7 Every Day Tips for Your Straightened Hair

1
Precautions
before bedtime
and at wake-up

Before going to bed, massage your scalp see below. Then, make one or several very lose braids and keep them laid on the scalp.

You can also sleep with a scarf around the head, preferably a silk one. Avoid cotton, which can absorb the moist your hair desperately needs and thus make it break. Also avoid synthetic fabrics or wool, which cause the scalp to sweat and make the hair electrically charged.

Your hair is still tangled in the morning despite those precautions and you are in a rush? No matter what you do, do not try to untangle it in depth: you would risk breaking it because of your hastiness. Simply comb your hair superficially, without the comb’s teeth penetrating the hair. 

2

Untangling
your hair
in depth

It is a long process, requiring patience and time, sometimes 20 to 30 minutes!

Proceed lock per lock, keeping one in one hand and the comb in the other. Always untangle from bottom to top, using a comb with wide teeth.

Start over 5 cm, beginning with the tips, and then slowly climb back towards the scalp. At the top, the frizzy-straightened junction must be treated with even more caution, so as not to risk breaking it. 

ATOMIZER : If your hair is particularly dry and fragile, we suggest that you start by moistening it. Best is to use an atomizer with mineral water, to which you will add a small quantity of virgin oil and light moisturizing cream (to make the oil and water mix better). Recommended proportions: 80% of water, 10% of oil and 10% of cream. The portion of oil can be diminished or increased depending on your hair’s reaction. WORTH NOTING: If you decide to follow a Clauderer Treatment, one of your products will enable you to make the mix: Clauderer Treatments

3

Massage
to irrigate
the roots

Lay the finger tips slightly spread on the scalp, press strongly, and then move them in rotation or back in forth. Then move the fingers and start over on another zone. 



The right stroke… Be careful, a massage does not mean friction: the fingers should not skid but rather stay well anchored on the skin. The idea is to make the scalp’s skin, and not the fingers, slide. Give it about a minute to cover the whole head. 

4
Alternating
braids and
add-ons

Between two straightening sessions, if you have braids or add-ons, make sure that they do not pull too strongly on your roots.

At the places where the hair does not grow well, make lose braids over the first 2 cm and keep them laid on the scalp. As far as add-ons go, only make them depart from where your hair is growing back well.

5

Hair wig in
alternation

If you wear a wig, we advise you to sow a small ribbon all the way around it (no more than 1 cm high), so that the edges do not risk irritating your scalp and aggressing your regrowing hair.

When you remove your wig, massage your scalp in order to increase the blood irrigation of your roots massage instructions above.

6

Shampoo can
be desastrous

Be careful with shampooing:  it is when straightened hair is the most likely to break.

Chosing the right shampoo

This is an important choice to make in order to avoid destroying the thin layer of sebum meant to protect your hair while washing it. Our advice: do not be deluded by mentions of plants that are meant to be good for the hair. They are only worth something in a shampoo if they are sufficiently concentrated and the cleansing product is not too aggressive.

Lather… A good criterion for decision is the product’s lathering capacity. The softer a shampoo, the less it lathers and the less it risks damaging the hair. At Centre Clauderer, we replace classic shampoo with a cleansing and revitalising cream, based on 100% natural ingredients and, most importantly, without silicone (which dries out the hair and makes it dull). Although it contains no detergent and does not lather much, the cream makes the hair clean. Thus, contrary to what most people think, lather means aggression, not cleanliness!

Finally, you should know that so-called ‘baby’ shampoo is not particularly recommended. All the labelling means is that it does not sting the eyes, not that it is soft on the hair.

And for those of you who love homemade solutions, here are a few easy recipes that you can make yourself Make your own shampoo


Washing

1- Progressively wet your hair with tepid water (at about 30 to 35° C) and spread a small quantity of shampoo on the scalp and the hair.

2- Do not strongly friction your head after having applied the shampoo. Even if the cleansing product in it is not very aggressive, it is still too aggressive for fragile roots, and massaging it in such a way will add nothing to your hair’s cleanliness. With your fingers flat, slightly rub the scalp and gently knead your hair from the scalp to the points, so as not to tangle it. The process should take from 1 to 3 minutes, depending on your hair’s volume.

3- Little by little, pour the equivalent of one or two barely tepid bowls of water on your hair while you keep kneading it gently. This will enable to eliminate the shampoo gradually. Then fully rinse it. If your hair does seem clean enough, then you can renew the process. Otherwise, there is no point in doing it again. For untangling, see above

7
Straightening
frequency

If you want to protect your hair capital, try to leave more time between your straightening sessions. With a Clauderer treatment, this will become possible because the difference in quality between straightened and regrowing hair will soon become less of an issue.

Have your straightening carried out by a good hairdresser, making sure that the product will only be applied to regrowing hair. If possible, use the hair softening technique, which is less damaging than classical straightening.

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