Paradisefold Blog — best silk hair wrap for sleeping

September always feels like the start of something, even long after school is over. New notebooks, new routines, a general sense that it's time to get our lives (and our hair) in order. So this month, we're heading Back to Hair School with a teacher who genuinely knows his subject: Ian Carmichael, hairdresser to the late Queen for 25 years and now part of the Trevor Sorbie team. Ian has been behind the chair for longer than most of us have been washing our own hair. He has seen every trend come and go, styled through decades of changing weather, changing products and changing hair health. When we sat down with him, we expected polished soundbites. What we got instead...

Heat asks a lot of your hair and skin. Silk overnight is the simplest way to give both what they need.

Most of us don't think about this. We invest in shampoo, conditioner, treatments, styling... and then lay it all down on a cotton pillowcase that works against us until sunrise. A silk hair wrap changes that equation entirely. What a silk hair wrap actually does The principle is simple: silk creates a friction-free barrier between your hair and your pillow. But the effects of that barrier are surprisingly far-reaching. It reduces friction. Cotton and synthetic fabrics have a textured surface that catches and tugs at individual hair strands as you move in your sleep. Over time, this leads to breakage, split ends and thinning, particularly around the hairline and at the nape of the neck where contact is greatest. Research...