3 Surprising Benefits of Brushing Your Hair!

Using the right chemical-free hair care products goes a long way in repairing damage to your hair and preventing future breakage, but there's an often-overlooked item in your hair toolkit: it's your hair brush. Brushing your hair matters. You use your brush daily, and it's doing more for you than you might expect. Brushing is not only about managing tangles. In fact, a proper brushing (and scalp massage!) routine is an essential part of maintaining the health of your hair, second only to a healthy diet and using the right holistic hair care products. Here are three surprising benefits of brushing your hair: 

1) Hair brushing is cleansing.

Brushing is a form of dry shampooing! Brushing your hair eliminates waste materials, including deposits of uric acid crystals, catarrh and other acids and impurities that build up and become encrusted on the scalp.

2) Hair Brushing is Conditioning and Strengthening. 

It's conditioning as well. Scalp stimulation from hair brushing distributes natural sebum  (produced by the sebaceous glands) evenly throughout the hair, contributing to hair health and resilience. Coating the hair with sebum restores moisture, adds sheen, smooths and increases manageability. It also strengthens your hair!

3) Hair Brushing Helps to Prevent Hair Loss.

Brushing stimulates the capillaries, increasing blood circulation in the scalp and transporting oxygen and nutrients to the hair stem, root and bulb. It also helps to balance the sebaceous glands by stimulating them and allowing them to breath while retaining natural oils. Sebaceous gland imbalance is often to blame for hair loss, as overproduction and underproduction of sebum cause weakening and undernourishment of the scalp. Are you using the right brush? Plastic and artificial brushes are damaging to the scalp, scratching it and negatively affecting overall hair health. We highly recommend using natural boar bristle brushes, as they are gentle and non-intrusive, while still being effective. It is also important to note that brushes are not one-size-fits-all.  Choose a brush that is a good match for your hair's thickness and for the sensitivity of your scalp. For more information on brushing and scalp massage, take a peek at our literature on brushing and massaging. To check out Morrocco Method's scalp massager and selection of boar bristle brushes, click here!