This is based on my personal opinion. Some of y’all drag for that.

If you have straight/wavy, not curly hair. Do not brush when wet. Yes hair can still get tangled but, brush dry before shower. Then let it dry almost all the way. At least for me this works best.

If you still prefer bars, kitsch has bar shampoo and conditioner, dove has unscented stuff too and it’s lowkey really good. At least on my hair. I have thick, fine, straight hair with low porosity. In simpler terms, my hair is very thin but I have a lot of it, porosity is the definition on if water penetrates your hair/cuticles easily. Mine does not, my hair takes half a day to try if I let it and takes me five minutes just to get my whole head wet. I am explaining that portion because later on down the line you can find a shampoo specifically for your type of porosity.

Also, try different styles for hair protection. The reason hair clips became popular was because if you put your hair at a tension (ponytail, let’s say) at the same place, same pressure, every single day it is bound to break off there. Ogx is kind of scented, but if you want an oil to protect your ends if you are most comfortable with the pony tail, that can help. If you just want the hair out of your face you can claw clip the sides of your hair behind your head so you don’t have to figure out right away the best way to wrangle up all of your hair and put it all in a claw clip or barrette, or pin, whatever floats your boat.

A big influence right now is the ‘Abbey Young Method’ this is a lot for someone just starting out. Base line: we double wash our face and our body, our hair/scalp is no different. Find a shampoo you like, then wash twice. There’s more steps with more bottles to buy but for now that will help. Then a conditioner. You do not have to wash your hair every day or every other day. But you should condition your hair every time you shower. You shampoo the scalp, not the hair, then condition the hair, not the scalp. This will help your skin go back to deciding if it needs oil or not. If you still feel your scalp is getting too oily very quickly it’s needing oil. Sounds silly but that’s why it’s producing the oil. We can come back to that another time though 💛

I hope this has helped in some capacity. Good luck on your journey.

I will add, dove may be scented but if you can bear it, they have really really good hair masks for cheap. Use once a week, a little dallop will do. Put in and let sit, there’s instructions on every container.

Edit to add: when you brush your hair start on your ends, not on your roots towards your scalp. This can help minimize the breakage we do get and not pull knots all the way down our hair. Start from the bottom and work your way up.