8 Hair Care Habits Of Girls With Healthy And Beautiful Hair That You Should Follow Too

1. Do Not Comb Wet Hair

Did you know that your hair is at its most vulnerable when wet? Yep, that's right. You must have noticed that your hair fall is much more when you try to comb wet hair. When your hair is wet, the hair follicles absorb water and tend to swell. This leaves your hair prone to breakage. To save your hair, let it air dry. Comb your hair only when it is completely dry.

2. Limit The Exposure To Heat-Styling Products

One of the biggest mistakes that we make with our hair is to expose it to heat-styling products. While the straighteners and curlers make it easy to style your hair, they also do irreversible damage to your hair. The heat that we give to our hair, makes the hair dry and rough, and eventually prone to damage. Using hair straighteners frequently often leads to split ends that cause stunted hair growth. If you want healthy and beautiful hair, give your hair a break from the harsh heat-styling products.

3. Use A Silk Pillowcase

You might not give your pillowcase a second thought, but it is essential to keep your hair healthy and strong. Our usual cotton pillow can damage the hair badly. While you sleep on a cotton pillowcase, all the moisture is soaked by it, leaving your hair parched and vulnerable. With a cotton pillow, the friction caused during your sleep can also make your hair frizzy and tangled. Keeping all these disasters in mind, we would recommend switching to a silk pillowcase to keep your hair healthy and beautiful.

4. Treat Hair To A Weekly Treatment

Hair masks are no longer a luxury. Your hair needs the nourishment. With our lifestyle habits, diet and exposure to the sun and pollution, our hair tends to lose its strength. A hair mask helps to give a nourishment boost to the hair and clear the scalp to stimulate the hair follicles and this promotes healthy hair. Apply a hair mask on your hair and scalp once a week.

If you are not too keen on using chemical-infused store-bought hair masks, you can always whip up a healthy homemade hair mask. The internet is brimming with homemade hair mask options.

5. Stay Away From Tight Hairdos

How we love a tight ponytail or topknot. Your hair roots? Not so much. The tight hairstyles put a strain on your hair roots. The constant pulling weakens the hair roots resulting in hair fall and stunted hair growth. So, it is advisable to go for hairstyles that are easy on your hair.

6. Use The Right Comb

Brushing the hair does three things for you- untangles your hair, boosts the blood circulation in your scalp to promote hair growth and spreads the natural oils evenly through your scalp to tame the frizziness. But, using the right comb is essential to get all these benefits. You should use a wooden comb for your hair, not a plastic one. Plastic is a non-conductive material. Using a plastic comb causes static hair and that leads to weakening of hair roots and hair breakage. So, if you are using a regular plastic comb, immediately swap it with a wooden one.

7. Have A Good Hair Wash Schedule

Hair wash schedule affects your hair more than you realise. Using shampoos and conditioners can lead to chemical build-up on the scalp. And if you do it frequently, the chemical build-up is more. It clogs the hair follicles causing issues like dandruff, dryness, hair fall, hair breakage and slow hair growth. So, create a hair wash schedule that works for your hair. We suggest you wash your hair not more than 2-3 times in a week with a gap of at least 2 days between each hair wash.

8. De-Stress

This should come as no surprise. Stress is not only bad for your health but for your hair as well. There are studies that show stress as the cause of hair fall. With the fast-paced life that we live, it is not possible to stay away from stress all the time. What we can do is take a few moments every day to de-stress and calm ourselves. This will improve your hair health as well as your overall health.