How to maintain healthy hair

The core of healthy hair maintenance is actually far less complicated than online marketing. The essence is to stabilize one's endocrine and nutritional status first, and then minimize additional damage to the scalp and hair from the outside world. It is much more cost-effective than spending thousands of dollars to buy expensive shampoo and treatment in a hospital.

I went through a lot of traps in the past two years in order to maintain my hair. I followed internet celebrities and bought hundreds of anti-hair loss essences, silicone-free amino acid shampoos, and even changed my shampoo combs and negative ion hair dryers. As a result, I continued to lose hair and developed many small pimples on my scalp. I went to the dermatologist to register. After the doctor saw it, I directly said that I had damaged the scalp barrier by over-cleaning, and the irritating ingredients in those essences only aggravated inflammation.

Nowadays, the most controversial question on the Internet is "Can silicone shampoo be used?" In fact, both sides are reasonable. Regular shampoos contain large molecular silicone oil, which will not be absorbed by the scalp at all. People with healthy scalps and dry hair use shampoos containing silicone oil. On the contrary, silicone oil can fill the gaps in the hair scales and reduce hair friction and breakage. If you have oily skin or seborrheic dermatitis, silicone-free shampoo will be more refreshing and less likely to cause acne. There is no conclusion that "silicone oil is harmful". There are also people who struggle with whether to wash their hair every day. There is really no standard answer to this. I have oily skin in summer, and if I don’t wash it for a day, it will become oily and frizzy. I don’t see any problems if I wash it every day. My mother has dry skin, and she can wash her hair every three or four days in winter.

It’s interesting to say that I always thought that to maintain my hair, I had to spend money on washing and care. It wasn’t until I accompanied my friend to a dermatology clinic for hair loss last time that I realized that the first question the doctor asked was not what shampoo you use, but whether you often stay up late and are stressed recently. In addition to skin care, daily habits have a greater impact. I had a colleague who wore a tight high ponytail every day in order to show off her face. In less than half a year, her hairline moved back almost a centimeter. Later, she changed it to a loose, low bun. It took more than half a year for the hair to slowly grow back. There are also those who wear thick wigs and tight headbands every day. The scalp is suffocated for a long time, which can easily aggravate hair loss. Perming and dyeing damaged my hair even more. In the first half of the year, I permed my hair twice in a row, and the ends of my hair were as dry as dried hay. No matter how good the hair mask was, I couldn't feel it smoothly. Then I cut off two centimeters of the split ends. I didn't do any perming or dyeing for half a year. Every time I washed my hair, I applied ordinary conditioner to the ends of my hair. I only used warm air to blow dry my hair until it was 80% dry. Now the ends of my hair feel much softer and smoother.

There are also many people asking whether eating black sesame seeds and hair powder are useful. There are two completely opposite examples around me. My sister was on a diet to lose weight and her hair was as yellow as dry grass. She ate nuts, milk, eggs for two months, and occasionally made unsweetened black sesame paste. To put it bluntly, if poor hair quality is caused by insufficient nutritional intake, supplementing with enough protein and trace elements is really useful. If hair loss is caused by natural hair quality or hormonal problems, it won’t matter how many supplements you take. Don’t be led astray by marketing.

Now I am too lazy to bother with my hair care. I have never bought a shampoo worth more than 100 yuan, nor have I done any hair care in the hospital. I just try to stay up late as little as possible, perm and dye my hair at most once a year, control the temperature of the hair washing water to be about the same as body temperature, lower the temperature of hair drying, and usually eat more high-quality protein such as fish, shrimp, and eggs. My hair loss has been reduced by more than half than before, and it feels much smoother. To be honest, hair is the "health indicator" that grows on the body. If you adjust your condition, your hair will naturally not be bad.