How can I repair heat damaged hair?

Deep conditioning is the very best way to repair heat damaged hair.  You can try everything from oils to professional treatments.




Edited by Karen Shelton - December 21 2010 at 6:38pm

Try the Moroccan Oil mask! It works great! An the oil will help as well.

In order to truly achieve damaged hair repair, you need to first know how the damage happened. This article covers all the common ways hair becomes damaged and provides you with essential tips on repairing damage that has taken place.

Do you often get your hair colored, bleached, permed, or chemically straightened? If so, then your hair is more than likely over processed. However, if you got these treatments done at a professional salon and the damage is the result of over processing, then you can go to the stylist who performed your services and receive damaged hair repair treatments at no cost to you.

Have you attempted to do any chemical treatments yourself at home and have resulted with broken hair that falls apart when you touch it? Then you are probably aware of the fact that you have over processed your hair. If you need to repair your hair from over processing, then you need to get some good protein based deep conditioner. Apply the conditioning treatment every other day for a minimum of 15 minutes, if you are able to use heat, and a minimum of 30 minutes if you don't have access to an all around hair dryer, (the kind used in a salon that you sit under.) a sauna, or any other way you can heat your whole head of hair at once. Do this until you see improvement in the hair, generally it will take 2 to 3 weeks of treatments.

Have you tried to change your hair color at home, only to continually get an off shade of blue, green, grey, pink, or orange when you were actually trying to get a natural hue. Then gone to a salon to have the color fixed and changed to a natural color? This damage you are seeing could be the result of the color you used at home reacting harshly to the color used at the salon. If this may have happened to you, bring the color you used at home to the salon and have your stylist check the compatibility of the chemicals used.

You finally get your hair to a decent length and after just a little bit of damage you are back to square one. This is so frustrating!

The first thing is to try to prevent the damage in the first place. Modern day life is very harsh on black hair with all of the chemical and thermal treatments out there. There's even damaging chlorine in the water!

I've tried a lot of different products out there and most of them don't do anything. Some actually make things worse.

Keep fighting the good fight!

All the best,

Lara

Edited by Karen Shelton - August 24 2011 at 6:03am