Restoring hair health involves follicular stimulation, nutritional support, and careful management of chemical treatments like perms and bleaching.
When most people think of frizzy hair, they envision wavy or curly hair puffed up to look dry and untamed. However, straight hair gets frizzy, too, and might end up shriveling or kinking when exposed to humidity or harsh hair treatments.
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There are vast numbers of beauty products available for managing hair health and style. Getting the right product for your hair type is not always a straightforward process. This is especially true if your hair is difficult to manage.
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Growing out your hair can be a frustrating and long process, whether you're growing out a very short cut or aiming to grow your locks to extreme lengths. Smart hair care, including regular trims, is essential while your hair is growing to prevent damage and allow your hair to look its best.
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Dandruff can be caused by sensitive, dry scalp or skin diseases such as eczema, psoriasis or seborrheic dermatitis. Additionally, styling agents, shampoos and hair dyes can cause your scalp to become red, dry and itchy. This causes your scalp to shed flaky dandruff.
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If you dye your hair, you probably love the color but hate how dry and brittle your locks feel. Dyeing stresses hair by stripping away natural oils, lipids and nutrients, which causes it to weaken and break. If you're sick of losing your strands, you don't need to swear off coloring forever.
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If you're overweight or obese, you're consuming too many calories — extra fuel that your body can't use and stores away as body fat. There are six essential nutrients that you need for optimal health and nutrition, however, only three of these nutrients provide calories.
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One of the first remarkable effects I witnessed, as a young woman interested in holistic health care, was the benefit of a Vitamin B complex on slowing the graying of my mother's hair. Inspired by nutritional best-sellers, such as Adele Davis's, "You Can Get Well," I suggested she try Vitamin B complex daily.
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If you are experiencing unwanted hair growth on your chest, you may feel embarrassed, but more often than not it is mostly just a nuisance. Contact your doctor if you are concerned, as it could indicate an underlying issue.
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You can't stop your hair once it starts turning gray, but you can color it for a more youthful look. Salon and store-bought dyes contain harsh chemicals that might weaken your hair or cause skin irritation. If you're sensitive to these dyes, try using coffee as a more natural alternative.
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Cinnamon is the dried inner bark of the evergreen Cassia cinnamon plant. It is often used as a spice in foods. However, herbalists have used cinnamon to treat infections because it contains volatile oils, such as eugenol and trans-cinnamic acid, which have anti-fungal, anti-viral and antioxidant properties.
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Much like almost any hair on your body, eyelashes have a lifecycle. But this lifecycle encompasses three separate phases. They grow, change and then rest before they fall out. When eyelashes are burnt, the growth process has simply been disrupted.
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Professional shampoos and conditioners are sold in salons and spas. The most important thing to consider when selecting professional shampoo and conditioner is hair type, whether it is dry or damaged, fine or thinning or color-treated.
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As your follicles stop producing melanin -- a process ruled by your genes more than your lifestyle -- your hair pigment fades and you go gray. While the graying process is simple, the acceptance process often comes with a few complications.
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Hair can consist of different varieties from long and short to thick and thin. If you have fine or thin hair, you may want to thicken it a bit for more style. Fortunately, for those who want thicker, fuller hair, there are products on the market which are designed to help you achieve your goals.
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If you have a simple haircut, you may be able to trim your own hair between salon visits, which will save you time and money. Simple haircuts include one-length cuts and long layers, a style in which all of the hair is combed upward to the same location and bluntly cut.
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Minoxidil is the active ingredient in heavily advertised hair restoration medications like Rogaine and Hairgro. It's typically used to treat thinning hair and baldness on the scalp, but the American Academy of Dermatology points out that it can also be used to restore eyebrow hair.
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Perms or chemical relaxers have an extremely damaging effect on hair when used incorrectly. Because breaking and dryness often plague permed black hair, limit the number of times per year you relax your hair to four or five, says Susan Taylor -- a board-certified and Harvard-trained dermatologist.
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Hair on your belly is unsightly in a swimsuit, but if you've tried to shave it off, you know it can come back coarse and dark. Although hair growing back thicker generally is a myth, the American Academy of Family Physicians notes that stubble, the blunt edges of hair that has been shaved off, will show up.
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Hair is often straightened with a flat iron -- which applies direct dry heat to the hair -- or with chemicals in a salon. Although these processes can make hair look smooth and shiny temporarily, over time they strip hair of lipids and oils, removing proteins and drying out the cuticle, the outer layer of the hair.
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While having facial hair is normal for a man, it can be unsettling when anything more than peach fuzz shows up on a woman. Unwanted facial hair is called hirsutism, which results in excess hair on the face and body and tends to predominantly affect women.
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