Treatments
Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing. Protein Treatments Because hair is over 50% of your hair is protein, protein treatments are used to rebuild hair structure and strength. When harsh styling and an improper diet results in broken protein bonds or low protein levels, If this protein is not replaced, it will eventually cause the hair to break. Protein can be restored by using egg treatments, breakage usually decreases shortly after. A protein treatment is recommended for application every other week if your hair is extremely damaged For healthy hair, a protein treatment should be used every other week, alternating with a moisture treatment.
(More about hair protein composition: http://www.keratin.com/aa/aa012.shtml#01)
Moisture treatments
Moisture treatments are helpful for maintaining or restoring your hairs pliability and help with preventing breakage. It would be helpful to combine protein treatments with moisture treatments. Unbalanced treatments could lead to breakage. Many conditioners contain silicones – which lead to that smooth feeling. However, those “cones” are good at hiding damage. For truly healthy hair you need to know what you are working with, split ends and all. How can you get rid of them if you can’t see them? The “cones” also kinda waterproof your hair- preventing moisture to get in. So basically if you are using a conditioner with silicones – all the time spent moisturizing may be time wasted. When moisture is locked out hair becomes dry and brittle…..again breakage occurs.
Silicone free conditioners
Alberto Vo5 Conditioner, for Strawberries & Cream
Ingredients: Active Ingredients:Water (Aqua); Cetyl Alcohol; Stearyl Alcohol; Stearalkonium Chloride; Glycine Soja (Soy Bean) Seed Extract; Fragaria Vesca (Strawberry) Leaf Extract; Steareth-21; Glyceryl Stearate; Octoxynol-9; Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C); Thiamin HCL (Vitamin B1); Retinyl Palmitate (Vitamin A); Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E); Panthenol (Pro-Vitamin B5); Propylene Glycol; Disodium EDTA; DMDM Hydantoin; Fragrance (Parfum); Red 33 (CI 17200)
Suave Naturals Conditioner, Tropical Coconut
Ingredients: Water (Aqua), Cetyl Alcohol, Cetrimonium Chloride, Potassium Chloride, Fragrance (Parfum), Distearyldimonium Chloride, Disodium EDTA, Glycerin, 2 Bromo 2 Nitropropane 1, 3 Diol, Methylchloroisothiazolinone, Methylisothiazolinone, Propylene Glycol, Silk Amino Acids, Honey/Mel, Nettle (Urtica Dioica) Extract, Rosemary (Rosmarinus Officinalis) Extract, Coconut (Cocoa Nucifera) Extract
LeKair Cholesterol Plus
Ingredients: Deionized Water, Cetearyl Alcohol & PEG-40 Castor Oil & Stearalkonium Chloride, Cetyl Alcohol, Mineral Oil, Fragrance, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, Cholesterol, Hydrolyzed Collagen, Tetrasodium EDTA, Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E), Jojoba Oil, Citric Acid, FD&C Yellow #5, FD&C Red #4, Aloe Barbadensis, Retinyl Palmitate (Vitamin A) & Ergocalciferol (Vitamin D).
Bumble and Bumble Leave in Conditioner
Ingredients: Water (Aqua), Cetyl Alcohol, Sambucus Nigra Flower Extract (Elder), Wheat Germ Glycerides, Panthenol (Vitamin B5), Cetearyl Alcohol, Cetrimonium Bromide, PEG-100 Stearate, Behentrimonium Methosulfate, Lactamide MEA, Propylene Glycol, Citric Acid, Tetrasodium EDTA, Methylparaben, Polymethoxy Bicyclic Oxazolidine, Propylparaben, Fragrance (Parfum) Shea It Ain't So
Ingredients: purified water, shea butter, jojoba oil, honey, rosemary oil, nettle oil, thyme oil, birch leaf oil, chamomile oil, clary, lavender, lavender oil, coltsfoot leaf, yarrow oil, mallow, horsetail oil, soybean protein, cetyl alcohol, vitamin E, citric acid, sodium hydroxymethylgycinate and grapefruit seed extract
Use moisturizers correctly
Do you use a moisturizer and still have dry hair? The reason may be you’re your moisturizing products contain petrolatum, lanolin, and/or mineral oil. If you apply those “moisturizers” on your hair before properly moisturizing, you can do more damage because you can prevent moisture from penetrating your strands. Water based moisturizers effectively penetrate and moisturize the hair. Oil based moisturizers can be used to seal your strands after using a water-based moisturizer. Water-based moisturizers have water as the first ingredient while oil-based moisturizers have a type of oil as the first ingredient.
Some examples are:
Giovanni Direct Leave-in
Triple Moisture Silk Touch Leave-in
Profectiv Breakfree
Elasta QP Mango Butter
Cantu Shea Butter Leave-in
Elasta QP Mango Butter
Cantu Shea Butter Leave-in
