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Dry Hair Treatment
Essential Care for Dry Hair
Dry hair treatments are intensive treatments developed to leave your hair silky-smooth and shiny.
In this blog, I’ll cover how you can build a weekly hair care routine incorporating a dry hair treatment. Plus, I’ll share some tips on how you can get more from your dry hair treatment.
Dry Hair | Causes
Dry hair can have many causes; sunshine, chlorine damage, heated styling tools, and harsh styling products can leave your hair feeling dry, burnt out, and brittle.
When it comes to weather, every season creates challenges for your hair. You might think cooler temperatures would be a relief for hair, but a drop in temperature brings with it damp air, rain and wind. The elements conspire to leave the hair dry. When the central heating is on, its drying effects are another challenge for hair.
If you have dry hair, it’s time to take charge.
In this blog, I’ll help you to understand what your hair needs and give you the knowledge to kickstart your hair care routine with a dry hair treatment.
Dry Hair | Overview
When thinking about fixing dry hair, the first thing you need to think about is routine.
My advice? Forget quick fixes.
I’m talking about building a long-term approach to adding moisture to your hair. I’m talking about helping your hair to retain moisture so that it’s smooth, silky and shiny.
In this blog I’ll cover what you need to know when adding moisture so that you can ditch dry, dull hair for good.
To kick off the process of understanding how to add moisture to dry hair, you first need to understand how your hair responds to moisture.
To help you understand your own hair, I’ll talk about your hair’s porosity.
Once you’ve identified your hair’s porosity, we can focus on product application. I’ll share my advice on how best to apply a deep conditioner to get maximum benefits.
I’ll go on to share some general tips and advice on reducing the causes of dry hair.
Dry Hair | Understanding your Hair Porosity
Understand how your hair absorbs moisture to get maximum benefits from your Dry Hair Treatment
What's Your Hair Porosity?
If you’ve had your hair colour-treated in a salon, you may have come across porosity. Or maybe you have curly hair. It’s a term commonly used when caring for curly hair.
Porosity is important for all hair types because it determines how your hair absorbs moisture. When you understand how your hair absorbs moisture you can adapt the way you use a deep conditioner or dry hair treatment to get maximum benefit, for silky smooth, shiny hair. Try the test below to discover your hair porosity.
Dry Hair | Do the Porosity Test
Take a strand of hair from your comb or hairbrush and put it into a glass of water. Leave it for a couple of minutes and check the results. There are 3 possible outcomes and this will give you a good indication of how your hair absorbs moisture.
- Hair that floats has low porosity.
- If it sinks slowly, it has normal porosity.
- If hair sinks quickly, it has high porosity.
Once you’ve established your hair porosity, go to my guide below to help you understand how your hair absorbs moisture. You can adapt your hair care routine to get the most from any dry hair treatment.
Dry Hair | How to use a Dry Hair Treatment by Porosity Type
Get the most from your dry hair treatment.
1. Low Porosity
Low porosity hair doesn’t absorb moisture easily. Because of this it’s vital to avoid overloading the hair. Be sparing with products and try a layering technique by applying small amounts at a time. Start with less product, let the hair absorb it for a few seconds and then layer on more product if needed. Too much product can leave hair flat so take note of how much product you use and adapt depending on how your hair responds.
I recommend a weekly treatment with Restore and Shine Hair Masque. After use, you should notice more body in your hair as well as a smoother, more slippery texture. That means your hair has absorbed the mositure and the smoother texture will leave your hair shiny and feeling hydrated.
2. Normal Porosity
Normal porosity hair easily absorbs moisture and, most importantly, can retain moisture.
However, without regular treatments and a good hair care routine even normal porosity hair can become dry.
Condition your hair regularly and incorporate a weekly dry hair treatment into your hair care routine. Restore and Shine Hair Masque is a concentrated dry hair treatment. That means you don’t need much product to help maintain the healthy hair. You can use a single application once a week. A small amount is all you need for maintenance. There’s no need to layer on lots of product or leave it on for a long time.
After application, rinse after a few minutes.
If you hair is excessively dry, you can apply Restore and Shine Hair Masque twice weekly for the first two weeks and then revert to a weekly routine of deep conditioning.
Think about routine and maintenance to keep your hair hydrated.
3. High Porosity
High porosity hair absorbs moisture well but needs a lot of moisture.
The more time you can leave your hair treatment on will massively help high porosity hair. It’s all about giving your hair a deep treatment.
I recommend leaving Restore and Shine Hair Masque on your hair overnight. Don’t be tempted to layer on too much product; it isn’t necessary.
Simply leave it on for longer and give the hair mask more time to leave your hair silky smooth and shiny.
Check the manufacturer’s instructions if you are using an alternative dry hair treatment.
As with all hair types, routine is vital. Weekly treatments will help your hair stay hydrated. Once in a routine, you’ll find your hair needs less moisture over time as the condition improves and the dryness reduces.
Dry Hair | 5 Essential Tips
With regular dry hair treatments, your hair should become silkier, shinier and easier to manage. Keep it looking that way with help from my 5 essential tips
Keep your hair looking and feeling fresh with my 5 essential tips.
1. Trim Split Ends
Trim hair regularly to remove split ends. Split ends can ride up the shaft and damage the hair.
When hair is damaged and split it can’t retain moisture.
Hair will become dry and develop a rough texture, losing shin. Keeping on top of split ends will prevent damage to the rest of the hair.
I recommend a trim every 6-8 weeks.
2. Go for Professional Colour Treatments
Colour treatments are designed to damage your hair. The treatment opens up the cuticle to change the colour pigment of your hair.
If you colour your hair, I recommend getting it done professionally.
If that’s not possible, then the best advice I can give is not to overlap the colour on hair that has already been colour treated.
I recommend a semi-permanent colour on your ends. It’s less drying for the hair, and semi-permanent colours are formulated to add shine.
If you are unsure about colouring your hair at home, or you are concerned that your hair is damaged, always get advice from a colourist.
3. Look for Moisture-Boosting Hair Care Ingredients
Choose the right product for your hair type. If your products aren’t working for you it’s time to shop around.
Forget the marketing hype on the front of the product packaging.
Take a look at the ingredients on the back of the packaging.
Look out for super-moisturising ingredients such as pro vitamin b5, glycerin, cetearyl alcohol ( a fatty alcohol, an ingredient that will boost moisture not deplete it.) or tocopherol (vitamin e).
These are the ingredients that you will find in good quality skin care.
Your hair needs them too. They are the building blocks in my Restore and Shine Hair Masque formulation and together they add moisture to dry hair whilst smoothing the cuticle to help the hair retain moisture.
4. Less is More
Less is more. Don’t overload the hair with harsh stying products and fixatives.
Avoid heavy products such as waxes and oils as they sit on the hair, attracting dirt and leaving dry hair looking dull.
My hair styling products are packed with moisture-boosting ingredients designed to add moisture to dry hair as you style.
5. Hair Care Kit Bag
Build your hair care kit bag. With the right tools in your kit bag you can boost moisture to dry hair and opt for less drying styling techniques. For example, Velcro Rollers are amazing for volume and they don’t dry the hair like heated styling tools. If you are unsure about how to use them, go to my blog tutorial on how to use velcro rollers. Or discover how to do a bouncy blow dry without over-drying your hair.
Kit Bag | 3 Hair Care Essentials
- My deep conditioning hair mask, Restore and Shine Hair Masque for your weekly moisture boost.
- Hair Brush. Use the Denman for back-brushing and creating volume or a round brush for a big bouncy blow dry.
- Velcro Rollers. Perfect for adding volume to hair and a great way of taking a break from heated styling. Reducing heated styling is essential to avoid excessively dry hair.
Dry Hair | Take Aways
Dry Hair is not something we have to put up with.
By taking some time to understand your hair and how it responds to dry hair treatments, you can build a routine that gives your hair the moisture it needs. Short-term fixes for dry hair rarely work and by taking a routine based approach you can transform dull or rough dry hair to silky smooth, shiny hair.
I’ve summarised the key points below.
1. Understand your Hair
Check your hair porosity to understand how to apply dry hair treatments.
2. Hair Care Routine
Establish hair care routine that suits your hair.
3. Keep Split Ends in Check
Get regular trims to prevent split ends riding up the hair and damaging the cuticle, resulting in moisture loss and leaving the hair dry.
4. Look for Moisture-Boosting Ingredients
Look out for super-moisturising ingredients such as pro vitamin b5, glycerin, cetearyl alcohol ( a fatty alcohol, an ingredient that will boost moisture not deplete it.) or tocopherol (vitamin e).
5. Go light on Styling
Choose lighter styling products that add moisture to your hair and try out less drying styling techniques.
6. Use a Dry Hair Treatment once a week
Use Restore and Shine Hair Masque once a week for a deep conditioning, dry hair treatment.
How to Get Rid of Frizzy Hair | About the Author
Norris Ogario
Norris Ogario is founder and Creative Director of Ogario London. Developed in his London salon, the Ogario London haircare products reflect his belief that hydration is the key to fixing most hair problems. Hydrated hair can be styled with ease. Plus, hydration leaves hair shiny and healthy. Norris has over 35 years of hair know-how. With expertise in all hair types; from dry hair to fine or grey hair, from frizzy to damaged or bleached hair, curly hair and afro hair, Norris offers his expert advice.
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Ogario London is a salon developed range of natural hair care products. Because we are passionate about our products, delivering the best results is at the heart of what we do. Do you have questions about our products? Or, would you like advice on the best products for your hair type? Maybe have another question about how to look after your hair? If you do, please get in touch at info@ogariolondon.com.
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