Helpful Tips For Healthy Hair

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Bad hair care practices can leave your hair dull, unmanageable and with horrible split ends.

Choose the right shampoo for your type of hair (ask your stylist). Normal, dry or chemically treated hair will benefit from a weekly intensive conditioning treatment. Always comb intensive treatment through to the ends of your hair. Cover with plastic and a towel around the hair for up to 30 minutes (to help trap heat in). If you are short on time look for an instant conditioner to use after each shampoo.

Treatments are a MUST at least twice a month.

Let your hair air dry as often as you can.

A balanced diet including fresh fruit and vegetables help to ensure your hair receives all it's vitamins and minerals which it requires for healthy growth. If you know your diet is not quite as good, supplement with vitamins and minerals. They must both be used together to benefit your hair and body. Consult a nutritionist if you are feeling uncomfortable choosing your own.

Don't be surprised if your favourite shampoo

doesn't always ensure good hair days. Environmental changes throughout the year can leave your hair dry, greasy and with fly aways. It is a good idea to change shampoo's when you feel the need at least every couple of months)

More Hair Sins:

a)Avoid rough towel drying, gently press hair down after washing. If you have long hair use a comb to remove snags, not a brush.

b)Limit the use of hot blow drying, crimpers, and curling irons. Before using them protect the hair by applying a heat buffering spray such as K.M.S thermal spray.

c)Rinse shampoo out of your hair thoroughly and wash and condition it well after swimming in a chlorine filled pool.

That hair grows about 12mm per month and that a single strand of hair lives for up to seven years

If you never cut your hair it would grow to a length of 107cm before falling out

There are 120,000 hairs on the average adult head with blondes having most (140,000) and redheads least (90,000)

Hair grows faster in the summer, during sleep and between the ages of 16 and 24

Between the ages of 40 and 50 women tend to lose about 20 percent of their hair

Healthy hair is highly elastic and can stretch 20 or 30 percent before snapping

Ahuman hair is stronger than copper wire of the same thickness

The combined strength of a head of human hair is capable of supporting the weight equivalent of 99 people

Curling tongs were first popularised by ancient Romans

In 1703 Peter the Great of Russia created a tax on beards that almost caused a revolution

Hair biology

The root of a hair strand sticks in a bag in the skin. The strand is pushed out of this bag about 0.35mm per day, making an average growth rate of 1cm, or half of an inch, per month. The growth rate is however very much related to the individual person, his age, his diet etc.

Healthy hair has an average lifetime of 2-6 years. After a rest period of three months the single hair falls out, and a new strand starts to grow out of the bag. The lifetime depends on circumstances and person, too.

The lifetime of hair is responsible for the maximum of hair length you can have. Waist length hair takes about 6 years to grow out from a short hair cut, periodic trims included. If your hair has a life cycle of 2 years, you will never achieve a nice waist length mane.