How To Repair Damaged Hair At Home

Repairing Damaged Hair At Home

 Do you know hair can get damaged easily, but it takes somewhat longer time to repair it? Sun exposure, dying, bleaching, straightening, perming, and heat stress from curling irons and blow dryers can damage your hair over time. These processes dry out your hair, make it porous, brittle, dry, frizzy, dull and leave it prone to breakage and split ends. Those having fine hair are more likely to get their hair damaged.

The good news is that there are some very effective damaged hair natural treatments that you can start using immediately to make your hair look better right away, as you apply home remedies for damaged hair to restore your hair health over time.

Learn here how to immediately stop further damaging of your hair, use products that will work effectively for repairing damaged hair and habits that will maintain your hair healthy in the long term.

Immediately Save Your Hair From Further Damaging

1.Get A Trim: This is required immediately, in case your hair has a straw-like texture with split ends. Be careful about this, as hair stylists are the reason for most hair damage. Make it sure that hair scissors used are in good condition. Cutting your hair will save you immediately from further hair damaging.

1. To confirm your hair stylist is using perfectly sharp scissors, try them to cut into a wet tissue. Examine the cut and if you observe torn tissues then the scissors are not the right one and that is signal for you to change your hair stylist.
2.  Hair is more likely to get damaged at the ends, as tips of the hair easily affected by heat and other sources of hair damage. So, cut off your hair from the ends, as much as is needed.
3. Tell the stylist not to use any styling products or hair dryer on your hair, as this would cause further damaging of your already unhealthy hair.

2. Stop Using Heat On Your Hair For Some Time: Now that your hair is freshly cut, make it sure to handle it very gently till its health is restored. Using heat on your hair would be like taking a step backward, every time you apply it. This may be difficult to follow for those who use hair dryers and other heat styling tools to craft their hair-looks every day, so here are few tricks for them.

1. Start air-drying your hair, and let your hair exist in its most natural state to allow your hair the fair chance to heal.
2. If you feel you must straighten or curl your hair or use some heat styling tools, either use a gentler method, such as rollers or hair wrapping or use heat styling tools on a low setting, and save it for special occasions.
3. Since your hair will take some time to be fully restored, it might not look the way you like it to till then. You might be tempted to iron out your frizzy curls or enliven your dry, limp tresses, but it’s worth it to hold out until your damaged hair health is restored completely. If you remain patient for some time, you will be rewarded with healthy hair soon.

3. Stop Dying Or Otherwise Using Harsh Hair Treatments: The practice of bleaching your hair color and then applying chemicals to dye it another color is highly damaging. Bleaching or dying your hair that’s already in unhealthy state can really cause hair breakage, hair loss and bald patches. So is the case with many other popular hair treatments, as they strip your hair off its natural oils and damage the hair shaft. When you are trying to treat your damaged hair, it will be very difficult to do so unless you stop all such treatments and allow your hair to come back to its natural state.

1. Keep away from chemical procedures like permanent curling or straightening, as they too cause a lot of damage to your hair.
2. If you must dye your hair, go for a natural dye, like henna or tea. Both of them will not damage your hair, but help to restore it to its natural health.
3. Deep conditioning treatments offered by many salons that claim to restore your hair’s moisture use chemicals, so they will not do any good to your hair. You need to keep an eye over what goes on your head, so stay away from such salons, and instead use deep hair conditioning that you can do yourself at home. Read here for such an effective deep conditioning home treatment – How To Deep Condition Your Hair At Home.