How to Repair Damaged Hair at Home: Special Means and Mask Recipes
Women love to experiment with their own hair: paint in the most inconceivable colors, and often radically change the hue of hair( from a platinum blonde to a crow's wing), to do unthinkably complex hairstyles with a huge amount of varnish and other stowage.
This, of course, not the best way affects the health of hair. Add to this a bad ecology and constant stress, hormonal disruptions - and you will realize that the question of how to repair damaged hair at home is as relevant today as ever.
Causes of damaged hair
Damaged hair is easy to recognize by its characteristic external features: the curls are thin and lifeless, the hair does not have a splendor, the ends are split, the hair looks like a tow or a sponge, dandruff is present, the hair grows very very slowly. What causes such damage to the hair? Specialists identify several important factors affecting the degree of damage to the hair.
- Frequent lightening of hair( horrible if using hydrogen peroxide), radical color change and regular straightening of curls.
- Frequent hair washing( exception - fatty hair).
- Mechanical hair damages: active wiping and wringing out wet hair, combing against growth or combs with scalp-pricking teeth.
- Frequent drying of hair with a hair dryer and abundant use of stowage.
- Direct exposure to sunlight( ultraviolet) and chlorinated water.
- Poor nutrition, constant stress and insomnia.
- Lack of vitamin-containing drugs, especially in winter and spring.
Cosmetic preparations for damaged hair
In order to start the restoration of damaged hair, experts recommend to purchase professional means. Today there are lines for caring for damaged hair in almost all well-known brands, such as Vella, Schwarzkopf, Garnier, Loreal. Here are some popular professional hair care products.
For color-treated hair, the BC Color Save Treatment mask from Schwarzkopf Professional is suitable. It protects hair well from the environment and helps to retain a bright color for a long time. After this mask, the curls become soft to the touch, shimmer and shine.
If the hair is severely depleted, they lack moisture, you can treat them with the Wella Pro Series Moisture mask. This product is easily applied to the hair and does not require thorough washing. After such a mask, the hair becomes soft from the roots and to the tips. The effect lasts a long time.
Another great mask for thin hair is Absolut Repair from Loreal Professionnel. This mask has a restoring effect and perfectly nourishes the hair, and also moisturizes it. Wax, which is part of the mask, protects the hair from the effects of the environment, and ceramides strengthen the hair from the inside. Mask is spent very sparingly.
A more budgeted version of professional masks for damaged hair is Garnier products. For example, the mask "Cranberry and argan oil" can be used for damaged and colored hair. The hair after it becomes soft and silky. True, this mask is more suitable for owners of thick hair, since after the smoothing effect of the mask, thin hair will seem even less voluminous.
If to speak about purely Russian preparations for damaged hair, then it is worth paying attention to the mask of the company "Clean Line" called "Intensive Care".This mask makes the hair more docile and palatable, more silky.
Folk remedies for the restoration of damaged hair
Among the folk remedies for the restoration of hair, especially popular are the milk products - milk, curdled milk, kefir, and masks from them. You can use them both in pure form, slightly warming up, and adding to them a few drops of burdock or castor oil.
Henna is another unique tool for strengthening damaged hair. It can be taken colorless or red. Before use, henna is poured into plastic utensils and steamed with boiling water. The resulting mixture is applied to dry and unwashed hair and left under the cap for 10-15 minutes. Then wash the henna with warm water.
For brunettes and brown-haired is a good option using a mask of ordinary hard boiled tea. From the mask of tea brewing, the hair becomes softer and more obedient. It is necessary to put hard brewed tea( liquid) on the hair for the whole night and you can even not wash it off.
Advice from stylists and hairdressers: from folk remedies for hair care, it is necessary to include a mask with oils, for example olive and castor or rosemary, into the nursing program.
For example, you can make a mask: 3 tablespoons of olive oil and 1 teaspoon of honey to heat on fire and lightly cool. Uniform mass to put on hair on all length and to comb hair that the mixture is better distributed on them. The benefit of this mask is that after a month of its regular application, you can get rid of the problem of split ends of hair.