Expert Guide: Treating, Preventing & Removing Split Ends

Struggling with split ends? Split ends preventing you from keeping long hair? First lets look at what are split ends.

What are Split Ends?

Years of improper hair care, harsh chemical treatments and brushing leads to split ends. If your hair is curly or rough or damaged, the natural oils produced by hair follicles are unable to travel down the length of hair. Thus hair remains undernourished and looks dry and rough.

If the nourishment is not provided on a regular basis through external means (using various products like conditioners and leave-in serums or providing deep conditioning treatments to the hair), the hair ends tips become extremely dry, brittle and get frayed by the regular onslaught of combs and brushes and other styling tools, if you use any. That leads to split ends. The most annoying part of all this is that once the spit ends develop, they have the ability to travel up the length of the hair and thus, if not treated on proper time, they can destroy the structure of the entire hair strand.

Try out these treating, preventing and removing split ends.

A. How To Remove Split Ends:

• Oiling your hair strands- Yes, you’ve heard it right, “your hair strands” . You don’t necessarily need to apply to the whole of your scalp if you are suffering from the split ends problem. All you need to do it get a good night’s sleep after oiling your hair strands with olive oil (only) or with a mixture of coconut oil, mustard oil, and olive oil in equal proportions and massage on to your full hair straight and also you should repeat this 3-4 times in a week especially towards the ends. Next morning your can wash it off with a mild gentle shampoo

• If you can get hold of fresh avocado , then you can always have a hair mask made out of avocado by making a paste avocado and use it on the full hair along with the scalp , from root to tip and leave on for about 20 minutes , rinse off and shampoo.

• Make a mixture of one teaspoon of almond oil to one egg yolk or increasing the number of eggs to 2-3 depending on hair length and also the almond oil in proportion and beat it up into a liquid frothy paste and use it on the full hair, wear a plastic cap and leave on before shampooing for about 20 minutes.

• Can you get hold of walnut oil? If you can then this is awesome for split ends. Massage and leave on the full or just the end past of your hair and wash off with a mild shampoo next morning , you split end problem should be solved in just about 1 to 2 months with walnut oiling to your hair 4 to 5 times a week.

• You can also apply any good and thick body lotion towards the ends ONLY (about two inches from end) and leave on overnight and shampoo the next day.

B. How To Avoid split ends:

• Cut No more than ¼ or an inch of your hair when you go in for split end trimming or when u decide to do it at home. Go in for hair trimming every 6 to 8 weeks.

• Wear a cap when you go out in the sun if you have a tendency to get split ends.

• Don’t leave you hair flowing all the time especially outdoors because wind can do severe damage to your hair ends. Always tie your hair in a braid or bun.

• Regular conditioning is essential followed up with a good hair serum or regular oiling of hair.

• Cut down on the hot iron curlers and too much of styling gel and styling products and hair colors

C. Removing Split ends:

The easiest way to remove split ends which I’ve known and used myself with no complaints ever is this one that am gonna mention. Comb you hair thoroughly and take sections of it, give it soft twist from root to end. Any split ends that there are in that specific section of your hair will stick out and you can trim it off yourself with a good pair of scissors (preferably small scissors). It’s best if you do it near the window where the sunrays are falling so that you can better see the split ends. If you are not happy with this procedure then you can always approach the salon for a professional trimming whatsoever.

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