Healthy Hair Tips, Myths and Misconceptions

Our glorious hair. We sometime shave, curl, spike, dreadlock, blow dry, braid, and spray it within an inch of it’s life. We spend untold money on hair care products. Not to mention the world is awash in so called healthy hair tips, myths and misconceptions. Let’s discuss a few of them.

Hair Misconception #1: A stress filled life leads directly to subsequent hair loss.

Reality: It’s a fact we are all losing hair daily. Whether we are stressed to the max or not. On average you lose anywhere between 35 to 135 hairs each day. So maybe a few more strands might fall out if you're all tense and stressed out. But unless you have been pulling your hair out by the roots, it will all grow back!

Hair Misconception #2: Using several shampoos keeps your hair healthy.

Reality: Of the so called healthy hair tips this one makes me laugh it’s so far fetched. Hair doesn’t remember what shampoo was used on it last. It’s basically just dead cells. So how’s it gonna know what kind of shampoo you’re using? But it is true that people with different hair types need to use shampoos suited to their type of hair. Focus on that rather than rotating shampoo.

Hair Misconception #3: There's nothing you can do for fine hair to keep it from going limp.

Reality: Two words: Hot rollers. They make it easy to add body to fine hair. Afterwards just apply mousse and brush out well.

Hair Misconception #4: Coloring is hard on your hair.

Reality: Nonsense! If that was the case most hair stylists would be out of a job. Coloring is safe if you know what you’re doing and follow the instructions to the letter. (That’s one of the healthy hair tips to remember.)

It also helps to use gentle coloring products and conditioners and shampoos specifically designed for colored hair. In fact it’s wise to use extra conditioner whenever you wash your colored hair.

Hair Misconception #5: Pull a gray hair and it will be replaced by more than one.

Reality: Ever heard that? No way is that true. Still you should never pull out hair by the roots. You can scar yourself or you might develop a scalp infection trying that. It’s better to banish the gray by coloring your hair.

Hair Misconception #6: All hair reacts to humidity in the same way.

If you have curly hair you don’t need me to point out that this is a big lie. Once the humidity hits it, uncontrollable curls or worse, the dreaded frizzys results. To strike back you need a product that will lock down the cuticle layer. One that blocks out unwanted moisture. So look for styling products with words like anti-humectant, smoothing, anti-humidity on the label.

Hair Misconception #7: It’s best to shampoo twice for clean hair.

Reality: This is just not so. In fact over use of shampoos can damage your hair. Unless your hair is extremely oily shampooing once should suffice.

How about those seven healthy hair care tips?How about if we continue our discussion of healthy hair care tips with an overview about how to go about the task of repair of damaged hair.

Author Info:
How about if we continue our discussion of healthy hair care tips with an overview about how to go about the task of repair of damaged hair.

Hair Loss Basics (Why people lose hair?)

Managing Hair Loss: Hair Loss Basics

Reasons for Hair Loss

Photo by: freeparking

The most common reasons for losing hair are as under:

The physical reasons:

The physical reason for losing hair are linked to your hair style, for example hair pulled so tightly that it places tension on the scalp can result in a condition called traction alopecia. Traction alopecia can be permanent if the style is worn for a long enough time that it damages the hair follicles. . Having your hair chemically treated, such as getting your hair colored, bleached, straightened, or permed, can make the hair break off or fall out temporarily. Excessive use of hair dryers for styling or always sticking to the same hair style makes the hair to be pressed too much. Changing your hair style early is the best thing to do in this case.

Poor nutrition:

Eating disorders or poor eating can cause hair loss. This happens because your body does not get enough protein, vitamins, and minerals to sustain hair growth. Vegetarians might also lose their hair because they don't get enough protein from non-meat sources.

Skin & Scalp Diseases:

Hair loss can be related to some skin diseases & scalp diseases as well, such as in mycosis baldness would usually appear in the type of hairless inflammatory focus (es). The treatment in such cases means giving the patient oral and local antimycotic remedies.

Androgenetic alopecia:

Among adults, the most common cause of hair loss is androgenetic alopecia. This condition is caused by hormones called androgens and genetics. Sometimes, the hair loss can start as early as the mid-teen years. It also can occur in people who take steroids like testosterone to build their bodies.

Systemic illnesses:

Endocrine (hormonal) conditions, such as uncontrolled diabetes or thyroid disease, can interfere with hair production and cause hair loss. People with lupus can also lose hair. The hormone imbalance that occurs in polycystic ovary syndrome can cause hair loss in teen girls as well as adult women. The treatment of hair loss in such cases depends on the treatment of the basic illness that actually caused hair loss.

Baldness because of drugs:

Some medications can cause hair loss as a side effect. Diet pills that contain amphetamines also can cause hair loss. Chemotherapy drugs for cancer are the most well-known medications that can cause hair loss.

Hair Loss Facts & Fiction

We support "Do Follow" from now on

We are really happy to announce to our visitors that by now on, we will support "Do Follow". You are highly encouraged to post comments (related to the actual post) with links and we will follow your link. Please post more and more comments to make information on this blog more and more meaningful. We will stil moderate the comments and delete all the spam.