Healthy Hair Habits: Products To Help With Hair Fall & Frizzy Hair This Monsoon

Frizzy And Damaged Hair: Your hair becomes super sensitive due to the influx of excess moisture in the air. It tangles up like crazy and causes immense frizz. As monsoon's humid air naturally has more water molecules than the dry air, it results in hair strands forming a high number of hydrogen bonds on them that makes hair fold back, and curl or become frizzy.

Flaky Scalp: Lack of moisture causes the scalp to become dry and flaky. As dead skin cells accumulate on dry skin, it leads to causing irritation and itching. Excess oil on the scalp is another cause that allows fungus to grow on your scalp, resulting in dandruff. Dirt, grime, acid from the rain water and styling products harm your hair further during the rains. Product residue, dirt, and grime have the ability to stick to the hair and scalp. It attracts more bacteria and gives your scalp a flaky appearance. 

Hair Fall: Hair fall is the baddest of 'em all (and not in a good way). Your hair fall rate increases by 25%-30% during monsoon because humidity deprives the scalp of its natural oils, resulting in a dry scalp and weaker roots. The weak follicles in turn have to bear the humid air which ultimately leads to hair fall.

The problem always starts at the roots so it only makes sense that you tackle the problem from its foundation. During monsoon, since you are dealing with brittle, sensitive and falling hair strands—double down on formulations that help with strengthening the hair from the roots. And also products that aid with growth to reduce hair fall as well as helping newer hair strands to sprout.

LBB Tip: While the good old oil champi might feel like a failproof solution, do make a note that heavy oils can lead to over-greasing that traps sweat and debris, risking severe infections, dandruff, and even more hair fall.

If you're looking for magic in a bottle, try The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Hair Serum. It's a solution for dry and damaged hair that aims to make it denser, healthier, and thicker. Since the serum is water-based, it doesn't make your scalp oily even after daily use. What we love the most is that it can be used for all hair types. Patience is key with this product, you have to use it daily at night for a minimum of two to three months to see visible results, but you will be rewarded by the end. 

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Wishcare Hair Growth Serum Concentrate gained a lot of love on the internet. Users made videos for new baby hair growth because of the continuous use of this product. It's a water-based serum meant to be used daily at night with ingredients like fermented rice water, vitamin E, plant keratin, biotin and more. What we love the most is how easy it is to use, thanks to the pump applicator that evenly distributes the product.

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Washing is of utmost importance during monsoons since you want to get rid of the all trouble the humid is attacking your hair with at all times that's causing loss of smoothness, strength and even hair. Since unruly, frizzy hair become a thing of common, opt for shampoos, conditioners and hair masks that have moisturising ingredients. The point is to help your hair form a protective layer of hydration that keeps it intact and forms a barrier against humidity. Also, look for strengthening properties in your hair wash essentials to combat the issue while washing your hair itself. However, do make it a point to not over-wash your hair during monsoon since that can further strip off the natural oils and make the scalp and hair even drier.

LBB Tip: Be gentle while handling your hair in the shower and detangle them with a wide-toothed comb with minimum pressure.

Out of the entire list of shampoos we dictated to our hair stylist, this one is probably the only one they approved. This one, in particular, is great for dry and damaged hair as it provides 13 times more resistance to hair damage and has strengthening ingredients like wheat protein. While it's not cheap, it's also not in the pricey category, which is a bonus point.

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Love Beauty & Planet aims to create effective products that are good for their users and the planet, and this conditioner rightly stands as a testament to that. It aims to strengthen broken hair bonds with the help of glucose-based technology (), olive oil and peptide complex. What you get in the end is a product that claims to reverse hair damage by three times and improve hair strength by 50 per cent in one wash. Users can't seem to stop raving about the product and have repurchased it multiple times.

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Schwarzkopf's Essence Enriching Cream Masque is formulated with a patented technology called Hydrolyzed Keratin, which means that the protein molecule has been broken down for better penetration to the hair cuticle. This one product is meant to repair, nourish, and restore your hair. To use, apply it evenly to freshly washed towel-dried hair, let it sit for 20 minutes, and rinse. Users say that this product has become their holy grail and makes their hair soft, silky, and shiny.

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The BBlunt Hair Fall Shampoo comes with ingredients like pea protein and caffeine claiming to reduce hair fall upto 93%. What we really like about it is that, it is curated for Indian hair, and along with aiding with anti-hair fall, strengthens and nourishes the hair while also adding shine to it all thanks to the ingredients used in the formulation. The Pea protein helps rebuild keratin, repairs damaged hair and revives your limp hair, while the caffeine helps nourish your hair and strengthen it from the root while also aiding with blood circulation. 

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One of the most recognisable brands globally, Dove has been on our shelves at some point in time. We've got our eye on the Hair Fall Rescue Conditioner that claims to help with hair breakage, nourish and hydrate the hair, as well as make it tangle free and smooth. It's enriched with a Nutrilock Serum especially for hair that is weak and prone to falling and breakage. 

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We're huge fans of the Bare Anatomy Scalp Scrub, so we had to get our hands on the mask as well. An up and coming homegrown hair care brand, Bare Anatomy is killing it with their products that are designed and formulated for Indians. The anti-hair fall mask is packed with peptides that claims to help with dry and frizzy hair aka, monsoon hair! It helps make the hair shiner, thicker and stronger, as well as hydrate it all powered by a Hydrafuse technology with stellar ingredients like adenosine and biotinoyl tripeptide -1 that help with multiple concerns like improving blood circulation, hair health, accelerating growth and preventing breakage. 

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After you have put in all that effort, it's necessary you seal all that hard work with an after-wash product. During monsoon, it is recommended to apply a hair serum or leave-in conditioner to protect your hair from humidity and all other irritants, while also being able to nourish and hydrate your hair. Since your scalp tends to get dry, this last step helps your hair follicles retain their natural moisture. Additionally, these also help tame the frizz and unruliness to make them easy to manage.

L'Oreal is known to nail their hair care products, especially their serums! We love the Extraordinary Oil Hair Serum because of how good it is. It's packed with 6 rare flowers like chamomile, rose, jasmine, lotus, tiare and flax all that claim to give the air 24 hour shine and protection. This one also comes with UV protection making this all the more vital during the summer and monsoon months. Further it is heat protectant, helps smoothen hair, give shine, detangle, and even remove frizz! 

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We firmly believe that serums are the elixirs for your hair making it a rather necessary step in your hair care routine. And with monsoons coming in, most of us tend to struggle with dry, frizzy hair too making the need for a serum all the more important! We like the Matrix Biolage one which is a 6 in 1 smoothening serum that comes with goodies like avocado and grapeseed oil. It claims to tame frizz and make the hair smooth which we believe it does owning to the ingredients. Other benefits of the 6 in 1 serum are protection against humidity, shine, detangling, nourishing dry hair, and helping smoothen rough ends. So even if you're someone with treated hair, this'll work! 

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