Heat Damage Control Hair Oil: Hair Styling Elixir
When styling your hair with heating tools like crimpers, hair curlers and hair straighteners can over time damage your hair making your hair thinner and limp. You can protect your hair from damage by applying hair oil before using your styling tools to reduce hair damage. Let's make heat damage control hair oil hair styling elixir.
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Styling your hair can make it look good, desirable and manageable. There are many ways you can style your hair like braiding, no-heat styling and most common one heat styling. Using heat in hair styling can help you curl, crimp or straighten hair with ease. If you've gotta oily hair check this another recipe before you continue.
Read More: Smooth and Silky Revitalizing Hair Oil for Oily Hair
Hair Damage Caused by Styling Tools
Though heat styling come with its own challenges and one of them is hair damage. Apart from that heat styling can lead to
Loss of hair moisture
Hair dryness and brittleness
Hair loss and hair breakage
Disrupt hair cuticles and leave them open
Split ends
In order to prevent hair damage, you can use ceramic and titanium plated hair styling tools to reduce hair damage, use hair oil, proper hair sectioning setting spray and using low to medium heat setting. This will significantly reduce denaturing hair structure's protein.
This simple recipe aims to create a hair oil that can help you to coat and seal your hair strands before you use hair styling tools.
Selecting Ingredients
Grapeseed oil: This oil has high vitamin E content that can help to act as heat protectant for your hair. It is a lightweight texture that can coat your hair strands and protect it from heat produced by blow dryers or straighteners.
Hemp seed oil: This oil is simply gonna repair damages that have been done by styling tools and also reduce split ends. Apart from that it can reduce frizz, restore shine and luster thanks to its high amount of fatty acid content.
Avocado oil: This carrier oil with avocado-like aroma is filled with essential fatty acids that can protect and seal in your hair cuticles reducing chances of destroying keratin protein in hair that's why it is in this hair elixir.
Moringa oil: This oil is rich in high zinc and protein content that can help to repair your hair strands. Adding this oil to the recipe can help creating hair styling oil that can act as a good hair protectant by replenishing denatured hair protein.
Rosemary essential oil: Rosemary oil has many benefits for the hair, including it in our recipe can help to revitalize damaged strands
Tea tree essential oil: It a good option for this hair oil so it's included.
Argan oil: Another carrier oil with high protein and fatty acid content that can add a protective layer to hair strands before you expose your hair to hot air from blow dryers or heat styling plates.
Ingredients
1 tablespoon of grapeseed oil
1 tablespoon of hemp seed oil
1 tablespoon of avocado oil
1 tablespoon of moringa oil
1 tablespoon of argan oil
10 drops of tea tree essential oil
5 drops of rosemary essential oil
Get all your ingredients, check if you have other tools and supplies and gather them before you start making your recipe. You'll need a glass measuring cup, a glass stirrer (one chopstick will do the same job), paper towels and your designated hair oil bottle.
Instructions
Start with grapeseed oil, pour it in your glass measuring cup.
Next, add hemp seed oil, avocado oil, argan oil and moringa oil into your glass measuring cup and slowly stir, till all oils are well combined. Some oils are a little bit heavier than the other.
Gather your essential oils get to be added. In this recipe, you'll need rosemary essential oil and tea tree essential oil.
Add your essential oils drop by drop, you can use a dropper(many essential oils bottles come with droppers) if you don't have a dropper use a disposable pipette.
Swirl your mixture till all the ingredients are well combined together with your carrier oils.
Pour your hair oil elixir in a designated bottle of your choice
How to Style Your Hair Without Causing Heat Damage
Before heat styling make sure your hair is clean, not dirt and greasy.
Section your hair into small section using a small comb with a long handle.
Apply your hair oil to act as a protectant to your hair strands. Section your hair in small areas for easier working with hair. Applying heat on bigger sections can destroy hair by unequally distributing heat when you apply heat on hair.
After sectioning, set your hair styling tool at low heat and increase to medium if your hair is coarser.
Start from the roots, avoid touching your scalp with the tool, press then curl your hair around the tool and release for curls or press and sweep for straight hair.
Pin already styled hair to avoid repeating sections.
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