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BEAUTY BASICS
Hair care for summer
BLOSSOM KOCHCHAR
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TIPS Here’s how to pamper your hair during these sticky, sultry months
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Photo: S.S. Kumar
SMOOTH IT OUT A massage will do your hair good
Just as you need different kinds of clothes for different seasons, you need to vary the products you use on your hair. In summer hair actually swells and requires a leave in conditioner, or a cream type conditioner which is left on for two to three minutes and then rinsed off. Curly hair, is often porous and frizzes because of humidity, condition it more frequently and use an anti-frizz serum. Dry, rough and frizzy hair could also do well with a moisturising treatment once a month. Try this home remedy: Take 1 tablespoon olive oil, 1 tablespoon castor oil, 1 tablespoon glycerine,1 teaspoon vinegar,1 teaspoon coconut oil. Mix and apply from ends to root. Leave on hair for one hour and then shampoo and condition.
Another problem during this season is oily, limp hair - shampoo more often and use an after shampoo rinse. There are ready-made rinses or you could make your own. Take a mug of ice cold water, add two to three drops of patchouli essential oil and pour through your hair. When swimming in either sea water or chlorinated pools protect your hair with some kind of shield. To protect your hair from chlorine, work in a cream rinse before diving in. Applying cream rinse is quite simple - just pour a dollop on your hand and rub it through your hair. When you’re through with swimming, rinse your hair off with plain water. A unique way to get the effects of the chlorine out of your hair is to rinse your hair with drinking soda. It makes your hair come alive again.
Is salt water bad for your hair? Salt water in small doses can be good for your scalp but not your hair. Continued exposure to salt can make your hair dry and brittle. Before plunging into the sea you should coat your hair with conditioner, not a cream rinse. After your swim rinse off as usual with plain water. If your hair is very damaged or has been abused then I recommend that you have a professional protein-based heat treatment every three months.
If you have normal hair have this professional treatment once during the summer months. To beat the summer stress there is nothing like a good hot oil massage. Simply heat about 1 tablespoon olive oil,1 tablespoon sunflower seed oil,1 tablespoon coconut oil, and a few drops sandalwood essential oil. Apply it all over your hair and scalp and give a gentle massage. Then wrap your head in a damp hot towel for about twenty minutes. Shampoo out. Your hair will be shinier after this treatment. Wear jasmine flowers in your hair, it not only looks exotic but the smell of jasmine gives confidence, lifts depression and summer stress.
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