How To Wash A Human Hair Wig

A huge number of people wear wigs for different reasons. For some people, they wear wigs to conceal hair loss to protect their natural hair from damage. For some people, they wear wigs to exchange their hair styles to express their individuality in a short-term. A good quality wig costs lot money, especially a human hair wig, so most people want to take care of the wig to extend it’s lifespan. Can you wash your wig and how to wash it? You may be troubled with these questions, here in this article, we will explain for you.
Should you wash your wig?
Your wig will be dirty during your daily wearing, like your natural hair the wig need to be washed to keep it in the best condition.
How often should you wash your wig?
You can wash your wig once a week or less, it depends on the frequency you wear the wig. It is important to know that you can’t wash your wig too often. It is unnecessary to wash your wig after each wearing.
Steps to wash a wig

1. Secure the wig on a wig stand, detangle your wig with hair brush if your wig is straight hair wig, otherwise with a wide-tooth comb. Strat with the hair ends gently work your way up to the hair roots until the whole wig is detangled.
2. Fill a sink with cold water or warm water. The temperature shouldn’t be too high, because the high temperature water will affect the texture of the wig.
3. Add shampoo into the water, you’d better choose a shampoo specially designed for human hair wigs. Mix the shampoo and the water, stir to lather.
4. Put the wig into the sink, make sure the wig is completely submerged. Soak for 10 minutes, if your wig is too dirty you can soak for more time. For HD lace wigs, such as lace front wigs, m cap wigs or other wear and go wigs, you need pay more attention on cleaning the lace part. You need be gentle to make sure you don’t use too much force to damage the lace.
5. Rinse the shampoo off with running water, keep rinsing until there are no bubbles. Apply hair conditioner on the hair, if your wig is lace wig, you should avoid the knots.
6. Use the towel to press off the excess water, then air dry it.