Yumi:

Today’s topic is about taking care of damaged hair after summer.

 

Hama-chan:

During summer there are many factors that can affect hair, such as ultraviolet radiation, alkali from seawater and sweat, chlorine in swimming pool, or different type of water during vacation. It can be difficult to prevent this and protect our hair.

Yumi:

Yes, at the end of summer we tend to have a lot of damaged hair even if we try to be careful.

 

Hama-chan:

That’s right. Therefore, I would like to talk about taking care of those damaged hair.

First of all, I explain what causes those damages to the hair. Hair is made of keratin, rod-like protein, which is harden with butter-like oil, covered by cuticle which is also harden with butter-like oil.

 

Yumi:

I can imagine the structure.

 

Hama-chan:

When we have damaged hair, first cuticle is taken away which causes oil to be spilled out, it makes the rod of hair to be uncovered and creates split hair. The only “living” portion of the hair is found in the follicle. The hair that is visible is the hair shaft, which reveals no biochemical activity and is considered “dead,” so some people say that there is no remedy for damaged hair.

 

Yumi:

I heard about that.

 

Hama-chan:

Since hair cannot be fixed by itself, we have to take good care of it. What we can do is to add butter-like component. (Unfortunately we have not discovered a technology to paste cuticle one by one, or keep keratin not being uncovered.)

 

Yumi:

So we need to supplement butter which is lost when damaged.

 

Hama-chan:

Hair cannot be revived by itself as same as nail, but hair can be wet, meaning hair has an ability to absorb.

 

Yumi:

I see.

 

Hama-chan:

So, to make it simple, very simple, the way to revive hair is to add oil. The most effective way is to add oil to damaged hair.

 

Yumi:

That is easy to understand.

 

Hama-chan:

The main purpose of in-the-bathroom treatment, outside-the-bathroom treatment, or the one at hair salon is all about adding and keeping hair moisturised. We need oil film, for the dried and uncovered hair – which is a simple way for treatment.

 

Yumi:

That is simple and an easy way.

 

Hama-chan:

Someone told me that she used a bad quality shampoo and hair got damaged in one day. It is actually a person who used strong shampoo and the oil film got taken off. I remember when I was a kid, I helped my mother to wash flying pan and I washed too much so the oil coating was taken off. This is same here for hair.

 

Yumi:

That is even easier to understand.

 

 

Hama-chan:

It is easy to imagine if we think about how to do oil coating for frying pan. We put oil little by little every day. It is the same for hair.

 

Yumi:

Well, it seems like it will take a long time.

 

Hama-chan:

Yes, we cannot make the world in a day; beautiful and healthy hair will not be made in one day either.  However, as usual I have a secret technique for you.

 

Yumi:

Wow!  Tell us the secret!

 

Hama-chan:

After shampoo, apply treatment 5 times. Any kind of treatment works, and it can easily create an oil film coating.

 

Yumi:

That is really a special technique!  I will try before an important day I need to look shiny!

 

Lecturer: Yuichi Hamaguchi

Hair Salon: Cura