Hair breakage can feel like that looming cloud that’s unavoidable, but we challenge you to let these new at-home tips (or reminders) be your rainbow in the sky of hair care. From maintenance to styling to products, what we use has the power to promote or prevent hair growth. Hair care mistakes like roughly washing your hair or skipping conditioner can do more damage than you know. Similarly, decreasing your use of heat can also help to prevent breakage. You can avoid these hair care mistakes if you want to say goodbye to breakage with these at-home tips.
Avoid These Products and Habits if You Want To Say Goodbye To Breakage
Parabens and sulfates are known to strip the hair, causing additional breakage to already dry and damaged hair. Shampoo, conditioner, leave-in or a mask should also have added moisture. Also, drying the hair is critical to preventing breakage. Towel-drying, specifically with microfiber cloths or cotton shirt, is one way to prevent breakage outside of what kind of products you use.
Let Gentleness Be Your Guide
On your wash days, the excitement around a clean scalp and some alone time can spark an excitement that leads you to overstimulate or focus on one step more than the others. Gently washing and conditioning will help you to retain length and promote hair health. Another self-care step that might feel new is steaming your hair, which allows heat and moisture to work in your favor.
Detangling while the hair is moisturized and protecting your hair while sleeping are integral at-home tips for your reduced-breakage journey. Ultimately, the gentler of an approach you have toward managing your scalp and hair health, the easier it’ll be to avoid breakage and retain length. Similarly, avoiding heat styling will promote length retention. And then there are the extra steps of hair care that are centered around repairing breakage or damage, which involves leave-ins, masks and regular trims.
Hair Care Means Embracing Hair Repair
So far, we’ve focused on the maintenance part of avoiding hair care mistakes to say goodbye to breakage, but what about the repair part? Think leave-in conditioners and masks. Leave-in conditioners allow the moisture to continue penetrating the hair after application. Post hair-drying, applying this product will prevent breakage by adding moisture. Oil helps as well by sealing your ends off from any external factors that can cause breakage.
Lastly, find and use a protective hairstyle. These styles can range from braids to weaves. Just make sure the tension on your scalp is minimal. After maintenance and styling, cover your hair and sleep on a satin pillowcase in case that bonnet or scarf gets active in the night.
Now that you know which mistakes to avoid and have your own set of steps to follow, you’re on your way to rejuvenated hair with minimal to no breakage. Wishing you a reduced-breakage hair journey as you avoid these hair care mistakes.