How to Prevent & Reduce Split Ends - A Complete Guide

How to Get Rid of Split Ends

Why Do I Have Split Ends?

First, let’s look at the science behind dry, damaged hair that leads to split ends. Just like with your body, when your hair is dry or damaged, things start to go wrong. When hair is healthy, the cuticle – the outer envelope of the hair shaft – lies flat and smooth and hair is soft, shiny, and manageable. In addition to the cuticle, the lipids that coat the cuticle also protects the hair fiber from external damage that leads to damaged, split ends and broken hair.

Over time, hair loses its substance – lipids and proteins – eroding the protective layer and chapping the cuticles. In its malnourished, weakened state, your dry hair is even more susceptible to damage from external aggressions like changes in the weather, chemical treatments, and heat styling. Your hair looks rough and dull and feels dry and brittle. And from there, split ends aren’t far away!

The Solution to Split Ends? Nourishment!

Just like you give your body the essential nutriments it needs to stay strong and healthy, your hair needs it too. Hair that isn’t properly nourished is vulnerable to external damage, so do your hair a favor and put it on a new hair ritual for deep nourishment.

The Kérastase Nutritive range is one of the best ways to nourish and hydrate dry hair, right down to those thirsty tips. Target dry ends with a treatment, the Nutri-Supplement Split Ends Serum, a high nutrition ultra-sealing split ends concentrate, for 2X less split ends and instant smoothness to seal the tips and stop the ends of your hair from splitting in the first place. A vitamins-in-oil blend, it works to fill the lipids your damaged hair desperately needs, reducing breakage and restoring shine.

Essential Nourishment for dry hair and split ends

The Kérastase Nutritive range is formulated with the kind of essential nutrients your hair needs to stay strong, healthy and easy to handle, between salon visits.

Plant-based proteins. Wheat, corn and soy whole grains act like a nourishing supplement, feeding your hair right down to those extra thirsty dry tips. The plant-based protein complex in Nutritive Nutri-Supplement Split Ends Serum contains 17 amino acids that are naturally present in the hair fiber. They work to nourish hair and help retain moisture.

Niacinamide. This derivative of Vitamin B3 helps to strengthen the fiber. Once reinforced, the hair fiber is more resistant to breakage from aggressive combing, brushing, and styling.