Improving the Smell of Your Hair
Smelling great is easy with the abundance of perfumes, body sprays, deodorants, and lotions on the market. However, when it comes to making hair smell great, the number of choices is a lot more limited. This doesn’t make a lot of sense when you consider that the hair is very absorbent and bad smells seem to be drawn to hair like a magnet. If you are looking for ways to help your hair smell better, here is some advice.
Sweat is one of the more common contributors to bad-smelling hair. Throughout the course of a normal day, your scalp is not able to breathe completely because it is covered in hair. If you have dark hair or if you live in a hot climate, the smell of sweat can accumulate pretty fast in your hair. For people who exercise, this is a particularly big problem. If you don’t have time to wash your hair in the shower, you might want to try to use some powder in your hair like cornstarch to help absorb the sweat. Powder shampoo is a product designed to absorb the grease from your hair and make it smell fresh without having to use water and this can help you smell a lot better.
Some people who normally don’t have any issues with smelly hair find themselves scrambling for a solution after spending time at a smoky bar or club. Even staying in a house or car with a few smokers can be enough to leave your hair smelling like you are a chain smoker. The smell of smoke lingers in your hair long after you have changed your clothes and left the smoky scene, so you need to find a good way to get that smell out of your hair.
If your first instinct is to start spraying your hair with perfume, you should consider this: perfume is mostly alcohol and alcohol is very bad for your hair. Even just a little bit can dry out your hair and damage it. However, if you look around you can find a fragrance spray that is specifically designed for your hair. These sprays do not contain alcohol and do not damage the hair the way perfume does. You can also see if your regular perfume has a matching hair fragrance in the line.