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Hair Care

Women's Hair Care

Taking good care of your hair is just as important as taking care of any other part of your body.

Your hair is made up of protein and just like your skin your hair will reflect how you feel and what you eat, for example if you're eating protein, its common to have a full, thick rich head of hair. Sometimes shampoos and conditioners are not enough to supply your hair with a sufficient amount of nutrients and vitamins. There are a lot of hair products on the market today which claims to rejuvenate your hair, strengthening it, rebuild it and so on however the most important thing you can do for your hair is to eat a well balanced diet and eliminate stress from your life. The environments you live in also affect your hair and put a lot of chemical stress on it. Pollution in the air as well as chemicals in your tap water puts your hair under daily stress and in need of good high nutrition diet to be able to bounce back and fight off the toxins.

Unlike your skin, your hair cannot repair itself but you can get new healthy hair by supplementing the right vitamins and minerals for your hair. Does your diet include fish liver oil, wheat germ, yeast, whey protein, and liver? If it doesn't, you need to add a good B-complex, essential fatty acids, weight loss vitamins and minerals to nurture your hair.

Hair is cysteine and taking cysteine as a supplement might help your hair feeling stronger. There are a couple of good hair supplement products on the health food market that contain all the nutrients such as biotin, silicon, sulfur, iodine and iron, needed for your hair to shine.

A longer hair needs a good trim every 8-12 weeks to prevent splitting ends. If your hair is shorter you might need to get a haircut every 3-4 weeks which is pretty much the time it takes for a healthy hair to grow an inch.

Using a hairdryer to dry your hair every time you wash it will dry your hair out in the long run especially if your hair is blond. Blond hair contains more protein and is more fragile when it comes to heat and pollution. You can use a leave in conditioner that wraps each and every hair in a protective layer of film fighting off any attacking chemicals.

Take twenty minutes every other time you wash your hair and give it a really good heated deep conditioning treatment that you put in after shampooing and let it penetrate each hair for a good twenty minutes preferably wrapped in a towel to keep it extra moisturized. Then rinse well and apply regular conditioner.

Instead of bleaching your hair with peroxide products if you are a blond, wash your hair in chamomile extract or chamomile shampoo or rinse your hair in concentrated chamomile tea. It will naturally highlight your hair and make it blonder without any added chemicals.

Lemon is an old bleaching home remedy however lemon can dry your hair out if you use it too often and try not to blow dry your hair after applying it. Washing your hair in beer will give your hair a boost of vitamin B's however the smell it leaves in your hair is not very appealing and you be better off using any of the hair products containing biotin. Avoid products listing alcohol as one of the ingredient. Alcohol is very damaging to your hair and dries it out very fast.

The same rule goes for hair products as for the food you eat, the cleaner and less added chemicals it has the better it is for your health and fitness.