Here is the best way to dry your hair

Almost all urban women in the country suffer from problems like dry hair, frizzy hair, hair fall, or any sort of hair damage. It would be safe to assume that no women believe their hair is healthy. People are also experiencing the onset of grey hair at a very early age, even in teenage. All of this points at bad hair health and something needs to be done about it.

The causes of bad hair health can be many – from pollution to genes to how you treat and care for your hair. One of the most common causes of dry and frizzy hair is the use of heat on your hair. Most women, especially the ones with long hair use a blow dryer to dry their hair, which can cause the dryness. It is also a common belief that using a towel to dry your hair, or rubbing your hair vigorously with the towel can cause dryness. So what is the best way to dry your hair?

If you believe that air-drying your hair or letting them dry naturally is the ideal and the healthiest way to lose water from your tresses and making them dry, you may be mistaken. A study published in Annals of Dermatology has concluded that letting your hair air-dry actually increases damage and chances of breakage. Another study from Korea said that has actually concluded that using a hair dryer may be healthier than letting your hair dry naturally.


To understand why we need to look at the composition of our hair and what really causes the damage. Each strand of your hair is made of the outer cuticle and the inner cortex cells, among other parts. As water enters the hair strands, they tend to swell up and that makes them weak. Therefore, the damage will be directly related to how long the water stays in your hair, which is the maximum in case of air-drying.

Your mind is definitely making a case for air-drying and wondering how blow drying your hair can be better than air-drying, considering it makes the hair really dry and that can cause breakage. However, if you use the hair dryer at the right distance, and for the right time, you can keep the dryness away.

Here is the best way to dry your hair
Let your hair dry naturally, air-dry, till they are about 70-80% dry. Then use your hair dryer, at the coolest setting available, to dry the rest of your hair. Make sure you keep the dryer about 6-7 inches away from your hair all the time and also keep moving it around to make sure one part of your hair doesn't get too dry and loses all moisture. This will ensure that your hair is not damaged, neither because of the heat nor because of the air-drying and will leave you with healthy and happy hair.