How to choose a hairbrush

A comb is an indispensable attribute of any person who cares about their hair, which requires daily care. But over the thousand-year history of this accessory, there are still people who do not even realize that each type performs its function, and each type of hair requires its own shape, materials and structure. About all this, only in much more detail, we will tell right now.

Gone are the days of antiquity, when combs were made exclusively from polished animal bones, and Russian beauties use not only wooden combs. Modern stores will offer a dozen materials, but the most popular of them fit into a kind of Top 5.

Quite expensive, but a versatile option for owners of straight and not too naughty hair. Natural pile can be rough to the touch, but at the same time it is generally pleasant for the head and certainly will not damage the skin even with strong pressure.

But this material also has a number of disadvantages:

• Not suitable for oily hair - they become even more greasy in appearance;
• Pile is useless for curly, curly and tangled hair;
• Such combs are capricious and short-lived.

The most common raw material for the production of combs today. Most of the brands presented on the shelves of stores use hypoallergenic plastics that have a good margin of safety, survivability when working with a hairdryer, and an extremely low price when compared with other materials.

Someone will say that this is a worthy alternative to plastic, but the specification of such combs is very narrow - they are only suitable for dyeing and other procedures related to chemical compositions that carbon does not care about. Plus, the price for them is often more "toothy" than for the usual plastic products.

The choice of our grandmothers, and for the most part they were right. Wooden combs, massage options and other forms will always be in trend, due to the beneficial effects on both the skin and the strands themselves, the absence of static electricity and allergies.

The most popular and useful breeds are:

• Oak;
• Birch;
• Juniper;
• Sandal.

The stereotype that a metal comb is needed in every man's pocket is no longer relevant. Many girls, having a short haircut, prefer this particular material, but they forget that a chemical reaction with metal is a dangerous thing, and can cause many unpleasant things, including premature gray hair.

An extraordinary and very expensive option for those who love antiques. Although their production is now limited in order to save the world's reptile population, but in some boutiques, tortoise horn is the number one material.

You don’t even have to say much here - oval, rectangular and square brushes will never leave the dressing table of fashionistas and stylists, and it doesn’t matter if it is made of natural fiber or synthetics. The main thing is quality and a durable rubberized handle so that nothing slips out.

A more popular option that can be performed in any of the above materials. The main condition is a flat shape and vertically arranged rounded teeth in order to massage the surface of the head, but not injure it in any way.

Top seller, regardless of the material.In appearance, the primitive form has more than one modification, designed for a variety of purposes - from unraveling the tips to forming a parting and more complex hairstyles.

There is a separate layer of combs that you will not find in every home, and if you do, their owners themselves sometimes do not know why such a model was developed. There are a lot of them, but the best-selling species make up the next three.

She is a round brush. Designed to create voluminous cocoons and other hairstyles. It is a recognizable "tube" on the handle with heap-shaped bundles of hard nylon pile. Branded models have replaceable and spare cylinders.

Specially developed for drying and styling with a hair dryer. Holes in the form of "ribs" just play the role of a primitive air duct, so as not to burn the sensitive root system. The teeth on it are mostly rare, which only increases practicality.

Among the people - a nine-row comb, since it is in this format that it is most often made. The row arrangement of the teeth is not accidental - it is necessary at the final stage of laying in order to finally fix the position of naughty curls.

It is not easy to answer this question, because the correct and final choice of comb is always up to you, your hair type and the result you want to achieve.

Massage forms are best bought by curly ladies, since only such a design allows you to untangle naturally curly rings as painlessly as possible.

Oily hair should be combed with a compensating material - wood or horn, which often means natural bone. And, if wood raw materials, if we are not talking about expensive species, are relatively cheap, then the second type is not so easy to buy.

Below is a video about the features of choosing combs.

There are a lot of opinions of happy, and not very, owners of combs in the network. If you try to bring this flow of negative and positive into some kind of system, you will get the following conclusions:

• Wooden teeth should not have burrs - this is a factory defect.
• If the brush has a rubber base, check its integrity and fixation.
• Rounded tooth tips are always good.
• For aromatherapy with natural hair oils, only wood is suitable.