Men’s Hair Types

To choose the right products for your hair the first thing you need to establish is your hair type (be aware though that hair is never a constant. It is prone to climatic changes, health and emotional disruption and can become finer, coarser, oilier, drier, smoother, frizzier at different stages in our lives). Determining your hair type is surprisingly easy. Just follow these steps...

- Start at the 'root' of things - if your roots are greasy within 24 hours of shampooing, you'll need a shampoo for oily hair. If you can go a couple of days before a slight oiliness appears, use a shampoo for normal (to oily) hair. If you can go three days or more and the roots still seem dry, you'll need a shampoo for dry (to normal) hair.

- Hair will be drier from the mid-lengths to the ends and will benefit from conditioning. If hair is short, fine, lightweight and/or straight, and you chose a normal or oily shampoo, then a daily conditioner or light conditioner (sometimes described as detangling conditioners) will usually be best suited. Longer hair, of medium texture, wavy or thick straight hair, normally need moisturizing conditioners. If your hair is coarse textured, very curly or frizzy, then use a moisturizing conditioner in conjunction with special treatments that are available.

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Shampooing - The basics on shampooing

Everyone knows how to shampoo, don't they? Well, there's shampooing and then there's professional shampooing that gets results! First off lets kill a common myth; regular shampooing DOES NOT increase hair loss. In fact the reverse is true! If you don't shampoo regularly your hair follicles clog up with sebum and other nasty stuff - and clogged follicles equal inactive follicles. So as long as you choose the right products, shampooing on a daily basis won't cause you any problems. Here's our suggestions...

- Preparation... If you have very long hair or very curly hair, use a wide-toothed comb to detangle your hair as much as possible prior to wetting.

- Wetting... Before applying shampoo, wet the hair thoroughly using warm water. If the waters too hot it'll increase the release of sebum, if it's too cold the shampoo won't penetrate properly.

- Shampoo... it's not possible to accurately say just how much shampoo you'll need to use, it depends how much hair you've got to wash; but professional shampoo's are more concentrated than supermarket 'off the shelf' ones. So if your moving up to salon shampoo's from the supermarket variety, you're going to need less. Don't expect the professional salon shampoo's to create a mass of 'bubbles' either - this is just a detergent that's no good for your hair and is only put in the 'off the shelf' shampoo's as that what all the marketing men think you want!

- Massaging... make sure the shampoo is applied evenly all over your head, paying attention to the front hairline, nape and around the ears where hair tends to get the dirtiest. Use your fingertips in a firm circular motion all around the scalp and continue for between 1 - 3 minutes.

- Rinsing... firstly, for those of you that wash your hair in the bath, don't expect to get a brilliant shine when you're rinsing in your own dirt! The most common cause of dull hair is inadequate rinsing, so rinse, rinse, rinse - and in clean warm water. Washing your hair in the shower's going to give you the best results.

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Conditioning – The basics on hair conditioners

A good conditioner, suited to your hair type, is vital in maintaining healthy hair that shines with life and body. Modern daily conditioners will revitalize and detangle your hair fast so don't try skip this conditioning step - if you're shampooing you ought to be conditioning too.

- Apply the conditioner through the clean hair from roots to ends. All our conditioners work on the scalp skin too (and without clogging the follicles as long as you remember to rinse well), so a gentle massage will help work the conditioner through.

- When you have the time, leave the conditioner on for 3 - 5 minutes for a really deep condition. Longer hair will benefit from combing the conditioner through before rinsing.

- Try rinse the conditioner off using water that's as cool as possible; this closes and seals the hair shaft and follicle, locking in the shine and condition. Just like with shampooing, you should be rinse, rinse, rinsing.

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