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NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers demonstrates how to wash your hair aboard the International Space Station.

Credit: NASA
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00:00All right we're gonna talk how to wash your hair in space today. So I've got a
00:05bag of water here we just use some warm water and I've got my shampoo and some
00:10conditioner ready to go so it's not unlike you do on earth but you know you
00:14don't have the advantage of gravity pulling the water or letting the water
00:18flow so I just take some water we have a one-way valve for a valve that you can
00:23close here to cut the water off but just start with putting water on my scalp.
00:30It's nice warm water here and then my hair is so long that I kind of just put a
00:35little bit of water into the rest of my hair to get it wetted down as well.
00:49And then I've got a shampoo bar here so I just take that rub a little bit you
00:55don't need a ton and I like to just like on earth scrub your scalp.
01:04For the rinses I'll usually just do my scalp that way and work it through to the
01:10rest of my hair. As you can see without gravity water doesn't really fall away so
01:15it just hangs on to your scalp and then you can work it all in.
01:19And just rub out the excess water here. I'll do this a couple times trying to rinse out the shampoo.
01:22That's just some leave-in conditioner that I'll use.
01:30I like to work in the conditioner right into the tips here so we'll just grab that.
01:39My hair's been so long it's hard to keep it in the frame. I give everybody else haircuts up here
01:43but
01:44don't necessarily need a haircut. Just letting it go. All right give it a little brush.
01:53And then I'll let it air dry. The extra water will dry get into the air and then we'll reclaim
01:59it and
02:00probably becomes somebody's coffee tomorrow. Just let it air dry. I like to give it one last little
02:05whoop. Try to get the good hair going. And that's how you wash your hair in space.
02:10the other stuff that you wash your hair in space. The other stuff is the other stuff that you use.
02:11So thank you, I appreciate that. You guys.
02:11Thank you very much for watching.
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