Choosing the Best Conditioners for Your Hair
A conditioner is a product that is used to give extra care and health to the hair, especially after a thorough shampooing. In fact, many shampoo manufacturers and producers today make conditioners and sell both shampoo and the conditioner as the right combination of hair nurturing products. However this need not be true.
There are different kinds of shampoos. In the same way there are different kinds of hair conditioners. After a shampoo (assuming that your shampoo is the right one), the hair is generally clean and neat. All the dirt has come off and it looks and feels lot better. Applying conditioner at this juncture, helps hair recuperate with all the ingredients necessary for you hair.
With the development of science, hair conditioners today contain cationic quaternary ammonium compounds. These compounds provide positive charge, making the hair more manageable. Also applying a hair conditioner makes it easy for a person to comb in the way he/she want it. Most hair gels today contain the same cationic compounds too. However care should be taken in choosing a conditioner that suits your hair well.
Different kinds of conditioners offer different kinds of promises to your hair. It depends on your momentous need to choose the kind of conditioner that you might want.
Here are some tips to choose the right conditioner for your hair:
- This site has repeatedly given one tip for every kind or hair problem - KNOW THY HAIR. Knowing your hair includes your hair behavior, how it is affected by what you eat, how it reacts while you are ill, and an average view of how it acts in different climates and different periods of time. Knowing your hair increases your ability to choose the kind of product that you want for your hair, be it a shampoo or a conditioner.
- If you have dry hair, try and find a conditioner that moisturizes your hair. Dry hair is formed due to lack of moisture on you hair. Though your dry hair may not have lots of dirt, it may result in fading of hair color. A conditioner with a moisturizing effect soothes your hair and scalp.
- If you have normal hair , use a conditioner that keeps your hair normal.There are conditioners available in the market that do not tend to specify any particular hair. These conditioners are generally called leave in conditioners and will have a link of compounds that form a thin layer around the hair. This protects your normal hair.
- If you have oily hair, use a conditioner that leaves a thick layer around the hair. Conditioners with lesser fatty acids react with the sebum (which is released by the skin glands and which is more in case of oily hair). This reaction results in nullifying the effect of sebum on the oily hair and makes it look cleaner.
- For damaged hair protein rich conditioner do the trick of giving the required protein.
- Though a hair conditioner has no effect on hair loss or hair growth, medicated hair conditioner (taken on professional advice) gives the necessary strength that unhealthy hair needs.
