What are the signs of healthy hair? Healthy hair has a shiny appearance, smooth texture, and good elasticity and is free from breakage, split ends, dryness, and frizz. The health of your hair depends on your scalp health and the hair care practices you make. Learning about the major signs of well-maintained hair will help you build an effective hair care routine and promote a healthy scalp, reduce hair breakage, and more!
In this article, the L’Oréal Professionnel hair care experts have identified the tell-tale signs of healthy tresses and provided best-in-class product and hair spa treatment recommendations to pave the way for breakage-free, shiny, nourished hair.
Signs of healthy and nourished hair
The following are some of the major indicators that describe healthy scalp and nourished hair:
1. Moisturised hair with natural shine
Healthy and nourished hair is everyone’s hair goal. Hydrated hair has a lustrous appearance due to the hair shaft’s ability to reflect light naturally. This shine is a characteristic of healthy hair, with cuticles lying flat, allowing the hair shaft to reflect light. When your hair lacks hydration, it causes the hair to appear dull and lifeless. Using anti-dryness shampoos and other hair care products can help restore hair health, add shine, and give a nourished hair look.
People experiencing hair dryness and damaged hair can consider using L'Oréal Professionnel Absolut Repair range. The shampoo, oil, and mask from this range keeps hair nourished, repaired, and deeply conditioned. L'Oréal Professionnel Absolut Repair range offers 13x resistance to hair damage*, delivers deep nourishment, and gives you thick, damaged hair care results.
Additionally, indulge in a professional in-salon hair spa treatment with L’Oréal Professionnel Hair Spa deep nourishing creambath (preferably twice a month) to get optimally hydrated, soothed scalp, and 2x more nourishment**.
*Instrumental test: Absolut Repair Shampoo + Mask on damaged hair.
**Instrumental test on multiple applications of Conditioning shampoo + Hair spa nourishing créme both vs non-conditioning shampoo.
2. Frizz-free hair
Frizz-free hair denotes healthy, well-nourished strands with sealed cuticles. When hair is hydrated, it smooths and seals the cuticle layer, preventing moisture loss and frizz. On the other hand, when cuticles are compromised, it allows humidity to penetrate the hair shaft, causing swelling and ultimately frizz.
To combat hair frizz, consider using L'Oréal Professionnel Liss Unlimited range. This hair care range, including shampoo, mask, and serum, offers up to 96 hours* of frizz control, smoothens dry, unmanageable hair, and increases shine and softness in the hair.
Struggling with unruly and overprocessed hair? Include the L’Oréal Professionnel Xtenso Care range in your hair care routine. The shampoo, masque, and serum from this advanced range offer 48 hours** of frizz & volume control benefits. Get frizz-free, manageable & smooth hair and control volume with L’Oréal Professionnel Xtenso Care range.
If you are looking for sulfate-free solutions for frizzy hair, look no further than L’Oréal Professionnel Xtenso Care sulfate-free shampoo and L’Oréal Professionnel Xtenso Care sulfate-free masque. The gentle formulation of these products helps tame unruly hair, protect against humidity, and achieve frizz-free, strong, and shiny hair.
*Instrumental Test: Shampoo + Mask + Serum vs. Non-Conditioning Shampoo
**Instrumental test: shampoo + mask + serum vs non-conditioning shampoo.
3. Less breakage
Another essential feature of healthy hair is strong, resilient hair that defies breakage. Elasticity in healthy hair enables it to stretch without breaking, and high moisture content guarantees a silky texture and natural luster. However, some factors can weaken hair, making it prone to breakage. These include;
• Environmental factors like UV rays, pollution, and more
• Heat styling tools, chemical treatment, hair color treatments
• Metal particles
Wondering how metal particles damage your hair? Metal particles can enter your hair through water and accumulate in hair fibers. When you undergo chemical treatments, these metal particles react with the chemicals, causing oxidative stress, which ultimately leads to breakage and color fading.
L’Oréal Professionnel Metal DX has the perfect solution for hair breakage caused by metal particles and chemical treatment. Formulated with Glicoamine, this range prevents metal absorption from water in hair fibers, reducing the chances of breakage and ensuring color intensity. Experience 97% less hair breakage in 1 use* and get true-to-tone lasting color with L’Oréal Professionnel Metal DX range.
*Instrumental test with Metal DX Concentrated Oil.
**Color preservation after multiple wash with Metal Detox shampoo + mask
4. Less hair fall and improved hair growth
Reduced hair shedding is also a sign of healthy hair. You shouldn’t worry even if you lose up to 50-100 strands daily, which is considered normal. However, it becomes a concern when you suffer from excessive shedding, slower hair production, breakage, etc., despite good hair care.
Fortunately, L’Oréal Professionnel has the solution for these prominent hair concerns. For instance,
• L’Oréal Professionnel’s Aminexil Advanced anti-hair loss activator serum
Stress, hormonal imbalances, or scalp issues may cause hair loss. However, you can treat mild hair loss concerns with L’Oréal Professionnel’s Aminexil Advanced anti-hair loss activator serum. This hair serum is free from colorants, silicones & sulfates and helps reduce hair loss in 6 weeks* & offer 87% stronger hair.**
*Clinical study with 130 men during 6 weeks.
**Instrumental test after 1 application.
• L’Oréal Professionnel Serioxyl Advanced hair density activator serum
Once you have minimised hair loss, you can boost hair growth with L’Oréal Professionnel Serioxyl Advanced hair density activator serum. Regular use of this hair regrowth serum can help you get 1000+ new hairs in 6 weeks.***
***Clinical study with 79 during 12 weeks.
Pro tip: A healthy scalp paves the way for less hair fall and enhanced hair growth. To avoid any scalp deregulations like oiliness, irritation, greasiness, consider using L’Oréal Professionnel Scalp Advanced range.
5. Resistance to damage
Hair damage occurs at two levels - surface-level damage and molecular damage.
Surface-level damage: This type of damage occurs at outer layer of the hair. Dull hair, breakage, split ends, etc., are the tell-tale signs of surface level hair damage. People with surface-level damage can care for damaged hair with L'Oréal Professionnel Absolut Repair range as it offers 13x resistance to hair damage*.
*Instrumental test: Absolut Repair Shampoo + Mask on damaged hair.
Molecular damage: It occurs at the deeper layers of hair, compromising the molecular structure. Hair loss, thinning, etc., indicate molecular damage. If your hair has suffered damage at the molecular level, you should use L’Oréal Professionnel Absolut Repair Molecular range as it repairs up to 2 years of damage** in one use*.
*Instrumental test on the fiber macromolecular structure after application of Absolut Repair Molecular Shampoo, Rinse-off Serum, and Leave-in mask.
**Damaged hair: damage caused by daily brushing, use of straightening iron, and one bleaching process.
Now that you know the signs of healthy and nourished hair, go ahead and build a hair care routine for your particular hair type and concern. Indulge in the best hair care practices, choose the right products, and upgrade your hair care regimen with in-salon hair spa treatments. For more hair care-related assistance, you can pay a visit to the nearest L’Oréal Professionnel partner salon to get the best hair care advice, product recommendation, and treatment.