There are many factors that influence how your hair looks. Your local weather is one of the most prominent influences; the levels of dryness, heat or humidity dictate whether you should use a moisturizing conditioner, an anti humidity hair spray, a moisturizing styling gel or a healing oil. A few other factors that can influence your hair’s day-to-day appearance include your haircare habits, your diet, the medications you take, your genetics and the haircare and other products you routinely use. You can’t control all of these influences, but what you can do is use a variety of haircare products that work together to maximize your hair health and help you to achieve your perfect hairstyle. The following suggestions will help you to understand more about how to mix and match available haircare products to create your own unique product cocktail based on your beauty needs.
Choose a Shampoo That Accounts for Your Hair’s Texture and Type
Shampoo’s primary purpose is to clean your hair, but you can select shampoo that will do more than just that for you. The right combination of shampoos will enhance your hairstyle for a stunning effect.
Dry, frizzy hair will require different shampoo ingredients than limp, oily hair requires. Shampoo ingredients that help to enliven dry hair include shea butter, panthenol and keratin. Drying ingredients to shy away from include alcohols, sodium lauryl sulfate, sodium laureth sulfate and formaldehyde.
Seek out a clarifying shampoo with an ingredient list that incorporates seaweed if your hair or scalp tend to accumulate excess amounts of oil or product buildup. Seaweed offers a natural approach to regulating your scalp’s oil production and hydration levels.
A chelating shampoo is the type of formulation you need in cases where your water supply has extra minerals like calcium that result in limpness as they build up on your hair over extended periods of time. This type of product is good to occasionally include in your hair product cocktail; you can alternate it with another shampoo that offers properties your hair needs.
If you suffer from dermatitis, eczema or formaldehyde allergies, avoid the ingredient DMDM hydantoin in shampoos or other haircare products because this ingredient is known to be an allergen that can aggravate such conditions.
Select the Single Most Beneficial Hair Conditioner
When creating your own unique hair product cocktail, it’s advisable to avoid mixing multiple conditioners unless all the ingredients in both formulations are natural ones. This is because the chemical ingredients routinely included in conditioners are likely to be incompatible with each other.
Silicone is a lubricator that manufacturers frequently include in conditioners because it can help to make hair slippery, which facilitates detangling. However, this is an ingredient that should be used with caution and avoided when detangling isn’t specifically needed because silicone’s cumulative, long-term effects on the hair are not positive.
Hairspray
Hairspray can have many purposes, so you might benefit from including multiple types of spray in your haircare product cocktail. There are sprays that add glitter or color. Anti-humidity hairspray ensure your hair has life and vibrancy even in the hottest and most humid environments. Texturizing sea salt spray can create a carefree, casual, beachy effect. There are many hairsprays intended to help you hold your hairstyle in place; some of these offer a little bit of hold, while others practically glue your hairstyle in place. There are hairsprays designed to add shine and gloss to your hair.
Hair Masks and Oil Treatments
Consider including a hair mask or oil treatment in your product cocktail if your hair has breakage, considerable amounts of frizz or damage from frequent heat styling. A mask can also help you to prevent your hair color from fading if you routinely color it. Beneficial hydrating hair mask ingredients to look for include argan oil, almond oil, jojoba oil, shea butter and amino acids.
With the proliferation of useful and beautifying hair products available, you have many options available for creating a haircare regiment. It is possible to select and combine multiple beneficial products that will work together to meet your specific individual haircare needs. With the exception of conditioner, there are probably multiple products in each of these categories that would be useful to you. If so, you can combine them in ways that will help you enhance your hair despite inclement weather, imperfect diet and all the other possible adverse influences on your hair.
Chloe Jacobs
