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Chapter 5: Nourished from the

Root – Masks that Stop
Breakage of Hair

There are a few things more heartbreaking or disappointing than watching your hair
break and fall out. The sight of hair clogging up in your drain, or falling off your scalp as
you brush your hair can ruin anyone’s mood. And yet, unless it’s hereditary, most hair
breakage causes can be attributed to daily life factors.

Hair breakage is a short term stress call that your hair sends to you, to let you know
that it needs nutrients. Ignore these calls for too long, and you have a serious hair loss
problem on your hands in a few weeks. When your hair breaks, it is usually under stress
from chemical treatments, products, styling tools and equipment. Excessive amounts
of heat, color treatments and chemicals can make your hair shaft fragile and prone to
breakage in the long run.

This doesn’t mean that you should stop coloring your hair, or using styling tools, or
even stop getting relaxers. It just means that you just have to ensure that you give your
hair a healing boost of nutrients to help restore its texture and make it more resistant
to damage and breakage. The banana castor hair mask is an excellent mask to start
with. Loaded with potassium and vitamins from the banana, along with fatty acids and
vitamin E from the castor oil, this pack will leave your hair feeling healthy in no time!

You will also discover the moisture and protein-laden egg and jojoba hair mask, a
soothing way to treat a severe case of hair breakage. Thanks to the calming properties
of jojoba oil paired with the proteins and fatty acids in the egg.

We then level up the intensity of treatment for your hair with the coconut and
fenugreek leaves hair mask. This one may involve a little extra time to prepare, but the
effects on your hair are worth the trouble! Try and find dried fenugreek leaves to add to
the potency of the hair mask.

And finally, take a probiotic approach to treating breakage of hair with the yogurt and
rosemary hair mask. This mask is loaded with healthy bacteria and enzymes, along with
the regenerative properties of rosemary, to help cleanse your scalp, nourish your hair
shaft and restore hair growth, all in one go!