Recommendation for Dry Hair
She is very upset, and I don’t know what she can do to make her hair less dry. Some people recommended keratin but I am afraid of starting chemical procedures so early. What would you recommend for her?
A: I agree with you that 11 years old is much too young to begin subjecting your daughter to chemical hair services. Here’s is what I recommend.
If you dry your daughter’s hair with a blow dryer, be sure to use an additional spray leave-in conditioner to protect it from heat damage. Use a diffuser attachment on the hair dryer and only dry the hair to a “mostly dry” state, allowing it to finish drying naturally. This will help prevent dispersing all of the moisture the conditioners have put into the hair.
Finally, once a week, give your daughter a deep conditioning treatment. Do this by applying your favorite conditioner to the hair, comb the conditioner through the hair with a wide tooth comb to evenly distribute it. Cover the hair with a plastic cap, then wrap the head in a towel that has been warmed in the clothes dryer. Leave the conditioner in place for 20 minutes then rinse it from the hair using lukewarm water.
After a few weeks you should see a marked improvement in the condition of your daughter’s hair. If you feel it’s needed, you could use a hot oil treatment once per month. However, once the hair shows improvement, try backing down on the number of deep conditioning treatments to every other week. This should give your daughter the shiny, smooth, healthy hair she can be proud of.
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See also:
How to deep condition hair
Hot oil hair treatment
Dry hair and how to get rid of it