Saying Goodbye to Dry Hair: Essential Tips for Hydration 

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Tired of your hair always looking dull, rough, and frizzy? Dry hair can sometimes seem like a challenge to overcome. However, the good news is that it can be done! Keep reading as Evalectric shares some top tips for hydrating your strands so that you can achieve a mane that feels lustrously soft and silky.

Use a Moisturizing Shampoo and a Rich Conditioner

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The two hair care products that you likely use the most often are a shampoo and a conditioner. Therefore, it goes without saying that these two products will have a huge impact on how healthy and hydrated your hair feels, making it important to pick the right formulas.

In terms of a shampoo, gentle moisturizing ingredients are key. Many shampoos are formulated to be overly powerful, which only ends up stripping away the oils that keep the hair naturally moisturized. While you want your shampoo to remove excess oil, as well as dirt and other impurities, you don’t want to end up over-cleansing your hair as this will only leave your locks even drier. The Evalectric Moisturizing Shampoo, which contains an infusion of ultra-hydrating argan oil, would be a great choice. 

Likewise, argan oil can be found in the Evalectric Moisturizing Conditioner too. Pairing these two products together will ensure that your strands are saturated with this hydrating oil. Its fatty acids will leave your hair feeling softer, with studies also showing that argan oil gives the hair a more elastic finish.

Limit How Often You Wash Your Hair

Even when using a gentle shampoo, it’s crucial that you don’t over-wash your hair. As we mentioned above, each time you wash your hair, you’ll be removing some of its protective oil coating. Do this too often and your scalp won’t have enough time to produce more oils to replace what it has lost in between shampoos. 

Those oils are crucial if you’ve hoping to overcome dry hair. They help with hydration by keeping moisture locked into your strands and they also serve as a form of natural protection. 

So, how often should you shampoo dry hair? Experts recommend every five to seven days. This may seem like a long wait in between shampoos, especially if you’re used to washing your hair every other day. However, your hair-washing habits could be the cause of your dry hair, making this technique worth trying.

If you can’t bear to leave it so long in between washes, give co-washing a try. This involves using a conditioner to wash your hair, instead of a shampoo. It won’t cleanse your hair to the same extent as a shampoo will, but this can be a good thing if you’re washing your hair more often than advised!

Add Moisture With a Hydrating Hair Serum

Hair Serum

One great way to give your hair a quick moisture fix is by applying a hydrating hair serum. Unlike conditioners, which are thick products that coat the surface of your hair, hair serums are thinner and lighter. This means that they’re more readily absorbed by the hair, which can really help to boost hydration levels.

Of course, choosing the right hair serum is key. After all, not every hair serum out there is designed to hydrate the hair. Some, if they’re designed for oily hair types, can even have the opposite effect, which is definitely not what you want! 

How can you tell if a hair serum is geared toward hydration? By taking a look at its ingredient list. Let’s use the Evalectric Hair Serum as an example. There are two key ingredients in this formula that indicate how it functions. The first is aloe vera, which is known for being one of the most hydrating ingredients around! It functions as a humectant, enabling it to bind moisture to the hair to instantly quench it. Vitamin E is another important ingredient in this serum. Again, it’s another humectant but it also helps to seal moisture in, preventing it from evaporating away. Both ingredients point to how efficiently this hair serum hydrates the hair, making it a great one to turn to if you have dry hair.

Be Cautious When Using Heated Styling Tools

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In addition to giving dry hair extra moisture, you need to also make sure that you aren’t doing anything that’s causing that dryness to become worse. Heat styling is one of those things, with heat infamous for the drying effect that it has on strands. Dry hair is easily damaged too. This means that your dry strands will be more vulnerable to the toll that heat styling can take.

Does this mean that you have to completely stop heat styling your locks? Not necessarily…

While cutting back on heat styling would definitely be beneficial, there are also a few things that you can do to minimize the appearance of dryness and damage caused by using heat on your hair. The first is to coat your strands with a heat protectant. These products will receive the full force of the heat, saving it from burning your strands.

Choosing the right heated styling tools will be very influential too. Look for one that makes use of ceramic plates or barrels, just like the Evalectric Classic Styler range. Ceramic is known for being the gentlest material used in heated styling tools, so it is far less likely to damage your hair. Our Classic Styler range also comes with an adjustable temperature dial. This means that you won’t need to subject your strands to more heat than necessary. Add to this the negative ion technology and the far infrared heat technology incorporated in these flat irons and your hair will feel much silkier once you’re done styling it.

Protect Your Hair From the Weather

Just like when it comes to your skin, the weather can have a huge impact on how your hair looks and feels. Unfortunately, it rarely has a good impact. Instead, both the summer and winter months can be harsh on your hair, albeit for different reasons.

In the summer, the sun is the main cause for concern. UV rays quickly dry out the hair, which is the last thing that dry hair needs! Keep those rays away from your mane with hats and scarves. They’ll provide a physical barrier, blocking UV rays from penetrating your strands.

Those same physical barriers can prove helpful in the winter months too. At this time of year, you need to be careful about the wind and cold temperatures. Both will dry out and dehydrate your hair while also leaving it more susceptible to breakages. Keeping your locks covered or loosely braided will help to minimize their exposure to the harsh winter environment around you.

Use a Deep Conditioning Mask

While using a regular conditioner each time you wash your hair is essential, you may also want to add a deep conditioning mask to your hair care routine. Other hair types only use these products occasionally and often as a replacement for a regular conditioner. However, with dry hair, using a deep conditioning mask in addition to a conditioner can be a game-changer.

Deep conditioners are intensely moisturizing. With a good formula, you’ll be able to feel the difference in your locks after the very first time you use one. Pick one designed to cater to the needs of dry hair and your mane will soon feel much softer.

Don’t Wash Your Hair With Hot Water

Earlier, we talked about how important your hair’s natural oils are when it comes to keeping your mane feeling hydrated and healthy. This is why over-shampooing your hair should be avoided.

However, one other aspect of your hair care routine that you may need to adjust is the water temperature that you use when washing your hair. If you’re someone who enjoys steaming hot showers, this needs to change.

Why? Because hot water melts the oils that coat your hair. Just like using an overly harsh shampoo, hot water will strip your strands of their protective coating. This will only leave dry hair even drier. 

The best temperature to go for is lukewarm. Have the water warm enough that it still feels comfortable but not hot enough to impact your strands.

Sleep on a Silk Pillowcase

Your hair remains in contact with your pillowcase for several hours, making it hardly surprising that your pillowcase can have a big impact on how your hair looks and feels each morning. 

While cotton and other similar materials may feel soft to your hands, these fabrics actually have quite a rough texture. When your hair rubs against them, friction is created. This leaves the hair looking rough and frizzy. Those materials are also quite absorbent. Press your hair against them for a few hours and they’ll end up soaking up some of the moisture from within your strands.

What’s the alternative? Silk or satin. Not only are these fabrics much smoother, meaning that your strands will glide over them without any friction, but they also don’t have high absorbency properties. As a result, your hair will look much smoother and silkier in the mornings, with your hair cuticles lying flat to provide a frizz-free finish.

Regularly Trim Your Hair

Last but not least, let’s talk about trims. If you have dry hair, then this means that you’ll likely also have a prevalence of split ends. Allow those splits to linger and it won’t be long before they start to travel up your hair shaft, leaving even more of your lengths frayed and damaged.

The only way to eliminate split ends is to trim them away. Book yourself in for regular trims, ideally every six weeks for dry hair, and you should notice that your hair looks much healthier overall after a few months.

Caring for Dry Hair With Evalectric

While dry hair can sometimes feel quite frustrating to deal with, making a plan to finally overcome that dryness can help to give you some new goals to aim for. Start by implementing the tips that we’ve shared above and it won’t be long before your mane starts to feel softer and better hydrated.

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