How to Keep Your Hair Healthy

Keeping your hair healthy is a common struggle among us all. We all love it when our hair looks good and healthy but struggle with how to keep it that way. Beautiful healthy hair requires some special attention and avoiding things that can possibly damage your hair. Below are some tips on how to keep your hair healthy.

1.      Using the Right Brush

How to Keep Your Hair Healthy Everyday

This might be overlooked by many but a good brush keeps your hair healthy. One needs to know that they can not use the same hairbrush with short and long hair. When you have long hair it is safer to use a boar bristle brush and wide tooth combs whereas fine bristle combs damage long hair but are safe for short hair. Also, it is important to know which brush to use when your hair is wet at it is more prone to damage in this condition. Wide-tooth combs are recommended for wet hair.

2.      Hydrate Your Hair on a regular basis

When hair suffers from a long dry spell it suffers heat damages which leads to hair breakage. So it is important to hydrate it regularly with some hydrating oils and products. These include oil treatments, hair masks, and any other products that give your hair some moisture. Heat damages also come from heat styling products.

3.      Get the required Ponytail Holders

If you have long hair you need to be cautious of the ponytail holders you use, not all ponytail holders are the same, some hold too close to the hair which can cause damage. It is advised to consider using a plastic coil scrunchy as they do not pull all the way to the root.

4.      Avoid Towel Drying

It is advised to use an old t-shirt or a hair wrap instead of a towel as it causes damage to your hair as contributes to some hair frizz to your hair.

5.      Trim split ends from your Hair Often

Split ends are said to stop hair growth,  and leave your hair looking dull and thinner. Cutting them off helps your hair grow and look prettier.

6.      Shampoo the Right Way

Shampooing your hair is one of the most vital steps to healthy hair. It’s not recommended to shampoo your hair every day. One is advised to have a timetable for shampooing their hair. When shampooing your hair put more effort into the scalp area as too much shampoo might add more dryness to your ends.

Conclusion

If you are one of those people that like to keep their hair healthy and beautiful you have to pay attention even to the smaller details of how you treat your hair every day as it can be damaging to your hair.