How often are you cleaning your wig? Cleaning the wig is important and knowing how to clean the wig is much more important than just cleaning the wig. Cleaning of the wig depends on how often the wig is worn and type of the wig you have.

If you wear a human hair wig daily basis, you have to clean a wig every 2 weeks. If you have used the products like hairsprays, oil sheens, luster to display a wig with great appearance, the buildup of those products has been accumulated on the wig.

If your wig is made of human hair, the odors could be more absorbent than synthetic-made wig. So, you would have to try to avoid the smoke and kind of other fumes when you wear a human hair wig if possible because those can cause a wig to get an unpleasant odor.

Extremely Hot water must not be used to shampoo the wigs. You?d be better to follow the directions on tag of the wig when cleaning the wig.

Cleaning the Wig and Related Steps

1. Get the gloves and a basin when cleaning the wig. The gloves would be needed when you use special cleaner for cleaning the wig.
2. Read and follow the directions specified on tag or any other place of the wig.
3. Pour wig cleaner with the amount specified on the directions into the basin and immerse the wig into the solution.
4. Make sure that the wig is saturated with the solution in the basin.
5. Dip the wig out from the basin and into the basin several times. Be careful not to tangle the wig.
6. Squeeze the wig softly once finished cleaning and, lay the wig on a towel, and pat the wig dry.
7. Condition the wig once the wig is dry after cleaning.
8. If you want to rinse the wig, use the cool or tepid water. The wig could be rinsed more than once to ensure that the wig is free of cleaning solution. The skin and scalp may become irritated if cleaning solution remains in the wig. So cleaning the solution in the wig is extremely important.

You should make sure that the wig must not be brushed or combed excessively if the wig is curly or wavy in texture because excessive combing or brushing will disturb the wig?s curl or wave pattern. Finally, the wig will no longer look the way it did when it was purchased. Once the wig is messed by brushing or combing excessively, you would like to purchase another wig to get the original style you purchased. You also may have to repair the wig instead of just buying another wig after disturbing your wig.

Repair the Wig

Wig should be repaired by specialist even though you know how to repair the wig. The stylist or specialist has been trained and experienced with special technical skills, which are hair cutting, sculpting, molding, and shaping. If a wig is distorted and damaged, the wig would have to be cut or style newly.

Deep conditioning with the proper conditioner may help a wig looking new style. You should keep in mind that the type of the wigs will affect the conditioning of wigs. If you disturb the original curl or wave of your wigs, you would like to reshape you wigs by rolling and restyling the wigs. It may do more severe damage to the wig than just right before it was.

Wig should be repaired or restyled because the ends of wig could start to look shabby or uneven after you have worn for a long period of time. Repairing the wig is not difficult but it can be simple as just cutting off the ends of your hair.

Following are the descriptions of repairing and replacing the wig:

• Repairing synthetic wig may include clipping off the signed ends of the wig instead of replacing the wig.
• The bands on the wig can be replaced or tightened to avoid replacing the wig.
• Combs on wigs may need to be glued back into place.
• You, a stylist, or a wig specialist can make these minor repairs to a wig.