Hair care guide: answers to your questions about hair and scalp

60+ guides on hair concerns, care know-how, ingredients and life stages: where a problem comes from and which routine fits, step by step.

• Dry, Straw-Like Hair: Causes and How to Care for It

  A touch test shows whether your hair is dry, a table pairs six causes with the change for each, and honey, egg, oil and beer each get a verdict.

• What Helps Split Ends? Repair, Seal or Cut

  Only scissors remove split ends; sealing smooths them. With a table of split end types, the twist technique for home trims and a routine with amounts.

• Volume for fine hair: care, blow-drying and the right cut

  Volume for fine hair with a self-check: the mistakes that weigh roots down, blow-drying in five steps, mousse or root spray, and the cut that suits you.

• Sensitive scalp: what helps with itching and tightness

  A self-check shows whether your sensitive scalp is dry, irritated or flaky, plus common triggers, a calm routine and the signs that need a dermatologist.

• Colour-treated hair care: how to make the colour last

  What colour-treated hair means and how to care for it: 10 rules, a self-check table and when to do the first wash after colouring.

• Thinning hair: care routine and when to see a dermatologist

  A self-check separates breakage, shedding and fine hair. Plus the complete four-step routine for thinning hair and when to see a dermatologist.

• How Often Should You Wash Your Hair? By Scalp Type

  How often to wash your hair, in a table by scalp type, plus how to wash it properly in six steps with amounts and when shampooing twice is worth it.

• How to Blow-Dry Your Hair Properly: a 6-Step Guide

  How to blow-dry your hair properly: six steps with distance, heat setting and nozzle, a table by hair type and ten common mistakes with their fix.

• Silicones and Sulfates: Are They Bad for Your Hair?

  When sulfates and silicones get in the way: myths with a verdict, a table by hair type and the INCI names that give both away on an ingredients list.

• How to Build a Hair Care Routine: 3 Steps by Hair Type

  Build your hair care routine from cleanse, condition and protect: a table by hair type, amounts per hair length and a four-week test.

• How to use hair oil: how many drops, when and where

  How to use hair oil, with a drops table by hair length: before washing, on damp or dry hair, five steps and common mistakes with their fixes.

• Curly and Wavy Hair Care: Wash Day and Routine by Type

  A curl-type table with amounts, LOC or LCO, plopping, diffusing and day-2 refreshing: how to care for curly and wavy hair step by step.

• REJUVENIQE Oil by MONAT: Uses, Drop Chart and Who It Suits

  REJUVENIQE® is MONAT's hair oil with abyssinian oil, used as a pre-wash treatment or on the ends. With a drop chart by hair length and a hair-type table.

• Nature-based, vegan, clean: what hair care labels mean

  Nature-based, natural cosmetics, vegan, clean, cruelty-free: what each label proves and what it leaves open, with a table and a four-step label check.

• Protein or Moisture: What Does Your Hair Need?

  A wet strand stretch test shows whether your hair lacks moisture or protein, plus the signs of protein overload and how often each treatment is due.

• Postpartum Hair Shedding: Timeline and What Helps

  When postpartum hair shedding starts and ends, month by month in a table, plus a routine for life with a baby and the blood tests worth asking about.

• Menopause hair changes: what happens and what helps

  A timeline from perimenopause onwards, a table matching each change to its care, a four-step routine and which blood tests you can ask about.

• Summer Hair Care: Protect Hair From Salt, Chlorine and Sun

  With a self-check and a swim-day routine: how to soak hair before swimming, rinse out salt and chlorine properly and avoid a green tinge.

• Winter Hair Care: Heated Air, Static and Hat Hair

  A self-check shows whether heated air, static or your hat is stressing your hair, plus a winter routine with amounts and quick fixes for crackling.

• Men's Hair Care: Tips and a Routine by Hair Length

  Men's hair care tips: a routine by hair length with amounts, a scalp self-check, styling without residue and what helps with straw-like hair.

• Stress Hair Loss: How Long It Lasts and What Helps

  Why stress hair loss starts two to three months later, with a self-check, a timeline to regrowth and clear signs it is time to see a doctor.

• Grey hair care: yellow tinge, shine and dry lengths

  Grey hair care with a self-check: where the yellow tinge comes from, how much purple shampoo to use and what brings shine back to dry grey lengths.

• Does Rosemary Oil Help Hair Loss? What the Study Shows

  The rosemary oil hair loss study has clear limits: laid out in a table here, plus the dilution in drops and who should leave the oil alone.

• How to tame frizzy hair: self-check and routine

  How to tame frizz: a self-check for five frizz types, a routine with amounts by hair length, drying technique and a verdict on vinegar rinses.

• Is Coconut Oil Good for Your Hair? A Verdict by Hair Type

  Which hair coconut oil suits and which it doesn't, what the 2003 lab study shows, amounts by hair length and the pre-wash treatment step by step.

• Does Caffeine Shampoo Help Hair Loss? What Studies Show

  What studies show on caffeine for hair loss, why two minutes of lather is very little, and a self-check to see whether a trial is worth it.

• Heat Protectant Spray: When You Need It and How to Use It

  When you need heat protectant, which temperature suits your hair and how many sprays per length: with a tool-by-tool table and a verdict on oil.

• Hair Breakage vs Hair Loss: How to Tell the Difference

  A pull test, a look at the hair end and a self-check table show whether it's hair breakage or hair loss, and whether 100 hairs a day is normal.

• Air-Dry vs Blow-Dry Hair: Which Is Kinder?

  Air-dry or blow-dry your hair? A table decides by hair type, and four steps show how to combine both with less heat and less friction.

• Oily roots and dry ends: what to do about both

  Greasy roots and dry ends at once? A zone table shows what goes where and how much, plus a self-check and the four-step zone wash.

• How Often to Cut Hair? Intervals by Length and Goal

  A table gives trim intervals by length, hair type and goal, a yearly sum shows how much length you keep, and how much a micro-trim takes off.

• Do Hair Masks Work? What They Do, How Often, Limits

  What a hair mask does in the fibre, how it differs from conditioner and leave-in, amounts by hair length and how to tell you have overdone it.

• What Order to Apply Hair Products: First to Last

  Hair products in the right order: a table with where and how much for each step, LOC or LCO for curls, and whether shampoo or conditioner goes first.

• Sun protection for hair: what your parting and lengths need

  A spot-by-spot verdict: when your parting needs SPF, what UV does to hair colour, and why hair oil or a UV leave-in can't replace a hat.

• Seasonal hair loss in autumn: how long is it normal?

  Is hair loss in autumn normal? A timeline from July to April, a six-point self-check and the warning signs that mean it's time to see a doctor.

• Advanced Hydration or Renew: which system suits your hair?

  MONAT Advanced Hydration or Renew: the difference in a table, a single-hair thickness test, five decision questions and amounts by hair length.

• Revive or IR Clinical: volume or density?

  Ponytail test, comparison table and amounts by hair length: find out whether fine hair needs Revive or thinning density needs IR Clinical.

• BOND IQ or REJUVABEADS? What helps split ends and breakage

  Bond IQ™ for lengths that snap, REJUVABEADS® for split tips: a strand test, comparison table, five questions to decide and a combined routine.

• Scalp Comfort or Purifying Vinegar for your scalp?

  A comparison table and a test after your next wash show whether your scalp needs Scalp Comfort or Purifying Vinegar, even when both seem to fit.

• How to choose the right MONAT shampoo for your scalp

  A morning-after test reveals your scalp type, and a table matches it to the right MONAT shampoo by hair thickness. Plus amounts and common mistakes.

• MONAT hair care products: which one for which concern?

  Every MONAT hair care system in one decision table: which product suits which hair, amounts by hair length and what you can combine.

• MONAT systems compared: which one suits your hair?

  Every MONAT hair system in one table: who it suits, who it doesn't, which hair thickness. Plus six decision questions and combinations that work.

• Simple MONAT routine: three products by hair type

  Which three MONAT products suit your hair, in one table by hair type, with amounts by hair length and what to add only later.

• Smoothing System I or II? Choose by hair thickness

  MONAT Smoothing System I or II: a finger test for your hair thickness, a comparison table and how to decide the borderline case of medium hair.

• Dandruff vs dry scalp: a self-test to tell the difference

  Fine white flakes or greasy yellowish ones? A finger-rub self-test, what helps in each case and when a dermatologist should take a look.

• How often to wash an oily scalp, and with what

  How often and with what to wash an oily scalp: a roots check, six steps with amounts and the verdict on training your scalp to need fewer washes.

• Scalp scrub: how often to use one and is it worth it?

  How often to use a scalp scrub, with a self-check, a table by scalp type, physical versus chemical exfoliation and a verdict on DIY sugar and salt scrubs.

• Product build-up in hair: how to spot and remove it

  Spot build-up on hair and scalp with a self-check table, and learn how often to clarify and what a vinegar rinse does against hard water.

• How to use dry shampoo: amount, distance and timing

  How to use dry shampoo properly: a table of amount, distance and timing, five steps, adjustments by hair type, and when to wash instead.

• Itchy scalp after a new shampoo: what to do now

  What to do in the first 48 hours, a self-check for irritation or allergy, the likely culprits on the label and a use test before you try again.

• What is bond repair and how does it work?

  Bond repair explained: what happens inside the hair, how it differs from a protein treatment and the stretch test that shows whether you need it.

• Bleached hair care: routine against breakage and gummy hair

  A stretch test for gummy hair, a table of breakage triggers, a routine with amounts and purple shampoo timing: how to care for bleached hair.

• Breakage on top of your head: why hair snaps, what helps

  Broken hairs or baby hairs? A ruler self-test tells them apart, a table pairs each trigger on top of your head with its fix, plus the routine.

• White Dots on Hair Ends: Breakage or Nits? Table and Trim

  The white dots at the end of your hair are usually early breakage, not nits. With a table to tell them apart, a twist technique to trim them and a routine.

• Heat-damaged hair: how to spot it and prevent more

  A self-test with seven signs, a mild-to-severe scale and a temperature table for dryer, straightener and curling wand by hair type.

• How to avoid mechanical hair damage: brush, ties, sleep

  Brushes, hair ties, towels and pillows cause mechanical hair damage. A break-point check shows which habit is costing you length.

• How to use MONAT Bond IQ: order, amount, how often

  Bond IQ system or just the leave-in? With an amount table for chin, shoulder and chest-length hair, five steps, how often and what to pair it with.

• MONAT IR Clinical serum: how to apply it in four steps

  The IR Clinical serum goes onto the towel-damp scalp parting by parting and stays in. With four steps, amounts by hair length and a mistakes table.

• How to use MONAT Scalp Comfort: amount and order

  Treatment or serum, how many partings for your hair length, how often a week and how to tell after four weeks whether Scalp Comfort suits you.

• Purifying Vinegar routine: how often and how to combine it

  How often the vinegar shampoo replaces a wash, when to add the vinegar rinse and what to pair it with: a frequency table, amounts and a self-test.

• Curl Perfection wash day: steps and amounts by curl type

  The Curl Perfection wash day in six steps, with cream amounts by curl type and hair length and a table for refreshing curls on day 2 to 4.

• What Is MONAT Biotech Beauty? Term, Components, Seals

  What MONAT means by Biotech Beauty, which claim a seal actually backs up, and how to check a formula yourself with the INCI list and an arm test.

• MONAT Styling Products: Overview and the Right Order

  Every MONAT styling product with its role and place in the order, plus a table by goal, amounts by hair length and the usual mistakes.

• MONAT Junior: which products are there for kids?

  Shampoo, conditioner, detangler: which MONAT Junior products your child needs, with amounts by hair length and a combing routine that stops the pulling.

• REJUVENIQE or REJUVENIQE Light: which oil suits your hair?

  REJUVENIQE or Light: a comparison table, a single-hair test, five deciding questions, drops by hair length and when to combine both oils.

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