Susan Hollister - Natural Hair Care: 125+ Homemade Hair Care Recipes And Secrets For Beauty, Growth, Shine, Repair and Styling

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125+ Homemade Hair Care Recipes And Secrets For Beauty, Growth, Shine, Repair, and Styling

By Susan Hollister

Copyright 2017

Your hair is your crowning glory. When you take care of it the right way your appearance can be greatly improved. Hair is highly versatile. It can grow long or be cropped short. It can curl in ringlets, seduce with big, loopy curls, or hang straight. Hair comes in textures that range from fine to coarse. It can be easily manipulated. You can choose almost any cut, texture, or color based on your own specific needs.

Your hair is uniquely yours. No one has hair exactly like you do. Your hairs color, texture, and growth pattern are all unique to you; so is the way you style it. A hairdresser can cut your hair and style it the same way as your favorite movie, TV, or rock star, but it will still never be exactly like anyone elses. People all around the world tend to appreciate someone who has a great hair style.

The hair care market will always be here. Just visit any department store, pharmacy or grocery store and youll find multiple aisles of hair products. Youll see whole sections dedicated to curling irons, hair dryers, hot straighteners, shampoo, conditioner, oils, color, mousse, hair sprays, masks, gels, and more. You can choose to spend a fortune over the coming years to make your hair look good...or not. There is another, less-expensive way.

Throughout the ages, it has been important to have stylish hair. Unfortunately, our efforts havent necessarily kept our hair healthy . We are now experiencing a reaction, in the form of a greater focus on using gentler, healthier solutions for common hair issues. Along with healthier salon-based products, individuals have also turned to natural ingredients they already use at home. They are discovering practical answers that meet their hair needs without all the toxins and the cost of commercial hair products.

Yes, you can make your own hair care products. They work quite well; moreover, they cost a mere fraction of what you would spend on commercially prepared brands. You can also use any number of techniques at home to style and prep your hair. These homemade products and secrets from the past will have your hair looking just as beautiful, or even more gorgeous, than expensive commercial treatments.

Hair is an extension of who you are. Your hair is a bodily tissue that is as unique as your personality. As a result, anything that works well for someone else may not work at all for you. Because of the unique makeup of your hair, you may need to experiment before you find products that work best for your beautiful head of hair. Consequently, this book has more than a hundred recipes and tips designed to help you maintain a great head of hair without spending vast amounts of money.

Ive included recipes for shampoos, conditioners, rinses, hairstyling aids, hair-thickening solutions, and hair-loss preventatives. This book will even point out what you can eat to have your healthiest possible head of hair.

Yes, you can have magnificent hair without breaking the bank. Come with me as we explore healthy and practical ways to keep your hair at its very best.

Hair is the most misused, tortured, and taken-for-granted tissue on our entire body. The things we do to it would ruin other parts of the body, but even when damaged and frail, hair keeps going, unless of course you lose it altogether. Hair is a body tissue that grows. It is greatly affected by what we put on it, what we eat, the shape of our mental or physical health, and what we expose it to.

Hair grows from follicles all over the scalp. Hair cells are some of the fastest-growing cells in the body. Each person is born with all the hair follicles they will ever have, about five million of them. The follicle grows from beneath the skin of the scalp and is sometimes referred to as a bulb, because that is what it looks like. Look at a tulip bulb. It is a rounded teardrop shape and usually has several sheaths coming from the small top. That is exactly what a hair follicle looks like.

The shape of the hair follicle determines what kind of hair a person has. Round follicles produce straight hair while oval ones send forth curly hair. If you have round follicles today, it doesnt necessarily mean you will have them for life. They can change shape throughout your life.

I have a friend who decided to shave her head because her hair had become thin, poker straight, and basically unattractive. When it started to grow back she started to see a little curl in her otherwise straight hair. It grew in a little thicker and curly. Apparently her follicles decided to change shape after she shaved her head. This doesnt happen to everyone. My great aunt had brain surgery and her head was shaved before the procedure. When it grew out, her hair was still thin and curly, just like it was before.

The follicle is surrounded by two different sheaths. The inner sheath ends below the opening of the oil gland associated with the follicle and the outer sheath grows all the way to the gland. This gland secretes oil and sebum, which serves as a natural conditioner. More sebum is produced as a person goes through puberty, but it starts to taper off as you grow older. These oils keep the hair shiny and healthy; generally, the more you wash your hair, the more oil these glands produce.

When I was young, my hair was very oily. I washed it every day, but by evening it was oily again. One day, I became ill and had to go to the hospital. I was not allowed to wash my hair; as a teenager I was mortified, because I knew my hair would become slick with oil by the end of two days. Miraculously, it didnt. It looked a bit oily by the evening of the first day, but it looked the same the second day. The third day there wasnt much difference, either. It was oily, but not as bad as I thought it would be.

When I got home, I stopped washing it every day and the oiliness seemed to improve. I began to wash it every other day, and my hair remained healthy for years. The older I grew, the less oily it became; now I can get away with washing it only every three days, as long as I brush it to distribute the oil and avoid putting conditioner on the roots.

The shaft is the visible part of the hair and, believe it or not, it is the dead part of the hair. Yes, our hair is dead. That is why it doesnt hurt when we cut it. However, this dead tissue has more to it than other dead cells on the body. The shaft has three layers. The cuticle is the colorless overlapping flat cells that give hair smooth or frizzy quality. The cortex determines color and texture, such as curly, thick, thin, or straight hair. The medulla is the heart of the hair that determines its strength.

Hair is a protein made up of Keratin, most of it in the cortex. Blood vessels running through the scalp are what nourish the follicles and help them produce hair, making our hair grow. These blood vessels feed hormones to the hair; as you get older, these hormones change, ultimately resulting in gray hair.