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How to identify and care for each hair type to keep your hair healthy?

Published on: 25/03/2025
Updated on: September 4, 2026.
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Your hair is unique and deserves special care! Learn how to identify your hair type and discover how to create a personalized care schedule with products Grandha. Healthy and radiant hair awaits you!

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Your hair is unique, just like you. But to keep it radiant, strong and full of life, it is essential to know your specific characteristics and needs.

In this complete guide, Grandha, a hair care specialist, helps you uncover the secrets of your hair. teaching how to identify each type of thread And how to create a personalized hair care schedule to maintain healthy and beautiful hair. Follow along!

Discovering Your Hair Identity

The first step to taking care of your hair the right way is to identify the your yarn type. This classification is made based on three main characteristics:

1. Wire Structure

  • Smooth: Straight strands, without curvature.
  • Wavy: Hair with an “S” shaped curl
  • Curly hair: Hair with defined curls, from more open to more closed spirals.
  • Curly: Hair with an extremely tight curvature, from smaller spirals to “springs”.

2. Wire Thickness

  • Fine: More delicate and fragile threads.
  • Medium: Threads with intermediate thickness.
  • Thick: More resistant and full-bodied threads.

3. Oily Scalp

  • Oily: Scalp with excessive sebum production.
  • Combination: Scalp that is oily at the roots and dry at the ends.
  • Dry: Scalp with low sebum production.
  • Normal: Balanced scalp, with adequate sebum production.

By combining these three characteristics, you will have a complete classification of your hair type. For example: Straight, fine and oily; curly, medium and dry; frizzy, thick and mixed.

Creating your personalized care schedule based on your hair type

Now that you know your hair type, it's time to put together a schedule. personalized careThis routine of Care should include three essential steps.:

  • Hydration: Replenishes lost water through the hair, leaving it soft, shiny and manageable.
  • Nutrition: Replenishes lipids (oils) of the strands, protecting them from dryness, frizz and split ends.
  • Reconstruction: Replenishes proteins of the strands, strengthening them and preventing breakage.

The ideal frequency of each step of the schedule varies depending on hair type and your specific needs. For example, curly and frizzy hair, which tends to be drier, may need more hydration and nutrition, while oily hair can benefit from a most frequent reconstruction all with strengthen the strands and control oiliness.

Products Grandha: Your Allies for Healthy Hair

A Grandha offers a full line of high quality products, developed with natural and technological ingredients, to care for all hair types.

Alkymia Di Grandha

Awaken the natural beauty that exists within you with cosmetic rituals from Grandha. the line Alkymia Di Grandha combines the power of essential, fixed and ozonated oils, clays and plant extracts to provide well-being and complementary therapies integrative for your skin and body.

Curl & Wave Hair Therapy

Embrace the natural beauty of your curls and waves. The exclusive formula of the products in the line Curl & Wave Hair Therapy protects, preserves and provides lightness and comfort for your hair. Enriched with powerful ingredients, its formula hydrates, lubricates, preserves the structure of the strands and combats oxidative stress.

Flowers & Vegetables

Transform your hair with innovative formulas that strengthen, tone, harmonize and revitalize your hair from root to tip. Experience the power of nature with natural extracts and essential oils, and achieve healthy, radiant hair with the Flores & Vegetais line. 

Understanding your hair type and its specific needs is the first step to achieving healthy, radiant and full of life hair. 

Remember that every hair is unique and deserves to be cared for with love and attention. By knowing the characteristics of your hair and following the tips in Grandha, you will be on the right path to having beautiful and strong hair, expressing your natural beauty.

Author
Celso Martins Junior
  • Cosmetic engineering manager and technical manager Grandha Professional Hair Care.
  • Certified Trichologist by IAT – International Association of Trichologists (IAT – Australia).
  • CEO of the Brazilian Academy of Trichology.