Washing Your Hair Just Got A Lot More Interesting

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washing your hair just got a lot more interesting

Photo: Courtesy of Hairstory.

Informal survey: How many of you have agonized over your shampoo choice? For the most part, unless you have textured or curly hair (where cleanser is a life or bad hair situation), you probably aren’t thinking too hard about it. We hop in the shower, lather up, and call it a day. Well, a new day in shampoo is dawning, and it’s about to make you think pretty damn hard about your hair cleanser.

Michael Gordon, founder of Bumble and bumble and current brain trust behind the boundary breaking (and Refinery29 obsession) hair artist collective Hairstory, has a beef with the shampoo aisle. Mainly he feels that shampoos today are “detergent.” Sulfate-free, cleansing conditioner, and even baby shampoo all fall under the detergent umbrella.

According to Gordon, that detergent is “bad for the hair and the scalp. The basic premise of shampoo is a bad idea.” It’s this detergent, he notes, that makes conditioner necessary — by stripping it of natural oils, a smoothing moisturizer (and sometimes a hair mask in addition) is needed to replenish that now dry, damaged hair follicle. Gordon compares it to a fabric softener for hair. “You get hair that I liken to overcooked spaghetti,” says Gordon. “Then you need to put lots of things in it and it becomes less predictable. Is it bad? It’s not going to kill you, but it’s unnecessary.”

That anti-shampoo agenda is what led Gordon to create his latest endeavor, New Wash. The detergent-free hair cleanser washes the hair without stripping or drying it out. Gordon claims that because New Wash is such a revolution in the hair care category, it completely rethinks your daily regimen, negating the need for conditioner or a treatment mask.

Gordon initially started on this anti-shampoo journey in 2013 with the launch of Purely Perfect — another cleansing hair cream. It used sunflower seed oil and peppermint oil in place of detergent to clean hair. Gordon admits that the original formula was not ideal — it was too thick, which made it difficult to apply and rinse cleanly out of the hair. So he upgraded that template, adding more essential oils, different packaging, a thinner consistency, and clearer application instructions.

To go along with his new innovation, Gordon also developed a line of styling products — an air-drying balm, a blow-dry cream, and a texturizing spray. All of which were designed to “Encourage hair to do what it wants, not force it.”

Click through to learn more about each product from Gordon himself, and see them in action.

New Wash: The New Way To Wash Your Hair

washing your hair just got a lot more interesting

“The idea was it’s a new way to wash your hair, completely new. People are shocked, some of them when they fall in love with it because you think ‘bubbles, bubbles’ — your whole life is spent with bubbles in the bath.”

Hairstory New Wash, $40, available at Hairstory.

Photo: Courtesy of Hairstory.

washing your hair just got a lot more interesting

“Personally I found I went from [shampooing] every day to twice a week. I just don’t need it and it looks better. Some people’s hair gets really oily, that tends to stop happening [with New Wash].”

Photo: Courtesy of Hairstory.

washing your hair just got a lot more interesting

“Dressed up implies that you are somewhat sophisticated — you have a sense of style, that you didn’t try too hard, yet you can go anywhere and fit right in and people will go ‘wow, they just look good.'”

Hairstory Dressed Up, $36, available at Hairstory.

Photo: Courtesy of Hairstory.

washing your hair just got a lot more interesting

“We have this one which is for blowdrying, but it’s sort of this idea of being dressed up, but in a certain quirky, modern, French [way]. It gives you surprising hold, but there’s no grittiness — no sort of pull on it.”

Photo: Courtesy of Hairstory.

washing your hair just got a lot more interesting

“[This is for] cool, effortless hair. It’s a nice word, balm — makes you think its nurturing. It’s not stiff, crispy, gelled look from [traditional] hair balm.”

Hairstory Hair Balm, $36, available at Hairstory.

Photo: Courtesy of Hairstory.

washing your hair just got a lot more interesting

“It’s not for blowdrying — use this if you want to air-dry your hair or if you’ve got curly hair. What’s better than taking a shower, applying something, moving it through your hair, and just letting it do its thing. It’s simple it’s sensual, but stylish.”

Photo: Courtesy of Hairstory.

washing your hair just got a lot more interesting

“I would call this modern surf. Unlike surf sprays, which are gritty and dry, this is different — slightly more sophisticated. It [creates texture] but amazingly you can’t feel it. It gives you incredible body and you can just spray it in your [wet] hair and squeeze it, or you can do it [post-blowdry] or add it the next day. It’s incredibly versatile. ”

Hairstory Undressed, $38, available at Hairstory.

Photo: Courtesy of Hairstory.

washing your hair just got a lot more interesting

“Undressed hair is modern — it’s sexy, but the new type of sexy. Not contrived, it has a natural effortless feel, and it’s soft to the touch. If you’ve got slightly wavy hair it’ll increase [the wave], and it will amazingly give you a lot more volume without a blowdryer.”

Photo: Courtesy of Hairstory.

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