How To Regrow Hair

The Most Effective Natural Hair Loss Treatment

Juices to Restore Your Hair

No doubt, healthy hair is our crowning glory. So why not try and make your hair look and feel as good as possible? Hair that has been permed or dyed looks dull, fragile and lifeless. The same thing can be said about totally natural hair that is lacking vitally important nutrients. In this case the external hair stem is actually dead, but the root is still alive and is fed essential minerals and vitamins through the bloodstream circulating in the scalp. But as far as hair is not fed this dreadful situation may eventually result in hair loss.

Vitamins from the B complex group, and the minerals iron, iodine, and sulphur, are essential for healthy hair and can be supplied by a range of fresh juices. Why not help your hair and give it what it really needs? Here are some great recipes to restore your hair.

Each recipe makes approximately one 8fl oz/230ml glass of juice. Adults can drink up to three glasses daily, but do vary the juice combinations for maximum benefit. Dilute with water if you prefer. Juice each ingredient then blend using a spoon.

• 4oz/125g mangetout (snow peas)
• 3 kale leaves
• 2 large carrots
• 1/2 parsnip

or

• 4oz/125g chunk winter cabbage
• 2 large carrots
• 6 radishes

A couple of more recipes that are very useful for your hair and your general health:

• small bunch of grapes
• 2 passion fruit
• 2 thick slices pineapple

or

• 4 tangerines
• 4oz/125g raspberries

Hope you and your hair will enjoy these delicious juices!

Taking Care of Dandruff and Seborrhea

A person with perfect hair is very rare. So when we speak about healthy hair we often mean hair that looks pretty good and when there are no obvious problems with it. But quite often hair problems go beyond all reasonable borders it’s high time to consider proper hair care right off the bat. Dandruff is one of the main problems of this kind.

At present one of the main causes why dandruff appears on the scalp is the so called causal fungus. Spores of this fungus are always present on the head-skin. And under certain conditions the fungus turns active and starts its extensive propagation. Among the causes are: stress, weakened immune system, unhealthy food, disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, hormonal shifts. The cycle of scalp cell development changes significantly: instead of a month it reduced in time to one week.

As a result, we have lots of sticky and greasy whitish and yellowish flakes on our heads. Their amount dramatically exceeds the norm, that’s why they become noticeable to the naked eye. But if there is also itching and reddening on certain parts of the head-skin, then it could be symptoms of seborrhea. It is important to distinguish these two skin problems: in case of dandruff it is often enough to use some cosmetic means, but when it comes to seborrhea, it means a serious treatment.

Seborrhea is a headskin disease, which is characterized by excessive sebum formation. This is usually caused by certain diseases and disorders in the organism, hormonal changes, hereditary predisposition, intoxication, etc. You can find out whether you have dandruff or seborrhea by yourself: dandruff usually looks like rather small whitish flakes, but in case of seborrhea flakes are pretty large, rigid, and yellowish. Still there is one rule - never try to treat seborrhea by yourself. Only a qualified specialist can make good diagnosis and prescribe proper treatment.

Dandruff is seldom the only problem with your scalp and hair: dry hair is often accompanied with dry dandruff, and greasy hair - with the greasy one. Therefore, it is important to struggle with several problems simultaneously, i.e. apply complex treatment.

It is necessary to keep in mind that hair care is a lifetime job. You just can’t take care of your hair for a month and then hope that it will remain healthy and strong for the rest of your life. So take care!

Taking care of different types of hair

Since ancient times people have attached great importance to their hair and, depending on its condition and health, have taken it as the source of beauty or the reason of life’s failures. Such values as individuality, force, consciousness and independence, have been associated with hair. And until now people have been diligently making most various manipulations with their hair to give it a stunning, unique look, shape and style: they comb, cut, dye, twist, straighten, varnish it and apply other cosmetic means.

Hair is a bright illustration of an increadible variety of people and cultures on our planet. For example, a bunch of hair on the crown of a sumo wrestler’s head is so closely associates with his sport activity that it is solemnly cut when he ends his successful career. In Cambodia a groom and a bride wear a special traditional haircut in order to escape the influence of evil forces. In Malaysia long hair is strictly forbidden for men. On the contrary in the state Punjab in India death penalty threatens a man with a short accurate hairstyle.

Because hairstyle is the dominating factor for our looks and because we try to convey a certain emotional message through it, we always want to arrange it in the best possible way. And so, health of hair and proper hair care comes to the foreground for all of us.

In order to make make care of hair proper and effective it is important to correctly determine the type of hair first. Otherwise there is a risk to worsen its condition. Among the basic hair types are: normal, dry, greasy and mixed.

Hair of the normal type reflects light well and shines in the sun. If your hair is elastic, easily combed and set, if it almost doesn’t split and preserves a good healthy look for several days after washing, it means that you take a good care of your hair and use proper means that are 100% suitable for you and your hair. Unfortunately, this is a rare case.

Greasy hair can be characterized by a dim shine. In a short time after washing it begins to stick together and to seem dirty and slovenly. Hair greasiness depends on the activity of sebaceous glands of the scalp. It is very individual and is defined genetically. To some extent the amount of sebum also depends on nutrition and the amount of carbohydrates and espicially fats consumed with food.

Dry hair reflects light badly and that’s why it lookes very dim and lustreless. They are easily torn and broken. Dry hair is difficult to comb because it splits on ends and accumulates static electricity. As a result, it gets tangled and often falls out. In many cases hair becomes dry because of poor care but not because of the lowered activity of sebaceous glands.

Hair of the mixed type is, as a rule, insufficiently greased with sebum along the whole length. That’s why it is usually greasy at roots and dry on ends. The ends of mixed hair don’t receive necessary greasing and often split. It is important to take a combined care of this type of hair and apply special means along with a healthy diet.

Most Popular Facts about Human Hair

• Healthy hair is usually strong and elastic due to greasing produced by sebaceous glands. It can be stretched 1.5 times longer and then it returns to its normal length undamaged. It is almost as strong as aluminum and is capable to sustain the weight of 0.1 to 0.2 kg. That’s why in old times people used ropes made of women’s plaits to elevate heavy loads.
• Hair is hygroscopic, i.e. it can absorb water. It is rather acidproof, but vulnerable to alkali.
• Hair has the ability to accumulate certain substances. That’s why it’s successfully used by criminalists in their investigations.
• First hair appears on the head of a child when he is in a womb of a mother, approximately on 4-5 month of pregnancy.
• Intensity of hair growth depends on the season and time of day: it grows faster in spring and summer than in winter and autumn. Also hair growth is not that intensive at night than during daytime.
• A single hair can grow from 2 to 7 years with the speed of 0,3-0,4 mm a day.
• Hair grows averagely 2 years on men’s heads and 4-5 years on women’s.
• Normally a man loses 30-100 hair a day.
• Each follicle bears about 20-30 hair during human life.

• Hair grows about 1 cm a month.
• An adult man has about 100,000 hair, and its amount depends on color. A single hair of Africans and Asians is the thickest. It can be 3 times thicker than that of European blondes. But at the same time blondes have the biggest amount of hair on their heads - about 150,000. Redheads have the thickest hair, but its amount is smaller than that of brunettes.