The 6 Hairdressing Myths that are ruining your hair - Arrowtown Hair

• Shampoo Bars

So organically cleaning that in fact they strip the colour out.

• Sulphate isn’t bad for my hair.

Sulphate is a cleaning agent which is used in household products. It's a plastic-based product. This will layer upon your hair and stop any goodness getting into your hair cuticle. It will cause dryness, dullness and eventually breakage.

• Pulling your grey hair out makes more grey hair grow.

No, plucking your greys does not mean they will come back in multiples. Your grey hair is a thicker and usually more wiry texture so when growing back it'll sprout through more curly and wild appearing as if there is more. So leave your salt and peppers people!

• Not cutting my hair regularly will make it grow faster.

Incorrect! Not treating your hair to its 6 to 13 week tidy up will in fact do more damage than good in the hair growth department. The natural splitting from every day being will gradually continue to split up the hair shaft and cause breakage which ends with shorter hair.

• Shampooing makes you lose hair faster.

On average people lose between 50 and 100 strands of hair every single day. You likely see the most hair loss when you’re either brushing or washing it… that’s because when a hair is released from the scalp it’s usually held in place by other hairs - sort of like velcro. This is why it may seem that you’re losing your hair because of these actions but in reality they’ve already been released from the scalp!

• Oily scalp is dirty and bad.

An oily scalp is completely natural. It can be effects of diet, stress, weather related and products that don't suit you. It isn’t due to being 'dirty' and in fact if you brush your hair that little bit more it'll help spread the natural oils throughout the hair which can lead to a beautiful shine and stop dryness throughout the ends.