How to Start a Hair Care Routine
Hair care can often be challenging, especially if you are limited on time, but keeping your hair healthy and stylish can help you feel more confident and attractive. Creating a hair care routine is easy and involves maintaining the health of your hair and applying beneficial products to your hair. Luckily, your hair doesn’t always need attention every day, and many things in a hair care routine can be done only once or twice a week.
What is Shampoo?
Firstly, shampoos are viscous-type products, usually in the form of a liquid that’s created to clean the hair and scalp and remove the excess sebum in the hair follicles. Shampoos are produced by combining compounds. They act as cleaning or foaming agents that wash impurities out of the hair.
The ingredients in shampoo is similar to what is used in soap. However, the ingredients in shampoos are manufactured to be gentler on the hair and protect the outer layer of the hair from damage. Using soap to wash your client’s hair will strip away the outer layer of the hair shaft, giving it a rough texture, and making it unmanageable.
What are the Benefits of Shampoos?
There are many benefits of using shampoo. You can help your client choose the best shampoo for their hair type, leaving it beautiful and shiny. Normally hair needs to be washed with products that help the PH balance. Hair that is naturally oily requires deep cleaning, while dry hair needs more conditioning to keep it soft. Here are the benefits of using shampoos formulated to your client’s hair type:
Benefit #1: Using shampoos that are formulated for your client’s hair type helps improve the condition of their hair, so that it feels better to the touch. The hair may be washed twice to remove oil and dirt particles.
Benefit #2: Shampoos that contain the proper vitamins, oils, minerals, and botanical extracts can stimulate the hair follicles and scalp. The most common natural oils in shampoos are Lavender, Jojoba, Prickly Pear, Almond, Lemongrass, and Ginseng. These shampoos also have natural fragrances.
Benefit #3: It is important to recommend the right shampoo for your clients that have had their hair professionally colored. During the process of coloring hair, the follicles in the hair are raised so the molecules of color can be deposited. Therefore, if the hair is washed with a product that’s harsh and not produced for color-treated hair, the color will fade quickly.
What are Conditioners?
Hair conditioners are products designed to manage hair easily, improving the appearance and feel of the hair. The primary purpose of conditioners is to reduce the amount of friction caused to strands of hair during brushing or combing.
When the proper conditioners are used for specific hair types, they can reduce the number of split ends and strengthen the hair follicles to prevent damage. However, some people have the misconception that washing their hair is enough to keep it clean and looking beautiful. While washing the hair removes a lot of contaminants, without using a conditioning product after washing, hair can become dry and stripped of the natural oils it needs to stay healthy.
What are the Benefits of Conditioners?
Benefit #1: Conditioners repair hair that’s damaged and improve its appearance. The proper conditioners strengthen the hair follicles to prevent further damage from brushing or while outside in direct sunlight, which can dry out the hair.
Benefit #2: Conditioners have a lot of the natural nutrients needed to keep dry hair healthy. Therefore, good quality conditioners can reduce the amount of dryness that’s in the hair and give it a smooth, shiny appearance.
Benefit #3: After shampooing the hair, it can dry out, but applying a conditioning product that’s specific to your client’s hair type helps to replenish and rejuvenate the scalp.
How to use shampoo and conditioner?
The general recommendation is to use shampoo to cleanse the hair before conditioner. Follow these steps for best results:
Completely saturate your hair with warm, not hot, water.
Squirt a small amount of shampoo into the palm of your hand.
Apply it to your scalp and massage until it lathers.
Work the shampoo through your hair, but pay the most attention to the scalp.
Rinse your hair and scalp completely.
Squirt a small amount of conditioner into your hand.
Massage it into the length of your hair, avoiding the scalp.
Leave the conditioner in for about 3 minutes.
Rinse your hair completely.
After leaving the shower, gently blot a towel on your hair to remove moisture.
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