2. Avoid hot water. It feels good to warm up by stepping into a steaming hot shower. However, water and steam suck out the moisture from the hair, making it more vulnerable to breakage. Warm yourself up with a hot bath or shower water, but use lukewarm or cold water to wash and rinse off your hair. Cool water seals down the cuticles making the hair look shinier.
3. Extend hair washing days. Shampoo removes away the natural oils that do the job of protecting the strands. Winter is the perfect time to start spreading out washing days and swiftly concealing any bad hair days under the coat. Use a sulfate-free shampoo and a conditioner with no silicones to avoid further irritating the scalp and drying out the strands. We recommend the Balancing Shampoo and Conditioner for hair washes.
4. Don’t go out with wet hair. When hair is wet, it’s 3 times more fragile than when it’s dry. Never -and I mean never- go outside with wet or humid hair: it can freeze and break! Although we don’t recommend using heat, we do recommend drying it before going out. Blow dry your hair on low or medium heat.
5. Give hair extra love and care during these months. Conditioning the hair in the winter is very important to help add hydration back into it. Being consistent with moisturizing the hair can be done in many ways: using a lightweight balancing conditioner that can work as a leave-in after the shower, deep conditioning treatments that include locking moisture ingredients, or sealing the ends with your favorite hair oil when it starts to feel frizzy.
6. Invest in a humidifier. The cold makes us crank up our heaters and it dries up the environment we live in, making both our hair and skin lose moisture. You can add moisture back into the air by setting a humidifier in the room you are in most often.
Take this time to really focus on taking care of your hair, follow your personalized Hair Routine -the method that tells you which essential elements your hair needs-, and slowly eliminate the little things that you know are damaging your strands. Follow these tips along with your Hair Routine to reveal your best hair this spring!
Photo credit: 1. Slim Aarons Winter Wear, 2. Audrey Hepburn in Charade (1963), 3. Victoria Lauren @viclauren_
