Tips for Keeping Your Hair Healthy
These tips for keeping your hair healthy include four shampoo myths – which will help keep your mane glossy and gorgeous! Remember, your hair is a sign of your overall health - so eating right, exercising, and dealing with stress are the best ways to keep your hair healthy and strong. Note that hair cannot be repaired once it’s injured, so don’t fall prey to those “hair repair” claims!
Before the healthy hair tips, here’s a quip about plastic surgery from Jamie Lee Curtis:
“The fraud is, plastic surgery doesn’t work. It doesn’t work because there are complications, and I got them all,” said Curtis to Oprah Winfrey. “Plastic surgery doesn’t work because you still look in the mirror and you see the fraud of what you were trying to do.” (The Oprah Winfrey Show, April 7, 2008).
So forget about cosmetic surgery, my friends. Instead, focus on these healthy hair tips and shampoo myths. And, click on The Hair Bible: A Complete Guide to Health and Care for more ways to achieve your beauty goals…
Tips for Keeping Your Hair Healthy
1. Stop yo-yo dieting! Fad diets and yo-yo dieting “wreak havoc on hair”, say the dermatologists at the American Academy of Dermatology. A healthy hair tip is to eat a wide range of healthy food – because your hair reflects your overall health. Some foods improve both your appearance and your mood — read The Best Foods to Improve Your Mood for more info.
2. Deal with stress. Your stress level affects your hair, so find good ways to cope with life’s difficulties to achieve your beauty goals! “Any kind of stress can contribute to hair loss – psychological trauma, illness, major surgery,” writes Oz Garcia in Redesigning 50. “That’s one more good reason to find ways to manage the stress in your life.”
3. Leave your hair alone. “”When it comes to hair care, less is more. Using unnecessary products or subjecting the hair to repeated procedures – such as perms, coloring, waving or straightening – can damage the hair and lead to breakage,” said Dr Zoe Draelos to the American Academy of Dermatology. ”Although women use these things to improve the cosmetic appearance of their hair, in the long run they will inevitably cause the hair to lose some of its natural luster and look unhealthy. I advise my patients to do as little as possible to their hair, which will help keep it healthy.”
4. Strengthen your hair. To achieve your beauty goals and keep your colored hair healthy, Garcia recommends a strengthener. When your hair cuticles are open, your hair is weaker and duller – and you get split ends. Here’s a healthy hair tip: a strengthener can help close the cuticles in your hair, making it healthier and glossier.
By the way, some psychologists believe that beauty is about your personality, level of honesty, and amount of clutter – not what your hair or skin looks like. Read Tips for Enhancing Your Natural Beauty for help focusing less on your appearance and more on who you are.
4 Shampoo Myths – These Are Untrue Beliefs About Shampoo & Conditioner
1. Your hair gets “used” to a certain brand. Since your hair isn’t living – even if it’s healthy – it can’t become accustomed to a certain brand of shampoo. So, you don’t need to change your brand of shampoo regularly to keep your hair healthy.
2. You need to wash your hair daily. For healthy hair, shampoo every second or third day. Of course, it does depend on how oily your hair is – some women do need to shampoo daily, but it doesn’t seem to be recommended by the experts.
3. You don’t need to shampoo your scalp. Definitely shampoo your scalp — but you don’t need to condition it to achieve your beauty goals!
4. You need to lather up for healthy hair. All those foamy shampoo bubbles aren’t necessary! You only need a dollop the size of a quarter (depending on the length and thickness of your hair) to get a good clean.
“It’s important to understand that hair is nonliving and cannot be repaired once it is injured,” said Dr. Draelos, of the American Academy of Dermatology. “As we get older, hair growth slows down and the cosmetic beauty of our hair decreases. Hair loss that occurs from continual hair breakage over the years is a serious cosmetic concern for many women, so the key is to prevent this damage by stopping the cycle of overprocessing and over-grooming our hair and selecting hair care products with proven hair-health benefits.”
If you have any tips for keeping your hair healthy – or shampoo myths? Please comment below!…my shampoo “secret” is that expensive shampoos have the same ingredients as inexpensive ones.
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Comment by paula quils on 13 April 2009:
I accidently went to the Made from Earth skin care website when looking for something for my research paper, and it was one of the best accidents i ever had. I tried their Organic Tea & Protein Shampoo and loved it….It has a great scent and is gentle on my scalp. Compared to the $30-40i I used to spend on organic shampoo this is an even match at a cheaper price. Best for use to make your hair fuller and fresher….
Comment by paula on 30 April 2009:
I discovered the “Made from Earth” Tea & Protein Shampoo in New York city shopping one day – and it does fit my hair perfectly! Both the moisturizing shampoo and organic – the thickness is gives to my hair is great. My hair did start to build volume and thickness and become more moisturized. I got the best results when I left it in my hair for about 5 minutes to let the proteins go to work and infuse in my hair.
Each time I use it instead of like some who take it out at a much shorter time. Hope that helps! Also – I recommend from buying online at madefromearth.com, because I saw more a lot expensive prices in the store I originally purchased from…even with the shipping costs its still cheaper online….
Comment by LauriePK on 30 April 2009:
Thanks for your comments, Paula — you must really love the brand! (or be gettng a kickback
)