Hair is our weak spot.
We want it to be beautiful, thick, strong, healthy, shiny, bouncy… We could fill the entire article with such adjectives. Do we have similar desires when it comes to scalp? Would you settle on a shampoo or a mask just because it ‘nourishes, cleans and cares for scalp’? We know you wouldn’t. Still, a healthy scalp is the basis for healthy hair. Its care is not at all hard, complicated or bothersome. That’s why today we tell you how to care for your scalp to enjoy as beautiful hair as it’s never been before.
Why is your scalp so vital?
Using a metaphor – the importance of scalp for hair is similar to the meaning of soil while growing plants. There is no beautiful garden without good soil. In other words: to grow stunning, healthy, strong hair, you must keep your scalp healthy. The most crucial part of hair – a bulb – is located in the scalp. Without proper care, it gets damaged, dry and weak: hair growth is often blocked whereas you start losing more hair. To make things worse, there’s sebum, toxins and product build-up on the hair roots, blocking hair growth and making hair break (even at the very roots).
Cleaning and nourishing the scalp is extremely important – hairdressers and hair maniacs know it perfectly well. How do they get round to scalp care?
How to care for scalp?
Scalp care – the best at-home treatments known to celebrities, hair care maniacs and hairstylists
1. Scalp Scrub
Scalp exfoliation is the basis of hair care – it lets you clean the skin and get rid of cosmetic build-up. The cleaner the scalp is – and roots – the better the absorption of active ingredients of hair oils, balms or masks.
Moreover, a scalp scrub increases the blood micro-circulation and stimulates hair bulbs to work – hair grows healthier whereas bulbs are solidly-rooted in follicles.
Many trichologist experts say that scalp exfoliation is the base for hair care – regularly carried out, it lets you tackle most hair problems (hair and scalp oiliness, over-production of sebum, dandruff, extremely dry skin, thinning hair, blocked hair growth).
Exfoliating the scalp once a week will do the trick. There are specially-designed scalp-cleaning scrubs available. They usually look like regular skin scrubs but they are more powdery and abound in safe conditioning ingredients.
2. Hair & Scalp Oil Treatment
Hair oil treatment is a beauty smash which comes from India where people have been applying oils to hair and scalp for ages. Currently, the whole wide world knows and loves natural oils. Not only do they fortify and regenerate hair throughout its length but also purify and nourish scalp. Many natural oils are rich in a valuable ingredient (squalane) which is able to balance the sebum secretion on scalp, blocking oiliness. Oils help keep the scalp clean and healthy, build up the bulbs and accelerate hair growth. Because fats dissolve fats and heavy comedogenic particles – oiling is a brilliant alternative to a scalp scrub.
3. Hydrosols for Hair & Scalp
Another name for hydrosol is… water which is full of repairing, moisturising and rejuvenating plant ingredients. A hydrosol is a side effect of plant distillation while extracting essential oils. Water, which is produced in this process, maintains all properties of a plant that it is mixed with. It is delicate and doesn’t cause any allergic reactions; it doesn’t only deliver hair benefits, though. Hydrosols are amazing face toners and make-up primers, replace thermal water or a daily-care leave-in conditioner. They are often mixed with a cosmetic clay (in a DIY facial mask) or hair oils (being the base for a treatment). Lots of hydrosols have toning and scalp-calming qualities, balance the sebum secretion and eliminate impurities which settle on scalp, giving anti-septic and alleviation at the same time.
Simply spray a chosen hydrosol on your scalp and hair, massaging it gently with fingertips and leaving it in.
Juniper hydrosols make a perfect choice for oily hair whereas rosemary hydrosol is cut out for weak, thinning hair. Thin, fragile, dry hair is going to like camomile and rose water. Witch-hazel hydrosol works for aging hair – it is the strongest antioxidant among hydrosols.
4. Micellar Shampoo
A gentle and effective way of keeping clean and vital scalp. The micellar shampoo has similar benefits to well-known make-up removing micellar water. Tiny micelles purify scalp by removing cosmetic build-up and dirt from hair and scalp, balancing the pH. A micellar shampoo is ideal for washing hair oil treatments off.
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