Hair Care during Pregnancy

Hair care during pregnancy needs special attention as the texture of your hair changes during pregnancy period due to hormonal imbalances. Due to these hormonal changes, the woman goes through an emotional as well as physical makeover and needs special attention and care. Hair care tips during pregnancy means there is no need to do something extra but to do some basic hair care and try to avoid some other experiments.

Hair Care during Pregnancy

Hair care during pregnancy needs special attention as the texture of your hair changes during pregnancy period due to hormonal imbalances. Due to these hormonal changes, the woman goes through an emotional as well as physical makeover and needs special attention and care.

Doctors generally forbid pregnant ladies to use harsh chemicals, dyes, medicines and cosmetics, as these can be prove harmful for both the mother and the embryo. Due to hormonal changes, many times the hairs become to fall rapidly while most of the women experienced shinier and thick hairs due to higher level of estrogen enzymes. As the woman delivers the baby, the level of enzyme become normal and the hair falling speed suddenly increases, but you must not worry about it as after the first round of shedding, you get your normal hairs.

Hair care tips during pregnancy means there is no need to do something extra but to do some basic hair care and try to avoid some other experiments. Here are the four main things, which women must avoid to do:

• Hair Coloring: Try to avoid any sort of hair coloring including temporary dyes, semi-permanent dyes and permanent dyes, as all sorts of dyes and even readymade henna have mild to harsh chemical component. Use fresh herbal henna leaves or powder for giving a gradient shade to your hair.
• Colour Bleaches: Colour bleaches contain harsh chemical hydrogen peroxide used for de-colorization.
• Curling: Avoid the use of machines in hair curling. The permanent waves are created by placing two solutions on the hair. The first solution is a waving solution and the second is a neutralization/fixation solution. You can use the hair rollers for making temporary hair curling.
• Relaxers: Like hair curling, do not use hair straightening, as it involves variety of chemicals and waves and heat of the machines.

Several pregnant ladies can fell different types of experience and symptoms like ? changing in hair texture (from straight hair to bouncy full-fledged curls or vice versa), from oily to dry or vice versa, from thinness to thickness, from dry to shiner, and from light color to dark colors etc.

If you know how to treat these issues, you'll regain your beautiful hairs.

What to do?

• General hair care like, washing from appropriate shampoo, rinsing, conditioning, applying henna, oiling, brushing hairs and hair styling does not harm to future mothers and they must apply to these.
• Conditioning is very important; opt for homemade treatments. Vegetable or fruit deep conditioning treatments are the best.
• Ingredients as melons, banana, natural oils, honey as well as avocados can be the basic elements of a healthy hair mask.
• Hot oil treatments are good for pregnant women too.
• Try the homemade deep conditioning recipes, by mixing some jojoba oil with virgin olive oil and some almond oil and pamper your strands with it.
• Scalp massage can be very soothing after a hard day. You might consider practicing it, during your hair cleansing process.
• At last healthy diet, proper sleep and being calm and relax are the most important factors for gaining a healthy hair during pregnancy.