Hair Breakage – Reasons and Solutions #1 to #3
Avoid fast food traps!
Unhealthy Diet
Do you nourish your body with healthy, protein-rich foods to ensure that you’re healthy enough to produce a healthy hair shaft? Or do you ‘survive’ on unhealthy and malnourishing fast foods? Do you drink enough water daily? Improper nutrition is a leading cause of preventable hair loss. It’s absolutely crucial to change to a healthier diet, if you suspect your hair loss is caused by poor eating habits.
Hair Breakage – Solution #1Correct your Diet
Vegetables, fruits, protein sources and dairy, along with plenty of water will nourish your hair from within. The more natural state of the food, the better for your hair care. We have crucial need to feed our bodies regularly with wholesome food. In order to have healthy hair, skin and nails –a well-balanced diet is critical. Iron-rich, protein foods, as well as those containing Vitamin C, Vitamin B-6, B-12, Foliate and Zinc will do much to improve root condition. A healthy diet should be the norm. Fast foods should be dramatically reduced or even eliminated. Drink plenty of water. Nourish your hair like you nourish your skin. This will help to keep your hair soft and lustrous. Hydrate for proper skin care and hair care.
Hair Breakage – Reason #2
Neglecting Regular Hair Maintenance
We will experience weak, damaged hair with a tendency to break and fall out –if we don’t take the time to properly care for it.
Hair Breakage – Solution #2Stick to a Proper Hair Care Routine
If we establish a routine of hair maintenance, over time it becomes a very simple process. Gently shampooing and conditioning with natural products on a daily, weekly and monthly basis is an essential key to beautiful, healthy, growing hair. How often you wash your hair depends on the natural condition and texture of your hair. Generally it is recommended to wash your hair 2-3 times a week if your hair is normal with proper moisture balance. Wash hair daily if it is excessively oily and baby fine. If your hair texture is coarse, excessively dry or brittle, then wash it once a week (or even less). If you feel the need to wash your hair more often than recommended, try using a co-wash (conditioner-only wash).
Lock in moisture. Moisturizing hair care tip: use a light leave-in conditioner (daily if you have curly hair; rinse in cooler water to seal in moisture). For a DIY light homemade leave-in conditioner: simply add enough water to current conditioner, mix well, spray a little in your hand and rub through hair or spritz on hair with a spray bottle. An occasional hot-oil treatment restores moisture balance; adds suppleness to hair. Natural herbal oils such as extra-virgin olive oil, organic coconut oil, cold-pressed castor oil and flaxseed oil are known to help strengthen, regrow hair and to eliminate dandruff.
Hair Breakage – Reason #3Split Ends and Lack of Proper Trimming
Thermal, chemical or mechanical stress can cause split ends. For example, the use of curling irons and other heat treatments may cause split ends. Excessive application of hair products such as perms and hair coloring may strip protective layering off the outside of the hair's shaft and weaken the hair, making the hair prone to split ends. Mechanical stresses include pulling a comb forcefully through tangled hair and repeated combing.
Hair Breakage – Solution #3
Control Split Ends
If we establish a routine of hair maintenance, over time it becomes a very simple process and we can control split ends. Avoid excess heat, over-styling with chemical relaxers and hair dyes.
It’s best to have a professional hair stylist trim your hair using extremely sharp scissor. (Dull scissors can cause split ends.) Occasional light trimming of split ends should be included in our hair care routine. This will actually help grow our hair from roots to ends.About every 3 months, a tiny snipping is all that is really necessary, especially if we want to see visible hair growth results.
A word of caution about clipping split ends: If you want to grow longer hair, NEVER clip more than 1/8”-1/4” (inch) per month. If you do, you’ll literally be cutting away your new hair growth! The reason is that most hair grows about 1/2” (inch) per month, totaling six (6) inches a year. Do the math. This is totally within our control.
Hair Breakage – Reasons and solutions #4 to #6 in my next post.
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