Right, and after a day my hair looks like an oil slick. Am I supposed to go around looking like I dunked my head in WD-40 all the time?
If your hair is approx. 40 inches long, I do *not* advise the “let it clean itself” approach....:)
We are all of us individuals. We are not robots. People’s hair is different, in the same way that their eyes are different colors and their fingerprints are unique. If you have particularly oily hair or particularly long hair then you will have to take slightly different steps to address that. When I was younger I suffered from dandruff. I used an anti-dandruff shampoo for a few weeks and the problem went away.
The point I am trying to make is that many of these problems are actually caused by the chemicals that we are being told are essential for “naturaler, more full-bodied hair” (or whatever slogan Vidal Sassoon et al are using at the moment. The logical reply is why do you need artifical chemicals to be more “natural”?) Anyway, I dont know exactly what your particular situation is Raybbr, but I would suspect that using less shampoo/conditioner rather than more would go a long way toward solving an oily hair problem. Hair care is one of those things where less can definitely be more.