Keeping your hair healthy can be done with an easy care routine daily.
Photo by Liubov Ilchuk on Unsplash
If your hair is wet, that means you have to condition it. Over time, from coloring and heat styling, strands start to get thinner at the bottom. Conditioner helps replace the lipids and proteins inside the hair shaft, as well as seal the cuticle to help prevent more damage from happening so that you can get your hair to grow longer and look healthier.
Hair that touches your shoulders or beyond can be several years old and most likely needs more TLC than normal conditioner. Townsend suggests using moisture-based masks and oils weekly. Because oils can leave a residue on hair, to apply it to damp hair, leave it on for 10 minutes, then shampoo and condition it like normal. These oils are able to fill strands up with fatty acids and then, when rinsed out, using regular shampoo helps seal them inside the hair.
Photo by Erick Larregui on Unsplash
Constant brushing can cause physical harm to your hair. When you detangle wet hair, be sure to start from the bottom and work your way up — we often instinctually go from the scalp down, but that just brings small tangles into one large knot and can cause you to lose a lot of hair.
Switching your pillowcase to a silk or satin fabric, because it has a softer surface that would not cause friction the way that regularly woven cotton does with your hair. That way, you will wake up with fewer tangles.
What could be so bad about putting hair in your super-soft bath towel? A lot. It causes so much breakage. Your hair gets caught in all the woven fibers and since most women almost always wrap it too tight around their face, all those tiny, fragile strands around your face are more prone to break.
Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash
This is where your hair literally breaks off at the point of tension where the elastic ends up being wrapped around your hair to hold it into place.
Cold water lays down the outer layer of hair more smoothly, which helps prevent moisture loss, snags and heat damage.