Hard water area - hair gone mad

[EmGee]

Can anyone help?

Since moving in the summer, my hair looks awful. Really dry, no shine at all, rough. I moved from one hard water area to another but the new area is dreadful (have to descale the kettle every two days - it is thick with limescale).

My hair is dry, very thick, wavy, a bit coarse anyway but this is taking the biscuit.

I've been using intensive conditioners and had my hair cut the other week so it's not in 'bad' condition. Dry naturally as long as poss then finish with the hairdryer. Use L'Oreal casting but only every three or four months. Recently ditched the silicone free shampoo/conditioner (Body Shop) which I don't think was good for my hair at all. Use very few styling products.

It has to be the water doesn't it? Short of doing a Kim Basinger (who reportedly rinsed her hair with Evian), anyone got any suggestions?

Aveda do a very good damage repair intensive conditioner

Ditching the silicones has probably done it more than the water.

Use a clarifying treatment or make your own with apple cider vinegar solution. The vinegar cuts through the chalk in the water and gets rid of the silicone build-up which is making your hair dull. You can then continue with your silicone-free products.

Vinegar in the final rinse.
You can buy scented ones if you don't fancy walking around smelling of a chip shop. And who could blame you?

Mine went like that when I ditched silicones-it never recovered and I went back to using them. Hair was like straw, never had hair as bad, it was horrendous.