Hair care requires a routine hair care adapted to your needs and your hair fiber. It is also essential to choose the right brush for the right use, particularly when detangling your mane. The health of your hair also depends on the maintenance of the objects you use when styling. It is very important to clean your hairbrushes regularly to avoid getting your hair dirty and greasy. The same goes for your heating appliances, especially your hair straighteners. It’s best to be clean so as not to leave residue on your mane. Émilie Rondeau, training manager GHD France, gives us his cleaning advice during an interview with Current wife. We detail everything for you!
When should you wash your hair straightener?
If you don’t clean your straightener often enough, you risk “to deposit deposits of residue, sebum, products or even pollution“, indicates the hairdressing expert from GHD. All these unwanted things can make your hair feel greasy or sticky, even though it is freshly washed. And that’s really not what we want! This accumulation of products and dirt can also cause “a small brown deposit on the device, you must not allow this deposit to settle“, explains Émilie Rondeau. In fact, the more you heat the device, the more this color will freeze on the tool.
To avoid all these inconveniences, it is essential to wash your device regularly. You should therefore clean your straightener every 2 to 4 weeks. “but it depends on the type of use”, specifies the hair specialist. If you use your device on clean hair without any product, your straightener will get dirty less quickly. For someone who use your hair straightener once or twice a week with a heat protectant”you need to wash it every two to three weeks“, indicates the expert. She continues: “this will allow you to have a clean tool to work on clean hair, it’s still more interesting“. The cleaning frequency is the same for all straighteners and curling irons.
How to properly clean a straightener so that it does not damage your hair?
To properly wash your heater, you need a small towel and some water. Yes that’s all, so no more excuses! “We will take a terry or microfiber towel, which we moisten with a little cold water, there is no point in applying product because the particles will come off on their own“, explains the hairdressing specialist.
Afterwards, “you simply have to pass a blow on the plates and on the edges of the plates, because it is on the sides of the straightener that the deposits will get stuck“, comments Émilie Rondeau. We advise you to place the microfiber cloth over your nails, with which you will be able to more easily dislodge the residue stuck on the sides of the device. Don’t forget to wipe the “outside the object, particularly where you place your hands, product residue can become lodged there. The technique is the same for all types of plates, but also for steam straighteners and irons. buckle. Once your device is dry, it can immediately return to service!
How to store your straightener in your bathroom to keep it longer?
“There are many consumers and even hairdressers who wind the cable on the tool and by winding it it will twist the cable, the risk in the long term is that the electrical wire inside will break“, indicates the hair expert. She recommends bending the wire like an accordion when storing your heating appliance. Moreover, to keep the tool without damaging it.”the device is stored in a heat-resistant pouch“, advises Émilie Rondeau. With all these tips and advice, you will keep your straightener looking like new for a very long time!
And for fans of heated blower brushes and hair dryers, know that regular cleaning is also recommended.
*Thanks to Émilie Rondeau, GHD France training manager