Can you relate to the following story? In the morning you leave the house with freshly shampooed, gorgeously bouncy hair. It is not even noon yet, and your hair roots have already turned oily and your limp hair no longer shows any style. Our tips are going to put a dry end to this oil problem
Simply dust off your oily roots!
Stash away or carry around a bottle of baby powder, body powder or corn meal with baking soda. Simply apply a dusting of the powdery substance to your hair roots and work it into your scalp with your fingers like you would do with a wet shampoo. Then use a brush with natural bristles to remove all greyish residues from your hair.
Using Alcohol on oily Roots
Spray a little hair spray on your hair roots (be sure to use hair spray for oily or fine hair, not for stressed out hair) or massage a small amount of setting mousse into your scalp. Both the mousse and the alcohol in the hair spray absorb excess sebum and make the hair bouncy again. In another easy method, you use a cotton ball soaked in facial tonic to wipe excess oil off your scalp. Facial tonics commonly contain alcohol as well. Check the ingredient list on the package to make sure that the tonic indeed contains alcohol to help wipe off the sebum.
Catlick Sebum Control
Of course, shampooing your hair would be the proper solution. Unfortunately, bathrooms at work do not usually lend themselves to such undertakings. In this situation, dry shampoo comes in handy. Simply spray it onto the hair near your scalp and use a towel to rub it in. Brush your hair well after allowing a few minutes for the dry shampoo to do its job.
Keeping Hair out of the Oily Scalp Zone
The closer your hair is to your scalp the more oil it will adsorb. You should therefore slightly tease the hair near the roots or your fringes. This gives your hair volume and keeps it away from the source of sebum (oil).
- Fringes are not at all helpful when it comes to hiding oily hair roots. Side or middle partings are much more suitable for this purpose because you can always sell the oily roots as part of a trendy ultra-sleek or slicked look
- Streaked hair has a slightly rougher structure and is dryer. If only hours after a shampoo your hair is too oily or stringy, a few streaks can be an ideal and beautiful solution
- Be sure to use only clean brushes, combs, rollers and curling irons. Otherwise, residues from conditioners, styling aids and sebum lead to a stringy limp look shortly after you shampoo your hair. Optimally, you should clean your brushes and combs once a week using a mild shampoo. Then air-dry those utensils. (Drying brushes and combs on top of radiators would damage the bristles.) Regularly clean curling and flat irons using cotton balls soaked in pure alcohol
- If your scalp produces too much sebum you should under no circumstances use oil-containing styling products, such as wax, pomade or styling crème. Alcohol-based hair setting products, such as setting mousse, hair spray and gel are much more suitable for oily hair. Like always, start using the smallest effective amount. You can always add more
- Use brushes with natural bristles exclusively (e. g. wild boar bristles). Such bristles are capable of distributing the sebum through the hair