Have
you ever visualized yourself with a bald pate that glows to the sun? You would
shudder at the mention of it, no! So do I. How do you stop yourself from going
bald? How do you see that your hair grows longer and lustrous? Finally How do
you take care of your hair? Here are some hair-raising tips that help make your
hair grow silky, shiny, lustrous, hale and healthy.
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One fine morning, I woke up and standing
before the mirror I ran my fingers through my hair. I was so taken aback that I
felt the world swirling before me. For, I haven’t noticed for long how my hair
is thinning at a rapid rate. I trembled at the thought of going bald at so
early an age.
Hair
has been my constant worry. Because, I believe the lush crop enhances ones
personality and gives a dash of charismatic appeal to ones figure. Now it’s
time to preserve my present crop intact and I take numerous precautions.
Come join me for an intriguing ride into the
world of hair-care hitherto the domain of womenfolk. Which of the two women you
train your sights on admirably... a woman with a near-balding pate? Or a woman with
long lustrous flowing tresses that swings graciously on her…? Obviously the
latter of course. Well, have you ever visualized yourself with a bald pate that
glows to the sun?
You would shudder at the mention of it, no! So
do I. That goes to prove how hair influences or enhances ones physical
features; and how it gives you a dash of youthfulness. Isn’t it time we take
care of it now?
Here are some hair-raising tips. The factors
that contribute to hair loss are chiefly dandruff the dangerous, deficiency of
vitamins, iron, iodine and above all depression apart from malfunctioning of
thyroid and pituitary glands. These can be rectified if you take a little bit
of extra care while the glands malfunction can be taken care of by your qualified
physician.
Let’s take dandruff the dangerous first, the
common malady afflicting us all.
Solution #1
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Take
a lemon and squeeze it.
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Add
a few drops of warmly heated coconut oil or warm water to the juice and gently
massage your hair with it down to the roots.
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After
a while you feel like scratching your head with vengeance. This itching
sensation is nothing but the work of lime over dandruff.
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But
do not scratch go on massaging gently with your finger-tips avoiding nails.
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Let
it dry for fifteen to thirty minutes and then take a head bath.
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For
head baths prefer shikakai or rita or a shampoo prescribed by your
beautician or physician.
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Do
it once or twice a week.
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Dandruff
disappears with each such wash leaving your hair shiny and silky.
The
lime or lemon apart from being effective dandruff deterrent is also an
excellent preventive of hair-loss.
Solution #2
If
your hair-fall is at an alarming rate the first chief remedy is...
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The
less you bother about it the better. Maintain your cool.
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Now
soak a handful of methi or menthulu for a night and pestle it to a
fine paste.
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Add
two eggs to it {only the white content and not the yolk for it give out a foul
smell}.
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Then
gently massage the paste on your head reaching out to the roots.
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Let
it dry for an hour.
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If
you wish you can also apply lemon juice for sheen on this paste after it is
dried. Then wash with shikakai or rita.
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You
can use your favorite shampoo for a second wash to give off a heady smell.
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Do
it once or twice a week.
Solution #3
Another
method is that...
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Take
some gruel, the water or extracted from cooking rice.
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Add
a few hibiscus {mandaram in Telugu} leaves or flowers.
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Used
tea leaves can be added.
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If
you heat it to a boiling point it is better.
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Finally
add shikakai or rita.
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Stir
the mixture thoroughly and wash your hair.
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You
could use your favorite shampoo for a second wash to give off a heady smell.
By
this method you can at least preserve your present crop.
Solution #4
Further
if you wish to turn your hair into a lustrous and silky, try this.
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Take
eight to ten gooseberries, avlas or usirikai. You can also take avla powder.
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Take
half a glass of milk.
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Boil
avlas {or avla powder} in the milk like you boil potatoes.
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Next
remove the seeds and make a paste of the pulp thoroughly.
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Apply
it to your hair massaging well into the roots.
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Let
it dry for an hour or so.
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Then
have a head bath.
This
is also an effective way of protecting your hair silky, shiny, lustrous, hale and
healthy. Use of avla prevents hair-fall and also blackens your hair.
Solution #5
How
to turn your grey hair into jet black
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Collect
some Mehendi Leaves.
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Grind
them into a fine paste.
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Take
rose water, sour curd, used or boiled tea-leaves, some hot water, lemon juice
and a pinch of salt. Take all in the right proportion.
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Stir
the mixture and make it like a paste. The mixture should be thick like gum.
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And
leave it for eight to ten hours. Better prepare the mixture during nights to
have the required time-gap before use. Then sieve it as you cannot filter the
paste.
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Apply
the paste gently to your hair reaching out to the roots. Wait for 4 hours.
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Then
take a head bath as suggested above.
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Repeat
this procedure whenever you have sufficient time. Since this is a natural
solution it does work out well.
Though
this writer cannot guarantee that it is a "Lasting" solution for
turning grey into black; but still it is the best alternative to chemical dyes
and sprays that's flooding the market these days.
Some Precautions for Your Hair Care
Apart
from deficiency of vitamins depression is the main culprit that turns your hair
grey. If you are hair-conscious it depresses further your already-depressed
mind. The best remedy is to fight depression with a weapon called cheerfulness.
1. For
total hair-care irrespective of your hair style and class of which it belongs,
whether dry, oily or brittle. I suggest...
2.
Do
not worry much about your hair.
3. Find
out with your doctor if possible for any malfunctioning of your pituitary or
thyroid glands.
4.
Let
your food consists of rich in all vitamins A B C D E, iron and iodine.
5.
Do
not expose your head too much to the sun.
6.
Keep
your scalp dirt-free.
7.
Apply
pure coconut oil at least two hours before head bath.
8.
Regular
head bath is preferable to rather once in a week.
9. Use
pure shikakai or rita or a shampoo suggested by your physician or beautician.
10. Dry your hair perfectly by rinsing
and gently massaging it with a cotton towel.
11. Do not use hair blowers and hair
dryers for this will damage your hair roots.
12. If you still prefer to use one, then
keep the blowers at a distance in a way that emanating hot-air may not affect
your hair roots.
13. Comb your hair as many times as you
can, for this will help in good blood circulation underneath your scalp
strengthening your hair roots.
14. Remember combing is not scratching.
So select your combs with a not too sharp teeth but brushes gently.
15. Do not use combs used by others as
you may get infected with their hair problem.
16. See that your hair is not split at
the ends. Split-ends stop the growth of your hair.
17. Go for regular haircuts. Regular
haircuts cutoff the split-ended hair.
18. Lastly and finally I suggest use
pure coconut oil.
Hope
this article solves your hair problems.
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