Tips for Hair Care in cold season
December 3, 2007
Dry skin? Chapped lips? Static in your clothes? Welcome to winter. Yes, while the winter means Christmas trees and cuddling around in our woolies, it also wreaks havoc on our skin and means we have to really lay on the lotion. But while most of us tend to pay attention to our skin in winter, what about our hair?
The cold air of winter is more drying and less humid and therefore more abusive than other times of the year. Indoor heating devices create a dryer climate as well. As we spend less time in the sun, the natural highlights nature paints into our hair become less noticeable and hair loses its healthy shimmering look.
Here are a few tips to keep your hair in shape in the winter.
1. WASHING
In general, hair requires only a limited amount of washing, just enough to cleanse your hair of dirt. In winter you should be extra careful so that your natural hair oils are not depleted due to excessive washing.
Removing Hair Dye Stains
September 21, 2007
Hair dye can easily stain both skin and clothing. To prevent these stains, wear old clothing and spread petroleum jelly on your skin. To remove dye stains on your skin, rub toothpaste into the mark and rinse the stain away. To take hair dye out of clothing, treat the stains with alcohol followed by lighter fluid, turpentine, or hydrogen peroxide. If all else fails, use bleach.
Good diet for Healthy Hair
September 21, 2007
Anita, a 23 year-old model, found that her hair was falling at an alarming rate. The fallen hair shaft had a white tip. Her problem was her diet. As the saying goes, “You are what you eat”. The clue was in the ‘white tip’, which was actually the hair root or hair bulb. This meant that Anita’s hair was falling in the anagen (growing stage) and not in the telogen (falling stage). The presence of the root indicated that the root was too weak to handle even a little pressure. This is known as Loose Anagen Syndrome. The cause was easily discovered. Anita’s agent had put her on a strict diet. She lost a lot of weight very rapidly. This had weakened the entire structure of her hair, including the hair follicle and connecting tissue. Anita was put on a protein rich diet with a dietary supplement of the mineral silicon. Today she has healthy hair.
How does our diet affect our hair?
Our hair receives its nutrition from the blood stream through the papilla and grows according to whether it is well nourished or not. It is also affected by other contents of the blood such as hormones, drugs and waste material. Our hair is a great indicator of what is right and wrong with our body. When our hair is shiny and bouncy, our body is in good condition but when it looks dull and lifeless, it reflects an overall state of ill health.
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