Guide to Understand More on Your Hair

Not many people will knows and understand in details about their hair. But most of them will only know about the terms of curly, straight, thick and fine. We can consider that there are several analyzes on hair i.e texture, elasticity, density, pattern and porosity. From then, each elements combines to a variety of hairs.

There are several types of hair; normal, dry and oily hair. Normal hair is the most ideal hair. It shines, well balanced and does not dry out. A well balanced diet and proper care essential maintains ideal condition. Dry hair is normally due to over exposure to sun, inactive oil glands, using harsh shampoo and chemical treatment. On the other hand, hair pores been blocked and not allowing the oil to have a flow on the surface might be another reason for dry hair. By then, this kind of hair might need plenty of nourishment and treatment to nourish it to normal and balanced hair. You can do it at home and it is only a simple tip to follow. You can massage it well with warm herbal oil twice a week and follow diet rich in zinc. Besides that, you may use a mild shampoo and avoid a harsh one. A harsh shampoo might strip hair out of the protein layer and drying up the scalp. For those who have dry hair, kindly do not use electric curlers and hair dryers as it may make it worse.

Dry Hair

Oily Hair

How about oily hair? There are quite a number of my friends referring this matter to me. As we can see, oily hair is normally accompanied with oily skin. Why does it occur? This is normally due to the over secretion of oil and direct the scalp and hair gets too oily. Oily hair are normally very easy to recognize as it will looks greasy after using shampoo and easily attracts to more dirt. As my sister is one of the oily hair types, they will need to washed every second and third day or even more frequently depending on individual comfort. As for my sister, she will wash it everyday and rinse out with lemon and aloe vera. Herbal oil needs for the head massage to maintain the pH level of the scalp. By the way, avoid more oily food can helps to maintaining the pH of the hair.

At last let me tell you how to figure out the type of your hair. Kindly use a tissue and dab it on your scalp the second day after wash. If it has oil on it, it means that you will have a normal hair and if it shows nothing it will equals that you have a dry hair. The third kind which when the strands stick to each other then you will have an oily hair.