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Damage That Blow Drying Can Cause

Hair dryers are among the products which are frequently used at home and beauty salons. Due to the fact few individuals wish to leave the house with a wet hairdo, they want good equipment to dry hair prior to styling. But, even though dryers are convenient and popular these products will still cause damage to hair.

Some of the possible damage includes:

Weathering

This will occur steadily as time passes, regardless of the products used. Hair weathering involves cuticle of hair shaft starting to wear out, revealing the cortex and resulting in the breakage. Even though hair is rather strong, warm treatments like hair drying could cause this action to speed-up, which means broken and damaged hair might occur a lot faster.

Hearing problems

It might not feel as if this is happening, but dryers are literally directly on the borderline in terms of decibel levels which could affect your hearing. The dryers are more intense in certain ways when compared with other equipments, since they tend to be used regularly and sounds will be near to the eardrums.

Burns

It is common for some hair dryers to attain as much as 225 degrees if switched on to the maximum setting. Due to this, they are able to easily result in skin burns when coming in contact with uncovered areas of the scalp and neck. It is advisable to keep dryers from the reach of kids when they are hot.

Tips for safer use

You must focus on protecting your hair from extreme heat damages by allowing your hair to dry somewhat prior to using the dryer. Make use of a towel as well as air dry for some time; basically use a blow dryer once the hair is moist, instead of dripping wet.

Always hold hair dryers far from the hair in order to avoid immediate heat damage and also spare hearing.

There are also some special medicated hair shampoos on the market to moisturize in order to reduce the weathering influences of constant heat damages.

For more great tips on blow drying hair visit http://www.bonnetdryer.org/.

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