How to get healthier, shinier, softer hair

Hair is our crowning glory, no matter what our age or gender. We all want our hair to be healthy, shiny, soft and easy to manage. Try these hair care tips to take your hair from ho-hum to looking like you just left the salon.

Avoid Heat Styling

Heated styling tools, like blow dryers, curling irons and flat irons, strip away the hair’s natural moisture and leave strands looking dull and lifeless. Allow hair to air dry and style without heat whenever possible to help maintain healthy tresses.

Styling Tools

Non-heated styling tools can also damage hair. The wrong brush or combing hair while it’s wet breaks hair and ruffles cuticles causing uncontrollable frizz and split ends. Use a natural bristle, boars hair brush for most hair textures and for thick, coarse hair use a padded brush body with metal bristles. Always comb hair with a wide-toothed comb to prevent breakage.
All elastic bands used to pull hair up should be covered with fabric to prevent breakage.

Natural Lightener

Skip chemical hair lighteners and naturally lighten hair with lemon juice. Apply the juice of one fresh squeezed lemon to just shampooed, damp hair and let soak into hair for 30 minutes. Rinse with cool water and style as usual. Apply the lemon juice after each shampoo until the desired lighter shade is attained. Apply weekly to keep the lighter hair color. The fresh lemon juice will also remove product residue from strands and leave hair shiny.

Sun Protection

Hair needs protection from the sun just like skin. The sun’s UV rays dry hair, leaving it brittle and prone to breakage. Keep hair healthy, shiny and soft by using hair care products that contain sunscreen and when spending the day at the pool or beach, apply a leave-in hair conditioner that contains sunscreen or wear a hat. If caught in a pinch in outdoor sun without a hat or sunscreen, smooth a thin coating of hand lotion that contains sunscreen to top layer of hair (this is also a quick-fix for the frizzies).

Shampoo Basics

Healthier, shiny, soft hair starts in the shower. Never use hot water for shampooing, it strips hair of moisture, color and causes frizz. Use cool water for shampooing and use the coldest water you can stand for the final hair rinse. Use a shampoo formulated for your particular hair type and always use a moisturizing conditioner after each shampoo. Apply a deep conditioners twice a month to keep tresses nourished and easy to manage.

Inside Out

Certain foods will give you healthier, shinier and softer hair by providing the body with specific nutrients that nourish the hair. Tomatoes contain tress building lycopene, avocados and coconuts contain fatty acids that promote a healthy shine and spinach will bulk up individual hair shafts, making them stronger and less prone to breakage.

Has this helped you maintain better hair? Leave a comment and let me know!!

Argan Oil for Hair

Pure Argan virgin oil is a natural produced oil extract that is harvested from the cultivated Argan tree.

Argan oil is good for your hair since it is rich in natural ingredients such as Omega 3; Vitamin E and Omega 9 fatty acids that help repair damaged follicles. Argan works by penetrating through the hair shaft.

Argan oil in neither oily nor greasy and it doesn’t weigh down hair, however it makes hair shinny and manageable. If you have hair that is rough, dry, frizzy or unruly, caused by coloring and straightening, use Argan oil to help return your hair to its beautiful glossy and soft feel.

Argan oil hair Ingredients

• The different ingredients mixed up in Argan oil have different roles in making your hair beautiful, glossy and soft again. 
• The high vitamin E content is used for making the hair grow long.
• Omega 3 and 9 fatty acids are used for the production of nutrition for the hair and helps in the repair of follicles that have been damaged.
• Oleic and Linoleic Acid hydrate and moisturize the hair.
• Non-Greasy Formula: The formula protects the hair from being weighed down and prevents the oil from causing a buildup.

 Argan Oil Benefits

• Argan oil is rich in antioxidants. It is perfect for the repairing and preventing split ends. Users can now grow their hair long because they will no-longer experience split ends. 
• Argan oil is easily absorbed by the hair and it has ingredients that prevent the hair from feeling oily.
• When you apply Argan oil on your hair, your hair will shimmer and will be left with a soft, silky and shiny feel and touch.  The oil doesn’t have an overpowering scent and will not attract any nectar insects of birds to hover around your hair.
• Argan oil protects your hair from getting frizzy and your hair will no-longer be damaged by heat.
• Argan oil doesn’t have any alcohol in it; this is a good thing because oil dries out your hair.

Other than using Argan oil for your hair, you can use Argan oil effectively on your skin. Apply the oil on your skin to keep it moisturized and prevent the skin from drying up. A majority of users apply Argan oil on their face; however, you can apply it on any one area of your body where you need it to be moisturized.

Why Argan Oil?

Argan oil is extracted directly from the trees in the country of Morocco. Argan oil is 100% pure and organic. Users are asked not to worry that there are chemicals used in the oil extracts that can harm the hair or even end up damaging the skin.

When it comes to Argan oil usage, you don’t really have to use large amounts of the oil every time. Argan oil is rich in ingredients and by using small dabs into the palms of your hands, rubbing your hands together and spreading the oil evenly in your hair or on your skin you will be able to reap maximum benefits from Argan oil use.

Where to Purchase Argan Oil?

Products made from the Argan Moroccan oil can be easily bought from a host of aesthetic brick and mortal stores and many online store fronts. Other than purchasing pure Argan oil extracts, there are plenty of other skin and hair care products that have Argan oil as an ingredient.

As you plan to purchase Argan virgin oil, it is important that you take into account that the hair care products you are buying are regulated and licensed by health organizations.