Are Hair Care Products Required?

Are Hair Care Products Required?

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Hair care products make up a significant percentage of TV ad time too. If the show is aimed at women they will be shampoos and conditioners; if it's a blokes' programme, they will more likely feature anti-grey products or sporty hair and body washes. Assuming product manufacturers don't waste their money on ineffective campaigns, they have hit on a simple fact when it comes to how we like to take care of ourselves and we're prepared to pay for it too.

Hair care products can broadly be divided into four categories: washing, colour changers, conditioning and fixing. Our obsession with hair care begins when we are babies and our parents pour a drop of baby shampoo onto our scalps before washing it all away, usually in a blaze of tears and tantrums. Throughout our childhood the relationship develops through odd hair styles, grease, wax and styling adventures, and on to young adulthood when looking stylish and acceptable to the opposite sex while maintaining some decorum at work add conflict. And then we realise we're getting older and those young looking styles seem to appear ever more distant parts of our past, some of us take a second look at hair colouring or even hair additions of some form.

Throughout all this, we still regard hair as something that will simply respond to some good old encouragement, be it from washing products or the local hairdresser. We wash it too much, add all kinds on conconctions and ask the hairdresser to perform miracles. We have perms and straighten it; we warm it up and mould it with lotions. And just to force it to play ball, we'll fire hot air at it for five minutes once or twice a day.

Hair repair products feature quite prominently now. The acto flooking after our hair can quickly have the opposite effect if we are not careful. The solution to avoiding long term damage involves maintaining a natural balance of oils that keeps our hair lustrous and stops it from drying out.

Those who leave their hair unattended and allow natural processes to take their course (e.g. those washed up on desert islands) often claim that over time their hair starts to repair itself and the natural oils which daily shampooing strip away start to return. The only disadvantage is the stage before self-cleaning occurs when the hair is dirty, odorous and very unsightly, and most people are not prepared to go though this or start from scratch with a crew cut.

So while we might be able to remove the need for most of our hair care products, we would be limited to having long hair, short hair, a pony tail or pigtails as it is the very act of styling that makes us require it. In other words, no more punky spikes; no more bleached blonde; no more carefree tousles; no more curls. And that sounds hellish. The healthy alternative is to select our hair care products carefully and choos ethe brands which are the kindest to our hair and our scalps, and forgo some of the more outlandish styles completely.

About the Author:
For generation after generation haircare has been a means of expression while potentially being a harmful practice too. Callum is a well regarded expert on hair and skin care writing for various publications.



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