How to Repair Damaged Hair
When hair is damaged it becomes dull, brittle, frizzy and out of control. Causes of damaged hair include coloring and permanent chemicals, poor diet or heat from hair dryers. It's impossible to completely repair damaged hair without cutting it off, but you can restore some of its luster, strength and quality if you follow these steps.
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Instructions
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Apply a homemade egg and olive oil conditioner once a week for a month to help repair hair. To make one application, whisk one egg yolk with two tbsp. of olive oil in a bowl. Apply to hair, especially on the ends. Leave on for a few minutes and rinse before shampooing.
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Use vitamin E treatment on your hair, either store bought or homemade. To make a homemade treatment break open 5 or 6 vitamin E capsules and combine with your favorite shampoo. Vitamin E makes hair look healthy, shiny and smooth.
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Get regular hair trims once a month. These trims get rid of damaged hair and encourage faster hair growth.
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Try a diffuser at a low-heat or cool setting when you use your hair dryer. With irons, try to use the lowest heat setting.
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Shampoo and condition your hair less frequently. Ideally, two or three times a week helps curb over-drying and repairs damaged hair.
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Rinse and shampoo hair as soon as possible after swimming in chlorine or salt water. Both of these make hair more brittle.
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Be patient. It takes the average person months to grow enough new hair to replace damaged hair.
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Tips & Warnings
To make hair appear shiny, apply a silicone oil or gloss.
Always try to use a comb instead of a brush on damaged hair. Brushes tend to break hair.
Avoid heating tools such as hair dryers, curling irons, hot rollers and straightening irons as much as possible.
Never get a permanent, coloring or relaxing when your hair is severely damaged. These chemicals are damaging to hair.
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Comments
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its not that cutting hair encourages growth. damaged hair will break, and until damaged ends are trimmed, the follicle will continue to break, giving rise to an appearance of fly-aways and split ends (even when not split...jjust tons of breakage). by trimming hair every 6-8 wks, the damaged ends will be trimmed off, and stop breaking. this is what people mean by cutting hair makes it grow faster. it actually just makes it stop breaking, so you end up with tame, controlled, healthy hair w/ less flawed ends. breakage makes ur hair way shorter than a planned trim.
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I have really bad split ends and I've had it trimmd but it's still split really badly and I'm scared it's not going to grow. I've always wanted long hair andI'm scared that it will have split too far and it won't grow. Please help. I think I'd left it too long getting it trimmed because of allthat I have going on x.
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Hi Kathy, my personal experience is this: usually a bio shampoo, like tea tree one (antiseptic, antifungus etc) also Jojoba oil shampoo to clean very well the root of the hair and the pores of scalp, this would bust the hair right a way, but if your hair continues to be dull and freezy, then I recomend you ( my relative nurse, she recomended me) take everymorning kiwi and orange juice, that is a good dose of vit C. Other than that, carrot juice is great to build tissue etc. I am learning alot as I search on internet. Keratine is one protein that is found on hair and nails of humans and also lots of it more on hooves of animals :) search what food contains more keratine, and green tea, is great to balance the DHT your hormones. TAke care
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I do not believe my hair has been damaged by any suggestions as heat, coloring or sun. After surgeries, it dried out and is frizzy. One thought is perhaps I need vitamins, any suggestions. Thanks
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! Good Advice!
