Does your hair fall out of place, become brittle or feel like straw when color treated, or heat stressed? It is a clear indication you have damaged hair. Damaged hair may appear dry, brittle, fragile, lack shine and seem unmanageable. Well, your days of hair damage struggles are over with trusted, proven shampoo and conditioner for damaged hair.

Why Your Hair Gets Damaged and What It Really Needs

Are you experiencing damaged hair and you are at a loss of what is happening? With proven hair products your struggles with damaged hair will be a walk in the park. 

• Heat 

• Dye 

• Bleach

• Harsh chemical products

• Bad hair care routine

These outlined are the reasons you're experiencing damaged hair. It weakens the cuticle, leaving the cortex exposed to environmental damage.

Damaged hair deserves the best;

• Gentle cleansing with no sulfate, paraben and harsh chemicals

• Intense hydration and conditioning 

• Keratin treatment to strengthen and repair the structure of the damaged hair and bring back to normalcy

• Protection from UV rays, excessive sun and heat styling damage

Have a Fresh Start With a Clarifying Shampoo

The first fix to damaged hair is to begin with a clarifying shampoo once a week. This eliminates product residues, hard water minerals from swimming that can cause build up and weigh down the hair. A wash with a clarifying shampoo like GK Hair pH+ Shampoo, cleanses, and gives your strands a fresh start.

Pro Tips 

Use a clarifying shampoo not more than once a week to prevent dry hair that comes with overuse.

Use a Gentle Repair Shampoo

After a wash with a clarifying shampoo, wash with a shampoo and conditioner that is gentle to the scalp, contains sulfate-free, and paraben-free, hydrating ingredients, and a protein complex like juvexin.

Use Along With a Deep Color Safe Repair Conditioner 

If your damaged hair is one that is caused by color treatment, a color safe repair duo—a repair shampoo and conditioner like GK Hair's Shield Shampoo and Conditioner formulated to maintain the hue of your dyed hair, while also leaving it constantly hydrated.

In your choice of a color safe conditioner, be sure it is:

• Labelled color safe 

• Composed of nourishing oils and butters for moisturizing effects

A weekly deep conditioning of the hair delivers deep hydration, protects hair against split ends and flyaways, smoothens and makes hair lustre, improves elasticity and toughness of each strand, minimizes tangling and breakage.

Pro Tips

Apply a deep color safe conditioner to your hair once a week to damp or wet hair. Leave for 10 - 20 minutes and completely rinse off. However, if your hair often gets so dry, use a deep conditioner more often with extra attention to the mid length and tips.

Have a Lasting Protection With a Leave-In Conditioner

Get lasting protection daily with a leave-in conditioner. The secret to constant hydration, frizz-free, and soft hair is a leave-in conditioner. A light weight formula works for fine hair like GK Hair's Leave-In Conditioner Spray and a creamer formula like GK Hair's Leave-In Conditioner Cream.

Pro Tips 

Pay attention to the mid-lengths and ends of your hair. Avoid applying to the roots to avoid greasiness.

Tone Down Brassiness With a Purple Shampoo and Conditioner 

A purple shampoo and conditioner brings out the contrast between the different shades of your strands and makes them stand out uniquely. It tones down unwanted warmth, masks out brassiness and keeps your color bright and vibrant.

 Pro Tips

Wash with a purple shampoo for your damaged hair if yours is as a result of a yellow tone or heavy brassiness in your hair. This purple shampoo is a tone correcting blonde shampoo. It maintains the hair's shine and vibrancy, but you must limit usage to prevent excessive drying out of your hair—only apply once brassiness sets in.

Schedule a Salon-Quality Shampoo and Conditioner Routine 

A salon quality shampoo and conditioner routine combines the best hair products into your weekly routine. Here is an effective way to use a salon quality shampoo and conditioner.

• Wash with a clarifying shampoo to remove product buildup or residue

• Apply a repair shampoo and a deep conditioner 

• Spray a leave-in conditioner before you set out for the day for all day softness and glow

• Use a color safe repair conditioner for color treated hair

• Use a heat protectant before using a hot tool or blow dryer 

 

Tips For Faster Restoration 

Besides using the best shampoo and conditioner for damaged hair, a little habit here and there in the right direction sets your hair apart for a faster restoration.

Trim Your Hair Regularly

Trimming out split ends tames the damaged ends from travelling up the hair shaft.

Want to know more about split ends? Find Out What They Are and Experts' Tips On How To Fix Them.

Be Easy on Your Hair

While combing or detangling, use a wide tooth comb on moisturized or damp hair.

Avoid the Use of Chemical Treatment Always

Occasionally space out dyeing and bleaching sessions, or any other chemical treatment to give your hair ample time to recover and get revitalized.

Sulfate-free and Balanced Ingredients Matter

Already damaged hair is fragile, brittle, and prone to breakage. So your shampoo and conditioner for damaged hair must be a formula that offers:

• Cleansing

• Rehydration

• Strengthens with keratin

• Maintaining color 

• Prevent heat damaged

Bottom Line

You don't have to live with the struggles of damaged hair forever. It should be a wake-up call to treat your hair with utmost care. With the right arsenals of shampoo and conditioner for damaged hair, you can restore hope and give life to your hair again.