What items and contents are included in hair health care?

Hair health care has never just referred to hundreds or even thousands of care items in a barber shop, but a full-link system covering scalp ecological maintenance, hair shaft damage repair, and daily behavioral intervention. Everything as small as the intensity of combing your hair every day and the temperature of the water you wash your hair are all included in the scope of maintenance.

A while ago, I went for scalp care with a friend who suffers from oily hair and acne. When she came in, she did a hair follicle test. She could clearly see that her hair follicle openings were tightly blocked by oil plugs. The technician first performed a deep scalp cleansing on her, using a low-concentration salicylic acid cleaning solution to penetrate into the scalp through a nanometer guide to remove all the blocked oil and old dead skin cells. After the treatment, her scalp felt a lot lighter. There is quite a controversy in the industry about the frequency of this type of cleansing program. Some practitioners in the medical industry recommend that oily scalps should be cleaned once a week to maintain the transparency of hair follicles. Some dermatologists have clearly stated that doing it once every half a month is enough for a healthy scalp. Frequent exfoliation will destroy the sebum film of the scalp. The more you wash it, the oilier it will become, and the probability of sensitivity and redness will be much higher.

If you have problems with hair loss and thin hair, you can also choose targeted maintenance programs, such as introducing active ingredients like peptides and minoxidil into the scalp, combined with red light irradiation to promote absorption. I have a friend who had a postpartum hair gap that was one finger wide and insisted on doing it for 3 months. The hair gap is indeed much narrower, but there are also friends who have had male alopecia for several years without obvious results after more than half a year. In the end, it still depends on the root cause of the hair loss. If the hair follicles have been closed, no maintenance will be useful, and hair transplantation can only be considered.

There are even more maintenance programs for the hair shaft, such as protein correction, keratin implantation, and high-end hair mask evaporation. After three consecutive bleachings and dyeings last year, the ends of my hair were as dry as sun-dried hay and broke as soon as I combed it. I had three small molecule keratin implants. After each treatment, my hair was smooth and could slide down. It lasted for half a year without any split ends. However, many people are right when they say that this type of project is an IQ tax. If your hair is not damaged, but is just a little frizzy, a regular hair mask steaming treatment that costs tens of dollars will have the same effect as applying the hair mask at home and wearing a heating cap for 20 minutes. There is no need to spend extra money.

In fact, many people don’t know that daily maintenance at home is the core that determines the condition of hair. A care card that costs thousands is not worth the cost of scalding your scalp with 45-degree hot water every day and sleeping with your hair wet. I used to wash my hair with very hot water in the winter just to feel comfortable. After two months of washing, I had so much dandruff that a layer of dandruff fell on my shoulders when I wore black clothes. Later, I listened to the doctor and changed it to warm water of about 37 degrees, which is about the same as my body temperature. I didn’t use anti-dandruff shampoo, and the dandruff disappeared in half a month. You should also pay attention to combing your hair in daily life. Don't use a plastic comb with particularly sharp teeth to pull it hard. Choose a wide-tooth comb or an air-cushion comb. Start from the end of the hair and slowly comb it towards the roots. Combing for two or three minutes every day can not only remove the dust from the hair, but also give the scalp a simple massage. The long-term effect is better than a hospital care.

There is also the internal adjustment that everyone often talks about as part of skin care. There is now a lot of debate about whether eating black sesame seeds can help black hair. Some netizens said that they insisted on eating a spoonful of black sesame seeds every day, and their new hair grew much darker in half a year. Some nutritionists said that the melanin in black sesame seeds cannot be directly converted into melanin in hair, and it is very high in calories. Eating too much will make you easy to gain weight. In fact, judging from the cases we have come across, if you want your hair to be in good condition, staying up less late at night is more effective than taking any supplements. A reader once said that he stayed up for a month to work on a project and developed a bald spot on the top of his head. After adjusting his work and rest schedule, he slept 8 hours a day and cooperated with the topical medicine prescribed by the doctor, and new hair grew in three months.

To put it bluntly, hair care and skin care are the same thing. There is no one-size-fits-all item that must be done. First, find out whether your scalp is sensitive and oily, or your hair shaft is damaged and prone to hair loss, and then choose the corresponding items and habits and stick to them. It is much more useful than following the trend and buying a bunch of internet celebrity products and getting a bunch of care cards.