Frizzy hair is something women avoid like the plague! Most of what is known as a “bad hair day” usually consists of a frizzy, untamable hair. The reason behind frizzy hair is the breakage in the hair and severe damage on hair strands that causes it to feel coarse.

Major frizz most often occurs to those people who have wavy and curly hair, naturally or otherwise, as well as for those people whose hair have undergone a little too much styling and treatment. Frizziness can also be attributed to the none-too-gentle way of daily handling like using of harsh ingredients in your shampoo, combing harshly, blow drying daily, etc.

What can you do to prevent frizzy hair, then? Well, if your hair has had a few bad hair days and tends to be frizzy, then you must review your hair care routine and check:

1. Your shampoo – Shampoo products are made specifically for different hair types. For those with oily hair, there’s a shampoo that absorbs and lessens the oil produced by the hair strands; for those with color-treated hair, there’s a shampoo designed to help your hair maintain its brilliant color; for dry and frizzy hair, there are lots of moisturizing and repairing shampoos. Always check what kind of hair the shampoo is made for.

2. Your conditioner – With the proper conditioner, bad hair days can be lessened. Hair experts recommend deep conditioning once a week to help give life to coarse, frizzy hair. Most of the instructions at the back of conditioner bottles recommend users to leave the product on the hair for 1 minute, but you can actually leave it on for 3 minutes for the best results. Another trick is to condition your hair and wrap a hot towel around it.

3. Your hair tools – Are you using hair-friendly combs? Wood-based combs or even those that come in soft plastic can do wonders rather than the metal-based ones. If you have frizzy hair, it’s really important that you stay away from fine-toothed combs and use those that have wide gaps. Since frizzy hair has a tendency to tangle a lot, wide gaps will help in detangling without stressing the hair too much like what a fine comb would usually do. Avoid scrunchies and ponytail barrettes with rubber, as the friction could only cause disaster, and it’s much better to use scrunchies in stretchable cotton or soft silk.

Keep in mind you should refrain from scrubbing your hair too hard with a towel. Instead of rubbing it vigorously, simply squeeze the excess water out or keep your hair twisted in a towel to absorb the water. The more you find ways of preventing breakage, the less chance for frizziness!

How about for those with seriously frizzy hair?

1. Hair spa – opposed to having your hair styled, blowdried, colored, straightened, bleached in a salon, taking your hair to a “hair spa” is more on letting your hair down to be pampered and stripped off harsh chemicals. Hair spas have become a clinic or a center for problematic hair. You can pamper your hair at least twice a month to get some mild treatments like deep moisturizing and revitalizing, as well as getting treatments for the healthiest hair possible.

2. Deep conditioning, repairing serums, and leave-on hair creams – all these serve as ‘medicine’ and ‘vitamins’ to your hair. Deep conditioning brings back the softness of frizzy hair, making it more manageable and less prone to excessive frizziness. It’s important that you visit a hair expert before using any kind of serums for the hair. There are too many instances that people buy hair repair serums only to make the damage even worse. Serums are concentrated in hair repair ingredients, too. It is used sparingly and conditionally. When serums are used properly, they provide instant boost to the health of your hair. When it comes to leave-on hair creams, pick one that’s light and one that doesn’t have an overpowering fragrance.

Whatever skin type or skin color, everybody is prone to sunburn from spending too much time under the sun. When exposed to UV rays, it doesn’t take long for the skin to begin to “burn”. It can be as mild as a slight itch to actual peeling.

There are a lot of different treatments for sunburns – both medical and natural. The most important thing you can do with either a medical or natural treatment is to act fast. You do not want to wait and damage your skin more. It’s important that you put some salve onto it as soon as possible.

Below are some great natural do-it-yourself treatments to alleviate itchy and painful sunburns:

Apricot Anti-Itch Salve:
1. Get an apricot or two, depending on how wide the sunburned area is. Soften the apricots by letting it sit in warm water for 5 minutes.
2. As it gets soft, peel the skin gently. Then mash the apricots in a bowl.
3. Add a little bit of honey, just a teaspoon will do. Mix well with the mashed apricots.
4. Apply the salve on the sunburned area. Rinse off with warm water after 15 minutes.

Yogurt-and-Cucumber Moisturizing Treatment
This home remedy is really great for those lighter burns. Yogurt has wonderful enzymes and acids that are great to treat dry, irritated skin. Cucumber can nourish the sunburned skin, and has that cooling effect you will love.
1. Simply clean the sunburned area with lukewarm water, pat very gently with cotton to dry.
2. Get half a cucumber and peel the skin out. Take the seeds out and mash the cucumber in a blender until it’s a paste.
3. In a small bowl, pour the cucumber paste and add plain yogurt. Mix well.
4. Spread it evenly across the damaged skin. Let it sit for 20 minutes or until the cucumber’s cooling effect fades.

For Inflamed Sunburned Skin:
If you’re having trouble with heavy redness on your sunburn, you can simply take a cool shower to help the outer layer of the skin cool down a bit. Be sure not to use ice on sunburned skin, as ice has an extremely cold temperature that could also shock the skin. A slight, cooling bag would suffice.

Gentle Skin Peeling Treatment:
When it comes to helping the skin peel naturally, there’s nothing that works as well as Tea Tree Oil. Imagine a sunburned area of skin where you see little dry, flaky patches of peeing skin that doesn’t seem to go away. With the use of a Tea Tree Oil solution, you can speed up the peeling progress.

1. Get a small container ready, tea tree oil, a bottle, a tablespoon of extravirgin olive oil and square cotton swabs.
2. In the container, mix in the two oils 1:2, tea tree oil and olive oil respectively
3. Moisten the cotton and apply it to the peeling oil

When it comes to caring for your sunburned skin, cooling and lessening the irritation of the skin is your outmost priority. The best thing is to keep the area moisturized and hydrated! That means drink lots of water.

As long as you avoid putting strong, acidic ointments on the skin you should be fine. Some advice I’ve seen is kind of scary, involving toothpaste too supposedly cool the skin, which is wrong. The mint in the toothpaste does not cool the skin, but burns it even more. Don’t use apple cider vinegar, either. ACV is considered a cure-all but in this case it will do more harm than good. The worse kind of sunburn would be one where the skin looks oddly shiny and blistering, so if it gets to this point, I suggest bandaging it up and going to your dermatologist and have your doctor take a look at the skin.