Hair Steaming

Hair Steaming otherwise known as scalp steaming is often overlooked in the aesthetics industry. Hair or Scalp Steaming, enhances the overall health of your hair and scalp. The heat and moisture within the unit dilates your blood vessels, improving blood circulation in the scalp and the flow of your natural sebaceous oils. Steaming is the process of using steam to help open up your hair follicles, lift the cuticle on the hair shaft and boost hair growth and quality.

The benefits of Scalp Steaming do not stop there!. If you suffer from Scalp Dandruff, Psoriasis or Seborrheic Dermatitis, the process of your scalp steam treatment will help to lift and soften stubborn dead skin cells and dirt. Layers of Skin cells that mix with hard sebum oil will adhere to your scalps surface, literally clogging your hair follicles and prevent healthy hair growth. Seborrheic Dermatitis (hard sebum from over active sebaceous glands within the scalp mix with the over production of new active skin cells – causing itchy hard to lift scales on your head). Often going overlooked and undetected, Psoriasis Seborrheic Dermatitis are major contributing factors to limp hair and hair loss in any gender.

Key Benefits Of Scalp Steaming Therapy

1. Opening of the Scalp Pores: Blocked pores on your scalp slow down and over time will eventually stop–the regrowth process. Steaming your hair and scalp skin on a regular basis will allow the toxins and natural oils from the scalp to be released so that it can be cleansed and purified.
2. Balancing the Scalp: Along with purifying the scalp of the toxins within, steam therapy helps increase the collagen production and blood flow of the scalp. The collagen level and increased blood flow, resulting in a healthy naturally shiny scalp–not the kind of shine caused by synthetic styling products.
3. Improves Hair Elasticity: The elasticity of curly hair strands is its ability to stretch without snapping and causing further breakage and damage to the strands. Steam treatments allow each strand of hair to absorb so much moisture that the curls will be able to bend and stretch more than before and have mmore bounce and definition naturally.
4. Lifts Dead Skin Cells: An unhealthy scalp means unhealthy hair. Dead skins love to stick together with trapped scalp oils and often cause ithcing and flaking. The itching is often caused by an increase of Malassezia yeast fungus which feed off the increase in dead skin and sebum oil on your scalp. Like every living organism, Malassezia thrives and multiplies when it is fed, and one of its favourite foods is the saturated fatty acids found in your scalp sebum.
5. Porosity: Scalp steamers are the perfect hair treatment to get moisture into coarse hair with low porosity! With open cuticles, your favourite Hair Conditioner can then penetrate each hair follicle giving the nourishing vitamins and minerals that your hair needs to be in it’s optimal condition.
6. Scalp Steam can boost hair growth for hair loss sufferers. The benefits of such a scalp treatment result in clearer skin, unclogged hair follicles, healthy sebum flow, thicker and full hair strands. Scalp steaming is perfect when used in conjunction with other hair loss treatments or products.