A hair care routine tracker for wash days, masks, oil and trims

Build the routine around your hair type

Before tracking anything, decide what the routine is. The American Academy of Dermatology's tips for healthy hair start with learning your hair type and choosing products made for it, and washing based on how quickly your hair gets dirty or oily rather than on a fixed rule. The same page says to apply shampoo to the scalp, use conditioner after washing, detangle wet hair gently with a wide-tooth comb and limit heat styling.

Write your routine as a short list of steps and when each happens:

• Wash day: which days, and what goes on (shampoo, conditioner, leave-in).
• Treatments: a mask or deep conditioner, and how often its label says to use it.
• Pre-wash oil or scalp care, if you use it, and when.
• Styling extras like a heat protectant before blow drying.
• Salon visits: trims and color, with the date you expect the next one.

Keep it to what you really do. A tracker of ten steps you never follow tells you nothing.

Common hair routine mistakes

• Changing several things at once. New shampoo, new mask and a new oil in the same week, and you cannot tell which one made the difference. Introduce one product at a time and give it a few washes.
• Forgetting when you last did a treatment. "I think I masked last week" is often three weeks ago.
• Skipping the patch test. The AAD's coloring and perming tips say to test store-bought hair color before using it and follow the manufacturer's instructions, and to stop and see a dermatologist if you get a rash, redness, swelling, burning or itching.
• Judging a product on one day. Hair changes with weather, water and styling. A few weeks of notes say more than one good or bad wash.

Set up a Hair routine in EasyRoutine

Create a routine called Hair and add one activity per step: Wash day, Hair mask, Scalp oil, Trim. Each gets its own color and history. Add a photo of the product to an activity if you like: then you can log it with the free photo scan by pointing the camera at the bottle. Bottles that look alike are safer to log by tapping.

After each step, tap + Log on today and pick what you did; several steps done together can be logged at once. Forgot to log on wash day? Add it afterwards with the real date and time.

The calendar shows one routine at a time, so keeping hair in its own routine, separate from your skincare routine, keeps each view short.

Note how your hair reacted

Each log can carry a note and a red, amber or green flag, and this is where a hair tracker earns its place. Started a new mask? Log it with a note like "new mask, less frizz" and a green flag, or "itchy scalp" and amber. When you log the same step again, the log sheet shows your recent notes for it, so you compare with last time instead of guessing.

After a few weeks, switch to the Month view and tap the Hair mask tile to highlight its entries: you see how often you really used it and which logs carry flags. If a product seems to cause a reaction, stop using it and ask a dermatologist; the log helps you tell them when you started it. Which product caused the reaction? explains how to read a log for that.

Planned wash days and reminders (Premium)

With Premium, the Plan tab gives each step its weekdays and an optional time and reminder: Wash day on Monday and Thursday, Scalp oil the evening before each at 21:00, Hair mask on Sunday. A planned step stays faded on the calendar until you log it.

Schedules repeat on chosen weekdays; there is no "every 8 weeks" rule. For a trim or a color appointment, add a Single day plan on the date, with a reminder. Without Premium, skip the plan and just log; the record alone answers "when did I last do it?". If your question is mainly how often you wash, see the shampoo schedule tracker.

Common questions

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