Two Expensive Salon Treatments You Can Do at Home to Fix Damaged Hair

So you have fried your hair. It can happens lots of ways - perms, coloring, straightening irons all can weaken the hair, and sometimes you just leave the straightening iron on your hair a little too long. Even one of the top super models once had to cut off her locks in favor of a pixie cut that was colored a silvery blonde because of a bad coloring job fried it. But before you resort to cutting it all off, first try a few remedies.

You may have heard of using olive oil to condition your damaged hair, and it does help, but it is practically impossible to wash out. Instead, take a tip from two expensive salon treatments that use jojoba oil or sunflower oil. Both of these treatments work on the principle that jojoba can be driven deep into the hair, especially with heat.

Jojoba works because it fills in the porous holes in damaged hair and helps smoothes it out, and jojoba drives in further any product or conditioner you use. This principle is why ISH Ionic Products work so well. ISH is available in your salon as a treatment to seal the hair shaft and may be your last resort for hair that is naturally frizzy or very damaged. ISH products can also be purchased at Frizzy2Silky.com. ISH condition is largely a jojoba based product with little blue beads of jojoba in it. When put on the hair and driven in by high heat of a hair dryer or a hair straightening iron. The blue beads will melt into the hair and seal of the pores - making a healthy looking hair strand that is now filled with conditioning jojoba. Hair is left feeling silky and is very full. Full instructions are available for doing this at home on their website.

Another salon treatment you can emulate at home is to mix one part safflower oil and two parts jojoba oil, apply it to the hair and scalp and comb it through. Then the salon will put someone in a special halo that emits warm steam in a fine mist. You can emulate this effect by a form of non-dangerous steam - or a wet heat. Some choices are a steamy hot shower or sauna or steam mist like a steam styling tool (Caruso curling steamer is an example) or even a wet heating pack or a hot wet towel wrapped around your head for twenty minutes. Then if you can, blot out the extra oil and blow dry in the jojoba oil and leave it in for several hours or if possible overnight. Try to limit the use of the hot iron until you get your hair back into shape and try to limit the use of alcohol products on the hair. A small amount of jojoba oil on the last inch or two of your hair on the dry ends can work as a styling aid, make it look shiny and can work as a leave in conditioner.

To style, use a hair dryer on cool setting, only use a hairdryer once it is about 80 percent dry. A pre-thermal styling product helps protect the hair while exposed to heat. Another tip is to make sure you have a quality brush and comb so you are not damaging your hair.

Once you have rehabilitated your hair, if you color it darker it will often leave the hair in better condition. Try to limit the heat styling tools for weekends or special events and make use of up-dos to extend the styling life of when you do straighten your hair. If you want to continue to use a straightening iron, invest in a quality one since a cheap one often will make your hair smooth the first few times, but quickly seem to cause hair damage and even breakage. If you use a straightening iron, invest in a thermal styling product, CHI and Fekkai both make one, one protect your hair from damage. They also make the cuticle appear smoother and shinier.