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52 STEPS WITH ME
make one change a week for a year
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25 Steps to Improve your Hair.
Step 1 - Rule out medical reasons. If your hair is excessively shedding - for example, if a noticeable amount of hair strands collect on...
52Steps
25 Steps to Improve your Hair.
Step 2 - Start to use dry shampoo between washes. Dry shampoo will help wean you away from the damaging habit of daily hair washing. It...
52Steps
25 Steps to Improve your Hair
Step 3 - Buy a plughole hair catcher. Buy a hair catcher trap for your plughole – it is a measurable way to see how your hair loss...
52Steps
25 Steps to Improve your Hair
Step 4 - Start to use gentler hair products. Take some time to search out products that won't strip your hair of natural oils with...
52Steps
25 Steps to Improve your Hair
Step 5 - Always use low heat. Use cool-ish dry heat on your hair only. This means hair drying will take much longer, so plan for it. This...
52Steps
25 Steps to Improve your Hair
Step 6 - Gradually learn to wash your hair less often. Start off by giving your hair one ‘recovery’ day between washes. Start in this...
52Steps
25 Steps to Improve your Hair
Step 7 - Choose a cheap, basic hairbrush and wash it often. Buy a super-cheap plastic hairbrush, without posh padding and without...
52Steps
25 Steps to Improve your Hair
Step 8 - Don't boil your hair! Have a nice and warm, NOT a hot, shower / bath on hair washing days. Hot water damages the roots (leading...
52Steps
25 Steps to Improve your Hair
Step 9 - Treat wet hair very, very gently. Wet hair breaks far more easily than dry. Wet hair tangles and snags into impossible knots....
52Steps
25 Steps to Improve your Hair
Step 10 - Eat ½ an avocado every day. Nourish your hair (and skin) with the lovely monounsaturated ('good') fats, plus the host of...
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25 Steps to Improve your Hair
Step 11 - Keep away from Cigarette Smoke. The chemicals in cigarette smoke (formaldehyde, arsenic, DDT, tar, hydrogen cyanide...) are...
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25 Steps to Improve your Hair
Step 12 - Exercise, but not on consecutive days. Exercise for 30 minutes to a sweaty level at least twice a week to get oxygenated...
52Steps
25 Steps to Improve your Hair
Step 13 - Take an Omega 3 Supplement. Take a daily vegetarian Omega 3 supplement capsule (a much nicer version of the...
52Steps
25 Steps to Improve your Hair
Step 14 - Use a leave-in conditioner, properly. After washing and shampooing, gently squeeze your hair in a towel and (if needed) apply a...
52Steps
25 Steps to Improve your Hair
Step 15 - Ask your hairdresser to be kind to your hair. Do have a trim every 3 months to keep split-ends in check, but don't let the...
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25 Steps to Improve your Hair
Step 16 - Choose a hairspray that doesn't dry your hair out. I've found two nice-to-use hairsprays! Sadly neither are plastic-free, but...
52Steps
25 Steps to Improve your Hair
Step 17 - Eat pro-biotic yoghurt daily. If your gut-bacteria are healthy your skin and hair will look healthier too. So keep the 'good'...
52Steps
25 Steps to Improve your Hair
Step 18 - Choose gentle hair ties. Wide, soft hair bands are kinder to your hair. Avoid thin, snaggy bands which have a snarl of broken...
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25 Steps to Improve your Hair
Step 19 - Eat milled linseed everyday. Milled linseed is apparently packed with 'good' oils and vitamins, it decreases inflammation in...
52Steps
25 Steps to Improve your Hair
Step 20 - Protect your hair from the weather. Protect your hair from the sun (as you would your skin) between 11am and 3pm with a hat, or...
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25 Steps to Improve your Hair
Step 21 - Sleep on a silky pillow case. During the night when you turn over in bed, hair can be damaged by friction, unless you use a...
52Steps
25 Steps to Improve your Hair
Step 22 - Brush your hair before washing to loosen dirt. Immediately before washing (whilst hair is still dry) gently brush through your...
52Steps
25 Steps to Improve your Hair
Step 23 - Use a (silicone-free) hair mask, once or twice a month. My favorite hair mask is simply 1 egg + 1/2 a ripe avocado. Once or...
52Steps
25 Steps to Improve your Hair
Step 24 - Embrace your natural colour or use henna. Regular hair dye works by lifting the outer cuticle of the hair and colouring...
52Steps
25 Steps to Improve your Hair
Step 25 - Change your hairstyle daily. Don't get stuck in a hairstyle rut. If you wear a ponytail, day-in day-out then your hair will be...
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