Hair care

Everybody needs beautiful and healthy hairs. Grooming and maintenance of hair is a daily process. The beauty products that
Enhance the look and feel of these surfaces has created a huge industry. Technology has advanced the cleaning, protection, and restoration of different desirable hairs.

Cleaning and Conditioning Treatments: Shampoo

and Conditioner

Shampoos are used primarily to clean the hair and scalp of dirt and other greasy residue that can build up after time. Shampoos also have many secondary functions including controlling dandruff, reducing irritation, and even conditioning. 

Conditioners, on the other hand, are used primarily to give the hair a soft, smooth feel which results in easier hair combing. Secondary functions include preventing “fly-away” hair due to static electricity, giving the hair a shiny appearance, and protecting

the hair from further damage by forming a thin coating over the fibers.

Coloring and Dyeing

Hair coloring and dyeing have become extremely     successful hair care procedures, due to part to style kits which allow home hair care without professional assistance. The most common dyes are para dyes, which contain para-phenylenediamine (PPD) solutions accompanied by conditioners and antioxidants. Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is combined with the para dyes to effectively create tinted, insoluble molecules which are contained within the cortex and are not small enough to pass through the cuticle layers, leaving a desired color to the hair

Bleaching

Like dyeing, bleaching consists of using hydrogen peroxide to tint the hair. However, bleaching can only lighten the shade of hair color, as the H2O2

releases oxygen to bind hair pigments

Certain damaging causes

• combing (generally with plastic objects, and often multiple times over the same area lead to scratching and wearing of the cuticle layers)
• Scratching (usually with fingernails around the scalp)
• cutting (affects the areas surrounding the fiber tips) 
• blowdrying (high temperatures thermally degrade the surface of the hair fibers

Article by : Waleed Hussain