How To Regrow Hair

Splitting ends and hair restoration in fall

“My hair splits heavily in fall. I heard, there are many special treatments to restore splitting ends. How to chose the most suitable and effective ones among this variety of hair restoration treatments, cures and remedies?”

It is impossible to restore hair ends that are already splitted. But you can make it unnoticeable by means of special gels for hair arranging. It works as though you stick together parts of splitting ends. Sounds quite good but always remember – such effect will last only until the next hair washing.

The only proved and the most effective way to restore your hair is to have splitting ends cut. Having cut your damaged hair ends, try to take a special care of your hair.

Never wash hair inclined to fragility and splitting with concentrated shampoos. Dissolve a little shampoo with water (better mineral or boiled) and put it on your scalp and hair with circular movements of your your fingers.

It is necessary to wash (or at least to rinse) weak and splitting hair with boiled water, bacause chlorinated tap water dries hair along the full length what makes the situation much worse.

Silk and gelatine to regrow your hair in autumn

“My hair is losing its natural shine in autumn. Will rinsing with ice-cold water bring back lustre to my hair after summer holidays?”

The modern point of view about the favourable effect of ice-cold water on hair is absolutely erroneous. Low temperature causes harm to hair. It hinders activity of vessels that bring nutrients to hair bulbs. If you really want to regrow your hair it would be much better to use room temperature decoction of green tea, nettle and sage. These components will give your hair a silvery shine.

To prepare the decoction you need two teaspoons of green tea, two tablespoons of dried up nettle and sage. Put them in the kettle, add fiercely boiling water, bring the decoction up to the second boiling and draw it for at least an hour. Then filter it and add one and a half litre of boiled water. Pour the decoction into the basin and rinse your hair in it.

To achieve a greater effect you can blot your wet hair with a piece of natural silk and to wrap a soft silk scarf around your head. Please keep in mind that because of often washing your hair lose its natural humidity and, consequently, its shine. Also add edible gelatin to your diet. It will help you prevent hair loss, regrow your hair and, of cource, return natural lustre to your hair. Edible gelatin is contained in such meals as galantine, aspic, mousse, jelly, kissel, etc.

Don’t pull out gray hair!

“I’ve noticed that in autumn some thin grey hair appears on my head. I usually pull it out. I read somewhere not so long ago that if you pull out a grey hair, 3-4 more grey hairs soon appear on its place.”

Every hair grows from one hair follicle, i.e. a hair follicle can produce only one hair. Therefore, if you pull out a hair, it can’t be replaced by several hairs but one. Sometimes a pigmented (not gray) hair can start to grow from the same follicle. But still you shouldn’t pull out your gray hair, because it quite often leads to serious consequences. You can damage gentle follicles of the scalp and it can result in some infection. To say nothing of hair loss. It’s much safer to to take advantage of tonic shampoo, henna, hair-dye or harmless hair color. Or you can just leave everything as it is. Please believe that having gray hair doesn’t make you a hoary antiquity. And it’s much better to have healthy gray hair than full-colored but poor.

Short hair-do to regrow your hair in autumn

“My hair grows very quickly in summer. Probably, it feels good when it’s hot. But in autumn it stops growing at all and becomes lifeless and fragile. But the worst thing is that it drops out quite heavily. My friend advises me to make a short hair-do. She says that after that hair grows faster and thicker. It is true? Is it really possible to regrow hair by doing that?”

The average monthly hair growth is 8-13 mm. In summer hair growth is increase, but not because “it feels good when it’s hot”. It happens because all hormonal processes of the organism are accelerated in the summer.

In the end of summer and in the beginning of autumn loss of hair usually increases to this or that extend. Among the possible reasons are the unfavourable effect of sea water on your hair, harmful ultra-violet rays and daily washing of hair which is often done by many squeamish ladies. If normal loss of hair makes from 40 up to 70 hairs, in autumn these numbers are different – from 70 up to 120 hairs a day.

If experience severe autumnal hair loss and your precious hair falls down like dry leaves from the treas, then it would be reasonable to make a short hair-do or at least cut a couple of inches of your hair. Quite natural, it will be easier for your damaged bulbs to keep and nourish shorter hair. And hair, which growth was hampered because of weakened bulbs will really grow faster and better. And even in case your hair follicles are allright and successfully sirvived through summer hazards, by cutting your weak, overdried and splitting end you will make your hair look a bit more healthy and tidy.

Hair loss in women

Last time we spoke about childish hair loss. This time we’ll dwell upon hair loss in women and female pattern baldness.

Hair loss is usually associated with a popular misconception that it only occurs with men. But according to statistics, female hair loss affects up to forty percent of women by age of sixty. More than twenty million of American women suffer from it. Of course, hair loss in women is not as common as hair loss in men, but it is definitely much more tragic and grievous, as almost every woman take loss of her hair as a personal tragedy. It’s typical of women to feel like they don’t fully suit to social standards when they don’t have strong and healthy hair. There seems to be a widespread social opinion that it’s only common for elderly women to lose hair. That’s why female hair loss always walks hand in hand with anxiousness, sadness and depression.

We have already pointed out that about forty percent of women have to face some sort of hair loss by age of sixty. And female pattern baldness, also known as androgenetic alopecia in women, is the most common form of female hair loss. It happens because there the excessive level of male sex hormones (androgens) in the woman’s body. Many scholars agree that heredity plays a great part in female hair loss. Other types of female hair loss include: patchy hair loss, caused by an autoimmune disorder (a.k.a. alopecia areata); loose-anagen syndrome, when hair easily comes out during combing or brushing; scarring alopecia that happens after physical injury or burning; telogen effluvium, an increased thinning and loss of hair, caused by hormonal, stress related, nutritional, or drug related factors; traction alopecia, a specific type of balding caused by strong pressure on the scalp, precisely hair follicles; triangular alopecia, that occurs mainly around the temples; trichotillomania, forced hair pulling, often caused by some psychological disorder. Emotional stress, severe depression, some serious disease and wrong nutrition can also result in hair loss in women.

In a large number of cases female hair loss can be turned back with the right diagnosis and timely treatment. And the majority of balding women manage to successfully stop hair loss and regrow their hair. The most popular ways to treat hair loss in women are: hairpieces (non-surgical hair replacement), hormone correction, hair transplantation, FDA-approved pills and topical medicines. Some natural hair loss treatments also work well. One of the most effective and reliable of them is said to be Provillus.