Reviving Hair After Vacation

Many factors can negatively influence the condition of our hair. In summer they are particularly vulnerable to water and wind action as well as UV radiation. By swimming in salt-water reservoirs, contaminated bathing places or pools with a high level of chlorine we adversely affect our hair’s color and appearance. Their structure also becomes weaker, which in result increases the tendency of hair damage. UV radiation causes denaturation of keratin, which is hair’s building block. Hair start to fade, become dry and fragile.

We present a few tips how to properly care for hair and to make it healthy and shiny.

Walks on the windy beach, or swimming in the sea or pool make hair to tangle. So detangling becomes necessary. However, we’ll damage our hair if we’ll do it improperly. In order to successfully perform this procedure, we should:

• use a hair spray that facilitates easy combing;
• use appropriate hair brushes, the best are those which have widely spaced teeth or natural bristles;
• hold our hair and brush it starting from the ends, this way we won’t put stress on the hair follicles, after that we should keep on brushing up to the scalp. Combing everything at once will make the knots bigger, which in turn will cause more problems and unnecessary pain. After finishing detangling in stages, we need to brush our hair again from the scalp, down to the ends;
• again, use a hair spray that facilitates easy combing to prevent fast forming of knots.

Water and UV rays cause our hair to become dry, thus it needs to be properly moisturized. It is recommended to use hair conditioners that contain keratin and silk in their compositions. Keratin will supplement deficiencies of hair structure’s building components, giving it more volume, elasticity and shine, moreover, it’ll increase its resistance and prevent ends from splitting. Meanwhile, silk due to the content of amino acids, such as glycine and alanine, will moisturize and regenerate our hair, while serine, which has an ability to bind water, will create a protective film making hair shiny, soft and thick.

“Co-wash” treatments (conditioner wash) are gradually becoming more popular in dry hair care. They consist in washing hair with a hair conditioner. Typical shampoos contain a high concentration of irritating washing components, like anionic surfactants. Conditioners also contain washing components, however, their concentration is low, plus they aren’t as harmful. The best cosmetics for this treatment are those which don’t contain a significant amount of silicones or waxes. Hair masks and conditioners with keratin, vitamins and silk from Quin line will be perfect for the treatment. We also need to remember that professionals advise to perform “co-wash” alternately with a regular shampoo. Too frequent washing with a conditioner will strain our hair, instead of properly moisturizing and regenerating it.

In view of the fact that our vacations are already over or are just about to start, our hair might be damaged. We all know that during the summer lazing, we don’t have time or possibility to take care of our hair. So, it’s worth to “reanimate” it after our return home, and to benefit from the above mentioned tips in order to make our hair healthy and beautiful again.