How to maintain healthy hair

The core of healthy hair maintenance is actually "less fuss + adjustment as needed". It is far less complicated than what is posted on the Internet. You don't need to pile up thousands of washing and care products or buy tens of thousands of hair care cards. As long as you avoid common hair damage minefields and fine-tune according to your scalp and hair condition, you can usually grow shiny and healthy hair.

Two years ago, I had a best friend who fell into the trap of over-maintenance. She followed the trend and bought more than 300 bottles of imported oil-controlling shampoo. She would go to a hair salon every week for scalp exfoliation and protein correction. After less than three months of struggling, her scalp, which was only slightly oily at first, started to develop small rashes, dandruff fell off, and the ends of her hair were as dry as sun-dried straw and broke when pulled.

For example, there is a lot of debate on the Internet now about "can you wash your hair every day?" Some people say that washing too much will destroy the scalp barrier and make the hair oilier. Some people say that not washing the oil will clog the pores and cause hair loss. In fact, there is no standard answer - I have a lot of oil in my T-zone and scalp in the summer. I only use a mild amino acid surfactant shampoo every day to rub my scalp and just put a little lather on the ends of my hair. After using it for two years, I haven't noticed any scalp sensitivity.； However, if you have dry skin and seldom oily scalp, if you wash your hair with a strong cleansing sulfate shampoo every day, you will most likely develop dry and itchy dandruff.

There are also many hair salons that advocate "weekly scalp exfoliation", which is also the same as honey and arsenic. The sebum film of a healthy scalp can be metabolized by itself, and there is no need for additional exfoliation. If you often have a lot of oil and have recurrent folliculitis, a mild salicylic acid treatment once every two weeks is enough. A girl around me went for scrub exfoliation once a week, and ended up with seborrheic dermatitis. It was so itchy that she couldn't sleep all night, so she applied ointment for more than half a month.

After talking about the scalp, let’s talk about hair care. It’s actually simpler. Don’t always focus on the brands of hair masks and essential oils. It’s better to change the habit of damaging your hair first. In the past, I tried to save time by turning on the hottest wind setting every time I blew my hair, blowing hard towards the ends of my hair. Within two months, all the ends of my hair were covered with split ends. Later, I switched to warm air and blew it until it was semi-dry. I squeezed a pump of hair care oil to only scratch the ends of my hair. Now that I haven’t cut my hair in half a year, there aren’t many split ends at the end of my hair. By the way, there is also the protein correction that many people like to do now. If your hair is healthy, don’t do it blindly. The products used by many institutions contain excessive formaldehyde. My colleague did it last year. His hair was indeed smooth after the treatment, but the amount of hair loss tripled. It took half a year to recover.

Many people think that skin care is just a matter of applying it. In fact, work, rest and diet have a much greater impact. There is also the "eating black sesame seeds to nourish hair" that has been passed down for many years. Some people say it is magical and some people say it is all due to IQ tax. In fact, if you have suffered from thin hair and graying of hair ends due to overeating recently and unable to keep up with nutrition, eating a small spoonful of unsweetened black sesame seeds every day is indeed useful, but If you have androgenetic alopecia, a hormone-related hair loss, eating ten pounds of black sesame seeds will be of no use. Before I had androgenetic alopecia, I ate black sesame paste for three months in a row. My hair didn’t grow much and my weight increased by six pounds. Later, I went to the hospital and was prescribed minoxidil for more than half a year, and then small fuzz gradually grew. I stayed up for three days in a row last week to catch up on a project. When I washed my hair, I lost thirty or forty hairs. Then I adjusted my schedule and slept for seven hours a day. Only a week later, the amount of hair loss dropped to a dozen hairs each time. The effect was much faster than when I used an anti-hair loss shampoo worth RMB 300.

Don’t always tie your hair into a tight high ponytail. Last summer, I tied it up every day and it hurt the edge of my hairline. Later I found that I had torn out a small piece of hair. After I changed it to a loose low ponytail or a thick phone cord hair tie, I never had this kind of traction hair loss again. After all, hair grows on people's bodies. If you are in good condition, it will naturally not be any worse.