Tips for Best Hair Care

Caring For Your Hair is Easy Respect your hair!Your inner health is just as important as the products you applyexternally to your hair. Inner health is your nutritional,metabolic, hormonal and all other functions that influence yourbody. A Few Facts Do you know what hair is made of? Dead cells...lots and lots of them. Hair is made up of three layers-The Outside is called the cuticle-The Inside is called the medulla- In between the two is called the Cortex The cortex is where the strength of hair is. The cortex is madeup mainly of strong protein bonds. There are also two otherbonds which is hydrogen and salt. When hair is wet it is moreflexible because the salt and hydrogen bonds that provide 2/3rdsthe strength of hair are broken by water. These are replacedwhen dry. This is how blow dried styles hold their shape. Thethird (the disulphide bond) is broken by chemicals and the sun. There are many other vitamins, minerals and hormones thataffect the condition or strength of hair. There are three classifications of hair: fine, medium, andcoarse. This is referring to the diameter (thickness) of eachindividual hair. The finer the hair the less cortex there is, soit is not as strong as what thick would be. If thick hair hasbeen chemically treated this could mean that the finer hair mayof course be stronger as chemicals permanently damage thedisulphide bonds in the cortex. What do we do wrong? The obvious causes of hair damage: We all know that colours damage the hair. Semi Permanentcolours don't do as much damage as the permanent but dependingon the hair type it too can have more of a negative effect thandesired. Any chemical service in the hair will permanently alter anddamage the chemical bonding strength in the hair. Having twochemical services (Perm and colour) will give even more damageto the internal structure. Permanent straightening of any sort is a chemical service aswell and should be noted that it is the same as if you had acolour or perm done in the affects on the hair. The not so obvious causes of hair damage: Blow Drying Blow drying seems like a harmless thing to do. Just think abouta few things first 1) How often do you blow dry your hair? 2) What heat do you have your hair dryer on? 3) How long do you keep the hair dryer in one spot on your hair? If you blow dry your hair daily, on high heat, and/or don'tkeep it moving this can cause mechanical damage to the hair. Brushes Brushing your hair is harmless unless it is done the wrongway. Everything has a right and wrong way to do things. Anystrain put on the hair has the chance of causing breakage. Whenthe hair is wet it is at one of its weakest moments. Put the last two together and you have even more chance ofdamage. Straightening Irons Straightening irons are hot and having them in one spot on thehair to long will cause it to burn and break. Putting Hair Up Putting your hair up is hard. (I am a woman so I sympathise.)Putting it up too tight or under to much strain will break thehair. Be gentle with it. Imagine if you have a chemical service in your hair as well asthe above processes being done... Even more chance of breakage. When two out of the three bonds that give hair strength arebroken by water it will be more susceptible to breakage whenwet. If you put finer hair together with a hot round brush blowdrying the chance of breakage is high. Conditioning treatments and leave in treatments are importantin patching and protecting hair from damage. Hair problems can occur genetically, physically, bymechanical and chemical means. Having only one can be bad enoughbut if you combine any of them the risk of damage is higher. Internal Health-How can it help? Let's start from the beginning... How does hair grow?To Sum Up The moral of this article is to never underestimate what willor won't affect you, and in what way. Some conditions willrequire specialist help. Professional and caring service isprovided to patients at The Southern Trichology Clinic. Good nutrition and health is just as important for your hair aswhat you apply or do to it externally. Our hair is an extensionof our bodies. Look after your body and the health of your hairwill follow. I do hope that this article has helped a little in improvingthe health of your hair. All technical information in this article has been obtainedthrough years of experience, and various hairdressing, andtrichology based text books