Hair requires constant care. Systematic procedures for moisturizing, nourishing and strengthening can make even not the most beautiful curls by nature truly luxurious.
One of the essential components of care is a hair balm. This tool perfectly protects them from mechanical damage, preventing them from tangling and making them obedient. It well strengthens damaged hair, increases its elasticity, preventing fragility, leading to their loss.
Hair balm includes cosmetic components, medicinal substances and natural extracts of herbs and other beneficial plants. In addition, they may include ceramides, vitamins, amino acids, proteins, providing hair with additional nutrition. The presence of organic acids, waxes, essential and vegetable oils, resins among the ingredients will provide a protective effect by creating a special thin layer on the entire surface of the curls, ensuring the integrity of their structure, maintaining an optimal level of moisture and helping to strengthen hair. Plant extracts are best able to help solve the problem of loss, as they well strengthen the hair follicles, normalizing the metabolic processes taking place in them.
You need to choose a hair balm based on such features: type, length, density, strength (or vice versa, weakness / brittleness) and other indicators. Before buying, be sure to carefully read the annotation to the tool.
You need to know that today every day new hair care products are on sale. They differ from each other in composition, features of the effect on the structure of curls, the concentration of active substances and other characteristics. Therefore, their choice should be taken seriously in order to achieve the desired action and not harm your own hair style.
Hair balms are available in the form of gels, creams, fluids. By the type of curls for which the funds are intended, they are for normal, dry and oily. Also, the production takes into account the density of the hair, the degree of their stiffness. Therefore, the instructions should also contain instructions regarding this aspect. Particular care must be taken to choose a balm for hair that needs special care, weakened, brittle, thin, dyed, discolored and permed. In this case, you need to choose products with a high content of nutrients. On the eve of the summer period, it is advisable to purchase a balm with UV filters.
Hair balms are easy to use. They are applied to washed wet curls, distributing with their hands along the entire length and rubbing them with light circular movements. The product must be kept for several minutes, then rinse with clean warm water. If you want to achieve a regenerative effect for weakened hair, the product can be left to soak for a little longer - up to 10 minutes. When using therapeutic balms, it is recommended to withstand them for up to 25 minutes, while putting a hat on your hair and wrapping them in a terry towel. Some balms do not require rinsing at all.
The most popular balms today are DOVE, Elseve and Schwarzkopf. Among domestic manufacturers, it is worth noting the products of Green Mama and Russian Line.
If you want to make a hair balm with your own hands, you can use the following recipes.
Nourishing homemade balm: a tablespoon of shea butter is heated in a water bath, the same amount of honey is added to it, a teaspoon of emulsifying wax, 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar, a few drops of any essential oil.
Restoring home balm: in a crushed peel of grapefruit, finish 100 ml of infusion of needles and water. Insist in a glass bowl for a day and strain.
Herbal homemade balm: a spoonful of chamomile, birch, clover, nettle, St. John's wort, mix and pour olive oil, add a little lemon juice. Insist the mixture for a week and strain, add emulsifying wax and a little essential oil.