Why Is My Hair So Dry?
Dry hair can be a seasonal problem: your hair is affected by the weather – whether that means shifts in temperature or the merciless summer sun. A dry atmosphere can strip the hair of moisture and make it feel even dryer, more brittle, and dull. Dryness can also lead to unwanted frizz, a straw-like consistency or broken hair, making it extra challenging to style.
Over-washing with non-caring formula and excessive blow-drying can also contribute to parched hair. Over-washing has a stripping effect on the hair. The repeated expansion and contraction of the hair shaft as it’s soaked and dried, soaked and dried, ends up drying it out. In the same way, blow-drying hair on a high heat and speed setting can also lead to dryness and damage, since the hair is at its most fragile when wet.
If you have a dry scalp, you might have dry hair too – particularly if your scalp is not producing enough natural oils to lubricate the hair. An irritated scalp that ends up shedding and peeling can also lead to dry hair.
In addition to external aggressions, internal issues like poor diet, hormonal changes and aging can also be contributing factors to a dry scalp and dry hair.
Over-washing with non-caring formula and excessive blow-drying can also contribute to parched hair. Over-washing has a stripping effect on the hair. The repeated expansion and contraction of the hair shaft as it’s soaked and dried, soaked and dried, ends up drying it out. In the same way, blow-drying hair on a high heat and speed setting can also lead to dryness and damage, since the hair is at its most fragile when wet.
If you have a dry scalp, you might have dry hair too – particularly if your scalp is not producing enough natural oils to lubricate the hair. An irritated scalp that ends up shedding and peeling can also lead to dry hair.
In addition to external aggressions, internal issues like poor diet, hormonal changes and aging can also be contributing factors to a dry scalp and dry hair.
How to Prevent Dry Hair
Before you ever feel your hair becoming dry or frizzy, there are preventative measures you can take to ensure your hair stays hydrated and healthy. Here are our top 5 tips for preventing dry hair:
1. Trim your hair regularly to keep the hair strands healthy and help avoid dry ends and split ends.
2. Avoid washing and drying your hair every day. When you do wash your hair, use hydrating shampoos and apply conditioner after shampooing.
3. Wrap your hair instead of air drying or heat drying. Avoid rubbing your hair with a towel or immediately drying it while it is still wet. This stretches the hair to breaking point.
4. Avoid heat-styling tools and use heat-protectants such as sprays, milks, serums and gels whenever you do heat style.
5. Deep condition weekly with hair masks and hair oils, or overnight serums, and use leave-in treatments, which can add even more moisture to your hair.
Before you ever feel your hair becoming dry or frizzy, there are preventative measures you can take to ensure your hair stays hydrated and healthy. Here are our top 5 tips for preventing dry hair:
1. Trim your hair regularly to keep the hair strands healthy and help avoid dry ends and split ends.
2. Avoid washing and drying your hair every day with non caring shampoos (don’t worry, at Kérastase, we have only developped caring shampoos with your hair in mind). When you do wash your hair, use hydrating shampoos and apply conditioner after shampooing.
3. Wrap your hair instead of air drying or heat drying. Avoid rubbing your hair with a towel or immediately drying it while it is still wet. This stretches the hair to breaking point.
4. Avoid heat-styling tools and use heat-protectants such as sprays, milks, serums and gels whenever you do heat style.
5. Deep condition weekly with hair masks and hair oils, or overnight serums, and use leave-in treatments, which can add even more moisture to your hair.
Simple Ways to Treat and Care for Dry Hair
Sometimes a simple trim will fix dry hair at the ends, however, if you have dry hair from root to tips, there are a few things you can do to hydrate your dry hair, and even treat and repair that dry hair.
Try washing your hair less often. When you do wash it, use products that have fewer stripping detergents, for example, a mild or sulfate-free shampoo. If you’re not already using one, introduce a conditioner or a deep conditioning mask into your weekly routine to deliver more hydrating nutrients. You can also deep condition with hair oils, which nourish and moisturize dry hair.
Sometimes a simple trim will fix dry hair at the ends, however, if you have dry hair from root to tips, there are a few things you can do to hydrate your dry hair, and even treat and repair that dry hair.
When you do wash it, use products that have fewer stripping detergents, for example, a mild or sulfate-free shampoo. If you’re not already using one, introduce a conditioner or a deep conditioning mask into your weekly routine to deliver more hydrating nutrients. You can also deep condition with hair oils, which nourish and moisturize dry hair.
At Home: How to Moisturize Dry Hair
At Kérastase we have developed complete dry hair care routines for all types of hair, from dry hair to severely dry hair, for thick hair, thin hair and every hair type in between. Once you’ve identified the factors contributing to your thirsty, dry hair, read on to discover a few of our suggestions for how to nourish and moisturize it. Or, take a look at some of our best products for dry hair and find out how they work to nourish and hydrate parched hair.
At the Salon: How to Treat Dry, Severely Dry and Damaged Hair
So, you have dry hair – what can you do to get it back to a healthy, manageable state? One of the best ways to treat dry and damaged hair is with a professional hair treatment at your salon. A Kérastase Fusio-Dose salon hair treatment can transform your hair in 5 minutes. With up to 30 unique combinations, the Fusio-Dose combination of concentrate and booster helps you address your primary and secondary hair concerns. For example, if you have dry hair plus frizzy hair, you’ll receive a single customized dose that tackles both hair problems, administered by a trained salon professional.
What Causes Dry Ends?
While dry ends are sometimes just an extension of unhealthy hair at the root, they are generally a sign that nutrition isn’t getting from your roots to your ends. Of course, sometimes you can get dry ends because of over-drying and styling your hair on a high heat setting or speed. Whatever the cause, dry ends require extra moisturizing care, or they can lead to even more damage – the dreaded split ends and broken hair.
How to Treat Dry Ends?
You can fix dry ends – and prevent split ends from forming – with deep conditioning. Apply a hair mask or a hair oil just to the ends of your hair as an added part of your hair care routine. If the situation has already gone too far, discover these ideas on how to get rid of split ends.
Best Products for Dry Hair and Dry Hair Ends
Treat dry hair with these, our best shampoos, conditioners, hair masks and hair oils formulated to deeply nourish and moisturize dry hair.
Best Shampoos for Dry Hair and Dry Hair Ends
The Nutritive range includes two hydrating shampoos:
Nutritive Bain Satin by Kérastase is a gentle hydrating shampoo for thin to medium textured dry hair. Dry hair is gently cleansed, deeply nourished and reinforced, while leaving a lightweight, manageably silky feeling. If you have thicker dry hair, or extra dry curly hair, Nutritive Bain Satin Riche is for you. It’s a rich, super-hydrating shampoo that cleanses and restores dry hair, replenishing moisture and leaving the scalp comfortable.
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Our best products for your dry hair ends include these rinse-out conditioners. Fine to medium hair? Try Nutritive Lait Vital, a highly nutritious ultra-light detangling conditioner for dry hair. For fine to medium hair types needing even more nutrition, Masquintense, a soft hair mask with essential nutrients, will ensure those dry ends are getting the extra moisturizing they need. For thicker hair types, or for hair that’s coarse or curly as well as dry, we would recommend Masquintense Riche. An ultra-concentrated mask that delivers deep nutrition to very dry or thick hair, it leaves it shiny and hydrated.
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Is your dry hair fine to medium? Lotion Thermique Sublimatrice is a light blow dry mist that protects the hair from heat styling. This hair mist for dry hair contains nourishing lipids to condition hair and reinforce the hair fiber. If your hair is medium to thick and dry, Discover Nectar Thermique, a beautifying hair milk that detangles and nourishes hair, as well as protecting it from blow-drying and heat-styling.
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ADD TO CARTBest Hair Serums for Dry Hair and Dry Hair Ends
After shampoo and conditioner, the best thing you can do to feed your dry hair the nutrients it needs is use a serum. Because healthy hair starts at the scalp, Nutri-Supplement’s Scalp Serum has a powerful hydrating formula to regulate and protect your scalp’s hydration levels. More concerned about the dry ends of your hair? Consider Nutri-Supplement Split Ends Serum. This high-nutrition split-ends serum uses anti-dryness actives to seal dry ends and prevent split ends. As for 8H Magic Night Serum, it’s an overnight hair treatment that delivers essential nutrients to nourish and repair dry hair.
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Discover what the professionals are saying about the dry hair shampoos, conditioners, treatments and hair oils they use to moisturize dry hair and keep it healthy in between salon visits.
Discover what the professionals are saying about the dry hair shampoos, conditioners, treatments and hair oils they use to moisturize dry hair and keep it healthy in between salon visits.
