How to Maintain Healthy Long Hair

Maintaining healthy long hair is a bit more complex than keeping shoulder-length hair or shorter hair healthy. Here are a few steps to follow to keep your hair healthy.

Instructions

1. Eat healthy. When you begin to grow out your hair, it is important to follow a healthy diet. By incorporating hair healthy foods such as salmon, fresh vegetables, and fresh fruit into your diet from the onset of your hair growth, you will ensure that your hair is of similar quality from root to tip.

2. Deep condition once a week. Even when your hair is short, if you are planning on letting it grow out deep condition once a week.

3. Let your regular conditioner sit in your hair for a long time when you apply it. If you are taking a bath consider letting your conditioner soak into your hair while you shave or soak. If you have hair that goes limp when you condition regularly then shampoo lightly after conditioning. The hair still benefits from the conditioner.

4. Brush your hair softly to keep it healthy. If you have tangles at the end then hold the hair an inch or so above the tangle and brush it through until the tangle lifts out.

Tips & Warnings

• Do wear a hat if you are going to be out in the sun all day in an effort to keep the hair from becoming too dry.

• Don't swim for any length of time without a swimming cap on.