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How to Grow Black Hair: African American Hair Care Tips

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

This article is a must read if you want to grow longer hair, or even stop hair loss. No matter how many products or treatments you have tried, hair growth can be achieved despite years of stunted hair growth, shedding, and hair trauma. Trust me, I am speaking from personal experience. About three years ago, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Unfortunately, one of the side effects of my medications and chemotherapy was hair loss and balding. Devastated by having patches of hair on my head, during recovery, I did what most people do—I bought wigs. At first, the wigs seemed like a perfect solution. But, they were really a cover up. Moreover, my niece would scream when she saw me because she couldn’t recognize me with my “new wig.” So, I begin using hair loss products in hopes to regrow my hair. Unfortunately, this was another unsuccessful venture. Rogaine. DHT Blockers. Minoxidil. All of these products failed to perform what they promised. Further, I spend hundreds of dollars on Minoxidil every month, only to have no hair growth and a sore scalp. Frustrated, I decided that there had to be a method or some natural product available that would grow my hair, stop my shedding, and stop my balding. Believe it or not, I found one. However, there are some things you need to know about hair loss before I tell you what worked for me.

What Causes Hair Loss?

Hair loss, shedding, and balding occurs for several reasons. They may occur because of heredity, diet, lifestyle choices, or prescribed medications. Even your hair care products and styling techniques may be facilitating your hair loss or stunting your hair growth. If you are like me, a combination of these factors may be retarding your hair growth. If your diet is laden with fats, alcohol, sugars, and junk foods, you are actually inhibiting your hair’s ability to grow. If you buy most, if not all, of your hair care products from traditional stores, you are most likely buying a hair-damaging useless product. Most hair care products, including most of those that claim to be “all-natural,” contain synthetic emulsifiers and harsh detergents, such as Ammonium Lauryl Sulfate, Phosphates, and Sodium Lauryl Sulfate. Unfortunately, these products are loaded with toxins and chemicals that actually dry and strip your hair of vital nutrients it needs to grow.

How to Grow Your Hair, Stop Balding, and Stop Hair Loss?

You have to attack hair loss on the inside and the outside. A great hair growth regimen has three necessary components: a healthy eating plan, substantial water intake, and a high quality hair growth and hair care product.

Step One: A Healthy Hair Eating Plan

Your hair is all protein. Thus, you need a protein rich diet, chocked fill of B Vitamins and other hair-strengthening nutrients. Increase your intake of fish. It is full of healthy proteins and essential fatty acids and natural oils your hair needs. In addition, drink a protein supplement or shake everyday. If you follow this plan, not only will your hair grow, but you will also lose weight. That is, of course, if you lay off the junk food. Remember, I warned you too much junk food above.

Step Two: Drink Water

Eight to ten glasses of water is an absolute requirement. Drinking water flushes your body of toxins, chemicals, and impurities that stifle your hair growth and disrupt your hormone and enzyme imbalances. Water also transports the important nutrients your body needs throughout your body. Hate drinking water? Add lemon and Splenda to have a healthy, tasty alternative.

Step Three: Buy a High Quality Hair Growth Product

I suggest you go all-natural. Unnatural hair care products are a no-no for someone who wants long-lasting, healthy hair growth. Find a hair growth product that contains powerful essential oils, natural herbs, and vitamin rich nutrients your hair needs to survive. Look for products with ingredients such as: Aloe Vera, Citrus Fruits, Jojoba, Rosemary, and Sage. Make sure you stray away from all natural products that use natural extracts. Extracts are not as powerful as essentials oils. They are a cheap substitute for the real thing. Although there are several natural hair care products on the market, not all hair growth products are created equal. Make sure you read the fine print. Most “natural” products still contain phosphates, sodium lauryl sulfate, petroleum, mineral oil, and other lab created humectants that ultimately damage your hair. My advice—if you can’t read the ingredients, don’t buy the product. When I was searching for a natural hair growth product, I found one really great buy, Beauty 4 Ashes Super Hair Growth System. Finding this company took me awhile; but Beauty 4 Ashes pretty much gives you everything you need to make your hair grow. Foremost, I checked the ingredient listings and the products contained no artificial ingredients. The system also included hair growth vitamins, a great hair healthy eating plan, and even scalp stimulating hair growth exercise routine. At first, the system may seem a bit pricey, but, boy was I impressed with the results. In 9 months, I went from patches of hair to hair just above my shoulders. Now, I am no product junkie; but I have to tell you that this product is worth the money. It does not cost an arm and leg and it is worth every penny you pay. You can find it easily at www.discoverb4a.com. Also, check for it on Ebay. You may actually find a deal.

Geraldine Prickett is a Freelance Author, Editorial Columnist, and Educator with over 20 years of experience researching natural and organic health care and remedies. She grew up in San Francisco, CA and currently resides in Los Angeles. Geraldine frequently speaks at international and national conferences and events on natural hair care, natural skin care, and holistic self-improvement. Geraldine has won several outstanding research author awards.

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Hair Care Tips After and During Chemotherapy

Friday, November 6th, 2009

In this article, we hope to share with you the many aspects that this important subject has to offer you.

Chemotherapy is a groovy innovation in the behavior of scourge. It has saved the lives of millions of people to meeting. Indeed it is one of the most important checkup inventions of the 20th century.

However, it can be a varied blessing. Along with its planned things, it carries some piece things that the scourge survivor must accept. One of its commonest piece things is hair shortfall.

The shortfall of hair may appear to be trifling in comparison with what chemotherapy cures. Indeed discount life and limb is greatly more crucial than how many hairs you have on your president. But still patients recovering from scourge and chemotherapy requisite to be rehabilitated back to their previous lifestyles as far as viable. Appearance is important for this because it is important to one’s nature-figure.

To understand the next part of this article, you need to have a clear grasp of the material that has already been presented to you.

To understand the finer points of hair care during and after chemotherapy, you requisite to know a little about how chemotherapy mechanism and why it has this kind of devastating cause on hair.

Chemotherapy mechanism by injecting a kind of evil substance into your body, known as serotoxin (that is ‘unit poison’ in English). It is expressly urban in such a way that scourge units are the most precious by its evil inspire.

So how does the drug know which units are courageous and which are not? Plain – it doesn’t. It is only programmed to tackle only those units in the body which are very speedy-emergent. And scourge units are the speediest emergent units in the body. In statement, scourge mechanism by stimulating very speedy, uncontrolled cyst in units and tissues, ensuing in evil tumors that butter from one part of the body to another.

So because scourge units contest its description of opponent units to slaughter, the chemotherapy serotoxins tackle scourge units and overcome them. So far so good. But the trouble is that scourge units are not the only units in the body that contest its description of units to slaughter. There are a few other innocent units that also contest it.

Over time, you will begin to understand how these concepts really come together if you choose to venture into this subject further.

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Hair Care – Top Tips for Fabulous Looking Hair

Friday, November 6th, 2009

If you want your hair to look its best, then all you need to do is follow the quick and simple tips that we have outlined below which are proven to work.

Here are your top hair care tips:

1. Use Cold Water After Conditioning

After conditioning your hair. This will ensure that the shine as it will shut down the cuticles in the scalp

2. Use quality serum product

More expensive hair serums are soluble in water and therefore easier to wash out than cheaper brands. This will ensure that they don’t remain on the hair which can lead to texture damage.

3. Use an absorbent towel

This will cut down on drying time and damage to your hair.

4. Brush Hair Before You Sleep

This will ensure that the natural oils in your hair are distributed evenly and act as a conditioning agent.

5. Fit a Nozzle To Your Dryer

This will cut down the time that you spend blow drying and will ensure hair is smooth and shiny.

6. Towel Dry First

Towel drying before you use a hairdryer is a great way to cut down on drying time. Intense heat on very wet hair creates steam, which damages hair fibres.

7. Get A Good Brush

There not expensive and a brush that has natural and nylon fibres is always a good choice and will ensure no damage when brushing.

8. Use Intensive conditioner at least weekly and

Always use a conditioner anyway. Many women with fine hair don’t bother but they should. An intensive conditioner weekly is a great way to give your hair a treat.

9. Get protection from heat

Your hair will be in much better condition if you protect your hair from the heat of styling tools.

10. Cold Air

When you have finished drying your hair make sure that you turn your dryer to cold, and work over the head for a minute or two – this will ensure a great shine.

You spend a lot of time treating your skin, but beautiful hair is one of the best features of any women, so give it the respect and pampering it deserves.

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Natural Hair Care Tips

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Here are some hair care tips that you can use to improve the health and look of your hair.

While choosing your styling products, make sure that the main component is not alcohol. Presence of too much of alcohol tends to make your hair dry.

Avoid putting your hair styling products directly on your scalp. Doing so will clog the pores on your head.

Before entering a pool, wet your hair so your hair will soak up the initial water instead of the chlorinated water in the swimming pool. When swimming, remember to wear a cap to protect your hair from chlorinated water. In case you are not wearing a cap make sure that you shampoo and condition your hair properly after your swimming is over.

Hot air can be damaging to your hair. So avoid or minimize the use of hair dryers and hot curlers as much as possible. If you are at all using a hair dryer make sure you use the cool mode of the hair dryer.

Avoid using the blow dryer at one spot for more than a few seconds. Instead, keep it moving and most importantly you keep it at a good distance away from your hair.

To speed up the drying process, blot your hair dry with a towel instead of rubbing it to dry it. Leave the remaining moisture in your hair and let it dry naturally rather than drying it with a blow dryer.

If you notice a difficult knot in your hair, use your fingers to detangle it instead of combing it, which can result in breakage of hair.

Hair tends to be most fragile when it is wet. Avoid brushing or combing when it’s wet, as doing so can cause breakage of hair. Wait until your hair is almost dry before you attempt brushing it.

Use wide toothed and smooth tipped brushes or combs. Sharp and smaller toothed combs can cause damage to your hair.

Keep your brushes and combs clean by washing them every week using soap or shampoo.

Make sure you comb your hair with wide toothed comb or use your fingers to remove any tangles before you start brushing it.

Begin by combing your hair gently at the ends to get any tangles out and work your way up to the root of your hair.

Remember to always brush or comb your hair with a down ward stroke.

Avoid using plastic brushes or combs, which create static electricity, thus resulting in causing damage to your hair.

A healthy lifestyle will mean healthier body and mind including healthy hair for you too. Diet and Hair loss are closely associated, and hence you must pay attention to your diet for a healthy hair. Excessive stress, smoking, not exercising and scarcity of nutrition are can prevent your hair from remaining healthy. Get the required amount of sleep.

Learn your hair type, whether it is dry or oily and purchase shampoos & conditioners that are best suited for your hair type. Trial and error and extensive research is the best way to find out which particular hair product is ideal for your hair.

Shower with warm or cool water. Hot water can dry and irritate your scalp, resulting in irritation at times even.

Donna Summer is a renowned Hair Specialist and focuses on Natural hair care solutions and authored a book on Summer Hair Care Tips

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Hair Care Routine Tips

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Hair is a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); It helps to prevent heat loss. Hair is a filamentous outgrowth of dead cells from the skin, found only on mammals. Although many other life forms, especially insects, show filamentous outgrowths, these are not considered “hair” regarding the accepted meaning of the term. Hair is an outgrowth of protein, found only on mammals. It projects from the epidermis, though it grows from hair follicles deep in the dermis. Although many other organisms, especially insects, show filamentous outgrowths, these are not considered “hair”. Humans, like all primates, are part of a trend toward sparser hair in larger animals; the density of human hair follicles on the skin is actually about what one would expect for an animal of equivalent size. Below are some of the hair care options:

Apply warm coconut oil to the scalp for some time. Then apply lemon juice. Mix one teaspoon methi seed powder, with the mehandi (henna) paste and apply on the scalp. After an hour, rinse well to remove oily residues and wash the hair.

Soak one tablespoon of fenugreek seeds overnight in water. Grind them into a paste. Apply the paste on the hair for an hour and wash it off using a mild shampoo like Johnson’s baby or green apple shampoo from Biotique.

Massage head with coconut oil or olive oil before going to bed. Leave on head overnight. Wash off the oil in the morning. For very dry hair, oil massage should be done twice a week, otherwise it can be done once a week. A hot oil massage may be more effective.

Do not wash your hair with soap and shampoo often, as this will make the hair dry and brittle. Also brush hair only with a comb with big teeth. Do not brush your hair too often.

After washing your hair, let it dry naturally. Avoid using hair dryers, hair curlers and hair straighteners on your hair. These products use heat and damage the hair when used repeatedly. Hair dyes and colors also cause dry hair.

You can use egg, but i wouldnt advise it, if the water to rinse is warm, it cooks (i did this as a teenager, it took hours to get it out) and if you use cold water to rise it hurts your brain!!!

You can mash an avacado to use as a conditioner, but my favorite is to use beer (not lager, proper beer) diluted, to rinse. Don’t worry, the smell dissapears as it dries.

Natural oils and fats, such as in mayonnaise, olive oil, etc., can have great benefits, but be warned: their molecular size is such that they can penetrate the scalp and cause clogged pores.

Using mayonaise as a conditioner is an old trick that goes way back. It’s just vegetable oil and eggs, so it will make your hair glossy.

Mix 1 egg, and one part mayo to one part olive oil and work through hair starting at the roots. Let sit any where from 15 to 30 minutes. Then rinse.

Shampoo and conditioner every other day at the most. Give your hair time to “rest” once in a while. Sometimes I leave conditioner in all night and rinse during my morning shower.

Always sleep with your hairs in braids. Since it is so curly, the more I can do to keep tangles at bay, the better.

Rachel Broune writes articles for Hair Care . He also writes for Home remedies for Hair and Makeup Artists

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10 Great Hair Care Tips

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

If you watch the tabloids, you know that even the stars have bad hair days. It just seems that when the professional stylists are out of the picture, it is inherently human to have a less than glamorous mane. But you can do your part to stay ahead of the battle by following these great tips for hair care.

1. Use a professional conditioner that is formulated for your specific hair type. While you can skimp a little on the shampoo, a good, professional conditioner is a must have. Look for products in salons that are customized for your hair type. For instance: If you have color or a perm, choose a conditioner that is for chemically processed hair. And stay away from those all-in-one shampoo and conditioner combos.

2. Choose a cut tailored to your face and body shape. The number one mistake that people make when choosing a new hairstyle is to pick a style based on popularity rather than how it will enhance their features. Always choose a new cut based on how it will enhance or detract from your facial features and build. If you have broad shoulders, choose a full-bodied cut over a close cropped head hugging doo.

3. Don’t forget your UV protectants. Just as your skin gets damaged by wind and sun, so does your hair. To combat this, look for finishing products such as mousses, gels and sprays that block UV rays.

4. Keep your appointments. Did you know that your hair will split faster than it will grow? You need to get a trim every 6 to 8 weeks, even if it’s just a micro trim. A good hairdresser makes them good because they know what to leave on the head, not take off.

5. Leave chemicals to the professionals. There is a reason why beauticians need to go to school to learn how to handle chemicals and hair processes. You can do irreparable damage with these products even if the package says that it’s way easy. And even if you don’t make your hair fall out, you could end up looking like a clown and paying a stylist big bucks to fix your mess. (Note: Most stylists charge double the rate for corrective color than they do for normal color processes)

6. Get color for interest and body. Every cut needs a little bit of color to make it truly breathtaking. No matter whether your taste is subtle or dramatic, you can add interest and volume to your tresses with a color process. Highlights, lowlights, all over color, gray coverage, you name it, it’s all good for your look.

7. Do weekly conditioning treatments. Even if your hair is extremely healthy, it is constantly on the attack from wind, sun, cold and heat. During the summer months, your hair is battered even more when it absorbs chlorine and other chemicals from your pool.

8. Get an ionic ceramic flat iron. Instead of frying your hair with a conventional metal plated flat iron. Straighten your tresses, add shine and infuse moisture with one of the a negative ionic flat irons. We personally use T3 irons for all our work.

9. Choose your styling products wisely. Avoid products that leave build-up on your hair. If you see white gunk, that means that your product is not water-soluble and may be coating your hair shaft. Build-up causes limpness, breakage and inability to curl not to mention the white flakes.

10. Did you know that if you use a towel after your shower to dry your hair you are causing split ends and adding static electricity to your hair. Don’t rub the towel back and forth over your hair, scrunch the towel around your hair like your would scrunch crackers in your soup.

While all of these tips won’t make you look like you’ve hired a personal hairdresser, they will help you look the very best that you can each and every day. When it comes to hair care, remember that you wear your hair everyday. Now isn’t it worth the time, effort and money that it takes to keep it looking spectacular?

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Special Tips for Hair Care

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Some tips of hair care:

Here are some useful hair tips to nurse your hair in daily life. All of them were collected by myself, I want to share it with everybody and hope it could gives help to you.

To help maintain healthy hair: Get a good night sleep and eat a balanced diet.
Backcombing: Work in small sections, holding the hair ends at a 90 degree angle to the head. Run comb through hair from ends to root in smooth, gentle strokes for maximum effect;

Fine tooth rattail: Precise teasing or backcombing;

Dip pik: Great detangler for wet hair;

Create curls on a flat iron: Place the hair section between the plates as normal. with the plates closed, rotate the iron 2 complete revolutions and then slide to the end of the hair section as normal;

Add volume on a flat iron: Flips or curves hold hair between plates and wrap around outside of top plate;

Straightening with comb: Helps guide hair and eliminates tangles for smoother and faster straightening. Comb your hair under the flat iron while straightening to prevent fuzz;

Create an alluring up do: After removing the iron from the hair, re-roll each curl and pin up randomly. Leave a few trailing tendrils. For sexy, tousled curls make small vertical curls in hair. Separate curls with fingers. For tighter curls, use a small barrel. for loose curls, use larger barrel. Section hair evenly and comb each section before winding. Place curling iron midway up hair section; spread hair evenly between spoon and barrel. Or avoid crimped ends, securely wind hair under spoon in direction of desired curl;

Sexy and tousled curls: Make small vertical curls in hair. Separate curls with fingers. for tighter curls use a small 3/4″ barrel, for loose curls use a larger barrel. Section hair evenly, and comb each section before winding. Place curling iron midway up hair section; spread hair evenly between spoon and barrel. to avoid crimped ends, securely wind hair under the spoon in the direction of desired curl;

Curling iron: Use low heat settings for curling extra fine, damaged, or dry hair;

Total styling: Begins with hair that is clean and dry;

Hair dryer: Select lower heats and speed for finishing hairstyle or for drying permed, color-treated, or fragile hair;

Hair dryer: Use higher heat for initial drying, lowering the heat as you finish styling. Use Cool Shot to set curls or style in place;

Hair dryer: Initially when hair is wet, use dryer on high speed without the concentrator nozzle. dry hair until it is slightly damp. Attach concentrator, using medium to high speed to style and/or straighten hair. always blow dry hair starting from root down to ends. use cool shot button to lock in style;

Hair dryer: Use medium to high speed to style or straighten hair. blow dry hair starting from the root down to ends to seal the cuticles. Result use slim concentrator nozzle for detailed styling;

Lint filter: Take off the dryers rear cap and clean any lint or hair caught in screen. it improves dryers airflow and takes strain off motor, improving life of dryer.

Always treat hair right with superior quality shampoos and conditioners prior to styling.

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Some Tips of Hair Care

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Sure you agree that hair is one of the best decorations of human appearance. It’s like a beautiful frame for your face. And to look better we should care about hair with love, because hair has its own likes and dislikes. For example, hair likes to be brushed every day before sleep for 5-10 minutes in different directions. In reply hair will be thick, bright and easy-styled.

Sometimes you need wash head with an egg. You should take 1 egg and add warm water stirring slowly. Wet hair with hot water and rub egg mixture into head skin. Then rinse hair with running water and comb. If you want to strengthen hair’s roots, wash the head as described above and then rub 1 yolk into head skin and cover head with thick towel. Keep for 10 minutes and then rinse hair with warm water.

If you have such possibility, wash the head with rain water. If you wet hair with sea-water, you have to rinse them with fresh water then. To make your hair soft, you should grease them with burdock oil. 

There are two masks for light and dark hairs. For light hairs you’d better to use the mask from camomile and rosemary. Take 1 table-spoon of camomile and 1 table-spoon of rosemary and pour them with ¾ glass of vodka. Put infusion in to dark place for 2 weeks, shaking it regularly. Filter infusion through gauze into the bottle from dark glass and close hermetically. Twice a week rub infusion into head skin.

Mask for dark hairs is made from hob and thistle. Take some hob and thistle (cupped hand) and pour it with 1 liter of water. Boil mixture for 20 minutes and then filter. After washing head, rinse hair with infusion and enjoy the bright color of your hair.

If  you like cognac, you can use it for hair care. There is an interesting recipe. The thing is that you can make remedy for reinforcement of your hair based on cognac. You can take any kind of cognac.

At first, make decoction from burdock’s root. Pour 2 table-spoons of ground burdock’s roots with 1 glass of boiling water and boil for 10 minutes on the light fire. Filter and cool it. Then take 1 table-spoon of your favorite cognac and mix with 4 table-spoons of onion juice and 6 table-spoons of decoction from burdock’s roots.

Rub mixture into hair’s roots and put the piece of polyethylene on the head and also Turkish towel above. Keep for 30 minutes and then shampoo your head. Repeat this procedure twice a week and you’ll see the perfect result. Find more original recipes at hair care.

Carole is the author of some web-blogs in Health category. You can find more interesting and useful information at Beautiful Skin Blog and Ideal Weight Blog.

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Tips on African American Hair Care: Grow your Hair

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Monitor your hair styling products

Many African Americans resort to applying excessive amounts of heat, such as high kilowatt blow dryers, pressing combs, and flat irons to their hair. Likewise, a significant number of African Americans apply chemicals to their already dry hair, such as texturizers, relaxers, and hair coloring. Nevertheless, these same individuals apply additional chemicals to their hair when they use most over the counter, drugstore, or beauty supply hair care products. These products are usually filled with parabens (cancer-causing agents), sulfates (natural oil stripping detergents), silicones (dangerous chemicals), and alcohols or glycols (hair drying and damaging chemicals). Continued use of these products, although your hair may “feel” soft momentarily or be easier to comb, will only create fried, damaged, and porous hair. Further, you plan your or child’s health at risk when you use these products, not just your hairdo. Solution? Switch to using an all natural shampoo and hair styling products. Both Carol’s Daughter and Beauty 4 Ashes Christian Health & Beauty provide high-quality, all natural ethnic hair care products that are only filled with goodness for your hair type. In fact, in a double blind, three month, placebo-controlled study where 100 African Americans and 50 Biracial individuals participated, those who used Beauty 4 Ashes Christian Health & Beauty’s GodHead shampoo and conditioner and Puritea hair lotion, compared to the control group who used a synthetic based shampoo, conditioner, and moisturizer, experienced increased hair growth and health. 64 of the 75 in the Beauty 4 Ashes Godhead and Puritea group stated their hair was shinier, less split ends, more manageable, less tangled, and stronger. 57 of the 75 enrolled in the Beauty 4 Ashes group also reported hair growth of 2 inches or over. Only 15 of the 75 enrolled in the synthetic group reported increased moisture, shine, and health in their hair. However, 45 of the 75 in the synthetic based group reported scalp itching, dryness, and less manageability in their hair after use of the synthetic shampoo, conditioner, and moisturizer. Such evidence suggests that African American benefits from natural hair care product use instead of cheaper, synthetic based ones. You can find Beauty 4 Ashes products at wwwdiscoverb4acom.

Several reviews rank the products excellent for ethnic hair. But don’t stop here, there is more.

Monitor your hair styling methods

Put down the flat iron. If you must use it, try to only use it immediate after washing your hair. This will give your tresses relief from daily heat.

Allow your hair and scalp to receive oxygen. Do not leave your hair covered on end with a “do-rag.” Just as plants need oxygen to grow; your scalp needs air to thrive.

Stop using brushes. Ethnic hair has a tighter curl pattern and, although strong, can easily snap especially if stress is applied from a brush or comb to a dry head of hair. Instead of brushing your hair, buy a small tooth comb with smooth ridges.

Limit the use of glued in extensions, tight braids, tight cornrows, and hard, gel hairstyles. These only place an excessive amount of stress on the hair. If you do get braids or cornrows, alternate between wearing the hair out and braiding it on a weekly basis

Avoid coloring if possible. Coloring only damages the hair by coating it with hydroxides and alcohols. That alone should say enough.

So there is the scoop. If you can afford it, use Carol’s Daughter or Beauty 4 Ashes on your hair. Yes, they are more pricey, but your hair will thank you.

Kim is a natural lover of hair and for all of her life has enjoyed making others happy through the magic of her hands. She plats, braids, twist, and twirls the hair into amazing creations. She has won numerous awards for her designs and now spends her time on lecturing on how to grow healthy hair.

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Hair Care Tips- All at Home

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Hair is one of the most important parts of our body that is often overlooked. We generally pay more attention to our skin, our figure and the apparels that we best fit into. But it should be noted that beautiful hair also required bringing the ultimate look. Just look around and you will find so many people are in frustration due to hair loss. Even if you possess good healthy hair still there is a need for maintenance. 

Used of hair dye, bleach and highlight causes dryness in hair. Apart from using chemicals there are certain other reliable reasons that bring dryness to hair. Excessive exposure to sun rays and electric appliances such as curlers and blow dryers also causes dryness in hair. Though it is difficult to completely avoid sun rays and electric appliances and hair dye but providing hair treatment is not so difficult that will keep your healthy and supple.
There are various types of hair treatment for different types of hair and hair problems that you can not only get at salon but also you can accomplish at your home. But it is important that you should be committed towards it. No single person gets the desired result overnight in area of achievement. For that you need keep patient and has to be very sincere and you yourself will see the improvement after few days.

There are various hair care tips all that you can accomplish sitting at home and it begins with limiting exposing your hair to sun. If at all you cannot limit sun exposure then it is advisable to apply a conditioner to your hair that contains sunscreen after shampooing. You can also wear hat that act as a good alternative to sunscreen application before going out in the summer sun. Avoid using hair tools too often because it damages and dries out hair. And if you are a regular user of these tools then use one with no more than 1,000 watts, and reduce the temperature and power level. Have you ever tried styling your hair with your fingers? It is simple and you can do it instead of using a blow dryer. Just, gently plump up and style your hair with your fingers as it dries, always lifting the hair up off the scalp and bending over. This contributes to extra fullness. In winter months you can use humidifier counteract the standard low-moisture environment indoor. This enables your hair your hair to benefit from 8 hours of added moisture every night.

You might be having apple-cider vinegar and mayonnaise in your kitchen. They are use in so many different recipes. You should also know that they are also good for your hair too. Dilute one part of apple-cider vinegar to seven parts water and rinse your hair with it after you shampoo. This adds a beautiful shine to your hair. Rub mayonnaise into your hair and leave it on for about 5 -6 minutes, before shampooing it out carefully and find the difference. Even baby oil is very useful in protecting your hair from damage from chlorine when swimming. Apply baby oil before you go out to swim and after your swim shampoo the oil out. These are some of the simple hair care tips that will surely benefit you if followed seriously.

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