What aspects and functions does hair health care include?

Many people always equate hair care with expensive shampoo and hair care oil. In fact, complete hair health care covers three core dimensions: scalp microecological maintenance, hair shaft structure repair, and hair-related systemic condition adjustment. The most essential function is to delay pathological hair loss, reduce hair breakage damage caused by external forces, and maintain the normal physiological state of the scalp and hair. It is far from being accomplished by just a few internet celebrity products.

Not long ago, I met a girl who was born in 1999. She had her hair bleached three times in two months in a row in order to take good-looking photos. The ends of her hair were as broken as blown dandelions. She saved half a drawer of conditioner and hair masks and applied them to her hair. Her head was so itchy that it would bleed, but she didn't take it seriously. This is a typical example of reversing the priority of hair care - the scalp is the "soil" for hair growth. If there is a problem with the soil, no matter how much you fertilize the seedlings, it will be useless. There are a lot of controversies in the industry about scalp care. Some people think that a healthy scalp does not require extra effort. Cleaning with mild and weakly acidic shampoo 2-3 times a week is enough. There is nothing wrong with this. If you don’t have problems with excessive oil production, repeated dandruff, or red and itchy scalp, there is really no need to follow the trend and buy hundreds of scalp essences, or even go for frequent scalp exfoliation. On the contrary, it is easy to destroy the originally healthy scalp barrier and induce seborrheic dermatitis. But if you have a family history of androgenetic alopecia, and you can already see the hair seams widening and the hairline receding, don't wait, use the compliant minoxidil preparation to rub the scalp as soon as possible. There are several male users in their thirties around me who have been using it regularly for eight or nine months. The small villi in the hair seams have become noticeably thicker and denser. They are more reliable than any ladies' scalp essence.

After talking about the soil, let’s talk about the care of the grown “seedlings”, that is, the hair shaft itself. The outermost layer of our hair shaft is hair scales, which are stacked on the surface like tiles. Alkaline agents used in dyeing and perming, excessive friction, and high-temperature blowing and perming will lift these "tiles". The keratin inside will slowly lose, and the hair will split, break, and feel as rough as hay. The core of care at this time is to fill the gaps in the hair scales and reduce the loss of internal nutrients. After washing your hair, apply conditioner and hair care oil only to the middle and ends of your hair. Do a moisturizing hair mask once a week to make your hair smoother and less likely to break. There is also a controversy that has been going on for many years: Can we use silicone-containing cleaning products? In fact, as long as you don’t apply conditioner to your scalp and only use it on the ends of your hair, silicone oil can fill the gaps in the hair cuticles very well, and it is more protective for your hair than many silicone-free products that dry out after washing. I dyed my hair a matte blue last year, and my hair became so rough that I couldn’t comb it out after washing it twice. I applied a layer of silicone-containing hair care oil before blow-drying, and it didn’t cause any frizz after blow-drying. After using it for a month, the split ends at the ends of my hair were reduced by more than half.

What many people tend to overlook is actually the impact of living conditions on hair. This part is also the most "root-and-center" part of hair care. Last year, a little girl who was preparing for the graduate school exam came to me and said that she was losing a lot of hair every day, and tried three or four anti-hair loss shampoos to no avail. I saw that her scalp was in good health, and when I asked, I found out that she stayed up until two or three o'clock every day, eating every meal in order to save money. She cooks vegetables in plain water and rarely even eats eggs. I asked her not to buy random products first, try to sleep 7 hours a day, add an egg every day, and eat some lean meat. She adjusted for more than two months after taking the postgraduate entrance examination, and when she came to see me again, she said that her hair loss had been reduced by more than half. By the way, it is now popular on the Internet that eating black sesame seeds and black wolfberry can make black hair grow. There is currently no clear clinical research to support this. It can only be said that the trace elements in these foods are good for the general condition. If you expect that eating black sesame seeds for two months will turn white hair into black, you will most likely be disappointed.

In fact, nourishing hair and nourishing the body are the same. There are not so many flashy tips. First, figure out where your problem lies. Don't mess around. It's better than anything else.