How to make your hair stronger using home methods. The top-rated treatments and beauty tips

It goes without saying that there is more than just one cause due to which hair gets weakened: seasonal changes, stress, some medications, lack of sleep, hormonal fluctuations, improper hair care… No matter the reason the aftermath looks similar: hair starts falling out excessively, becomes matte, ends start splitting and the entire hairdo gets thinner and thinner. The moment we notice that condition of our hair is getting worse, it’s worth taking up an action and reach for home remedies, tested and tried hair reinforcing methods.

What does hair dislike?

First and foremost, in order to take care of hair the right way, you must either eliminate completely or at least limit the factors that contribute to its deterioration. In this way you stop the strands from further weakening and you’ll give it an opportunity to activate self-regenerating processes. What does harm hair mostly? Here is the Black List of hair care practices:

• rubbing hair vigorously with a towel;
• hot airstream produced by a blow-dryer;
• using a flat iron;
• improper hair brushing (pulling hair out during detangling);
• all possible invasive treatments such as lightening hair up, dyeing or perm;
• mismatching, paraben-full cosmetics;
• wearing tight hairdos;
• sleeping with wet hair/loose hair;
• cigarette smoking;
• excessive use of hair styling products.

What’s the most important in hair care?

If you want to have healthy and strong hair, you mostly need to take care for hair bulbs and scalp, focusing on the lengths is secondary. Only strong hair bulbs and healthy scalp will make your hair get stronger, grow healthier and thicker strands, as the entire hairdo will win boost. Indeed, bulbs are the most important element of hair, they are like roots which transport an array of precious substances to the inner structures of hair. Also, it’s their strength that determines the number of hairs you lose every day. Therefore, the best hair treatments are those which focus their action on the very bulbs and the scalp. Luckily, you can carry out many of them at home, using natural, long-known recipes. A little bit of self-abnegation combined with regularity and you will notice significant improvement of the state of your hair.

The best hair strengthening treatments

1. Hair oil treatment & natural oil

This treatment is the undisputed winner of all hair strengthening procedures. After all, hair oiling originates from the traditional medicine and philosophy of east, which is Ayurveda. If you want to find out what the outcomes of hair oiling are, just think about the beautiful hair of Hindu women. In India oil hair treatment is perceives as an everyday procedure – it’s even applied to kids’ hair because it incredibly influences the state of scalp, eases all possible irritations and infections.

You need a natural oil for the procedure and it must match hair porosity so, in other words, it has to match the state and type of hair. The most popular oils which, at the same time, match more than just one type of porosity are: jojoba oil, argan oil, shea butter, macadamia oil, coconut oil (mind you, it serves only heavy and thick hair).

The oil has to be mostly applied to scalp and bulbs, so it has to be put on hair roots following a delicate massage so as to boost blood circulation. An oil has to be applied to the lengths as well. You don’t need to apply it in galore since it has to cover the hair only, not drip off it. When covered with oil, wrap the head with a towel and wash it down using a delicate shampoo after at least 30 minutes.

2. Hair washes & herbs

Hair washes can constitute a perfect supplementation of hair oiling – simply, as the last step of hair washing it’s a chosen herbal infusion. Basically, apple vinegar or raspberry vinegar mixed with cool water are also a good idea to wash hair with. The main task of hair washes if to smooth hair by closing its cuticles. Apart from that, hair washes maintain scalp pH and increase hair softness. The perfect herbs to be used for hair washes are: nettle, chamomile, horsetail, glycyrrhiza. All you have to do is brew them and cool down, and then pour all over the hair. Important: don’t wash hair after applying infusion.

Herbs are an ideal remedy for damaged and weakened hair therefore they don’t have to be used externally only. A good idea is to support strands by daily nettle or horsetail infusion drinking. Just a month will be enough to notice improvement of hair and nail condition.