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Hey all,
I was wondering what procedures everyone follows after showers/in the mornings to keep your hair as healthy as possible. All I do for now is shower everyday using a shampoo, apply conditioner and rinse, then let air dry. Sometimes, I will use leave-in conditioner instead of a normal application in the shower. Anything else I can add to the process to keep my hair healthy?
wash your hair only when needed, i wash my hair once a week.
the more lengh you get the less you need to wash.
read that http://www.choisser.com/longhair/ you will find some good informations.
Cya
My hair journal
Aside from personal hygiene (which you already described), the best way to keep your hair healthy is to keep YOURSELF healthy. Take a good daily multi-vitamin, eat a balanced diet, minimize the caffeine,nicotine, sugar, and alcohol intake.
On the hygiene side, though - the less stress you can put your hair through, the better - use a wide-toothed comb when you hair is wet, and don't force it through tangles. That just causes breakage, and you don't want that. Dry hair - use a brush if you must, but be gentle - the more care you use in handling your hair, the less damage. Less damage = more retained growth.
Keep on growing!
Comb your hair out before you shower, while it's dry. Shower as often as you need to, but don't wash your hair with soap or shampoo every day. Try to take the coolest shower you can stand. Do not crumple your hair up rubbing in shampoo as showering women in shampoo commercials tend to do. Work the shampoo in with fingertips, gently. When you get out, don't rub your hair with a towel. Gather it into a rope and run your closed fist down it to squeeze out the water. Then squeeze a towel around it. Do not bother with a conditioner. Go to a health-food store and get a bottle of almond oil. From the vegetable oil section, not the health and beauty section -- it just costs three times more there. When your hair has air-dried and you've combed it out again, rub a couple drops of oil between your palms and then sandwich lengths of your hair between your hands and pull the oil down. It doesn't take much. You will only need to do this for the lower parts of your hair, where it feels dryer and crunchier than the rest. Don't do the hair close to your scalp.
If it's not totally not your style, keep your hair in a pigtail lot of the time. It's not too hard to learn to do that simplest 'English' braid. The hair-tie you use to secure the braid will be at the bottom of your hair, and that's where the damage it inevitably does will be, instead of high up at your nape. Also, because the hair is all in a rope, only the strands on the outside will be subjected to wind and sun damage, AND it will stay cleaner, too, cause only the outside strands will pick up crud.
My hair's really fragile. When I used daily regular shampoo and conditioners and wore it lose or in ponytails it would get broken off before it reached nipple-length. Now that I've been keeping it in a braid and washing and oiling it
more like once or twice a week, it's about nine inches longer than it's ever been, and in better shape. It's still all broken at the ends but the texture is better, it has not stopped getting longer, and if I could give up the pleasure of searing showers I bet I'd be getting length a lot faster.