Natural hair is usually beautiful when it is allowed to grow naturally and maintained properly. However, many individuals put their hair under great duress when they perm their hair too often.
A perm is applied to make hair curly while a relaxer straightens hair. Many silly consumers today are applying a perm and relaxer back and forth without being aware of the impending dangers to their hair over time.
Dangers of Perms
A perm may change the style of hair to offer a different look that is fashionable or trendy to the wearer, but too many perms too often can cause beautiful natural hair to be dry and brittle. Hence, the hair strands break easily and hair loss is rampant.
Too many perms could also dry up the strands and hair follicles to cause scalp irritation and stunted hair growth. This could lead to a permanent hair loss over time. Consumers today are very tempted to perm their hair in a different style or career demands, but there is too much danger in a perm which could lead to permanent side effects over time.
Natural hair is designed to generate its own required oils and moisture to keep its natural beauty, but vanity and curiosity take over with chemical perms that incline to destroy the natural beauty of hair. It is not unusual for consumers with curly or wavy hair to desire straight hair and vice versa. Hence, they opt for a perm now and then. This would ruin their natural beauty; sometimes forever with no restoration.
All perms use some form of chemicals to some volume that could speed up the damage to hair. The chemicals act very harshly on natural hair which is defenseless against such input. Natural defense components such as natural oils are stripped away with a perm or relaxer treatment.
Restoring Hair Beauty
The market offers a host of restoration treatments which could be rather expensive, while homemade recipes are cheap and effective with natural ingredients.
It may take some time to restore the damage done on hair that had a perm due to the alteration of natural pH balance in the hair growth process. Every perm or relaxer treatment weakens hair strands that are subject to brittleness and scalp irritation. One of the effective remedies for brittle hair due to a perm is the egg yolk and olive oil treatment. A simple mixture of an egg yolk and olive oil applied to the hair during shower helps strengthens the hair to restore its natural beauty.
A perm could thin hair quickly with its brittleness and dryness. A treatment of oat flour with regular conditioning would encourage hair growth for thicker hair. Permanent hair loss could be very hard to recover when the strong heat from a perm could damage the follicles permanently to allow hair growth. Fresh coconut juice with lime is great to stimulate the follicles to grow again.
These are great natural recipes to restore damaged hair caused by a perm. As the saying goes, “prevention is better than cure”; avoid a perm on natural hair.