Hair Growth Tips

Healthy and shiny hairs are the mirror image of your inner body and its overall health. There are many reasons why people loose hair, gets bald, thinnig hair, dandruff, itchy scalp, broken hair, or problems with hair growth. Some of the reasons are coming directly from your internal body, such as deficiency of certain vitamins or minerals, heredity, disease, weakness. While external reasons are excess heat, smoking, drinking, poor diet, and sleeping late. These are some of the secrets and remedies for hair growth that you can follow at home.

Vitamins, Minerals, or Supplements for Healthy Hair Growth

There are many vitamins, minerals and supplements that you can consume for better hair growth or thinning hair. Consuming these vitamins, minerals, or supplements would not give you the over night result, but taking them in a right manner for regular period of time would surely help in growing your hair faster. If you are planning to take the vitamin or mineral supplements, do make sure to check with your doctor first. They would run some blood test and would suggest you about what vitamins or minerals you are lacking and need to consume it. Because, anything in excess amount even though if it is vitamin or mineral, is not good for your health.

–  Vitamin A (Retinol): Vitamin A is one of the agents who help in balancing the oil on scalp and thus keeping hair away from getting dry or damaged as well as help in hair growth. To get enough amount of Vitamin A, you can consume green leafy vegetables, lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, dairy products, wheat, meat, flaxseed oil, eggs, or Vitamin A supplements directly from the store.

–  Beta-Carotene and Biotin are also important in hair growth or for thinning hair. Because, eventually when there is not enough amount of Vitamin A, Beta-Carotene is generally converted in to Vitamin A. Beta-Carotene and Biotin are good not only for your hair but also for your skin and nails too.

–  Zinc works with Vitamin A, like Vitamin A it also helps in balancing the natural oil on your scalp and thus the problems of itchy scalp or dry hair would be in control. You can find Zinc from the green vegetables, varieties of grains, meat, and spinach.

–  The family of Vitamin B, such as Vitamin B3 (Niacin), Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic Acid), Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine), and Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin). These vitamins would help in stopping the hair loss and in increasing more healthy hair growth. You can find these vitamins from these food sources, such as dairy products, meat, green vegetables, eggs, fortified cereals, grains, seafood or Vitamin B supplements.

–  Vitamin C is also helpful for good looking skin and hair. It works as antioxidants in your body. The food sources that you can take are fruits, vegetables, fortified cereals, juices, or Vitamin C supplement.

–  Vitamin E is also very beneficial to your healthy, strong hair growth and skin. It helps in balancing the proper blood circulation and thus it would help your scalp to work more efficiently. This would help in if you are getting bald or having thin hair. You can find Vitamin E in the food sources like vegetables, beans, fruits, nuts, or Vitamin E supplements.

–  Calcium, Potassium, Magnesium, and Selenium are responsible for healthy hair growth. They would be working as healthy secrets to hair growth inside your body. The food sources that you should be consuming are dairy products, vegetables, nuts, grains, meat, fish, beans, or pills from the store.

–  Iron, Copper, Iodine, and Sulfur are helpful in stopping any excess hair loss, thin hair, or baldness problem that you might be facing. It helps in maintaining your good healthy hair. You can take these food sources, such as dairy products, garlic, nuts, meats, eggs, seafood, fruits, iodized salt or extra medication from the store.

Tips for Proper Hair Care and Healthy Hair Growth

It is pretty natural to loose some of the hairs everyday, but if you are starting to loose more and have problems of thinning hair or baldness then its time to get serious. These are some of the tips on how to take care of your hair and how you can promote the healthy hair growth by following certain easy guidelines.

–  If you are loosing hair because of some vitamin or mineral deficiency, then you can start taking the adequate amount either directly from the food source or the supplements. This would surely help in fulfilling your vitamin needs and thus improve your overall inner body function.

–  Dandruff is also one of the causes which make the hair root fragile and thus you end up loosing more hair. To remove dandruff, use this very common but effective home remedy. Take one fresh lemon or 3 ½ tablespoon of lemon juice in one bowl. Add 2 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil. Mix these ingredients together and apply gently on your scalp. Lemon would help in fighting back the dandruff and dead skin from your scalp. Lemon might make you hair dry, so that adding extra virgin olive oil would help in keeping the moisturizer in your hair.

–  Whenever you are planning to go outside, and if there is an extreme heat or very windy. You should make sure to cover your hair with scarf, so that your hair doesn’t get exposed to such extreme weather condition. Because, this can also cause in breaking up your hair, dry or damaged hair, or thinning hair.

–  Whenever you wash your hair, let it dry naturally. Never use hair dryer or rough blow of towel on your hair. This can also cause in loosing more hair and thus baldness. You can gently rub the towel on your hair to get rid of excess water.

–  Watch your diet. If you have poor eating habits and if you are not consuming healthy diet then your whole body and thus hairs would have to suffer.

– Sleeping is very important for your body to work efficiently. If you are sleeping late or not having eight hours of sleep, then that can be the reason of loosing hair.

– Drinking and smoking is also very bad for your health. So, stay away form such behavior which can cause you bad health.

– Even after doing all your best at home and you are still losing hair in excessive amount then take some action. Do make sure to consult your doctor and check for any inner body problems or illness.

Secrets and Home remedies for Hair Growth

– Always massage your hair with oil to keep the blood circulation going. This is one of the secret home remedies for hair growth. Get 2 ½ tablespoon of amla Oil in a bowl. Add 2 tablespoon of almond oil and mix these two oils together. Put it on a stove or microwave and warm it for few minutes. Now, massage this warm oil directly to your scalp. This would surely help in increasing the blood circulation in your brain and thus the process of hair growth would start taking place soon. You can find amla oil in Indian grocery stores.

–  Get two eggs and pour in the egg white as well as egg yolk in to the bowl. Mix two of these together. Add 2 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil and mix it well. Apply this mixture to your hair before taking shower. This would promote healthy and shiny hair. It would heal your dry and damaged hair.

–  Get yogurt or butter milk in a bowl. Add 2 ½ tablespoon of apple cider vinegar. Mix it well and gently apply this mixture to your scalp. It would help if you are loosing hair or if you have itchy scalp.

–  Get 2 tablespoon of tea tree oil and 2 tablespoon of onion juice. Mix them together and apply at the area of baldness or thinning hair. You can either keep it for a whole night or you can keep it for about 4 hours before washing your hair.

These are some of the secrets and home remedies for healthy hair growth. You can use these remedies at home and have long, shiny, and healthy hair. Do make sure to try out in small area of your skin or scalp for any kind of irritation or allergy. Every individual is different and their skin sensitivity is also different. Always keep your eye on your food intake and lifestyle. One thing you should also remember is to consult your doctor before taking any vitamin medicine. Hair growth is not an immediate process, it might take some time. But, don’t get panic or stressed out, just follow some of these home remedies, steps for proper hair care, and food intake for vitamins and minerals. If you are following it right, then you will see the result in near future.