Dry hair: the most effective remedies to take care of it
"I have dry hair!" The remedies exist and some are really within everyone's reach. If for some having a dry hair is only an aesthetic problem, for others this imperfection can represent an alarm bell for diseases related to the hair and scalp. In this article we try to deepen the topic, but first we believe it is useful to show you a video with a mask to prepare at home to eliminate dryness from dry and brittle hair.
Dry hair: what are the main causes?
Before we get to dry hair remedies we need to focus our attention on the causes. As often happens with the scalp, the causes of dry hair can be varied and are often difficult to counter. In any case, it will be very easy to intervene to mitigate the problem and make it manageable.
Let's see what are the most common causes of dry and brittle hair.
- Hormonal causes
If you are going through a period of severe stress, hormones can become less efficient, so you can go through a phase of hormonal changes that will inevitably affect the health and vitality of your hair. This happens very often in women during the period of pregnancy and menopause. As a result of the above, hair can become dry, brittle and tending to break. Hormones in fact influence hair formation and follicular activity, in some cases inhibiting the production of sebum.
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Then there are a whole series of other causes that lead to dry hair, for convenience and clarity we have divided them into endogenous causes (internal) ed exogenous (external). Let's see what they are.
Endogenous causes
- Nutrition: having food deficiencies or following unbalanced diets poor in some basic nutrients such as proteins, vitamins or minerals, modify the process of keratinization, making the hair increasingly weaker and thinner.
- Genetics: in some cases, dry hair is an inherited blemish and is part of the genes. It is difficult to act on inheritance, but there are some effective remedies that we will show you later.
- Excessive sebum production: if the sebum production is insufficient, this leads to drying out the hair and making it dry and brittle. In these cases, washing your hair too frequently contributes to making the hair even drier and duller.
Exogenous causes
- Permanent, dyeing, straightening: very often the hair dries up and becomes dry due to frequent perms, dyes, streaks done by the hairdresser. If, on the other hand, you have never undergone this type of service, your dryness could be due to frequent use of the straightener, which in the long run damages the hair structure. Even the use of the hair dryer at temperatures that are too high or too close. to the scalp is another cause of dryness.
- Too aggressive washing: washing your hair too often and using aggressive shampoos, does not help the scalp at all, but damages the skin by drying the hair.
- Environmental factors: cold temperatures in winter, prolonged exposure to the sun's rays, sea salt, chlorine in the pool and pollution, are deleterious for hair health and are among the most common causes of dry and dry hair. .
Remedies for dry hair and oily scalp
We are often led to think that those with dry hair also have a dry scalp, but this is not always the case. Cases of people with oily skin and dry hair at the tips are quite common. All this is due to a hyper production of greasy sebum, which unlike oily sebum, tends to spread on the hair making it greasy on the skin, compacting and failing to hydrate the tips of the hair. Even the water expelled by the sweat glands is retained, with a further drying effect on the hair.
To summarize, with oily sebum the hair becomes greasy and the skin oily, with greasy sebum the skin looks oily, but the hair remains dry especially on the ends and lengths.
To remedy this type of problem, you will have to choose treatments that, on the one hand, wash and purify the oily scalp, on the other they also nourish the lengths and ends, restoring shine and vitality to the hair.
Remedies for dry hair and dry scalp
Dry hair often also affects the skin and specifically the scalp. Sometimes the necessary sebum is produced to ensure that the skin and hair are well hydrated, but other times we witness the phenomenon of dyshidrosis. Dyshidrosis is a disorder in which the sweat glands do not function regularly and deprive the skin of the supply of water that it would need to hydrate. Thus the hair begins to appear frizzy and stringy, and are the result of this lack of lipids and liquids that normally help untangle the hair.
Those suffering from dry hair accompanied by dry skin must choose treatments capable of providing an additional supply of lipids, water and nutrients, simultaneously stimulating the activity of the sebaceous and / or sweat glands.
A help in this sense comes from laser therapy, which vascularises the skin revitalizing it; but also massaging the scalp daily promotes skin secretion.
Natural remedies for dry hair
Among the most effective remedies to combat dry hair, we want to mention some natural treatments to do at home to see the results immediately. Often we do not think about it, but some foods that we all have at home, if well mixed together, can give life to nourishing and useful beauty masks to get rid of dry, arid and brittle hair once and for all. Below is a list of techniques and products that prove to be natural remedies for dry hair, useful for making it healthier and more shiny hair.
- Packs with vegetable oils such as almond, olive or flax
- Restructuring masks based on honey or cinnamon;
- Shampoos prepared with egg and lemon extract;
- Balm with rosemary.
If you find that these natural remedies are not that effective and are making the situation worse, then you should get medical advice, tell the whole story of your hair type, and think about undergoing specific and targeted hair treatments. When hair is extremely dry and brittle or subject to thinning, it is at risk of falling out and must be recovered before it is too late.
How to remedy dry hair in pregnancy?
During pregnancy, it is very common to notice a change in skin and hair, and while for many women it is a positive change, it is not necessarily the case for all. Often in the 9 months of gestation the hair may be thickened thanks to the increase in estrogen production; in other cases, however, the hair may appear dry, arid and tending to break, even if before that moment they had never given any kind of signal.
The cause of all this is to be found in the hormonal imbalances, which the woman's body is subject to during pregnancy. The sebum production will be impaired, thus making the hair dehydrated.
Here are some helpful tips to follow if you are pregnant and notice that you have dry, brittle hair:
- choose products for delicate and non-aggressive dry hair;
- avoid drying your hair at high temperatures by keeping the hairdryer at an adequate distance from the scalp;
- do not rub but dab the hair after washing, so as not to favor breakage.
What to do if you have dry hair after dyeing?
Another typical time when your hair may appear dry, parched and dull is after getting your hair dye and if you are constantly doing hair dyeing or other harsh treatments. To have beautiful and healthy hair, it is necessary to take care of it in the right way, especially when you know you have to subject it to the stress of dyes, bleaches and streaks.
Very often the hair regrowth is so sudden that we continue to make dyes on dyes, without worrying about the stress to which we are subjecting our hair.
The ingredients contained in hair dyes, in most cases, are extremely aggressive not only for the hair, but also for the skin, triggering a whole series of problems that lead the hair to appear dry, damaged and arid.
