5 Healthy Tips to Nourish and Stimulate Your Child's Scalp to Increase Growth

When it comes to our children, we want the best for them. Many parents don't know where to start so they leave it up to the professionals to make sure their child's overall health is in order. As you are on your journey to maintaining healthy hair, you must not forget how important it is to care for your scalp.

A healthy scalp has normal shedding of cells from the surface as new cells form. When the process gets interrupted by the environment and/or unhealthy hair practices, this is normally the causes of scalp issues such as dandruff and dryness.

These Five tips will give parents the necessary steps to help keep their child's scalp healthy, nourished, and stimulated for growth.

1. AVOID PRODUCT BUILD UP

You must not get product happy and pile on too many products all the time to achieve various hairstyles. Keep it simple when it comes to your child's hair care regimen. Too much oils, heavy creams and greases can cause your follicles to clog up pores and prevent your scalp from getting adequate moisture it needs to stimulate hair growth.

In response to this build up, the scalp reacts by stopping the production of its natural sebum (oil) causing excessive dryness.

2. WATER YOUR ROOTS

Don't stray away from water when it comes to your hair and scalp. Proper hydration inside and out is what helps keep our cells in our body functioning properly. This goes for the scalp as well. In between washes, is a good practice to spritz your hair and scalp with water before applying styling products.

While wearing braids and twists, a great tip is to spritz water in between the braids on the scalp and top with a light oil to relieve itching. Due to the parts in the style, the scalp is in constant contact with harsh environmental conditions such as the sun, pollen, etc. which will cause dryness. Applying water will help hydrate and remove some debris from the scalp until wash day.

3. WATCH WHAT YOU EAT AND DRINK

Healthy hair and scalp starts with a healthy body. Medications can destroy the health balance of your scalp. So try to feed your family nutritious meals to keep the immune system strong enough to fight off viruses and diseases.

Do not rely on supplemental vitamins alone to give your body the nutrients it needs to function properly. We can't stress enough to drink plenty of water and eat foods that has the vitamins naturally to stimulate a healthy body and hair.

4. REFRAIN FROM STRIPPING SHAMPOOS

Proper cleansing of the scalp is important to its health. You want to use sulfate free moisturizing shampoos for weekly cleansing and leave the clarifying shampoos for once a month treatments.

If your child plays sports or sweats heavily, remove drying salt deposits on the scalp by rinsing hair with cold water. For the summertime when you are enjoying the cool waters of the swimming pool, make sure to wear a swim cap and/or remove chlorine from your hair with a chelating shampoo and then deep conditioning.

5. KEEP DIRECT HEAT AWAY FROM THE SCALP

Do not use extreme temperatures when using heat styling tools such as blow dryers, hooded dryers, and flat irons. When using these tools, direct the heat away from the scalp and down the hair shaft to create proper air direction flow. Too much heat on the scalp can cause issues such as flaking due to parched skin cells.