How to Get Healthy Hair
Hair is a very important aspect of one’s overall appearance. And while we provide a variety of natural beauty tips on this site, taking good care of one’s tresses is one of the best that we can provide. The key to beautiful, silky and strong locks is to keep your strands in their top condition. In this article we will go through different tips from shampooing, styling, to everyday wear and tear, which should to help you to keep your mane lovely and healthy.
Washing
- Try not to wash your hair every day, as this can strip the strands of natural oils, which protect it.
- For fine or oily locks, it is suggested that it be washed every other day, but coarse or curly tresses should be washed at most every three days.
- By not washing your mane too often, you allow the follicle to build up some of its own natural oils, which protect it.
- On a side note, dry comb your tresses before you get into the shower, to loosen up any styling products that may have built up since the last time you washed it.
Shampoo and Conditioner
- It is recommended that you change shampoo at least once every three months if not more often, that way your locks don’t become used to one product, which could make it less effective.
- After shampooing your tresses, squeeze out as much water as you can before applying conditioner. By squeezing out the water, you are allowing the strands to have room to soak up the conditioner.
- Then leave the conditioner on for the remainder of your shower before rinsing it out. The steam from the shower will continue to open the follicles allowing more conditioner to soak in.
- If you have extra dry or damaged hair, try using a deep conditioning mask on your locks once a week, instead of your usual conditioner.
- Another trick which helps to seal the conditioner into the follicle is to rinse the conditioner off with cool or cold water, which causes the follicle to shrink.
Toweling and Combing Wet Hair
- After shampooing and conditioning, carefully towel dry your tresses.
- Do not rub your locks up and down, which can damage the follicles.
- You want to carefully blot the water out and if you must rub your wet strands, only rub down and never up.
- When combing or brushing wet hair, it is important to be extra careful, because your locks are more likely to break at this point than at any other. When strands are already full of water, they are less able to stretch while being brushed. Usually hair can stretch up to 30% of its length, but when it’s already bloated with water, the pulling and stretching of combing might stretch it to the breaking point literally.
Heat Styling
- It is recommended that heat styling be done only every other day, but it is better if it can be done less often.
- If you are going to heat style your tresses, one good tip is to wait until your mane is already partially or mostly dry before using a blow-dryer, and even then use a lower heat setting. If you want to learn more about these styling tools, then check out our comprehensive hair dryer reviews article.
- Plus, always use a product that is designed to protect hair from the heat, like a product that contains silicone, which will protects the hair cuticle from damage.
- Clean products, like straightening irons with alcohol, once a week to remove any product buildup. Read our best flat iron review page to learn more about these products.
General Suggestions on Hair Care
- Have your mane trimmed at least every two and half to three months, to prevent damage from spilt ends.
- If you color locks, do not color more than every three months, as too much coloring can over process and damage hair.
Hopefully this page about How to Keep Hair Healthy has provided you with some useful pointers which you can implement. The best tip that we can give you is to take care of your tresses. The more you take care and are gentle with them, the better condition that they will be in. If you have any more suggestions, please feel free to email us! Also, you are most welcome to browse around and maybe take a peek at our article on how to do a manicure, or maybe eyeliner tips.