40 Tips To Take Care Of Your Hair

Rinse your hair with beer, wrap it in a microwave-heated towel, give your scalp a coffee grounds scrub... discover our 40 tips to pamper your head without getting caught!

How to have beautiful hair?

Colorations, discolorations, heating devices, chlorine, salt, wind... every day, our hair is subjected to a multitude of attacks. Dry, damaged, even brittle, they no longer have their former vigor and we sometimes look gray when we wake up when we discover them. And if we know that using adapted care helps to strengthen them, we sometimes forget that other simple actions, to adopt on a daily basis, are just as essential to their good health. We have gathered 40 of them, from the most notorious (start by disentangling your hair by the ends, rinsing it in cold water, having it cut regularly at the hairdresser...) to the less known. Did you know, for example, that avocado, banana, yogurt, and honey have no place in cooking, but that they can also nourish and hydrate your hair, respectively? Does that cold air fix a hairstyle where the heat softens it? That cornstarch can work well as a natural dry shampoo? Does that aloe vera replace artificial gels? We hope these simple hair tips help you achieve beautiful hair without quartering it.

Avoid perfume in the hair, which alcohol can dry out

If you really want to apply it, choose a suitable formula - alcohol-free - or spray it only on the underside of the hair, to spare the more visible part.

Boost volume with dry shampoo

If the first function of the product is to absorb excess sebum, it also helps restore the body to the roots. Ideal before an improvised evening!

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Spray hairspray on your brush before passing it through the hair

This smooths the frizz and limits their appearance, without cardboard the material.

Avoid brushing dry curly hair

It tends to break the curls. If you prefer them well-drawn, it is better to detangle them delicately with your fingers and only use the comb when they are wet.

Finish drying the hair with a jet of cold air

If heat helps shape matter, cold fixes it. Ideal for long-lasting brushing!

Avoid touching your hair too much during the day

It tends to grease them.

Washing your hairbrushes with white vinegar

To disinfect your brushes and combs naturally, pour a tablespoon of white vinegar in a bowl of water and immerse your hair tools in it for a good half an hour before rinsing them.

Detangle your hair starting with the ends

Then gradually go up to the roots. This method avoids weakening the hair that tends to get tangled.

Offer a (gentle) scrub to your scalp

This helps to remove dead cells and stimulate blood circulation. Be careful, however, in order not to be irritating, it must be carried out less frequently than on the face and on the body: once a month, no more. If there are scrubs specially designed for them in the trade, they are not yet widespread enough. While waiting for them to be more accessible, we concoct one ourselves: coffee grounds.

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Use your face cream for hair care

To hydrate and protect your ends, nothing like a dab of cream, replacing its usual oil.

Take care of yourself at the hairdresser

Just because we want to change haircuts doesn't mean we have to put our hair routine aside. If you have specific desires (formulas without parabens, sulfates, silicones...), you don't hesitate to take your own care at the salon!

Rinse your hair with cold water

By tightening the scales, it makes the hair shiny. To make the method more bearable, we rinse them upside down, so that the icy liquid does not touch our feet!

Start by untangling your hair upside down

This airs the hair and helps remove dust and impurities in depth. Then raise your head and brush them as usual, to restore them to a suitable shape.

Opt for a protective hairstyle at night

To protect the lengths from friction against the pillow which can, over time, break them, they are tied in a macaroon, braid, or bun - loose style, in order to let the scalp breathe.

Replace your dry shampoo with body talc

In case of shortage, you can also opt for cornstarch, just as absorbent!

Use brushes made from boar bristles

Softer than their spoked counterparts, they limit the breakage of weakened hair.

Avoid using a brush on wet hair

When it is swollen with water, the material is more fragile. A comb with wide teeth, in which the hair will cling less, will be more suitable for disentangling it.

Protect your tips on a daily basis

By applying an aqueous product (aloe vera, hydrosol) followed by an oil (jojoba, argan) to seal in hydration, and thus protect them from external aggressions.

Limit the use of sulfated shampoos

Present in most conventional shampoos, aggressive sulfates can damage fragile hair in the long term. The solution? Opt for their organic counterparts, which contain milder cleansing agents (coconut glucosides from sugar, or glutamates from proteins).

Protect your hair and straighten it with the cardoune

This orange fabric ribbon of Moroccan origin wraps firmly around the hair gathered in a low tail before bedtime. The primary objective? Protect it from nocturnal friction which weakens it. But it also naturally smooths the material and can even strengthen it, if you first apply a moisturizing or nourishing product (depending on the condition of the hair) before wearing it. It can be purchased for around 6 euros on the Internet.

Lighten your hair without damaging it with chamomile

To bring pretty reflections to his hair without damaging it, we put on the infusion of chamomile: we pour a few flowers in a liter of boiling water, we let infuse then cool, and we use the mixture as the last water of rinsing!

Consider the moon when cutting your hair

Cutting her hair in a rising moon would make it grow faster and make it more vigorous. Whether or not the belief is true, we lose nothing by trying!

Cut only its forks

Nothing replaces a real appointment with the hairdresser. But when you don't want to shorten your lengths, you can exceptionally get rid of your split ends yourself, while keeping your ends healthy. Equipped with hairdressing scissors, we observe each lock of hair in full light. If (and only if) forks appear, we cut only a few millimeters higher than on the hair concerned, and voila!

Massaging her scalp

This softens it and improves micro-circulation. At the key? Healthy hair, if you take the trouble to indulge in it regularly. Be careful, for the massage to be effective, you have to move the skin and not rub your fingers on it. We work in circular movements, from the neck to the forehead, then in the opposite direction, for several minutes.

Opt for a microfiber towel

In addition to their softness, microfibers have the ability to quickly absorb moisture from the hair. A tip that allows you to use the hairdryer for a shorter period.

Focus on natural masks as a pre-shampoo

Because we don't always have the patience to respect the hair mask application time once in the shower, we alternate with natural pre-shampoo treatments! You can apply them before washing your hair, wrap a towel around your head and continue to go about your business, keeping them between an hour and overnight. To concoct them, you don't need to be an expert. Damaged hair will favor nourishing active ingredients such as vegetable oils (argan, jojoba, coconut, etc.), avocado or banana; dehydrated hair aloe vera, yogurt, or honey.

Avoid elastics with a metal insert

They break the lengths!

Wring out your hair before applying a treatment

This will allow the product to better penetrate the material.

Take a course of hair tonics when the seasons change

Borage, brewer's yeast, biotin, B vitamins, zinc... or a cocktail already prepared, easy to find in drugstores.

Have your tips cut every 3 months

Contrary to what the legend says, this does not accelerate hair growth, but prevents the forks from going up and eventually, inevitably, shortening them.

Rinse your hair with beer

Although the idea may be confusing, beer brings volume, hold and shine to hair.

Apply vegetable oil before putting on your swimming cap

This will protect the hair from chlorine, which dries it out and weakens it in the long run. Then proceed with your usual washing routine (without skipping a nourishing mask).

Avoid daily shampoos when you have oily hair

Because the more you wash your hair, the more it has a tendency to grease - to protect itself. However, it will take a little time to adapt before the scalp produces less sebum.

Protect the scalp from the sun

To prevent it from drying out and tight, it is best to wear a hat or scarf. Do not forget, either, to protect your hair from salt and chlorine by applying an oily product (whose formula ideally contains a sun filter).

Wrap a hot towel over the hair during the treatment

By opening the scales of the hair, the heat increases the benefits of hair care tenfold. After putting on a mask, there's nothing like putting a wet (and wrung out) towel in the microwave for a minute and wrapping it around the head to boost its effectiveness!

Prevent "bad hair days" by opting for a silk pillowcase

Softer and more slippery than cotton, it grips the hairless and prevents them from tangling during the night.

Braid your hair at bedtime

Not content with protecting the lengths from friction against the pillow, it will give them pretty wavy waves when they wake up - an effect increased tenfold by spraying hair lotion, hydrosol, or mineral water. Another possibility, for thick hair: roll them up on themselves in 4 small macaroons.