I wash my hair about every other or every 3 days. Depending on how the weather has been, that determines whether I use shampoo or not. We get really bad dust storms here. But on average I do it about 3 times a week, sometimes every day if I am in braids. My hair just thrives off of moisture. The shampoo is gentle and creamy like the conditioner. I think it is a really good compliment to the conditioner. It helps to make your hair soft, and detangles so when you use the conditioner, it is like slip, slip, slip. If you check out my hair in my album, you can see why that is important for me. Girl my 15 year old has been trying to get some from me, but I told her she needed to get her own!!! They have different kinds of DD at the Dollar Tree here but I have yet to find the TA, so I am on the hunt today. Q