Daily Hair Care Tips: Sunday-June-1-2014

Drink two litres of fresh spring water throughout the day for glowy skin and healthy hair. ~ Kristin Russel

Daily Hair Care Tips: Saturday-May-31-2014

For dandruff, try tea tree oil as this has antifungal properties. ~ Kristin Russel

Daily Hair Care Tips: Friday-May-30-2014

Average hair grows around one cm per month. ~ Kristin Russel

Daily Hair Care Tips: Thursday-May-29-2014

Wash your hair with a mild, pH balanced shampoo at least once each week to remove salt buildup. ~ Kristin Russel

Daily Hair Care Tips: Wednesday-May-28-2014

Get enough sleep to get rid of stress and keep your hair healthy. ~ Kristin Russel

Herbs and Foods for Natural Hair Care

Your hair needs very special nutrients in order to grow. If you don’t eat lots of vegetables it will not be easy for you to get the key nutrients you need to increase hair growth. However eating vegetable is not sufficient for hair growth. Though herbs are all natural, it doesn't mean that they are totally safe for all. You can have an allergic reaction to some herbs so it's best to test a small amount of the herb on the inside of your wrist before treating your whole head or ingesting the herbs.

In this article, I will discuss more about the herbs and foods for natural hair care. In the book Beautiful Hair: Natural Care,  I discussed the natural foods for beautiful hair. The rule for natural hair care is: Don’t stick to one herb or food. Switch between different products regularly in order to consume a more diverse range of foods and herbs.  There is a special herb that does something amazing for your hair growth. Not only it supplies the necessary amino acid the primary ingredient needed for hair growth, it also helps your body grow hair. In my book I explained that herb. Keep reading to learn how to make your body produce much more of this special amino acid, increasing blood flow to your skin, this transport hair growing nutrients right to your scalp and supplying your hair with the key building block of hair growth. Once you understand how this works, you’ll soon by eating or drinking an abundance of this key nutrient and directly increasing your hair growth. It’s easy, tasty, cheap and available all over the world.

Normal Herbs for the Health and Hair:

Here I am giving the chart for commonly used healthy herbs. Normally, Rosemary is used to stimulate hair growth, fight dandruff and restore luster to the hair. Similarly, horsetail herb is a great source of silica. Silica will strengthen your hair at its core and restore shine.

Yoga and Herbs for Hair Growth

In the book Yoga for Hair Growth, I discussed about food as well as yoga exercises required for hair growth. 

There are many other good herbs that may help hair loss, restore shine and combat dandruff problems. Some herbs that you can use in food, boil for a hair rinse or add to your normal shampoo.

Aloe Vera: stimulates new hair growth, works against frizz, works as a natural conditioner

Burdock: promotes hair growth, increased shine and healthy body, comabts hair loss, dandruff and itching. Overall, it makes for a healthy scalp.

Chamomile: Works great as a natural conditioner and for cosmetic purposes, it will will lighten blone hair over time.

Licorice: Largely associated with preventing hair loss

Parsley: Its doses or Iron and Vitamin C help keep hair healthy and strong

You need to add sufficient protein, vegetables and vitamins to keep your hair healthy. You need special nutrients in order to grow. 

Hair Transplant

What is hair transplant? Good hair boosts confidence levels, self esteem, comfort levels, good relationships and social positions. Hair transplantation is a surgical technique that involves moving individual hair follicles from one part of the body (the donor location) to bald or balding parts (the recipient location).  It is primarily used to treat male pattern baldness. In this case, grafts containing hair follicles that are genetically resistant to balding are transplanted to bald scalp. Likewise, it is also used to restore eyelashes, eyebrows, beard hair, chest hair, and pubic hair and to fill in scars caused by accidents or surgery such as face-lifts and previous hair transplants. Hair transplantation differs from skin grafting in that grafts contain almost all of the epidermis and dermis surrounding the hair follicle, and many tiny grafts are transplanted rather than a single strip of skin. 

Are you thinking about having a hair transplant? If you are younger than 30 years, you must avoid hair transplant. If you are older than 30 years you may go for hair transplant. But before going for hair transplant, you must know the cause for your hair loss. If hair loss is due to stress and strain, you must try for natural way. However, if hair loss is due to total loss of hair follicles, you may go for hair transplant. The hair follicles that no longer produce hair are replaced one at a time with healthy hair follicles to replicate the natural growing hair process.  In just two to three months, you will begin to see the hair growth process take place. The hair will then grow approximately a half inch every month. Typically, 20-30 grafts were placed at a time.

Hair Transplant Techniques:

1. Strip Harvesting - a strip of scalp is removed under local anesthesia, the wound is then sutured back together and this piece of scalp tissue is then cut in to small pieces of tissue called grafts which are then transplanted back in to the thinning area of the patient's head. This method will leave a linear scar in the donor area, which should be covered by a patient's hair (if long). The recovery period is around 2 weeks and will require the stitches to be removed by medical personnel.

2. Follicular Unit Extraction or FUE Harvesting - individual follicles of hair are removed under local anesthesia; this micro removal uses tiny punches of between 0.6mm and 1.25mm in diameter. Each follicle is then reinserted back in to the scalp in the thinning area using a micro blade. Because individual follicles are removed, only small, punctuate scars remain and any post-surgical pain is minimized. As no suture removal is required, recovery from FUE is within 7 days.

Problems with Hair Transplant:

1. Depending on the amount of graft, the cost for hair transplant varies around $9,000 to $15,000
2. You need to take anti-inflammatory and many other medicines after the operation
3. You may not able to sleep properly for about a month because of pain 
4. Hair thinning, known as "shock loss", is a common side effect that is usually temporary.  
5. Other side effects include swelling of areas such as the scalp and forehead. If this becomes uncomfortable, medication may ease the swelling. Additionally, the patient must be careful if his scalp starts itching, as scratching will make it worse and cause scabs to form. 

References:

http://www.hairtransplants.co.uk/