What items and requirements are included in hair health care?

The essence of hair health care is full-link care covering the scalp and hair shaft. The core goal is to maintain scalp ecological stability, extend the healthy growth cycle of hair, and reduce damage to the hair shaft from external factors. The project covers daily care for a few yuan to clinical medical-grade intervention for thousands of yuan. There is no universal "must-do list" and everything must be selected based on your own scalp and hair condition.

To be honest, when many people think of hair care, they think of going to a hair care salon to do a project, but ignore the most basic and most effective daily care part. Take hair washing as an example. Many people like to wash their hair with hot water above 40 degrees Celsius in summer. They scratch their scalp hard with their nails and feel extremely refreshed after washing. In fact, within two days, they will start to feel itchy and oily, which in turn damages the cuticle of the scalp. For example, the Internet has been arguing for many years about "Can silicone shampoo be used?" In fact, there is no standard answer at all. People with dry and frizzy hair that rarely produces oil use shampoo containing silicone. On the contrary, it can fill the gaps in the hair cuticles and reduce the pulling damage when combing the hair. If you switch to silicone-free shampoo, it will become drier with washing. ； If you have oily skin and an acne-prone scalp, it will certainly be more comfortable to choose a mild silicone-free formula.

If you have adjusted your daily care for two or three months, but still have obvious recurrence of dandruff, double the amount of hair loss than before, or your hair is as dry as hay after perming and dyeing, you can try the maintenance program of a professional hospital. I once had a friend who had her hair permed three times a year, and the ends of her hair ended up being smoothed out. When she combed her hair, it tore off a bunch of hair. I applied half a can of hair mask at home, but it didn’t work. I went to a regular hair care center and did three amino acid introduction + red light treatments. It was indeed much smoother to the touch, and there were fewer breakages. However, I have to remind you that the more diligent you are in hospital projects, the better. I once met a girl who went for scalp exfoliation every week. After two months of doing it, the scalp barrier was damaged. She got seborrheic dermatitis and was so itchy that she couldn't sleep all night. Nowadays, people on the Internet say that hair salons are a tax on IQ. In fact, it depends on the situation. If you only want to improve the problem of damaged hair shafts and slightly oily scalp, it is really useful to choose a regular institution to do symptomatic projects. If you are told that a few treatments can cure male hair loss and grow new hair, then you will most likely be deceived.

If you have pathological hair problems, such as a continuously receding hairline, patches of alopecia areata on your head, or so much dandruff that when you pick it off, it will leave bloody scabs, then don’t bother with ordinary maintenance, go directly to the dermatology department or hair specialist of the hospital, and take the medical-grade maintenance path. For example, the directional introduction of minoxidil, micro-needle penetration, PRP injection, and hair follicle maintenance programs after hair transplantation are commonly used by people with male alopecia. These are all effective programs supported by clinical data, but they must be done in regular medical institutions. There have been news before that some people went to a small hair salon to get the so-called "anti-hair loss micro-needle". The tools were not disinfected properly, and the hair was covered with pustules after the treatment, which actually damaged the hair follicles.

The core requirement is actually not to follow the trend blindly. Don’t just rub ginger on your hair if others say it is good. Just do it if others say protein correction is useful. Do a scalp test first to find out whether you have a scalp problem or a hair shaft problem, a physiological problem or a pathological problem, and then choose the corresponding item. Also, don’t expect to get it right once and for all. Your scalp and face are the same skin. You can’t expect to apply a facial cream for half a year. The same goes for hair care. If you stay up until two or three o’clock every day and eat hotpot with milk tea every day, even if you do the most expensive maintenance program every week, you won’t lose even one hair. To put it bluntly, hair care does not have so many fancy gimmicks. It is just like growing crops. The scalp is the soil and the hair shaft is the seedlings. Only when the soil is fertile can the seedlings grow well. Just spraying nutrient solution on the leaves is useless. If there is a problem with the roots, you must treat it in time. Find the right method and stick to it, which is much more useful than throwing money randomly.