Hair care

Maintain Healthy Hair:

Healthy hair looks more attractive, it provides more styling options, and enhances your natural beauty. Once a month, massage plant based oil, into your scalp, and hair, after shampooing. For additional aromatherapy benefits, you can also apply Jojoba Hair Oil. Leave it for ½ hr. Rinse hair, dry and style as usual.

Hair:

Hair also one of the important part in our body. So give importance to hair. Hair also many types like skin.

1) Oily hair
2) Dry hair
3) Normal hair and
4) Combination hair.
5) Curly hair
6) Soft hair

Oily hair:

Oil gland produces oil more than needed on scalp. So this type of hair always looks oily.oil hair always catches more dust and it sticks to the hair soon. So weekly 2 times hard shampooing is advisable. Monthly twice apply henna. Drink more water. Mix curd, egg and apply as a pack.

Dry hair:

Due to effect of sunrays, hard shampoo and due to chemical treatment and hormones imbalance dry hair appears. Dry hair looks rough. As age increases it becomes rougher. We should give special oil treatment.

Almond oil is more useful for this hair. Usage of egg balanced shampoos weekly once application of curd. Oil massage is more useful for this type of hairs. Luke warms the oil and massage clock wise and anti clock wised. (Almond oil, Olive oil, Brahmi oil equal parts)

For conditioner:

Apply henna (Mehandi, Amla, Fenugreeks) add curd, egg, 1vitamin E capsule for 2 hrs.

Normal hair:

Normal hair has balances oil and moisture. Normal hair always looks soft and bright. Never looks oilier or drier. It always has balance amount of oil and moisture. We should also take care properly. If we don’t take care properly it may turn to dry hair. Normally this hair faces fewer problems.

Combination hair:

It has special type of appearance. Hair roots have oil and hair corner looks dry. If we don’t take proper care, than hair turn in above condition. So we should take more care and hair corners should be applied oil always.

Hair types:

· Normal hair
· Dry hair
· Oily hair
· Combination hair

Normal hair:

Normal hair is neither greasy nor dry. It has not been premed, straightened or color treated. It holds its style well. it looks good and healthy most of the time. You should choose a shampoo and conditioner that are designed for normal hair.

Dry hair:

It does not contain enough moisture. It is because cuticle is weathered and porous and cortex can’t retain water. It shows up more in long hair as long hair has been weathered more. It does not shine vitamin B and protein conditioners are helpful in this condition.dry hair looks dull. It feels rough. It tangles easily. It is difficult to comb or brush. Use nourishing shampoo, after shampooing use a good conditioner, deep conditioner is must.

Oily hair:

It is due to build up of natural secretion of oil from glands in the scalp. The sebum passes into hair follicle and spreads upwards and over the shaft. It is not absorbed into the shaft. Infrequent shampooing may result in build up of grease, dirt and bacteria which make the hair look unpleasant.

Frequently washing is the only way to care for this type of hair. Short hair is more troublesome as oil has very large area to cover. It tends to be limp. It looks flat and lacks volume. It is difficult to manage because it does not hold the style. It soon gets greasy again after shampooing. Wash hair with good shampoo specially designed for greasy hair and use special conditioner for greasy hair.

Combination hair:

Hair is combination of both, greasy as well as dry. It tends to be greasy at the roots and the shaft is dry and sometimes has split ends also. Greasy at the roots. Shaft is dry. Sometimes split ends. Use products that have only a gentle action, try using a shampoo for oily hair and finish by applying a conditioner only from the middle lengths to the ends of the hair.

Care of your hair:

Always make a complimentary hair style that will enhance your appearance. Be sure that your hair is well kept and does not look messy. Hair sprays can be used to hold the hair in place. Clean healthy hair is an asset.

Your hair must be properly cared for, as well as shaped and styled for your individual features. If you have color on hair, root touch up is important so that the re growth is not noticeable.

Hair loss:

Hair loss can be caused by a number of factors including stress and over dieting, low iron levels or lack of biotin in the body. Boost your intake of iron rich foods such as lean meat, egg yolk, pulses, dark green vegetables, such as spinach. To help you to absorb iron from your food, be sure to consume plenty of vitamin C from citrus fruits and other foods. Protein rich foods will help too. If you are stressed eat plenty of whole grains, dairy food, lentils, other pulses, green vegetables, seafood, meat nuts and seeds.

Treatment:

· Hot oil therapy
· Monthly once henna
· High protein diet with supplement of iron and vitamin
· Proper cleanliness of scalp
· The hair should be dried thoroughly, scrubbing with a towel
· Brushing or combing twice a day
· Avoid making tightly pulled back pony tails.

Remedies for falling hair:

1 tsp honey
2 tsp lemon juice

Mix it and apply to the scalp for ½ hr. rinse it with cool water.

Add Triphala powders in pure ghee and make a paste. Apply to the scalp for 2 hrs. Rinse with mild shampoo.

Boil urad dal, churn it in a grinder and make a semi liquid paste, and apply it on the scalp for ½ hr. and rinse with mild shampoo.

1 cup curd
1 cup henna powder
¼ cup fresh Aloevera liquid

Apply to the hair for 2 hrs. And rinse with mild shampoo.

1 cup soaked fenugreek seeds paste
1 cup curd

Apply to the hair for 1 hr. Rinse with mild shampoo. This pack controls the dandruff.