If your hair feels dry and looks frayed, particularly at the ends of your hair, you may be left with a tangled mess when you try to comb it. Instead of struggling with the hairbrush, get smooth, shiny and manageable hair from the roots all the way to the ends.

Dry hair is a common ailment if you wash your hair too often, use too many color treatments, or use an excessive amount of heating tools such as blow-dryers and flat irons. However, dry hair can also be attributed to underlying health conditions, such as those related to your thyroid gland.

Hair is made up of essentially dead proteins, notes the American Hair Loss Association. That's why no matter what shampoo commercials tell you, you can't "heal" your hair.

Your hair's thickness naturally starts to wane in your mid-20s. Smoking, excessive heat and chemical treatments can make the unwanted change even more pronounced. It's tough to permanently thicken hair, but that doesn't mean you need to live with fine, limp locks.

Keratin treatments make frizzy hair sleeker and more manageable. While this may seem like an ideal summer style, maintaining keratin treatments is no day at the beach. Speaking of beaches, if you're planning a trip to one post-keratin, skip that ocean swim. Salt water and keratin are unfortunately a bad combination.

Caring for fine, overly dry hair can be frustrating. Dry hair lacks moisture, and can become brittle, porous, frizzy, dull and plagued by split ends. Often, dry hair has been damaged by chemical processing. With fine hair, individual hair shafts are thin in diameter.

Heading to the salon for a pricey blowout isn’t in everyone’s budget. If you have curly or wavy locks but want your hair super-straight, you can blow-dry your hair at home with a round brush.

Chemical treatments are popular with women who use them to change the styles and colors of their hair. Chemicals are used in dyes and perms, and in relaxing and bleaching products. While the results may be desirable, the side effects eventually catch up with your hair, which can be burned, dry, brittle and rough.

DHT, or dihydrotestosterone, is a male hormone that is a major contributor to hair loss because it shrinks the hair follicle and creates a waxy substance around the hair roots, which results in male and female pattern hair loss.

Marie Claire magazine states that as you get older, your hair may not only go gray, but it can often become drier and more brittle as well. This may be the result of natural causes, and it can also be exacerbated by heat, chemical or coloring damage.

Gray hair is a sign of aging that impacts virtually everyone at some point. Gray hair can be caused by stress, a poor diet, hereditary factors and a decrease in melanocytes. Over time, hair on any part of the body can turn gray.

Jojoba oil comes from the jojoba plant, Simmondsia chinensis, which grows in the western United States. You can use this oil as a moisturizer for dry or damaged hair. Although it's called an oil by the beauty industry, jojoba is a wax ester full of fatty acids. According to Acne.