Hardworking Hair Treatments To Bring Your Hair Back to Life
Dry and damaged hair? Frizzy and brittle from chemical treatments? Persistent dandruff and split ends? Whatever your hair problem is, there’s a great hair treatment out there to your rescue!
Our hair plays such a huge role in our overall look and outlook in life. Going through something stressful in your life? Try a new hair color. Heartbroken? Chop it all off. Want to flaunt your summer bikini OOTD? Quick! Google how to achieve nice long beach curls.
But while there is so much we can do with our hair, it is also quite vulnerable to a lot of problems and issues that sometimes, we take for granted. Going out makes it more vulnerable to sun damage and pollution, making our hair dryer and more damaged. Even staying inside the home and using the wrong hair products can make our hair more prone to split ends, oily scalp, and frizz.
Changing weathers are also tricky to deal with. The increasingly hot summer can make our scalps feel greasier, while the upcoming rainy weather can make hair limp and dull.
The bottom line is: hair problems will always be there, no matter the weather and no matter your hair type. The key is knowing the right products that can help you through your specific circumstances and problems.
From split ends to dandruff to persistent greasy hair, check out the gallery below for the most common hair problems and our favorite hardworking hair treatments and products to address them. Swipe through the gallery below!
HAIR SOS
HAIR SOS
Problem: Split ends
Split ends are one of the most persistent hair problems experienced by many women—especially those with longer hair—and this is caused by a number of reasons. Dry hair, for example, is one of the main culprits of split ends. If you’re too aggressive with brushing your hair or you love heat-styling, your hair may also be more prone to having split ends.
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Solution: L'Oréal Serie Expert Pro Longer Split Ends Solution Duo
While there is no other way to revive hair strands with split ends than to chop them off, L’Oreal’s Split Ends Solution will help address dry hair and prevent splitting. Together, the shampoo and conditioner in this set will help reduce hair breakage and target thinning or splitting ends. To help prevent split ends, use a wide-toothed comb after the hair has dried, and stop the urge to brush your hair when wet.
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Problem: Sun Damage
With summer still upon us, you should be more wary about how much damage the heat and the sun can bring to your hair. Sun damage can come in the forms of discoloration, dry and brittle strands, broken or split ends, thinning volume, and frizziness. And it’s not just the heat of the sun that you have to deal with. Chlorinated water in swimming pools can make your hair more vulnerable to damage. In fact, just having finer hair strands makes you more susceptible to sun damage.
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Solution: Davines SU / Hair Milk
It’s not just our face or our skin that needs protection from harsh UV rays and pollutants. You can also take precautions to protect your hair from dryness, frizz, and damage. Davines has a specialized SU line dedicated to protecting yourself from sun damage, and included in this line is the SU Hair Milk, which is a leave-on softening milk enriched with UV protective filters that protect your hair during sun exposure. Formulated with savona chinotto extract that’s rich in antioxidant and anti-inflammatory vitamin C, the Davines Hair Milk will help protect, nourish, and moisturize the hair without weighing it down.
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Problem: Dandruff
Everyone knows how pesky dandruff can be, and usually, we associate it with bad hygiene—but that’s not always the case. Many factors can cause dandruff like stress, dry scalp, excess sebum, and sensitivity to certain products. Especially if you have a sensitive scalp, some products may trigger irritation, itchiness, and flaking, which can result in dandruff.
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When you’re battling dandruff, you might have to overhaul your haircare routine to completely eliminate the problem. And it’s nice that Davines has a full “no more flakes” set so you don’t have to look very far. This set comes with a clarifying and detoxifying shampoo to fight microbial attacks and deliver deep cleansing without causing irritation; a gel treatment to purify the scalp and keep it clean and healthy; a DEDE soft-foam shampoo for daily cleansing; and a free DEDE conditioner to moisturize hair without weighing it down. For an intensive dandruff treatment, use the purifying shampoo and gel every other day for a month. To maintain, alternate more frequently with the DEDE shampoo and conditioner, cutting down use of the purifying set to 2 times a week.
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Problem: Oily and Greasy Hair
Our skin and scalp is full of many pores that secrete natural sebum. While this is essential in preventing our skin from drying up, sometimes, too much sebum can be annoying. When the scalp starts to produce too much sebum, that’s when we experience oily and greasy hair. While genetics and hair type can certainly affect your body’s sebum production, you might unknowingly be exacerbating the problem by using the wrong hair products, shampooing or conditioning too frequently, tying up your hair too much, brushing too frequently (yes, too much brushing can stimulate oil production!), or even using hot water for your hair.
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Solution: Cream Silk Hydra Fresh Conditioner
If your hair is already naturally greasy, you can train your scalp to not overproduce sebum by using lightweight conditioner that won’t add weight to your hair. The Cream Silk Hydra Fresh Conditioner is one of the most popular local favorites when it comes to preventing greasy hair. Using Cream Silk’s lightest and freshest conditioning system and infused with Hydracollagen Technology, the Hydra Fresh Conditioner is water-based, is easily absorbed, and easily rinses off so your hair feels hydrated and fresh without the added weight compared to usual conditioners.
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Problem: Frizz and fly-aways caused by heat styling
Heat styling tools such as blow dryers, straighteners, and curlers are a girl’s best friend when it comes to achieving beautiful hair. However, caution must be used towards these tools because frequent heat styling will certainly contribute to dryness, damage, frizz, and breakage, especially if your hair is fine and vulnerable.
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Solution: Dove Smooth & Shine Heat Protect Spray
It’s easy to say “just stop using heat styling tools” but in reality, we all know that’s not possible! So instead, use products that will protect your hair from the heat. Dove’s Smooth & Shine Heat Protect Spray works by protecting your hair from heat damage to prevent frizz and fly-aways, and by moisturizing the hair with its lightweight, conditioning nourishment. To use, just apply liberally into damp hair before using a heat styling tool.
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Problem: Brassy blonde
Going blonde has really become more popular and achievable nowadays even without the help of a salon, with the rise of DIY bleaching and coloring products online. But while blonde is such a nice color to rock, addressing brassiness and keeping it at bay is probably one of the most difficult and challenging things about this look. Subjecting your hair to regular shampoo and sun exposure will contribute to brassiness, and not all moisturizing conditioners and treatments will be able to nourish your hair while addressing unwanted orange tones. So you really need a blonde-specific treatment if you want to care for bleached hair.
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Solution: Beachborn Classy Not Brassy Conditioner
This local purple conditioner will go a long way in saving your brassy blonde! This conditioner is an all-natural sulfate-free purple conditioner infused with essential oils to get rid of unwanted orange tones in your hair and keep it moisturized in the process. It’s also paraben-free, artificial fragrance-free, and cruelty-free, and comes in paper-packaged conditioner bar form if you’d like to cut on your plastic waste. All you have to do is apply on wet hair, leave for about 3 minutes, and then rinse thoroughly.
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Problem: Color and chemical-damaged hair
Bleaching, coloring, highlights, straightening, perming—all of these deliver effortlessly aesthetic hair. But while they make your hair beautiful visually, these treatments can severely damage and dry the hair. Frizzy and extremely brittle hair are usual outcomes from bleached and rebonded hair because these procedures contribute to the loss of keratin in your hair. Simply put, keratin is a type of protein that makes up our hair and it is responsible in keeping your strands protected from everyday stress. Chemical damage is inevitable when undergoing these hair procedures, and will lead to keratin loss on the cuticle level.
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Solution: Cream Silk Triple Keratin Rescue Ultimate Repair & Shine Treatment Crème
To rebuild the protein building blocks lost in damaging processes, look for keratin-infused treatments like the Cream Silk Triple Keratin Rescue Ultimate Repair & Shine Treatment Crème. There are many different kinds of keratin and this treatment gives your hair the benefits of 3 keratin products in one: keratin relaxers to tame frizz, keratin serum to revive damage, and keratin essence to restore extreme dryness. This treatment works even more spectacularly on hair damaged by chemical treatments, and has been loved by ladies with bleached and colored to bring back moisture, nourishment, and softness to their extremely damaged locks. To use, apply on damp hair after shampoo and leave for 3 minutes before rinsing off.
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