Useful Tips to Protect Your Hair   

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Useful Tips to Protect Your Hair   

Hair is important to everyone, even if they’re not aware of it. Just think of how much money we spend on keeping it looking good, and think of how much time we spend in salons and with haircare products. Hair can build our confidence up or tear it down depending on how it’s looking or how healthy it is, and when we start to lose it, or it begins to show the signs of aging, it can be traumatic.   

This is why it is so important to protect your hair as much as possible. It’s not always easy, but keeping your hair at the forefront of your mind when carrying out your daily beauty routines can be crucial. Read on to find out more about what you can do to protect it. 

Don’t Comb Wet Hair  

Don’t comb wet hair. It’s a simple instruction, but one that might come as a shock because most of us comb wet hair every day, or at least every time we get it wet in a shower. In fact, a comb is one of the first things you’ll reach for after a towel.  

The problem is when your hair is wet, it’s also weak, and if you brush or comb it at this stage, you can cause more damage than if you were to wait until it was dry. If you comb wet hair, you’ll be more likely to see split ends and damage later on.   

If you wait for your hair to dry naturally and then brush it, the damage will be much less, especially if you have used conditioner and the strands are soft and hydrated.    

Don’t Shampoo Every Day  

Shampooing your hair when you have your daily shower can become something of a habit, but actually, when you wash your hair every day, you will strip it of the oils it produces naturally to hydrate and heal itself. This means your hair can become weaker and, combined with the combing mentioned above, as well as the addition of haircare products and blow-drying, can lead to hair loss in some cases and certainly damaged hair in most others. 
  

Try instead to wash your hair every two to three days. Although this might feel strange at first, as your hair falls back into a rhythm over a few months, the greasy feeling will disappear, and your hair will be much healthier looking and even thicker. If you have suffered from hair loss, then how much you shampoo won’t make a difference, and it’s best to speak to the experts at hshairclinic.co.uk. They can advise you on the best course of action, and once you have regained your hair, you can start a new shampooing routine.  

Don’t Use Cotton Pillow Covers  

The idea that your bedding is causing damage to your hair will be surprising to most, but if you think about it, your hair is lying across your pillowcase for anything up to eight hours at a time, so it’s sure to have some kind of effect.   

Cotton pillow covers are the worst culprits. The cotton, being natural, can have snags in it, and these can pull at the hair as you sleep (especially if you move around a lot) and make it frizzy or even break it if it is weak.   

Silk is the better option for your pillowcases if you want to protect your hair, with satin a close second.