Take Care Of Hairs During Winter

A few tips to keep your hair healthy and looking good during winter

Cover your hair: The winds and cold of winter tend to damage your hair. Cover your hair every time you step outside. Use a cap, scarf, hat or any other form of headgear based on its convenience.

Make sure that your head covering is not too tight and does not cut off blood circulation. Before putting anything on your head, moisturize your hair and wear a scarf underneath a hat or cap to avoid damaging your hair.

Moisturize your hair: Extra moisturizing is required during the winter because the hair tends to dry faster. Products containing coconut oil like cetearyl or cetyl alcohol are of great help. Applying a hot oil treatment once a week keeps your hair nourished.

Remember to condition your hair after every wash. If your hair is extremely dry you can use a moisturizing shampoo in addition to a conditioner. You could also use a leave in conditioner. Be sure to condition the ends of the hair as they tend to dry out the most. Use cold water when rinsing to lock moisture in the hair. Deep condition the hair once a week to have soft and silky hair during the winter.

Avoid frequent washes: If you wash your hair too often during the winter it loses its nourishment. Instead of washing your hair everyday wash it two or three times a week. If you normally wash your hair three times a week, wash it once a week. This helps preserve the hair’s natural oils.

Avoid chemicals and hot items on hair: Do not color, straighten or use other chemical products too often during winter. Using hot items on the hair like an iron or blow dryer makes the hair brittle. Even hot water rinses or showers are harmful to the hair. Use warm water and put the dryer or iron on a cool setting.

In addition to all these tips be sure to drink plenty of water and eat the right types of food to make your hair beautiful.

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Here are some beauty tips for glowing skin through out the year. Follow these home remedies and experience a glowing, hydrated and rejuvenated skin. So, why wait, let mother nature heal and pamper your skin with her gifted treasures.

Home Remedies

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Mash banana with milk and apply it on face . Leave it for 20 minutes and rinse with cold water.
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Make a fine paste of one teaspoon of walnut powder, lemon juice and honey. Scrub the body with the paste. Leave it for 20 minutes and rinse with cold water.
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Make a paste of turmeric powder and orange juice. Scrub it on the area that is widely exposed to sun or cold weather. Leave it for 20 minutes and rinse it with cold water.
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A piece of papaya when applied to the face can do a similar magic.
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Boil cabbage in water and let the water cool overnight. Wash your face with this water early in the morning.
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Make a paste of powdered mango peels and 1 teaspoon of milk powder. Scrub it over the area that is widely exposed to sun or cold weather.
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In equal quantities, mix vinegar with rose water and apply.
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Make a face mask of curd and cucumber juice and apply it at least once a week.
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Make a paste of red sandal wood and apply it on the face every day for glowing skin.
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Make a paste with red sandal powder and coconut milk and apply on the face for soft skin. A healthy massage with coconut milk and a pinch of turmeric powder before a hot water bath also helps.
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Mix pineapple juice and carrot juice together and apply it on the face and wash it after 15 minutes.
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Boil 8 cups of water, put in 2 table spoons of dark organic honey, slices of cucumber and 2 tea bags of green tea. Let the mixture sit over night in a container, then wash with a face cloth to feel refreshed.
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Mix half teaspoon dried curry leaf powder with multani mitti (fullers earth) and apply on the face. Wash it with lukewarm water after it gets dry.
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Apply the mixture of honey and tomato juice on the face and neck, wash it after 15 minutes.
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Apply coconut water and thick pineapple juice mixture for 15 minutes and pat dry.
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Drink plenty of water to keep your body well flushed of toxins and wastes.
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Include plenty of raw foods like fruits, salads and sprouts in your daily diet.
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Make sure to take time to relax as stress can trigger off many skin problems.

Practice the above given methods at least for four weeks continuously. However, if you are allergic to any natural remedies listed above, make sure to avoid it.

Home Solution Hair Loss

Thanks to pollution and all the chemicals, one of the main problems, we face these days is hair loss. No one wants to be bald. Everyone is looking for a good remedy to this problem.

Some use hair growing serum where as some prefer to go for a hair transplant. But other than that, some herbal remedies can prevent hair fall. The best part about the natural remedy is that they are easy to apply and less expensive.

To prevent hair loss you can use particular herbs and the leaves of plants. One such leaf is henna. Apply henna paste on the scalp and leave it for an hour. Wash it off and do not forget to use shampoo. Make sure no residue is left on the scalp. This strengthens the roots of the hair and prevents hair loss.

If you do not have the time to apply henna, then you can try this easy remedy. Boil some rosemary leaves in two glasses of water. Filter the water and store it in a container. The container has to be of glass. Wash your hair with that water everyday.

Another remedy is the mixture of cumin and olive oil. Make a mixture of half a cup of olive oil and one tablespoon of cumin. Massage the oil on the scalp. Keep it for half hour and then wash it off.

The next remedy that I have does not involve applying anything to the scalp or hair. Make a habit of having a cocktail of spinach and lettuce juice. Have it every other day if not everyday.

If you thought Aloe Vera gel was good for your skin only, think again. Apply some of this gel on both your scalp and hair. Keep it for at least one and a half hour. Then wash the hair with water.

If you have dry hair then the best remedy is the mixture of castor oil and almond oil. Take equal amounts of both the oils and mix it well. Warm the oil and then apply the mixture to the scalp. Do this at least once a week.

Hair Loss :- What you need to know

Hair loss is a big worry to many people, both male and female. If you have a worrying amount of hair in the basin after shampooing, you may think you are on the way to baldness. But this is not usually the case. The 50–100 hairs that everyone loses each day often become tangled with the rest of the hair, but are washed out when we shampoo. So we see what seems like a lot of hair in the basin after shampooing, but in reality these hairs have been shed earlier.
Of course, bald areas are an obvious sign of hair loss, but otherwise it can be difficult to tell whether your hair is getting thinner. To find out, try the ‘tug test’. Hold a small bunch of hair – about 15 or 20 hairs – between the thumb and index finger. Pull slowly and firmly. If more than six hairs come out there may be a problem.
How hair grows
The portion of the hair that we can see is called the shaft. Each shaft of hair protrudes from its follicle, which is a tube-like pouch just below the surface of the skin. The hair is attached to the base of the follicle by the hair root, which is where the hair actually grows and where it is nourished by tiny blood vessels.
Like the rest of the body, hairs are made of cells. As new cells form at its root, the hair is gradually pushed further and further out of the follicle. The cells at the base of each hair are close to the blood supply and are living. As they get pushed further away from the base of the follicle, they no longer have any nourishment and so they die. As they die, they are transformed into a hard protein called keratin. So, each hair we see above the skin is dead protein. It is the follicle, which lies deep in the skin, that is the essential growing part of the hair.
The thickness of each hair depends on the size of the follicle from which it is growing. At puberty in boys, hormones increase the size of the follicles on the chin, chest and limbs so that each hair becomes more thick and wiry. In the elderly, the follicles shrink and the hair becomes finer.
Stages of hair growth
Hair growth is not a continuous process. It has several stages.

• The first phase is the growing stage. Hair grows at about 1 cm each month, and this phase lasts for anything between 2 and 5 years.
• This is followed by a resting stage, during which there is no growth. This phase lasts about 5 months, and is called telogen.
• At the end of the resting phase, the hair is shed and the follicle starts to grow a new one.
• At any moment, about 90% of the hair follicles of the scalp are growing hairs in the first phase; only about 10% are in the resting phase.
• If a follicle is destroyed for any reason, no new hair will grow from it.

What happens to cause baldness
Excessive hair loss can occur if any of the stages of hair growth become disrupted. For example, if follicles shut down (meaning that they stay in the resting phase and then shed the hair) instead of growing new hairs, there will be less hair on the head.
Another reason might be interference with the formation of new hair cells at the root during the growing phase; this occurs with some anticancer drugs. If follicles have been destroyed (as they might be by, for example, a burn or by some skin diseases), there will be baldness in that area.
An individual can also look bald if the hairs are growing but are so fragile that they break just as they emerge from the follicle, or if they are very small and thin
Common beliefs – true or false?
‘Some hairstyles can cause hair loss’
True. Styles that put tension on the hairs – such as tight ponytails, plaits or corn-rows – can cause hair loss. Winding hair tightly onto rollers (particularly heated rollers) can have the same damaging effect.
‘Brushing the hair 100 times a day will stimulate the circulation and prevent hair loss’
False. Vigorous brushing is more likely to injure the hairs and make the problem worse.
‘Hair needs to breathe, so wigs and toupees worsen loss of hair’
False. Hair does not need to breathe. Only the root of the hair is alive and this gets its oxygen from the blood in the scalp. Wigs and hairpieces will damage hair only if they are too tight.
‘Frequent shampooing makes hair fall out’
False. Shampooing simply gets rid of the hairs that have already fallen out.
‘Blow-drying and heated brushes can worsen hair loss’
True. The reason is that extreme heat damages the proteins in the hairs, making them fragile and liable to break off. Brushing the hair during blow-drying causes more damage. Careless use of heated brushes can even burn the scalp, so that the hair follicles are permanently damaged in that area.
‘Protein-containing conditioners and shampoos nourish the hair and help it to grow’
False. Protein-containing conditioners only temporarily fill in defects on the surface of the hair shaft, making it smoother and thicker.
‘Hair dyes, perms and hairsprays worsen hair loss’
False. Hair dyes, perms and hairsprays do not affect thinning hair. Perms and hairsprays can help to disguise the problem.
‘If your father has a full head of hair, you will not go bald’
False. A tendency to baldness is inherited and probably involves a combination of genes. So you are not automatically in the clear even if your father has a full head of hair. It is not true, as sometimes claimed, that only genes from the mother’s side are involved.
‘Baldness means that you are more likely to have a heart attack’
Partly true. In 1999, doctors at Harvard Medical School found that men who had lost hair at the crown of the head had a 32% increased chance of coronary heart disease. Hair loss at the front of the head (a receding hairline) hardly increased the risk at all. So if you have baldness at the top of your head, you should stop smoking, eat healthily, have your blood pressure checked and do some exercise.
‘Low levels of zinc in the body are a reason for hair loss’
Probably false. There is no evidence that low zinc levels cause hair loss in people taking a balanced diet or that zinc supplements improve hair loss.
‘Stress can cause hair loss’
True. Scientists have now identified some chemicals that are produced in the body during periods of stress, which can affect hair growth (Journal of Investigative Dermatology 2004;123:455–7).
‘It is normal to lose hair from our early 30s’
True. A person aged 20–30 years typically has 615 hair follicles per square centimetre. The number falls to 485 by 50 years of age and to 435 at 80–90 years of age. Also each hair is thinner. So, with ageing, hair becomes both finer and sparser.