I dont know how to wash my hair! Options

[kameron]

ok, so i have pale blonde colored hair.
I've heard you should wash your hair with cold/cool water.
then again, when i go to the salon, my hairstylist washes with warm water.
what I'm getting to is how are you supposed to wash your hair? as in hot or cold water.
does anybody have a true answer?

[superficial]

I use hot-warm water. Isn't it bad to rinse your hair with cold water?

I got it off of Yahoo! Answers:

Your hair should be washed, and rinsed in a lukewarm tempature. Here's why:

If you use cold water to rinse shampoo out; you lock in both shampoo and dirt into your hair.

If you use hot water to shampoo or conditioner, you scald your hair, much like the effect of a curling iron and this can dull the hair and make it more brittle.

If you rinse your hair with cool water with conditioner; yes, it will look shiner; but not because it's healthier! It will look shinier, (and with thin hair, it will just look greasy and weighed down) because you will have locked a coating of conditioner into your hair. This is actually bad for you! It will get dirtier faster which means you have to wash it more; and what no one has told you so far, is that the less you have to wash your hair in the first place, the healthier it, and your scalp will be. (the scalp needs the oils that your skin secretes to stay healthier)

Quick Facts: Hot water will also burn the scalp, while cold water will leave a residue. Either one can induce the clogging of folicals; which can encourage baldness.

Residue can also weigh hair down, make it greasier, attract dirt and make it harder to curl or style. (if you want to coat it, use leave in conditioners; which are meant to be left in!)

"Pores" are already open by shampoo, (which has a lower PH than water, acidic), and closed by conditioner. (Which has a higher PH than water, (base) Your hair has no PH at all, unless it is wet with water.