Advice And Treatment For Damaged Hair
It's pretty easy to end up with damaged hair thanks to all of the products, coloring processes, hot rollers, blow dryers, and curling irons that we subject our hair to on a regular basis.
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Symptoms And Cause
Wind, rain, pool and saltwater, sun, pollution, harsh chemicals, excessive perms, bleaching or coloring your hair, and even teasing it too much can result in damaged hair.
Regardless of the cause, you can usually do something to make it look at least better than it does at the moment.
Treatments And Solutions for Damaged Hair
There are products and intensive treatments that can help you repairing damaged hair to some extend. The repair products contains silicon based polymers or hydrolyzed keratin that can glue those small cracks on your hair fiber and cover your hair with some protective films and bring your hair back in shine - at least from cosmetic point of view.Some of these products provide you with some temporary solution and is quite useful specially when you are away for long business trips or holidays and have no access to your stylist.
Treatment for damaged hair and repairing products includes moisturizing, intensive conditioning and reconstruction agents to replace keratin loss. There are two types of treatments - one for overheated and dry hair and the other is designed for damages caused by chemically treated hairs.
These products also offer additional protection and will help preventing (reducing) future damage while cleansing and conditioning hair fibers.
Products rich in antioxidants can also help repair cellular damage caused by pollutants
and product build-up.
Read about solving damaged hair problems with cranberry oil.
See also the benefit of hemp shampoo for chemically treated damaged hairs.
Hair Split Ends
Split ends are the easiest type of hair damage to control. Split ends are the result of normal hair wear and tear, but can also by toweling your hair too vigorously when it is wet, over blow drying, and excessive coloring, bleaching, or perms. Anothe factor that can lead to split-ends is sun exposure. Fine hair is especially prone to splitting.There is no real cure for split-ends. All you can do is have the ends trimmed and be more careful in the future. However like damaged hair split-ends can also be repaired by special serums (lotion-type products) containing polymers that help mending the damaged area and provide a temporary solution.
If you suffer from chronic split ends then resign yourself to having a regular trim every six weeks, or so, as the damage reappears.
While there are no "real cures" for other types of damage, you can keep your hair looking at least acceptable by using a deep conditioner once per week and shampooing with a mild shampoo. Be careful not to scrub your hair too vigorously as this may intensify the damage.
In case of hair damage, hair coloring and other chemical treatment should be avoided until your hair gets a chance to stabilized and get its natural condition. Continue with the conditioning treatments until your healthy hair hasgrown back in.
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