How to determine whether your hair is porous and what to do about it?
All the girls dream of beautiful and well-groomed hair, so that they always shine with health and beauty. However, sometimes hair provides a bunch of hassle, they break, get tangled, do not go to the hair, ends tip off, or lose shine. Such issues arise mainly with porous hair, but at the same time, if you properly take care of your hair, you can achieve a beautiful effect. So it turns out that they were living normally, but then somehow porous hair took off. What to do? Where to run?
What is porous hair?
If your hair looks lifeless, dull, hard to the touch and they lack elasticity and brilliance – you have porous hair. If you look under a microscope on such hair you will see such a picture:
In order to understand what needs to be done, let’s first consider the mechanism of such a problem. Let’s look at healthy shiny hair under a microscope, and we’ll see that the scales that cover the hair are very close to each other, this can be compared to a closed fir cone. And under the influence of negative factors scales, like a cone, begin to open and bully.
As a result, the hair becomes similar to the sponge and quickly accumulate dust, fat and can hardly be repainted evenly and accordingly do not look so hot. However, if you do not begin to actively restore hair, you can lose part of your favorite braid. The earlier to take care of such hair, the better. Ideally, you need to contact a trichologist (a medical specialist who deals with the problem of hair), but if for some reason you postpone the diagnosis, you can arm yourself with the following tips:
- We work from the inside. A lack of vitamins can lead to a worsening of the hair condition. Drink vitamins, plus limit the consumption of spicy and fatty foods, increase in the diet of sour-milk products, fruits and vegetables. It is important to drink water in the course of the day, so that the body does not lose moisture. The daily water norm is about 1.5-2 liters.
- Limit the drying of hair drier and use ironing. It is advisable to abandon complex laying with the use of a large amount of varnish and do not tighten strongly, do not squeeze the hair.
- Hair care. To begin with, you may still need to prune the ends with hot scissors to seal the tips and bring the hair to a more well-groomed look. Then we stand to restore, at the same time it is necessary to choose the right shampoo. It is important that it is a shampoo on a safe, non-aggressive basis. Read the compositions and choose shampoos without SLS and SLES. In this case, Shampoos TM Doctor Herbal “Quail yolk with almond oil, for color preservation and restoration of stained, fine hair” or “On brewer’s yeast with flaxseed oil, for weakened, thin, damaged hair” will do. These shampoos are created on a mild basis, and very gently wash your hair. To shampoo necessarily it is necessary to pick up balm-mask. After all, the main task of the balm mask is to feed the hair along the entire length, seal the protruding scales and give the hair a healthy appearance. In the line of TM Doctor Herbal, balsam masks with the same names are offered, as well as “Quail yolk with almond oil, for preserving the color and restoring stained, fine hair” or “On brewer’s yeast with flaxseed oil, for weakened, thin, damaged hair “. Balm mask works not only on the hair, but also on the onion bulb, which is very important in the process of hair restoration. After all, the hair itself can only be improved externally, it’s already a dead part, and in order to grow beautiful hair, you need to work on the bulb. In addition to feed it with useful ingredients that contain balm – the mask of TM Doctor Herbal: brewer’s yeast hydrolyzate – perfectly strengthens and stimulates hair growth; oil flax – nourishes bulb onion; infusion of the oak cortex – positively affects the scalp and solves the problems with loss, due to the content of tannins, it also includes acids, protein substances, pectins, flavonoids, levulin, quercetin, pentazones, flobafen and some others; extract of ginger – activates metabolic processes and has a strong effect on the hair follicle, which improves the growth process. Extract of quail eggs is a unique component that contains biologically active substances, a high level of iron, potassium, phosphorus and lecithin. Almond oil contains phytostrolls and vitamins E and F, which help normalize the activity of the sebaceous glands
As a result, it can be noted that porous hair is amenable to recovery, only diligence and patience are needed. But as they say it’s better to prevent the problem than to deal with the consequences, therefore, treat your love with your hair, do not take extreme actions!
