How to have a hairwash in space? Astronaut Karen Nyberg reveals her ‘squeaky clean hair’ regime

Hairwash is one of the integral parts of the hygiene and wellness routine! Especially, for women, or even men with long hair - hairwash practically is a separate chore that needs meticulous attention. Based on the density, length, and quality of hair, the regime gets personalized.
But what happens when you get stuck in the space?
How do you get done with your hairwash routine then?
Astronaut Karen Nyberg is here to show you how.

Washing hair on Earth takes long enough as it is, but NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg shows in a new how-to video that it's even more difficult to shampoo in zero gravity. Although the Expedition 36 crew member shared her microgravity haircare routine over a decade ago, the video has resurfaced on the internet once again.
On a trip to the International Space Station in 2012, Expedition 36 astronaut Karen Nyberg demonstrated just how she and her colleagues keep their hair clean while floating around in orbit. Back in 2013, Nyberg was the only woman aboard the ISS (International Space Station). She member decided to share her hair-washing routine after she received a lot of questions via social media about how she's able to maintain her long locks. In the YouTube video, Nyberg was seen demonstrating how to wash long hair in space. She used some warm water, no-rinse shampoo, a comb, a mirror, and a towel to accomplish the feat.


As one can see in this video, it’s not entirely dissimilar to how we wash hair on Earth, except we don’t have to catch the water as it floats away from us.
Nyberg went on to show how it’s done, while explaining her whole process saying, “What I like to do is start by just putting some hot water, squirting it onto my scalp, and I have a mere hair so I can kind of watch what I'm doing. Sometimes the water gets away from you and you try and catch as much as you can and I just work the water up through to the ends of my hair.”
Astronaut Nyberg also revealed that they used no-rinse shampoo and a towel, rather than a hair dryer, as they had limited supplies. In an extended video, she stated that as her hair dries, the evaporated water is condensed by the space station and eventually turned into drinking water.