When we look back on the year, we like to focus on the positives: things we’ve accomplished, learned, and mastered. Newly acquired hair skills, in particular, top the list—mainly because our tresses will forever reap the benefits. Armed with the happy knowledge that we will enter 2015 with hair that’s just thatmuch bouncier, shinier, and healthier, we officially consider 2014 a well-tressed success…

I’m not afraid to admit it: I put a considerable amount of effort—and product—into my daily hair routine. Even after the blow-drying and the curling, there’s lots of fluffing and scrunching and tousling to get it to look right. But I began to notice that the contact between my hair and my hands wasn’t doing great things for my skin…