Hair care: tips for pregnancy
During pregnancy, your hair is usually particularly beautiful, shiny and full. This is mainly due to estrogen, which your body is now increasingly producing. How to best care for your hair and make it shine, you can find out here.
The healthier lifestyle during pregnancy makes your hair shine almost without hair care. The hair now usually grows faster and has a longer lifespan. After the birth of your child, the condition of your hair usually deteriorates because the beautifying hormone estrogen drops rapidly. Many mothers then have increased hair loss and suffer more from oily hair. Nevertheless, this is nothing to worry about. In most cases, no more hair falls out than was newly produced during pregnancy. With the termination of lactation, the condition usually returns to normal on its own.
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ToggleDye hair or not?
If you want to dye your hair during pregnancy, you should wait at least until the second trimester of pregnancy. The chemicals in the aggressive hair dyes can enter your body and be passed on to the child via breast milk. If you do not want to do without dyeing, it is advisable to switch to natural products or gentle tints. It is also important that you inform your hairdresser about your pregnancy. The intense smells in the salon can easily cause nausea.
Hair care for radiant hair
During pregnancy, your hair has a longer lifespan. But this also means that the longer your hair stays on your head, the drier it gets. You can easily counteract this with a few hair care tricks.
- When washing, shampoo only the hairline. To clean the lengths, the shampoo, which flows down when washed out, is sufficient.
- Care for your hair once or twice a week with a rich hair conditioner. It is best to let the cure work under a towel. The thermal effect enhances the effect.
- Avoid rubbing your hair dry. After washing, it is better to squeeze gently.
- When blow-drying, choose the lowest possible temperature and keep the device as far away from your hair as possible. Of course, it’s even better if you let your hair air dry.
- Do not use hot wrappers or straighteners. This only makes your hair unnecessarily splicy, brittle and dull.
- You can easily put acute dandruff to flight with a rinse of lukewarm nettle tea or zinc hair tonic.
- Make yourself a smoothing hair conditioner: Knead one to three tablespoons of olive oil (depending on hair length) carefully into the hair lengths. Cover first aluminum foil and then a preheated towel around your head. Let it sit for an hour and then wash it well.