Night hair care: what is it for (and how to use it)?

When you apply a mask after shampooing, on wet hair, whether it is moisturizing or nourishing, you only leave it on for a few minutes, too short a time for it to fully release its active ingredients.

And yet many masks weigh down the hair, because they are overloaded with nourishing ingredients so that they act at their best in such a short time. By opting for care of nuit Before going to bed, we avoid these inconveniences.

Allow time for the scalp to absorb the active ingredients

We know that the nuit is the time for skin repair. The same goes for hair, except that it has no self-repair capacity. It seems logical, in the sense of “skinification”, to use a care of nuit for her hair as well as for her skin.

With a leave-on time of almost 8 hours, the hair and scalp – for treatments that can also be applied to the scalp – have plenty of time to absorb the active ingredients. In the end, you gain not only in efficiency, but also in time, since instead of a long routine when washing, thea nuit serves as a setting time and you wake up with soft hair.

Nourishing care that doesn’t need to be rinsed off

A night hair treatment deeply nourishes the keratinocytes of the cortex capillarywhich promote the synthesis of keratin, a protein that makes up the hair barrier. For this, it contains oils that have an affinity with the fiber capillary (coconut, castor, jojoba, olive), but also hyaluronic acid, proteins and ceramides.

Unlike a classic mask or a nourishing hair oil that you would apply at bedtime, these treatments are completely absorbed by the hair during the day. nuit. And, therefore, they do not need to be rinsed in the morning.

How to use them properly?

• Either you wash your hair and either dry them roughly with a towel until they are barely damp, or brush your dry hair well.
• Apply the product strand by strand on the entire hair.
• Massage the scalp to activate blood circulation.
• Ideally, wear a silk hat or scarf – or a microfiber towel – to maximize the effect.
• Let it sit for the whole day nuit. In the morning, brush your hair.

>> Beware of formulas containing alcohol or silicones among the first ingredients, which make the textures dry, but less nourishing. In addition, balms, made up essentially of vegetable oils and butters, must be followed by a shampoo.