Growing your hair? Cut it

August 25, 2010, 5:49pm

As cliche as it may sound, your hair is your crowning glory. A lot of women undergo chemical treatment for their hair, such as straightening and coloring. These can cause a lot of hair damage.

How do we keep our hair healthy?

Regular haircuts can actually help in maintaining healthy hair. From Kidshealth.org:

Regular haircuts are one of the best ways to help keep hair healthy. Even if you have long hair or you're trying to grow your hair, a haircut can help protect the ends of your hair from splitting and damage. In fact, cutting may actually help your hair grow better because it's healthy and not breaking off.

Keeping the hair clean is also very important. From Haircare.suite101.com:

Shampooing daily can actually be more harmful for hair than skipping a day in between washes. Hair naturally produces oils to moisturize the scalp and ends, and can be washed out. This will either leave hair greasy due to the mix of natural oils and shampoo, or it will leave hair incredibly dry because all of those natural oils are being stripped out before they have properly moisturized. Obviously, going more than a day or two without washing will allow these oils, environmental pollution, and free radicals to build up and become dirty, but one or two days in between is ideal.

To end, the most basic thing to remember to keep your hair healthy is to have a healthy lifestyle. From Haircareguide.com:

A healthy lifestyle will mean healthier hair for you. Excessive stress, smoking, not exercising and not eating nutritiously are not healthy for your hair.

Sources:
Kids Health

Published in Manila Bulletin August 26, 2010.