Why Is My Hair So Dry?
Here are the common causes
of dry hair
Dry hair can be a seasonal problem: your hair is affected by the weather – whether that means shifts in temperature or the merciless summer sun. A dry atmosphere can strip the hair of moisture and make it feel even dryer, more brittle, and dull. Dryness can also lead to unwanted frizz, a straw-like consistency or broken hair, making it extra challenging to style.
Another cause of dry hair is over-washing with non-caring formulas and excessive blow-drying. Over-washing has a stripping effect on the hair. The repeated expansion and contraction of the hair shaft as it’s soaked and dried, soaked and dried, ends up drying it out. In the same way, blow-drying hair on a high heat and speed setting can also lead to dryness and damage, since the hair is at its most fragile when wet.
If you have a dry scalp, you might have dry hair too – particularly if your scalp is not producing enough natural oils to lubricate the hair. An irritated scalp that ends up shedding and peeling can also lead to dry hair. In addition to external aggressions, internal issues like poor diet, hormonal changes and aging can also be contributing factors to a dry scalp and dry hair.
What Causes Dry Ends?
While dry ends are sometimes just an extension of unhealthy hair at the root, they are generally a sign that nutrition isn’t getting from your roots to your ends. Of course, sometimes you can get dry ends because of over-drying and styling your hair on a high heat setting or speed. Whatever the cause, dry ends require extra moisturising care, or they can lead to even more damage – the dreaded split ends and broken hair.
How to Treat Dry Ends?
You can fix dry ends – and prevent split ends from forming – with deep conditioning. Apply a hair mask or a hair oil just to the ends of your hair as an added part of your hair care routine. If the situation has already gone too far, discover these ideas on how to get rid of split ends.
The Best Ways to Treat Dry Hair
Before you ever feel your hair becoming dry or frizzy, there are preventative measures you can take to ensure your hair stays hydrated and healthy. Here are our top 5 tips for preventing dry hair:
1. Trim your hair regularly to keep the hair strands healthy and help avoid dry ends and split ends.
2. Avoid washing and drying your hair every day with non caring shampoos (don’t worry, at Kérastase, we have only developed caring shampoos with your hair in mind). When you do wash your hair, use hydrating shampoos and apply conditioner after shampooing.
3. Wrap your hair instead of air drying or heat drying. Avoid rubbing your hair with a towel or immediately drying it while it is still wet. This stretches the hair to breaking point.
4. Avoid heat-styling tools and use heat-protectants such as sprays, milks, serums and gels whenever you do heat style.
5. Deep condition weekly with hair masks and hair oils, or overnight serums, and use leave-in treatments, which can add even more moisture to your hair.
Before you ever feel your hair becoming dry or frizzy, there are preventative measures you can take to ensure your hair stays hydrated and healthy. Here are our top 5 tips for preventing dry hair:
1. Trim your hair regularly to keep the hair strands healthy and help avoid dry ends and split ends.
2. Avoid washing and drying your hair every day with non caring shampoos (don’t worry, at Kérastase, we have only developed caring shampoos with your hair in mind). When you do wash your hair, use hydrating shampoos and apply conditioner after shampooing.
3. Wrap your hair instead of air drying or heat drying. Avoid rubbing your hair with a towel or immediately drying it while it is still wet. This stretches the hair to breaking point.
4. Avoid heat-styling tools and use heat-protectants such as sprays, milks, serums and gels whenever you do heat style.
5. Deep condition weekly with hair masks and hair oils, or overnight serums, and use leave-in treatments, which can add even more moisture to your hair.
The Best Ways to Prevent Dry Hair
Sometimes a simple trim will fix dry hair at the ends, however, if you have dry hair from root to tips, there are a few things you can do to hydrate your dry hair, and even treat and repair that dry hair.
When you do wash it, use products that have fewer stripping detergents. If you’re not already using one, introduce a conditioner or conditioning mask into your weekly routine to deliver more hydration to your hair.
You can also condition with hair oils, which nourish and moisturise your dry hair.
1. How to moisturise dry hair at home
At Kérastase we have developed complete healthy rituals for dry hair for all types of hair, from dry hair to severely dry hair, for thick hair, thin hair and every hair type in between. Once you’ve identified the factors contributing to your dry hair, read on to discover a few of our suggestions for how to nourish and moisturise it. Or, take a look at some of our best products for dry hair and find out how they work to nourish and hydrate parched hair.
2. Treating dry, severely dry and damaged hair in the salon
So, you have dry hair – what can you do to get it back to a healthy, manageable state? One of the best ways to treat dry and damaged hair is with a professional hair treatment at your salon. A Kérastase Fusio-Dose salon hair treatment can transform your hair in a matter of minutes. With up to 30 unique combinations, the Fusio-Dose combination of concentrate and booster helps you address your primary and secondary hair concerns. For example, if you have dry hair plus frizzy hair, you’ll receive a single customized dose that tackles both hair problems, administered by a trained salon professional.
The Ultimate Products for Dry Hair and Dry Hair Ends
Discover the best products for dry hair by Kérastase. Moisturise dry hair with shampoos, conditioners, hair masks and hair oils formulated to deeply nourish and moisturize dry hair.
Shampoos for Dry Hair and Dry Hair Ends
The Nutritive range includes two hydrating shampoos:
Nutritive Bain Satin by Kérastase is a gentle hydrating shampoo for thin to medium textured dry hair. Dry hair is left feeling nourished and strengthened, while leaving a lightweight, manageably silky feeling. If you have thicker dry hair, or extra dry curly hair, Nutritive Bain Satin Riche is for you. It’s a rich, nourishing shampoo that cleanses and refreshes dry hair while replenishing moisture and softness.
Conditioners for Dry Hair and Dry Hair Ends
Our new Nutritive range provides three specific options to condition and nourish dry hair based on your hair type! Fine to medium hair? Try Nutritive Lait Vital, an intensely nourishing ultra-light detangling conditioner for dry hair. For fine to medium hair types needing even more nutrition, Masquintense,a light hair mask enriched with plant-based proteins and niacinamide, will help revitalise your dry hairs softness and shine. For thicker hair types, or for hair that’s coarse or curly as well as dry, we would recommend Masquintense Riche. Enriched with specially chosen conditioning polymers and niacinamide, this rich mask conditions hair and offers balancing hydration for instant suppleness, shine and softness.
The Ultimate Styling Protectors for Dry Hair
Is your dry hair fine to medium? Lotion Thermique Sublimatrice is beautifying detangling blow-dry mist that protects the hair from heat styling. This hair mist for dry hair is formulated with nourishing lipids to help condition hair and reinforce the hair fibre. If your hair is medium to thick and dry, Discover Nectar Thermique, an anti-frizz blow-dry milk that detangles and nourishes hair, as well as protecting it from blow-drying and heat-styling.
Serums for Dry Scalp and Dry Hair & Ends
After shampoo and conditioner, the next step you can do to help hydrate your dry hair from scalp to ends is use a serum. Because healthy hair starts at the scalp, Nutri-Supplement’s Scalp Serum has a powerful hydrating formula to regulate and protect your scalp’s hydration levels. More concerned about the dry ends of your hair? Consider Nutri-Supplement Split Ends Serum. This high-nutrition split-ends serum uses anti-dryness actives to seal dry ends and prevent split ends. As for 8H Magic Night Serum, it’s an overnight hair treatment that contains anti-dryness polymers for immediate care with a lightweight feeling texture.
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