Wednesday, October 26, 2011

How to Improve Your Hair Condition

Lustrous locks of hair make appealing even a plain girl. Although there is no magic way to improve hair's condition, here are some simple hair care tips that will help you obtain good results.

Firstly, whole body health is a key to have healthy hair as well. It is crucial to be healthy, keep balanced diet containing fruit and vegetables, and keep healthy lifestyle. Also, it's important to follow your hair care routine to be in possession of thick beautiful hair.

As hair consists of protein, your diet has to include plenty protein rich food, such as dairy products, eggs, fish, grains, seeds, fruits and vegetables. It's very important for hare care to consume vitamins A, B complex, C, E, D, omega 3 fatty acid and magnesium. These substances help to expanse level of oxygen in blood and promote circulation that stimulates hair growth.

Besides, you can stimulate hair growth and prevent hair loss by consumption such minerals as zinc, iron, magnesium and silica as well. Keep in mind that vitamin and mineral supplements assist to hair health better than some chemicals with potential negative effects. Whereas, a shortage of vitamins and minerals in the body can make hair condition worse.Remember, you should immediately ask for a doctor's advice if you notice excessive hair loss. Upon doctor's recommendations you may have different options to choose from.

Also, an application of head massage with warm essential oils is highly efficient to develop blood circulation that stimulate hair growth and good look. You can apply essential oils such as rosemary, castor, olive or lavender oils for massage. It is also good to add red pepper or garlic oils or mix different oils and other ingredients.

To gain best effect for hare care, you need to wrap hair with towel and leave the oil for about half an hour, after applying the oil. This will stimulate fast hair growth and make hair healthy and shiny. In addition it's helpful to rinse hair with cold or warm water to increase its shining.

To keep healthy hair and entire body it is vital to have relaxation and enough sleep daily and do regular exercises as well. In conclusion, do not expect that all efforts are able to improve your hair overnight. However, if you stick to hair care and carry out all procedures with patience and in regular way you will reward to possess gorgeous shiny hair you always long for.

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Curly Hair Care Tips. Part 2.

For curly hair care one should wet hair as just to be dripping is not enough for it. It needs every strand be damp enough. Applying mousse or gel promotes your curls keep their shape because it will inflexible, but putting too much can make your hair get sticky.

Thus, after washing for curly hair care it is necessary to apply moistening agents. Pour some styling milk or mousse into the palm and spread evenly to your hair. Applying a product just after shower to wet hair promotes you to get thick curls.

To avoid frizzing allow your hair dry naturally keeping the heat flowing between your fingers through your hair. If you need to dry hair rapidly, wrap your hair with a towel. If you don’t dry hair completely you will better manage with the curls.

After drying for curly hair care it is beneficial to apply few drops of silicone-based serum to the hair. Allow hair to cool for a minute, and then flip it up. If you want to keep your curls don’t brush the hair. To prevent frizzing and breakage it is recommended to use wide-toothed comb or apply a diffuser.

Keep in mind that hair tends to absorb environment pollution, germs from sneezes and coughs, smoke, etc. Your hair can keep smell like smoke. Thus for healthy curly hair care it is beneficial to pass detox regularly.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Curly Hair Care Tips. Part 1.

Every girl can pride in the exuberant naturally curly hair. Curly hair has strong disulfide bonds because of the natural structure of the hair proteins. Curls are made by chemical bonds that force the hair to bend.

To converse limp straight hair into wild beautiful curls, you have to change the hair's natural structure. Don’t forget, however, that though a curling iron can create beautiful curls the heat damages hair. If you want to use a curling iron or hot rollers let hair dry completely first because the applied gears will direct heat directly to the hair and can burn it.

The new hydrogen bonds will maintain your curls only while your hair dries and cools. While applying a curling iron, keep the lock in a curled shape until it gets cool. If you remove the curled shape from hair before it's completely dry and cool then the weight of hair will break some of the hydrogen bonds and it will not keep curls as well.

Each type hair requires specialized care. Thus curly hair is more brittle and dryer than straight one and tends to frizzing. For curly hair care it is useful wash curly hair twice a week with special washing curly hair care products. Also cold water promotes making hair shinier, moistens locks and reduces frizzing. For curly hair care it is useful to massage the scalp with any essential oil such as olive, mustard or coconut oil.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Oriental Secrets of Hair Care

From time immemorial oriental beauties have accumulated the huge collection of means to care for body, face and hair. And all these cosmetic means can give any ultra-modern cosmetics odds. Under the veil, as a rule, brightly painted lips, lined eyes and musky tresses are hidden. Maybe we should listen to the wisdom of the East.

In the arsenal of Arabian beauties there are all kinds of oils both essential and vegetable origins. They are indispensable for all modern women. We know about castor and coconut oils much and use these oils effectively. But it seems that sesame oil is exotic for western women as well as frankincense and myrrh. And if you add a drop of aromatic oil in them, warm slightly and rub into your hair... By the way, make this procedure at least once a week and you will be greatly surprised!

To improve hair urgently you should beat 1 egg, and mix with 2 tablespoons of any vegetable oil and 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar or honey. The resulting product of cosmetic art should be applied to the scalp and hair. Cover hair with a heated towel and keep it for 10-15 minutes.

You can strengthen the hair with the help of universal vitamin mask. You nedd egg yolk, pulp of a half banana and a half apple plus juice of two oranges. Mix everything in a blender and rub into clean wet hair and keep for half an hour. This mask is universal because it can be used for the facial skin too.

Infusion of rosemary leaves works against dandruff well. And onion infusion works against hair loss. Slice a big onion with the peel and pour with a half of one glass of natural apple or grape vinegar. Keep in a warm place during the whole day. Take out the onion and rub the resulting balm into the scalp at night. Then wrap the head with a piece of polyethylene and wash the mask off in the morning.

To give the brightness to the hair Arabian women rinse hair with lemon juice, tea or coffee. And of course, the best way to wash hair is kefir. There is no shampoo to compete with kefir.

Also I should mention about favorite plants of oriental beauties - henna and usma. If the henna is widely known, then usma is terra incognita yet. But we can buy seeds and grow it in own garden. Usma compels hair to grow everywhere hair can grow, except palms and soles. Of course, it needs a lot of juice (for the scalp), but eyelashes and eyebrows will thankful to you. Usma juice will make them long, strong and black.

And finally, one more purely eastern procedure - steam bath. Hot oil is rubbed into the scalp and hair with hot wet towel. Then a towel is left on the head as a turban to increase the impact of the oil with hot steam. Hair can be washed in two-three hours.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Homemade Hair Care Recipes with Nettle

It is known that nettle helps to solve many problems with hair. And nettle is especially rich in vitamins in May. Use the opportunity to treat your hair right now, while nettle has the great healing power.

Recipe for hair growth and strengthening
Pour one glass of grinded nettle with 1 liter of boiling water and cover with lid. Keep it for 20 minutes. Filter the infusion and rinse hair every time after washing.

This nettle rinser strengthens hair, stops hair loss, increases hair growth, and treats dandruff and itch.

Recipe for hair degreasing
Pour one glass of grinded nettle with one glass of vodka. Cover with lid and put in the cool place for 5 days. Rub ready extract into head skin with a cotton pad 2-3 times a week. In 1-1,5 hours you can wash hair or rinse with warm water.

Nettle extract takes greasiness away from head skin and hair.

Recipe for prevention of grey hair.
Pour 50 gram of grinded nettle with ½ liter of cold water and ½ liter of vinegar (it can be apple vinegar). Keep it for 1 hour and then boil for 30 minutes under the lid. Filter the infusion. Every evening during 2-3 weeks you should rub the infusion into head skin. The treatment course can be repeated ones per three months.

Nettle and vinegar infusion will help you to stop appearance of grey hair.