Monsoon Hair Care: Protecting Your Hair from Humidity & Damage

Ah, Monsoons…

They bring with them that sweet smell of earth, the romantic atmosphere, that cozy temperature, and furthermore skin and hair problems..

Caring for hair becomes all the more important in monsoons because your hair tends to lose moisture content due to high humidity in the atmosphere and frequently getting wet. This may result in the hair being too frizzy, dry and brittle. Hair may also become limp, and there are chances of scalp infections too. Thus, proper hair care in monsoon is very essential.

Hair Care in Monsoon

Keep the following monsoon hair care steps in mind to save your hair from damage:

• Save your hair from rain-water: We all love getting wet in the rains again and again. But our hair does not! Frequent wetting, and then shampooing and drying robs the hair from essential moisture, and makes them lifeless and frizzy. Minimize the exposure of your hair to rain water as much as you can.

• Shampooing and conditioning: If your hair got wet in the rain, shampoo your hair when you get back home. While falling from the sky, rain water gets loaded with environmental pollutants, and can damage your hair if not washed properly. Do not shampoo more than 2-3 times in a week, and always follow shampooing with conditioning. Using an anti-frizz shampoo and conditioner can control frizz upto a great extent.

• Oil your hair for 1-2 hours prior to shampooing, atleast once a week. Alternatively, you may use home-made hair mask. Mix together 1 ripe banana, 3 tablespoons honey and 1 tablespoon olive oil. Apply this pack on your hair and leave it for 15-20 minutes. Then wash off with plain water to get shiny hair!

• If your hair gets wet in the rain, do not leave them tied in a ponytail or a bun. Let them loose to dry to prevent fungal infections and dandruff.

• Use a wide-toothed comb made up of natural materials such as wood to comb through your hair to prevent building up of static energy, resulting in frizzy hair. Plastic combs/ brushes add to the frizz because of the static.

• Always use a leave-in serum after shampooing.

• Do not make very tight ponytails or buns in monsoons, as the moisture in the atmosphere tends to make the scalp sweat, and if your bun is very tight, the sweat will not evaporate, leading to dandruff and other infections.
• Mix two tablespoons of vinegar and a cup of lukewarm water. Wash hair with this solution and this really offers a perfect shine and adds volume to your hair as well.
• Avoid styling your hair in damp monsoon season. The humidity makes the hair more frizzy and leads to hairloss.
• Do not go for any chemical treatments during monsoon as the chemicals react adversely with rain water causing severe damage to the hair and scalp.

Here is how to take care of hair in monsoon. If you keep the above hair care tips for monsoon in mind, you can surely enjoy the monsoons to the fullest, without worrying for your tresses!!