Hair Health Habits

Hair Health Habits! How to easily maintain.

How can you make it a part of your hair ritual to take better care of your hair? This article is keeping in mind that we have busy lives and don’t want to add yet another thing to remember as we go through our lives. Listed are items that are important to creating and maintaining healthy hair. 

Water, this goes without saying we need water for our body and it is the most important part of your hair’s health.

• Drink 8, 8oz glasses of water a day

• Don’t drink faucet water get filtered water preferably with no fluoride and has Ph to it *This can start at home before leaving the house get you a water bottle with a cap and keep it with you throughout the day

Moisturize, this helps your hair in-between washes and right after you wash. We lose moisture throughout the day from the outside elements like the sun, wind, and rain. Also, if you work out, we sweat which pulls out moisture. 

• Wear protective styles like buns, braids, or anything that keeps your hair from being lose

• Use a heavy moisturizing conditioner

• Before drying and styling put in a good liquid hair oil, after you rinse your conditioner but before you add anything else

• At night wear a satin bonnet or get a satin pillowcase

• Only wash your hair every 7 to 14 days *If you must wash before do a co-wash (conditioner wash)

Combing, this may seem simple but this can be torture to your hair if you are doing it incorrectly

• Use a comb that is not made from cheap plastic.

• Invest into good combs that cost around $10 and also have in your comb collection a wide toothcomb

• Start at the ends of your hair and work your way up to your scalp *Don’t start at the scalp and comb down

• Section your hair and do a section at a time.

• Wash day use your figures to comb through your hair as you shampoo and condition

• Style use a detangling brush and wide toothcomb

Scalp Health, this is easily forgotten

• Moisturize your scalp with a LIGHTWEIGHT oil at least 3 times a week

• Stay away from products that over-saturate your hair

• Spend between $15 and up on good light hair oil

• Read your ingredients and know what your putting into your hair

• Massage your scalp at least 3 times a week. *Use your figures and rub your scalp

Vitamins, these are  very important for your overall health and not just for your hair

• Get Vitamin C, D Iron & Zinc. *You can get these vitamins through fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, several types of fish, mushrooms, dried fruits, or just a good multivitamin

• Collagen, this starts to deplete after the age of 35 get a supplement

• Good hair vitamin, go to your nearest health food store and look for something that is a non-GMO vitamin

Good hair health is easy to maintain and manage.