My Hair is Too Dry

Contents
The lack of sebum
Dry hair and aging
Recommended
To avoid

The lack of sebum

Produced by the sebaceous gland, sebum must normally hydrate the scalp and lubricate the hair, by surrounding it with a protecting micro film, necessary to its good shape. A deficiency or lack of sebum (hyposeborrhoea) makes the scalp more fragile and favours irritations and itchiness. The keratin loses its elasticity and the hair becomes vulnerable, breaking and dull.

Dry Hair and aging

The hair’s hydration is not constant: it sometimes varies with age. As of the age of 40 or 45, especially in women, it can very progressively weaken, and the greases that protected the hair can disappear little by little. It is a classical hair aging process, similar to that of the epidermis.

Some of our clients whose hair had always had always had a normal cosmetic appearance, complain, around the age of fifty, of its lost shine. Their scalp and the hair’s cuticle then need to be hydrated, just like the face’s skin, by external inputs that will rebuild the physiological lubricant that the sebum brought them, but also the cuticle’s ceramids.

Recommended

For the scalp

Application of a milk for the hair with a strong hydrating power Lait Clauderer Hydratant (hydrating milk) for instance, with a massage to favour the penetration of the active ingredients.

METHOD: Before applying the hydrating product on your scalp, we recommend the following method: lay a damp and hot towel on your head. The heat will improve your scalp’s microcirculation and ensure maximum effectiveness for the product. Then proceed to a pinching massage…

The hands are two centimetres away from each other, and the fingers are tight. By a come-and-go movement, bring your fingers closer to both hands, as if it to pinch the scalp. Then move the fingers and start again elsewhere. Length: approximately one minute to cover the whole of the head. After having applied the product and permeated well, redo the same massage, but this time without the hot towel.

For the hair

Before shampooing, a mask based on vegetable oils, but not just any vegetable oils. The best formulas are a combination of several plants, the molecular input of which will enable to make up for the absence of natural lubricant, by covering the hair with a protective film (so-called filmogen plants). The formula then fixates itself on the hair, to make it more resistant to breaking and shinier without greasing it or making it heavier at the surface. See example of combination of oils Baume Curatif Clauderer (healing balm).

BEWARE! Masks for dry hair have no effect if all we do is lay them on the hair like a tray on a table. Before starting, it is recommended to slightly humidify the hair: the water will enable better penetration and a better spreading of the oils.

 You must then apply the mask (on the hair only, not the scalp) and make the product penetrate the cuticle’s scales, by kneading and pressuring the hair, lock by lock, during several seconds each.Insister sur les pointes. Particularly focus on the ends. The mask should then be kept for at least 20 minutes, which is a bit of a hassle, but necessary.

Shampoo

Replace it, every other time, by one or two egg yokes (depending on the head of hair’s volume). Lecithine, a greasy substance of which the egg is made, sucks up and keeps the dust and impurities, without having to use a cleansing basis. The natural sebum is thus fully protected. Rinse well with tepid water.

And if you swim in the ocean or a swimming pool, rinse the hair for a long period, immediately afterwards, without waiting for the end of the day.


Nutrition

An input in essential fatty acids helps to nourish the ceramids of the forming cuticle and to make the hair less dry. Products that especially contain essential fatty acids are: nut, grape seed and sunflower oil (cold-pressed), fish from cold seas, fish eggs…

Also important, the nutrients, by oral intake, for dry hair: vitamin E and essential fatty acids. Those will act, from the inside, in synergy with the local treatment. 

To avoid

- Excessively frequent shampoos. No matter how soft they are, they eliminate the small quantity of naturally produced sebum.

- Excessively frequent cosmetic manipulations (perms, colourations, straightening…).

Too much sun, especially if it is accompanied by swimming in the ocean or a swimming pool: the combined action of the salt’s infrareds (or the swimming pool’s chlorine) dehydrates the scalp and can strongly damage naturally dry hair.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION :
- Vitamins by Oral Intake and Hair Loss
- Breaking Hair and Split Ends
- Dandruff and Itchiness Men Women
- Your Diet and Hair Loss Men Women
- Excessively Acid Diet: Beware for Your Hair! Men Women
- Iron Deficiency and Hair Loss
- DAILY Hair Loss: What is the Norm? Men Women

FOR TREATING :
- CLAUDERER Anti-Hair Loss Treatments 
- In-Depth Clauderer Hair Diagnosis

SPECIAL FRIZZY HAIR :
- Clauderer Method of Treatment Frizzy Hair
- Frizzy/Straightened Hair: How to Heal and Fix It
- Clauderer Diagnosis Frizzy Hair

Diagnosis In-depth Clauderer Diagnosis: Have a complete hair checkup