hair care Category

Monday, April 20th, 2009

How to Protect your Hair

We live in a tropical country where exposure to sun is unavoidable, no matter what. Our hair is usually the first thing that would be affected. We end up having a damaged hair due to the heat of the sun. But there’s a way to minimize the damage.

We can take measures to protect our hair from the damaging heat of the sun or from any harmful habits. Here are ways I could come up with.

1. When going out, cover your hair with scarf. (I plead guilty because I don’t do this)

2. Just run a hair brush/comb once when the hair is wet. And comb/brush again when the hair is dry. You will notice the difference here. Not only it protects your hair from falling off prematurely, it makes the hair shiny and smooth as well.

3. when drying your hair with towel, use one direction only. this will prevent split ends.

4. if you can avoid it, don’t use hair dryer. I purposely gave my hair dryer away so I won’t get tempted to use it often. The only glitch is that I have to wash my hair way before we go out… so I have time to dry my hair, the natural way. hair dryers can actually make your hair dry. so try to use it less.

Hair is women’s crowning glory (of course nothing beats a good attitude). So we better take care of it as much as we can.

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Your Crowning Glory

What you eat, and your lifestyle, is reflected in your hair: stress, hormonal activity, lack of sleep, too much sun, swimming in chlorinated pools or salty seas, the hardness or softness of your tap water, along with any chemical hair rinses or treatments that you use on your hair, will all have visible effects. And I am so guilty. My hair has undergone a lot of mistreatment (hair dye, hair rebond, hair perming, hair straightening after perming, electric curlers, too much heat from sauna, actual hair treatments, etc…). Sometimes I feel it has been abused for so long it’s time to do something about it. But how?
Nearly every shampoo on the market today seems to contain the essence of fruits, flowers, or herbs but of course, in reality, those were just chemically synthesized version. I have read in a book that you can do your own herbal shampoo by pouring one application of baby shampoo into a cup, adding four drops of an essential oil (which you can get from The Body Shop – I am a big fan of TBS, by the way), mixing the ingredients thoroughly and then using the enriched shampoo the natural way. I have done a bit of research which essential oil to use on which type of hair: for dry hair, use essential oil of sage; for greasy (oily) hair, lavender and/or peppermint essential oil would be the best to use; while to prevent dandruff, use chamomile, rosemary or thyme.

image i took from hairboutique.com
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