Best Shower Tips to Keep Your Hair Healthy

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Following are the best shower tips which you can follow in order to keep hair healthy

1. Steaming the hair before shampooing it:

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The pores present on the scalp are clogged with dirt and oil. The best way to clean them is by steaming the hair. To perform it, soak a towel in the hot water and compress out the excessive water. Now wrap the towel around your head and leave it undisturbed for 20 minutes before doing the shower.

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2. Massaging the steamed hair before applying shampoo

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 After steaming the hair, gently massage the scalp with fingers for a few minutes. This can help in loosening up the dirt and also removes the weak hair strands from the scalp.

3. Using the cool or lukewarm water:

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The heat generated from the hot water strips off the natural oils from the hair and keeps the hair cuticles open, thereby allowing the moisture to escape from hair. Washing the hair with lukewarm water helps in closing the lock in the moisture and cuticle thus giving shinier locks.

4. Using the SLS free shampoo and paraben 

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Parabens are added as preservative in shampoo and SLS helps in forming the lather. Both of these chemicals cause allergic reactions and skin irritation. As per the recent studies it is found that they can cause severe damage to the eyes in children. So use the organic shampoos which are paraben and SLS free.

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5. Applying the shampoo only on the scalpApplying-the-shampoo-only-on-the-scalp

The purpose of shampoo is to remove the dead skin cells, dirt, product buildup from the scalp and cleanse the hair. Rubbing shampoo only strips the  natural oils from the scalp thereby leaving it look dry, and lifeless. So, always take a quarter amount of shampoo and massage it to the roots and scalp of hair until it lathers up further.

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