Protect Your Hair This Summer

There are major culprits working together to bring down your best summer hair, and now is the season to let go of perfect, sleek hairdos and embrace that loose, natural look.Read on to see how summer can be harmful for hair — but fear not, taking the proper precautions will keep your hair safe and sound as you desire.

1.Start With Trim

By trimming unhealthy split ends, hair will have less breakage and flyaways, making it look thicker and even shinier. Where you can manage properly and getting your hair trim more frequently will likely result in longer hair since you prevent the hair cuticle from splitting at the end. “When the split goes up the hair shaft, it becomes so thin that it breaks.

2.Limit The Heat

Overall, even if you have thick course hair I would recommend that you use heat only once a week at the most. If your hair is fine, once or twice a month is plenty. Use heat Protectant serum whenever you use heating tools.Never use heating tools on damp hair.Think of using a heat protectant, like using sunscreen before you head out the door.The temperature of heating tools should be right to your hair type(normal hair can be ironed at 300-380 and thick, coarse or extra curly hair at 350-400).Wear cap if possible when you heading outdoor.

3.Wash Less Often

Washing the hair less often can help the scalp remain healthy, prevent itching and flaking, and keep the hair soft and shiny. if you are Swimming lover, its necessary to gently cleanse the hair after swimming.You may not need to use shampoo, but it’s important to rinse the hair or use a cleansing conditioner to remove any salt and chlorine from the hair strands.And its important to do regular treatments and masks in the summer, especially if your hair is dyed blonde and frizzy.This will help in adding moisture in your hair.I recommend washing hair once in a week for for thick hair and twice for thin hair.But make sure your hair drys completely after you wash.

4.Cut Off Sulphate, Silicons & Parabens

✅Sulphate:

In haircare products, sulfates are widely used in shampoos to give that bubbly lather, which is why most curly cleansers don’t have that same lather that normal shampoos do. Sulfates tend to strip the hair of its natural oils and since curly hair dries out faster than straight hair, it’s just better to stay away from them altogether. They can leave curls dehydrated, which can lead to breakage. So next time you’re purchasing shampoo put down that super bubbly shampoo and pick up a low or no lather one.

✅Silicones:

Silicones are synthetic ingredients made up of hydrogen, oxygen and carbon. They are widely used in hair products to give that feeling of a moisturized slip but in reality, it’s just coating the strands and acting as a filler. Using silicones on a regular basis can also cause major build-up thus weighing down the strands.

✅Parabens:

Parabens are a type of preservative that basically help deter bacteria and mold. While parabens allow products to last super long, they can also enter your body through your scalp. Not to mention that parabens can cause curly hair to dry out and frizz.

How to find out?

When looking at an ingredient list for hair products, it usually looks like a lot of chemicals and can be very hard to understand but it’s actually very easy to spot these ingredients in a lineup.

For sulfates, look for ingredients that end in “-ate”, this typically indicates that it’s a sulfate. Silicones normally end in “-cone”, “-xane”, and “-col”. And parabens can usually be spotted by ending in “paraben”. It isn’t pretty easy?

5.Use Anti-Frizz Serum

Serums can provide a smooth, shiny, silky look and feeling to the hair. They can be used before flat ironing or blow drying your hair, and even after the styling has been accomplished. The great thing about serums is that it doesn’t require a lot of product to get your desired style, no matter how long your hair is.If you want a smooth, sleek, shiny and frizz free style, give a serum a try. You might need to experiment with a few to find one you love. Once you do, you won’t know how you ever did without it!

How to use?

The serum are generally applied in damp hair concentrating from the middle of the hair shaft to the ends of the hair, but never to the top of the scalp or root area as this can weigh the hair down, and also give the hair a greasy look.

7.Drink Water

Keeping hydration levels high makes skin feel soft, supple, and healthy. A hydrated scalp reduces hair fall, resulting in full, shiny looking hair.Or maybe you have super slow growing locks due to breakage. Drinking plenty of water maintains healthy nerve endings in the scalp and keeps hair roots healthy, supporting hair growth. Hydration makes for stronger hair. Strong, healthy hair is less likely to break or get limp and frizzy. Tip your bottle to buff strands.

Take a look at your daily water intake. If you are dealing with limp, thin, dry, dull, unhealthy looking hair, a little more H2O should quench those problems. Let’s raise a glass to a thick, strong, shiny hair!