Your Habits Are Possibly The Causes Of Hair Breakage
Hair breakage happens for various reasons, and your hair care routine is possibly among those. One fact is that not all hair caring and styling methods benefit our hair. Day by day, these routines make the hair broken without us being aware of it. Let’s have a look at some causes of hair breakage, and see whether you’ve been doing these mistakes or not.
1. Over-shampooing
Shampoo, as you have already known, cleans the scalp and removes excess oil from the hair. Though, shampooing at a high frequency does not benefit our hair. Within the cleansing process, hair cleansing products strips the vital oils, which leaves you dry hair and scalp.
Especially for people whose skin is oily, their scalp produces more excess sebum (natural oil) than others. The extra sebum causes discomfort, and urges us to wash our hair even more often. If your hair is too oily, you can wash it daily; but you should not repeat shampooing multiple times a day. The purpose of sebum is to keep both your skin and hair moisturized and healthy. Over-shampooing removes all the necessary sebum from your hair, which makes it dry and broken.
2. Drying with towels
After stepping out of the shower, most people have a natural response to rub a towel on their skin and hair. If you are having this same habit, you should stop doing it immediately. The hair is at its most vulnerable stage when being wet. When you dry your hair with a bath towel, the rubbing motions cause serious damage to the strands without your recognition. Specifically, it leads to excessive hair breakage and hair fall.
We also do not recommend you to use a thick towel and wrap your hair up as a turban. This is because the coarse texture and dryness of towels are no good for your hair strands. Your hair will become extremely frizzy as the towel ruffles up the hair cuticles. Moreover, under the pressure of the towel weight, your vulnerable wet hair is more likely to be broken.
3. Brushing the hair improperly
For many of us, brushing seems to be the most simple part among our daily hair care routine. In fact, if you brush your hair improperly, you are unwittingly causing more damages to the strands.
Despite combing offers you with a prettier hair look, you should do it with an appropriate frequency only. Brushing your hair a few times a day is good since it helps to spread the necessary oil from the scalp to every inch of your strands. By this, you are keeping both your scalp and hair moisturized with the best natural conditioner.
As we mentioned before, wet hair is prone to breakage, so brushing it right after shampooing is not recommended. Instead of combing, you can try to detangle and smooth the hair with your fingers. It will obviously be gentler than immediate brushing, and also help you avoid damaging your hair.
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4. Using elastic hair ties
Most people have the habit of using elastic hair ties in order to keep the hair out of their face. Although tight hairstyles help us in handy bad hair days or when we are in a hurry, they cause a lot of damage to our hair. Specifically, these elastic bands stretch or even break our hair away from the root. You may notice some hair falls out every time you undo your ponytail. Normally, this is just a temporary type of hair loss, but it will certainly become permanent if it keeps happening.
In addition, elastic hair ties pull tightly on your hair, which increases the risk of hair breakage. To protect your hair from being damaged, you can use clothing scrunchies or change your hairstyles.
5. Over-processing with chemicals and heat
Over-processed hair is caused by incorrect use of hair relaxers, perming or heat styling tools, etc. These chemicals and techniques have the ability to refresh your hair with a fabulous look. However, if you do these services too often, they will start to become one of these causes of hair breakage.
Nowadays, with the increasing rate of beauty needs, many people own one or even more heat styling tools at home for conveniences. These electrical appliances help us get our desired hairstyles in a fast way without any commitment. However, you must know that extreme temperature from the styling tools cause your scales to fall apart and break. Every time you choose to process your hair, you are exposing it to harmful chemicals and heat. Consequently, your hair will end up being dry, broken with serious damage.
ETE Hair Happiness has just pointed out for you some of the possible causes of hair breakage. If you see yourself making one of those mistakes, stop doing it right away! After that, you should change some of your life habits, because most of these underlying causes can be corrected with appropriate and healthy lifestyle.
