Take care of your hair

We can take care of hair in the same way as we watch after our bodies and minds.

However, people come in different shapes, sizes, and colors. Hair is not an exception. Compare Asians and Europeans, Native Americans, and people from New Zealand. The care for different hair can have many variations. However, natural products never will harm but will help.

Hair does not like direct sun and cold. With the fast temperature change, the dry air can damage the outer layers. Tight bandana headbands or rubber fixations can break hair.

You can think and wonder why my friend has no problems with hair or why hair becomes thinner with age. It depends on many factors, such as genes, environment, and nutrition.

We are different and unique

I wondered why people living on different continents have different hair. Nature is thousands of times brighter and knows how to protect us.  African people have curly hair. They brought these traits to other continents. It is in their genes. Curly hair protects from heat.

How does it happen?

Curly hair creates a layer between the head and the surface of the hair. The air is more cooling by the head and does not let overheat so as fast as it would for people with straight hair. It is astonishing how the environment shapes us.

How to protect hair from damage?

Nutrition

People who get vitamins, proteins, enzymes, and minerals from food can reap the benefits of proper nutrition. Organic food and supplements provide the needed material for the growth and excellent appearance of hair.

Care of hair

Protection from heat, sun, and cold makes a difference. Hair does not like constant changes in temperature.

Chemicals in dyes can influence hair damage. Fortunately, there are plenty of colors nowadays which are enriched with vitamins. Beauty companies invent new products that benefit informed consumers.

When you go to a hairdresser, you must ask what products they use. Fewer chemicals are in beauty products, and less harm your hair will get.

There are significant factors to keep your hair happy.

Water

Water used for showering and washing hair can be full of chemicals. Chlorine in the water makes hair dry.  Chlorine makes the skin itchy and irritant. Besides, you can get dandruff. It is advisable to use filters in a showerhead. Water-free of other stuff such as chlorine will make hair clean.

How can you protect your hair and skin in the shower?

• Using shower filters. The Pure Earth company makes KDF shower filters. (www.pure-earth.com)
• Radiant Wash shower filters are filled with vitamin C. It sounds like the trick, but vitamin C converts chlorine to pure salt.

Masks and treatments

There are plenty of costumes made by beauty companies. However, home remedies can provide the same and better results without harming health.

You know that the FDA does not test beauty products, do you? It means that consumers must be attentive and careful with choices regarding their health. Chemicals can go into your skin and give unwanted problems such as allergies or rashes.

What does it mean? We can use home remedies from our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents.

For example, onion. Maybe you do not like the smell and the taste, but this vegetable is full of benefits. The sulfur does tricks.

The mask with onion overnight can make a difference.

How to do it

• Pick an onion
• Cut into small pieces
• Put everything on the excellent cotton cloth and wrap it around your head. Try not to scatter pieces.
• Use a few more cotton pieces to hold everything together warm
• You can put a  wool cap on the head for the whole time.

It is beneficial to hair to have onion throughout the whole night. One thing if you sleep not alone, your partner cannot be happy with the smell. I parade with onion on my hair during the day when nobody is home — peace of mind.

In the morning, you remove the neon and clothes.

To remove the smell of onion, you can use lemon juice or vinegar. After rinsing with it, the hair will smell fresh.

Sesame oil treatment

It works perfectly for thin and tired hair.

The recipe:

• Two yolks
• One teaspoon of honey
• Two teaspoons of sesame oil

I use organic ingredients, mixing them in a bowl with a spoonful until everything becomes one smooth liquid mass. I apply it to clean hair, carefully spreading and watching that good stuff covers and does not drop on the floor or clothes. Later on, I wrap it with a cotton scarf or light towel and cover it with a warm cap to keep it for a half hour. Later on, I rinse and dry it without the fan.

The help of herbs

The famous Maria Treben, a world-renowned herbalist, offers simple recipes for improving hair quality and prevention offers.

For hair growth

Burdock root rinse

The recipe

•   Soak 4 oz of burdock root in cold water for twelve hours
•  Warm up the infusion and strain it
•  Wash hair using Castile soap with half of the liquid.
•  Rinse the soap out with the other half of the infusion.

Nettle rinse

The stinging nettle is an old remedy to promote hair growth and strengthen them.

The recipe

•   Ten  handfuls of fresh stinging nettles pare ut in a saucepan covered with one gallon of water
•   Heat the water, but do not boil it
•   Let nettles stay for five minutes
•   Strain them and use the liquid to wash your hair

Hair loss

For me, the onion is a first helper. However, Maria Treben offers a couple of recipes for hair loss that are easy to follow and apply.

Walnut leaf lotion

•   Chop two full teaspoons of walnut leaves
•   Pour hot water into the cup with walnut leaves
•   Let’s stay for half of a minute
•   Strain the liquid
•   Massage the lotion into your scalp

 Wild Chicory juice for loss of eyebrow hair and eyelashes

•    Chew wild chicory stalk
•    Apply the juice from it with fingers to the eyebrows and eyelashes

Conclusion

Hair needs attention as everything in our bodies and around us. How todo protect hair from damage? First, do not hurt them, exposing them to direct sun and cold or rain. You never know what falls from the sky. Acid rain is the more common thing nowadays.

Second, watch your diet. Junk food does not have vital nutrients. Hair needs minerals, vitamins, proteins, and enzymes.

Third, take good care of them by using safe beauty products and washing with water without chemicals.

Do you have any questions? Please leave a comment below.