How to Wash Wax From Hair
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If styling wax is difficult to get out of your hair, get your hair thoroughly wet first with very warm water, then work in shampoo and let it set for a minute. Rinse and repeat. Shampooing twice should get it all out. If getting the wax out on a daily basis makes your hair dry out, you may need to do a hot oil treatment once or twice a week.
If the wax really won’t move, use olive oil. Work olive oil through the waxed hair as much as you can, really rub it in until you can run your fingers through it. Now you have oiled waxy hair, eww. Rinse the oil out with hot water, then wash through your hair with a little bit of Dawn dishwashing liquid (do NOT use automatic dishwashing liquid gel, it will burn you). You’ll probably need to use the Dawn twice to get all the oil and stuff out. Once your hair doesn’t feel greasy or waxy, take a shower and wash and condition your hair like normal. You’ll need to use the conditioner, because Dawn will really dry out your hair.
What kind of wax are you people using?!? You should just be able to shampoo it out, just like any other hair care product.
If you’re buying your hair stuff at the salon, don’t take it home unless the stylist can tell you exactly how to get it out. Some of the colored ones can also stain light colored hair, so be sure to ask about that too.
You should just be able to scrape the wax off with your fingernail, but if your hair is curly or coarse you can loosen the wax with a hair dryer on low and then remove it with a hot, wet washcloth. Shampoo when you’re done to get any wax remnants that are left.
Don’t even bother using wax. It wrecks your hair entirely.
Agreed, wax is the only thing that will spike my hair and its an absolute nightmare to get out if you can’t be bothered to take out three quaters of an hour of your day washing it 3/4 times a week. I tried the shampoo branded the same as my to get it out, it was a vegetable oil shampoo and it made no effect. Washing up liquid hardly makes any effect either. My hairdresser suggested i try using a dry shampoo. We had a dry shampoo for my dogs (LOL) believe it or not it worked very well. Its like talcum powder and it gets everywhere so if you want to try this use it outside. Rub it around on your hair for about 10 minutes applying plenty of the powder, when you can feel it tingling your scalp stop applying and let it settle and the powder will soak up the greasy wax. Leave it for about 5/10 minutes. Once done shake your hair and get rid of as much of the powder as you can while your outside. Be careful if you do this with clothes on too. Once you have got rid as much powder as possible look in the mirror to see how funny you look haha. Then go and have a shower (not a bath, the bath will fill with the powder and its disgusting and it will stick to the bottom of your bath). Then rinse your body and wash your hair as you would if it weren’t waxy. Then feel your hair and you’ll be shocked how clean it feels (if you did it right). Don’t be hesitant to apply LIBERAL amounts of the stuff if your really desperate to get out a serious build-up of wax.
Warning: It may burn your scalp, but will be gone by the next morning. Be careful with the powder, it does get everywhere and its very hard to clean from your bath if you get it stuck on the bath tub. Be careful about inhaling, the powder floats in the air obviously and i wouldn’t trust inhaling that stuff, duhhh.
gaaaahh poeple!! help me please D: i wanna have my scene hair like it was with no hair spray or wax!!! i wanna cry!!! D: i got this was at hot topic and put some then i took a shower and washed my hair alot like 5 times then later that day 3 more times but my hair looks all waxy and feels like wax ): i wanna have my dry brown bangs going through my face flipping like it used 2!!!! some 1 help me .. ): please…??
My hair dresser would wash my hair once with a dish washing liquid like dawn etc. That really strips your hair of the oils and gets it really clean. Then he washes with a regular shampoo and conditioner. It really works. Hope this helps.
can yous please help me.
i wanna getout all the cream in my hair, i’ve not creamd it for a long time and its still stiff. wat do i do?
(nothing like using certain shampoos or putting food a powder in my hair)
thanks!
help
i used the pureology powerdressing- it’s a wax product and it’s stuck in my hair! i only used a little bit! awwww
Hey someone once told me to try baking soda to remove the hair wax(I hope ya’ll are talking about the dry wax)or any hair-styling product build-up.I haven’t tried it…yet but I might try the dish liquid instead
HAIR!!!
i tired the dishwashing soap but it did not work at all…i guess im going to try the baking soada but i don’t know if the wax was dry or wet….so i hope nothing happens to my hair.
wax disaster!!!!!
I tryed everything,shampoo, washing up liquid, hair dryer, hot water, soap, olive oil and nothing is working the only thing that got it of in the end was to shave it off!(Never using wax again ahhhhhhh)
Wax in Hair
This story is too embarrassing to tell, but I have BEESWAX ALL THROUGH my hair! As I’ve been browsing here seem like the best suggestions: Dry Shampoo for dogs (above), baking soda, heating with hair dryer first and working in clarifying shampoo real well before lathering with water…Hearing some suggestions of oil (olive or baby oil) but that sounds less promising… I’ll let y’all know what works!
Wax OUT OF HAIR!!! Hooray!!!
I was desperate and REALLY searched–
There may have been more than one suggestion that might have worked—but one was all I needed and I’m SO thankful!!
Mine was a really bad situation, as a beeswax/mineral oil product was spread pretty heavily all through my long hair! What I tried that did NOT work was Dawn dishsoap, clarifying facial wash I happened to have, tried apple cider vinegar on a strand, and Tide detergent with HOT water—none of these things did a thing. (no way to get water hot enough to melt beeswax without burning scalp-146 degree melt temp I’ve now learned!).
A couple people suggested ice it and then comb out—that seemed a HUGE project with as much as was all through my thick hair; didn’t try it. Someone mentioned peanut butter (or mineral oil or other oil base product)—that would’ve been my next try (though I wasn’t very optimistic). The “dry” solutions (baking soda, sand, dry shampoo) sounded possibly more promising (maybe because I hadn’t tried yet?—no way now to know if they would’ve worked).
Here’s the suggestion that worked!! Orange citrus cleaner/solvent in soy oil base (a bee seller suggested I get at a health food store)…
When I read the labels I found one that said it was a solvent for wax (and other stuff) AND was gentle on skin—that sounded worth trying—and it worked!! Took a few “latherings”—but I could FEEL the dissolving wax as I poured it full strength profusely and rubbed into scalp & hair!! Smells good too (though I wasn’t careful and got some in my eyes which really did irritate but I seem to be recovering from soreness (after 7 hours now). (The name is: biokleen soyblends “Citrus Soy Solvent” clean/degrease/dissolve). My hair’s a little drier than usual but really not bad considering what I’ve just put it through!
Finally, someone suggested: Canadian Tire product called “Goo Gone”. It’s a cheap little bottle with lemon scent for removing those stains and waxy, sticky substances
I’ll bet that would have worked too—but maybe not as gently? (And someone said there was a beeswax remover solution—but possibly not safe for scalp).
Bless y’all!! Val Rose
Wax-ie hair -buildup
Do u rinse? If u shampoo and don’t rinse with water, that would cause wax and other stuff from the shampoo to dry and harden on ur hair. Giving the hair a hard wax buildup feel to it. I rinse everytime I shampoo to avoid this situation. Also, I only use conditioners if I am going someplace special and need to look shiney, my skin is already too oily. But, for the most part, I avoid them too. (Remember to rinse the conditioners with water too, might give a buildup, but not sure.) ~bonne chance
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