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Hair Washing: How Often Is Too Often—or Not Enough?

How frequently should you wash your hair? Sometimes I go a week or longer because of the hassle—and the distressing amount of hair I shed during the process.

There’s no one-size-fits-all rule. Rather, it depends on many variables, including the type of hair (straight or curly, coarse o...

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