It is difficult to keep your hair looking healthy and full of life when there are so many components that can affect it. Your hair has weather, diet and lifestyle to content with and it can’t look after itself. You have to maintain a healthy head of hair, from within.
Nearly everyone falls prey to a hair problem at some point during their life, so know the terrible affects associated with this. Your hair is the first feature people notice about you, so you want to ensure that you look your best.
The best way to maintain great hair health is naturally, as is with most things in life, and there are simple and effective ways to do so with only minor changes to your lifestyle.
Home Hair Care
There are many hair care treatments that you can make yourself at home that enable you to work with the condition of your hair with ingredients that suit you. This is a great method of saving money by decreasing the amount of expensive products you have to purchase in the supermarkets. Using natural products also helps environment, to reduce our carbon footprint!
Hair care products can often contain harmful chemicals that can damage the hair follicles; making your own products enables you to take complete control over what goes in to the products you use.
Wash and Go
Washing your hair too often can really take its toll on its condition, and can strip all of the natural oils and moisture your hair produces to maintain its healthy shine and strength. Try reducing the amount of times you wash your hair and see how quickly you notice the benefits.
After washing your hair, let it dry naturally, using hair dryers and other heat treatment products can greatly damage your hair follicles and create a lifeless look to your hair. Lightly dry your hair with a towel and leave yourself some time before you need to leave the house for the hair to dry on its own.
Super Foods for Hair Care
The correct mix of vital vitamins and minerals for hair care and growth can be obtained through a healthy balanced diet, with foods that contain many of the components needed specifically for hair growth. Plenty of protein and iron are needed to keep the hair healthy and can be sourced through the consumption of salmon and dark green leafy vegetables.
Variety is the best policy, so make sure you add various different fruits, vegetables and fish to your diet, this way, you’re giving your body the best supply of vitamins and minerals it can possibly have whilst ensuring that you’re not getting bored.
Maintaining a healthy diet can not only keep your hair healthy, but can promote a healthy weight loss too. Fad dieting can quickly lead to your body losing nutrients and can therefore no longer support the hair, which can become dry and brittle.
Emily has written more about Viviscal UK at Peak Nutrition and enjoys offering advice and guidance for Health and Well-being.