How to Repair Hair after Winter?

Protect your hair because winter is coming! 😉

In winter, hair is exposed to lots of unfriendly factors:

• heaters producing dry air;
• sudden, extreme differences in temperatures;
• having a looong ‘lie-in’ under a hat;
• low, minus temps, frost.

All these things make for the poorer condition of hair and bulbs: dehydration, breakage, static, hat hair, intensified falling out, dullness. We make this ‘winter massacre’ worse, committing some hair sins during the care routine: blow-drying with hot airflow, straightening, pulling, tearing, coloring, bleaching, too strong styling primers, wrong diet… our hair has a hard time.

How to nourish hair after winter?

How to care for hair throughout the frosty season?

I hope my guidelines are going to support your winter hair care regimen.

Lots of women face up to thinning hair after winter. For a few months, hair’s hidden under a hat or gets cold because you don’t wear it… 🙂

Dry air of heaters takes water away from hair; strands lose hydration. If your hair’s thin, tangled, frizzy and unmanageable after winter, it means its hydro-lipid barrier.

Greasy hair after winter? For this unwanted bonus, you can say thank you to your hat, too. The hair and scalp suffocated every day. The function of sebum glands is disturbed so hair is extremely oily. To restore the natural pH, go for natural oils which bring the scalp balance back (Jojoba Oil is a master as it contains squalane – an ingredient of human sebum). Rinsing hair and scalp with herbal mixtures (e.g. water and nettle) make a good choice, too. They ensure a clean scalp and stronger, luminous and fresh hair.

What does your hair need after winter?

It depends on your hair type, structure and porosity. The way you treat it and the things your hairdo must deal with affect its appearance and condition during warmer months. Some of you need just some nutrients whereas others – a full repair.

Hair care routine after winter – method, products, aims

Nourishing hair after winter – if your hair didn’t suffer much because of winter, you can simply treat it to natural oils. Because an intensive repair isn’t necessary, you can apply oils to hair once a week. Apply an oil or a mixture of natural oils (be careful! it must free of silicones and parabens!) to dry or washed hair and scalp. Let the product sit in for minimum 30 mins and next wash it off well with a shampoo. On a daily basis, feel free to rub the oil into damp hair ends. From time to time, reach out for herbal hair masks or plant, rinsing mixtures. While blow-drying, make sure the temp isn’t too high.

Hair repair after winter. Hair that wasn’t so lucky in winter and got damaged, brittle, very dry – an intensive hair care is a must. How to repair hair which is extremely damaged after winter time? Checking the state of hair tips is the key thing. Too bad… split or very dry ends need cutting. There’s no product that binds split hair tips back together. Post-winter hair repair requires regularity – thanks to the non-stop delivery of nutrients, hair gets back its shape. It’s great if you regenerate your hair on three levels: from within, on the surface and in the follicles. Such a repair is possible thanks to natural oils. In case of damaged hair, you should do the hair oil treatment more often – every day or before every hair wash. Ideally, buy a blend of oils that is right for your hair structure (damaged hair has high porosity). To protect it against damage and harmful UV radiation, high temperatures and toxins, rub the oil into hair throughout the day – if your hair’s really dry, reapply it.

To avoid pulling and tiring the strands, buy a wide-tooth comb (I recommend a wooden comb) which combs out the hair and massages the scalp at the same time, without tangling. Scalp ampule treatments make sense, too.

Hair repair after winter guarantees amazing effects if you enrich your diet with vitamins. Why don’t you use herbal infusions for rinsing the hair and scalp? Drink green tea every day. Amazing supplements for the natural oils.

Do you have any fave ways to repair hair after winter? Oils or herbs – which ones do you trust more? Or maybe you’re into hair supplements and vitamins?