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15 Avoidable Ways That You Damage Your Hair!
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items We women often want luscious, thick, shiny hair that not only looks attractive but also effortless and healthy. This is such a tall order these days though. With so many products, lifestyle choices, and health issues that can abound our hair may begi...
It is possible to have healthy, shiny hair without traditional shampoo products. You can have your most healthy beautiful hair with small beauty routine changes, fewer washes, and natural shampoo bars and conditioners - which is exactly what no poo s...
Using Conventional Shampoo Too Much! Try a Shampoo Bar
Hot water washes away too much of your natural oils that protect your hair. You may like hot water on your body but when it comes time to wash and rinse your hair, go with luke warm or even cold. Cold showers have health benefits too.
You use hot water! Cold Shower Benefits for Your Health
This causes breakage, go with a wide tooth comb instead. Your fingers work too.
Brushing Your Hair When Wet. Use a wide tooth comb
Getting aggressive with that towel can damage your tresses via breakage and frizz. Be gentle and blot hair rather than rub. These plop head wraps are designed to reduce frizz.
Towel Drying! Use the plop method
They can cause breakage and thinning. Go for loose ponytails or messy buns to prevent damage.
Ponytails and Hair Clips! Use a Silk Scrunchie
Healthy hair starts with diet. Make sure you are getting Vitamins B, C, and D, folic acid, calcium, and omega-3 fatty acids. This Biotin with coconut oil supplement rocks for hair, skin, and nails.
Diet Deficiencies! Hair Care Vitamins & Supplements
If you swim at the public pool or at the gym, you are loading up on chlorine. This strips your hair and causes dryness and breakage. It is best to avoid getting your wet if you can. If not make sure to rinse it well afterwards.
Swimming: Use a Satin-Lined Swim Cap
Most conventional hair products are a chemical cocktail that actually damages your hair. I suggest avoiding grocery and drug stores and going to places like Sephora. There is a reason those products are pricier…they are typically MUCH better. Read al...
Toxic Hair Care Products! Try a Safer brand like Prose
While these are very popular to use because they give you that longer, thicker hair you want. They come with many risks to your natural hair though. They are heavy, they pull, they cause breakage, and they cause thinning. If you feel you have to use ...
Hair Extensions and Braids! Top 5 Least Damaging Extension Types
The bleach strips your hair’s natural oils and moisture along with the color. The dyes are typically a nasty chemical cocktail that further damage hair. Embrace your natural color or use natural dyes
Bleaching & Dying! Try Henna Hair Dye
Cotton pillow cases cause friction and frizz. They also absorb the oils from your hair, stripping them. And then you get acne because the oils from your hair get on your face. No bueno! Go with silk or satin. And if you don’t want to spend $200 on ne...
Your Pillow Case! Try Blissy Silk Pillowcases
The heat causes hair breakage and the blowing actually sucks moisture from your hair which is the opposite of the look you want. If you really need a hair dryer go with an ionic ceramic dryer with far infrared technology. They don’t overheat hair and...
Blow Drying! Try an Ionic Ceramic Dryer and Diffuser
No surprise here right? They get really hot! I suggest going with a really good brand here, even if it is pricey, to get ceramic or titanium flat irons and wands. My personal faves are L’ange products. Their Lustre wand allows you to control the temp...
Flat Irons/Curling Irons! Get one with temperature control
Its not good for your skin or your hair. It can cause a film of mineral buildup on your hair which prevents your own healthy oils from penetrating, causing dryness.
Hard Water! Get a Shower Water Softener
An underactive thyroid (hypothyroidism) is a major cause of hair loss in women. There are other possible hormonal causes of hair loss, too, such as the decrease in estrogen that occurs in menopause or the hormonal shifts that happen a few months afte...
Hormones! Check out Midi Health