Five tips to get back your hair vitality

As seasons change the ways to care for your hair health and vitality also change, due to the variation in temperature and other weather factors that can be harmful to your hair and skin such as sun rays, humidity, and sweating. Therefore, it is important to follow some useful advice to aid protection against those factors. Here are some of the most important pieces of advice to protect your hair during the summer season.

Protection from sun rays:

Ultra-violate rays emitted from the sun are dangerous to the health of your hair and skin. They cause dryness and breakage to your hair and make it lose its vitality and shininess. Therefore, you are strongly advised to cover your hair with a headscarf or a hat or by holding an umbrella when you go out under the direct burning sun rays.

Treatment of hair ends breakage:

High temperature and direct sunlight dryness and breakage to your hair end during the summer. To avoid damaging the entire hair strands you are strongly advised to treat the affected hair ends by using special shampoos and hair cosmetics.

Avoid chemical-based cosmetics:

It is advised to stay away from chemical-based hair treatments such as hair dyes and whitening products during the summer as your hair gets subjected to many harmful factors during this season.

Frequent hair brushing:

Hair brushing helps increasing blood circulation in the scalp enabling blood to reach the roots of the hair. The longer your hair is the larger the brush you should use and avoid by all means brushing your hair when it is still wet as doing so cause hair ends breakage and hair loss.

Avoid tying your hair tightly:

Beauty experts warn against hairstyles that rely on tying the hair tightly as this causes the hair to lose its vitality and softness and prevents it from breathing fresh air. 

You need to follow the following steps:

• Apply a layer of hair moisturizing cream prior to swimming in swimming pools or in the salty water of the sea because such water damages your hair and dry its ends.
• Use a hair sun blocker to prevent your scalp from drying by the direct burning sun rays. However, only use lite cream to avoid letting your hair become greasy in an unpleasant way.
• If you dyed your hair, you are strongly advised to use protection mist for dyed hair to prolong the life of your hair color and to protect it from getting affected by water and sun rays.
• Use waterproof hair styling cosmetics to work as an extra protecting layer covering each hair strand from being subject to direct water.
• In order to solve hair humidity and the sweating problem, you need to choose a lite moisturizing cream (not concentrated nor heavy as there are types of creams that have lesser amounts of oil and have more of a watery structure, and not oily or creamy) and you have to apply it in a certain way as per the instructions and to apply it starting from half of the way of your hair tell its ends avoiding the hair follicles and the scalp. And if your hair has a greasy nature to it we advise you to dye it in the summer to absorb the extra oils in its new status as dyed hair.
• If you have dry or curly hair we advise you to rely on effective hair moisturizers and visiting your beauty salon a number of times to have moisturizing and hair strengthening sessions using recipes based on natural ingredients as sometimes hair moisturizing alone does not show the desired results.
• Hair breakage and dryness due to being subject to chlorine found in water is the most common problem that women face during the summer. To treat this problem you need to wash your hair with shampoo on a regular basis, especially after getting out of the water to get rid of any chemicals that were trapped in your hair during the swimming session. Massage your scalp with shampoo, this is the key to get healthy hair. That is to say, you have to keep the roots away from chemicals before you keep it away from the roots.
• Avoid hairstyles that depend on straightening the hair as much as possible and substitute them with simple hairstyles such as the ponytail or the braid as straight hair becomes clumpy when it is subjected to water and dried respectively. And during the high humidity days use the curly hairstyle. However, if your hair is naturally curly it would be enough to apply a lite layer of gel to make it look fresh and healthy.