Hair Brushing: Good or Bad?
Your grandmother said 100 strokes every night before going to bed, something you read recently in women’s magazine says brushing is terrible for the hair, what is the truth! Well it is somewhere in between.
Brushing of hair is good because when you brush your hair daily using a good quality brush it helps keep hair clean, glossy and healthy looking. Brushing stimulates the glands in the scalp to distribute oils. The brushing process can normalize an oily scalp as well as a dry one and can also make you hair look good. Dust and dirt is dislodged by brushing so brushing cleans the hair in that sense.
However, the 100 strokes number may be rather excessive, because what excessive brushing tends to do is wear away the hair’s cuticle – its protective covering. Excessive brushing makes the cuticle rough and erodes it thereby exposing the inner cortex and weakening hair, making it more likely to break.
Therefore, comb your hair just enough for grooming, detangling, and styling, but stop short of over brushing and damaging the hair shaft.
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