Hair Breakage – Reason #4
Excessive Hair Pulling
Styling hair in tight hairstyles that pull and tear your roots, such as: tight braids and up-dos, tight ponytails, etc. Using abrasive combs and hairbrushes can cause damage to your hair. Not protecting your hair at night can cause friction from the fabric fibers and produce hair fall.Hair Breakage – Solution#4
Be Gentle to Your Hair
Brush gently: Using a non-abrasive hairbrush (with nylon bristles or natural boar bristles or similar) to gently massage in hair oils encourages scalp stimulation to slightly increase hair growth; and blood to reach follicle at the root. Healthy circulation promotes better hair growth.
Protect with safe hair maintenance: Try and avoid styles that constantly pull and tear your roots (tight braids, tight ponytails, etc.) If you must braid, loose braids are best day or night. If you braid your hair before sleeping, satin helps reduce friction from hair against fabric fibers, thus protecting against breakage. Simply cover hair or braid(s) with a satin sleep bonnet; satin bun cover or using a satin pillow protects your braids or other hairstyle.
Hair Breakage – Reason #5
Using damaging hair accessories
The following unsafe hair accessories can tear your hair out, cause severe hair breakage and cause extreme damage to your hair:- Rubber bands, stick elastic
- Combs, headbands, etc. with sharp teeth
- Hair accessories with sharp edges
- Hair clips, barrettes, bobby pins that constantly pull hair will also pull it out.
Use safe hair accessories
Safe hair maintenance means using accessories that won’t undo all the healthy hair care that you've worked so hard to achieve:
Soft headbands; scarves; Ouchless-type elastic band (no rubber); hair jewelry or flowers real/synthetic, gently clipped to plastic hair pins; hair scrunchies made of elastic bands or soft non-damaging fabrics; seamless plastic barrettes, rounded teeth. For really long hair, try a hair fork (Asian-Inspired) or hair stick that doesn’t have sharp metal sections or seams; Amish steel hair pins or Amish hair snaps (look like a clip, but very gentle).
Hair Breakage – Reason #6
Ongoing use of chemical hair dye
Chemical hair dye penetrates the cuticle of the hair, damaging it. The hair is exposed to para-phenylenediamine (PPD), hydrogen peroxide, ammonia and other harsh chemicals, causing overlapping of cuticular seates to lift from the hair cortex, thereby leading to rapid loss of amino acid. By removing the proteins that build the structural strength, the hair shaft is weakened with every application. The chemical damage results in an easily fractured hair shaft and eventual hair loss.
Hair Breakage – Solution#6
Protect your hair with pure henna
Dermatologists have recommended the use of all natural pure henna for hair to prevent potential scalp allergy and hair loss caused by the overuse of chemical hair color dyes. Pure henna coats the hair and doesn’t penetrate the hair shaft. Pure henna contains conditioning properties that are quite beneficial to hair. Allergy to pure henna is extremely rare. Pure henna can be mixed with 100% natural plants and plant extracts to create a variety of natural hair shades.Final Note
Apply these hair care protection, hair maintenance and style tips proven to stop hair breakage. By changing bad habits, you’ll enjoy healthy, radiant and beautiful hair.
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