the time between washes (very practical for the time-starved gal) … in fact some women have gone up to one week without washing their hair thanks to dry shampoos!

It’s been reported many times that über-sexy-forty-something-new-mom Halle Berry has been very open about only washing her hair once a week to avoid dryness … I wonder if her secret is a dry shampoo?

You’ll find Oscar Blandi Pronto dry shampoos, Rene Furterer Naturia Dry Shampoo and Ojon Rub-Out Dry Cleanser at Sephora Canada stores and they each retail around $30 CAD and $ 24 USD. Oscar Blandi Pronto dry shampoos retail between $11 and $21 USD.