Noticing thinning hair and a receding hairline can be unsettling and confusing, whether you're male or female. Determining the cause of hair loss can be challenging, as it could be due to genetics, hormonal changes, medical conditions, medications, stress, aging, or illnesses.
However, using professional products to care for your scalp and hair can significantly help in preventing hair loss. In this blog, I will share key benefits and products that will help you create a healthy hair care routine.
A Simple Guide for Caring for Your Scalp
This is always the first place to start when you notice hair loss. If you think about it, our hair comes from our scalp, therefore having a healthy environment on our scalp makes perfect sense to grow healthy hair.
Product build-up is a common factor in causing an unhealthy scalp, leading to conditions like dry scalp, dandruff, cradle cap, or psoriasis. These issues can disrupt your hair growth cycle. Treat your scalp as part of your skincare routine, just like your face.
Here’s our tips to creating a healthy scalp environment:
- Before washing give your scalp a good gentle brush to loosen and lift any build up like dandruff or dry scalp. It will also help to stimulate the blood flow to your hair follicles promoting hair growth. Use a massage brush like the Lemon Lavender Love Your Locks Wet & Dry Scalp Massager
- Wash your hair regularly. We recommend at least 2 – 3 times a week as over washing can lead to stripping your natural oils from your scalp and you need these to keep it moisturised.
- You may be dealing with dry scalp or dandruff which is more common in the colder months. You will need to use a dedicated shampoo and conditioner to target your scalp condition. We recommend the Delorenzo Tricho Scalp Balance Trio Solutions Pack as it’s a simple three step treatment programme suitable for dry scalp conditions.
- When finishing with a conditioner for your hair and scalp, we suggest giving your scalp a little massage for a few minutes to work the product through your hair as well as stimulating the blood flow helping to promote hair growth.
Creating the best hair care routine for you.
Around 1 in 3 women will experience hair loss at some point in their lives while over 50 million men are affected by hair loss and thinning.
So, using professional products that target key areas to hair loss is an essential part to your hair care routine and using them sooner than later will give you a huge advantage.
First though let’s rule out a few bad habits that you can stop straight away to prevent hair damage.
1. Avoid Chemical Services
If you are experiencing fragile hair or hair loss, we suggest giving your hair a break from services like highlighting & bleaching, perms and chemical straightening services.
Instead, Opt for more gentle treatments like semi or demi permanent hair colours that will add loads of shine to your hair and if you have curly hair embrace your curls rather than smoothing.
2. Avoid Using Heat Styling Tools Frequently
Frequently using hair dryers, flat irons, and curling irons can cause your hair to dry out and become brittle. Leaving your hair to air dry using a little product such as a leave in moisturiser to control frizz and flyway’s will have it feeling heathier in the long run. Let your hair dry completely before tying it back into a lose pony or plat. Pulling you hair back tightly regularly will cause breakage.
3. Protect your Hair & Scalp Against Environmental Exposure
When heading outdoors always protect your hair with a leave in moisturiser with solar care such as Nak Care 4 Ends and wear a hat or scuff.
4. Invest in Hair Tools
Investing in a professional brush is so worth the investment. Using a detailing brush like the Hi Lift Detangle Brush will prevent your locks from over stretching and breaking when brushing and will also help to stimulate the blood flow to your scalp. We also recommend a silk or satin pillowcase to sleep, your hair will love this as well as your skin.
There are of course some factors to hair loss that are out of our control and may need advice from a professional. Some of these are:
- Nutritional Deficiencies
- Medical Conditions
- Aging
- Hormonal Changes
- Stress
Adding a professional hair care range targeted for hair thinning / loss to your routine can be very beneficial.
Brands like Nioxin and Nak Scalp to Hair have been created and backed by scalp science to create professional products that work towards reversing signs of hair loss and thinning.
How Nixoin Can Help You
Nioxin products are designed to improve scalp health and maximise the appearance of fuller and thicker hair to combat hair loss or thinning.
Using their simple Three Step System matched to your hair type combines haircare and treatment to give your hair the best possible chance of growing as densely and healthily as possible.
How to Use the Nioxin Three Step System:
Apply the thinning hair cleanser shampoo, designed to rinse away build-up of sebum and skin debris, leaving your scalp in optimal condition.
Follow up with the revitalising conditioner to hydrate the hair strands from root to tip, delivering deep moisture to hair and scalp to help resist breakage caused by brushing and styling.
Complete the three-step process by massaging in the leave in scalp treatment at the roots, to supply fuller-looking hair leaving the scalp feeling fresh.
Adding Nioxin to your daily haircare routine can help keep your hair in the best possible shape to withstand breakage and damage caused by styling and the best part they have broken their range down to 6 systems to suit all hair types.
We recommend trying their Trail Kits to start your hair care routine as they are a complete three step kit that is designed to last for 30 days in which you should start noticing results.
Nak Scalp to Hair: Treat the scalp with care for thicker fuller hair.
The Nak Scalp to Hair range is a botanical scalp collection designed to nourish, strengthen, rejuvenate and protect the delicate scalp environment. It will infuse fortifying growth actives, anti-aging botanicals, vitamins, minerals and herbs to strengthen hair from root to tip and encourage healthier hair production.
Featuring TRIPLEX, a unique blend of anti-aging actives which deliver support for aging hair follicles. Topical actives of Aminexil, Niacinamide, Co-Enzyme Q10, Vitamin B6, Desert Lime, Green Tea, Caffeine, Wild Yam, Saw Palmetto are infused to encourage healthier hair production.
The Nak scalp to hair collection is broken down into three systems:
- Moisture Rich: for medium to coarse, chemically treated hair.
- Energise: for fine, thinning natural hair.
- Revitalise: for fine, thinning, chemically treated hair.
Once you have chosen the desired shampoo and conditioner for your hair concerns you can use the Follicle Energiser Leave in Scalp Treatment to help protect, soothe, soften and moisturise the scalp. Refresh and energise scalp, encourage blood flow and rejuvenate follicles.
We also recommend using the Mineral Defence Leave in Treatment for all scalp and hair types scientifically formulated to infuse hair follicles with essential vitamins, minerals, herbs and botanicals which help work towards removal of residue on the scalp including sebum, environmental pollutants and styling product build up. It will provide nourishment whilst protecting and defending against external factors.
Both these ranges are professionally prescribed hair cared designed to benefit men and women with thinning hair.
We have recommended some unique personalised solutions for hair thinning that works. It’s now up to you to schedule in some me time and get to work on that hair and scalp routine for heathier thicker hair.
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