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renee_n_3000 said:
PressNCurl, is the reason your shower takes 40 minutes because you are doing a deep-conditioner that has to sit for 20-30 minutes? If so, have you considered getting out of the shower to let the deep-conditioner work, then getting back in to rinse it out?
Or could it be that the stream of water is unusually weak? I can see how that would make it take longer to wash out shampoo, conditioner, etc. My sister's shower is like that and it drives me nuts because it takes me twice as long to take a shower when I visit her. I believe her shower head is designed to conserve water. But that's counterproductive to me since, as I said, I just have to take twice as long and end up using the same amount of water anyway. I would hate to have to wash my hair at her house because I bet I'd never feel that I'd rinsed all of the shampoo and conditioner out.
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My shower pressure is excellent, so that's not the problem. My steps, literally, are:
1. get into shower (hair already divided into 4 sections),
2. wash section 1, rinse, apply conditioner, comb out, twist (~5-8 minutes)
3. repeat #2 on sections 2-4
4. cover head with plastic cap
5. wash and rinse body (5 minutes tops)
6. remove shower cap and rinse whole head with hair still in twists
7. wash face, rinse back
8. out of shower
Amazingly, most of the time my hot water will still be there at the end of all this. Lately though, to conserve water, I have started turning the water off during the 'apply conditioner, comb out, twist' phase.