Dry hair, special care

• Dry hair is degreased hair.
• The causes are a dysfunction of the sebaceous glands or an aggressive shampoo.
• Hair care products help the hair to store water molecules.
• If the sebaceous glands work normally, the hair cannot dry out.

Dry hair has lost its shine, are difficult to brush and style. The surface of the hair is roughened and porous, the tips are split, the hair lacks moisture. What are the causes of dry hair? What measures can we use to repair them and better avoid them? What are the best hair care products?

Causes of dry hair

Our hair follicles are surrounded by sebum glands. Their sebum (Sebum) makes the hair and the top layer of the scalp, the horny layer (stratum corneum) smooth and water -repellent. In addition, skin and hair with sebum are protected against the loss of moisture.

The fact that dermatologists see hair and its sebaceous glands as the functional unit of hair alogue unit makes it clear that greasy or fatty hair is actually not a cosmetic problem, but the normal condition. If the hair is surrounded by Hautalg, they are well protected from drying out. The reduced release of sebum on the scalp and hair is called sebostasis.

Dry hair has too little sebum

1. Problem: intensive hair care

Modern care standards mean that we wash our hair too often, too long and too hot. With greasy or dry scales, the hair washing is even intensified. Shampoo and hot water open the scale layer, which only slowly closes again on its own. Water molecules escape. If skin valley is rinsed out, not only the hair suffers, but also the scalp, which tends to dryness and dry dandruff.

2. Problem: stressed hair 

Our hair consists of a scale layer (Cuticula), the fiber trunk (Cortex) and the Mark Canal (Medulla) from the outside. The flat horn cells of the Cuticula, whose exposed edges are aligned towards the tip of the hair, are close to intact hair. While dry hair is supplied with too little sebum, stressed hair is damaged by external influences, for example by hot blow -drying, curly bars, smooth iron, tension, coloring, coloring and constant waves.

Over the years, the hair-cuticula decreases through mechanical stimuli, especially through constant brushes and combs, but also as a result of environmental influences such as sun, wind, warmth and cold. The scale edges lift themselves and exhausted dandruff releases the fiber trunk. Without a protective case, the hair lose even more moisture.

Hair and water molecules

Hair can better fulfill your evolutionary function - protection of the head from weather influences - if you stay flexible and supple and lie close to your head. Das gelingt ihnen am besten, wenn Wassermoleküle im Haar-Keratin eingelagert sind. Depending on the moisture of the surrounding air, the water content of hair fluctuates between 10 % and 30 %.

Skin and hair constantly lose water molecules to the environment due to evaporation - especially in the case of dry ambient air. At the same time, hair can capture water from the ambient air and store them in the keratin molecules.

If there are sufficient lipids of the sebum on the scale layer, the hair is protected from drying out. Optionally, hair care products provide moisturizing substances such as urea and sebum substitutes such as ceramides.

2 x 3 hair care tips for dry hair

Dry, straw -like hair can be repaired to a certain extent. However, real hair care is to avoid dry hair.

Tips to repair dry hair at short notice

• Dry hair love coconut, olive or argan oil. The oil can have an intensive effect under a practical shower hood for 15 to 20 minutes. Then the hair can be rinsed out.
• With a cure or rinsing after the use of shampoo, the open sheds of the hair are closed again. In this way, the matt is prevented and combining combing is made easier. Denselben Effekt hat aber auch kaltes Wasser.
• Hair care products with silicone smooth defects in the dandruff. If we do without these products with silicone, but the hair quickly becomes drier and brittle.

 Three Tips to avoid dry hair in the long term

• Broken tips, “Spliss”, arise from splitting the hair ceratin as a result of dry hair. Spliss cannot be repaired in the long run. The best way to eliminate split off is to cut the tips with scissors.
• It makes sense to wash the hair with a mild shampoo only every other or third day at moderate water temperature. Optional: Simply rinse the hair, without any shampoo use.
• Every mild shampoo that is good for the scalp, this does not dry out and keeps it smoothly is also good for the hair. Noreiz skin-calming care shampoo The scalp is calmed down from Thiocyn and protects the hair.

Brushing long hair

Regular and thorough brushing the hair is dismantled and the sebum is distributed into the tips. The hair does not dry out and wins again. The ideal brush for daily hair care is a wild boar bristle brush. The bristles take up the skin valley perfectly and put it back on the hair for a line. If the hair is dry and are brushed regularly, the nursing routine brushes contribute to strain the hair and make it more susceptible to drying out.

Healthy hair growth with thiocyanate

Thiocyn hair serum with patented thiocyanate activity was developed to reduce excessive hair loss*. Since the natural, the body's molecule thiocyanate has the ability to compensate for imbalances in cell metabolism, dry and irritated scalp is also calmed down and the basis for healthy Hair growth created.