Argena Hall - Natural Hair Recipes For Moisture and Growth: Step By Step Instructions On How To Create and Apply Conditioners, Creams, Oils, and Treatments For Dry, Curly, Kinky Afrocentric Hair

Natural Hair Recipes For Moisture and Growth

Step By Step Instructions On How To Create and Apply Conditioners, Creams, Oils, and Treatments For Dry, Curly, Kinky Afrocentric Hair

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GETTING TO KNOW YOUR HAIR

Y our hair isnt growing . Its dry and breaking off like dead leaves in the winter time. Its rough to the touch and seems like just about every time you style it, you come away with a mound of broken strands about the size of a small lemon, sometimes more but hopefully less! As you start and continue on the journey to regain the health of your kinky, curly hair, there are many things to consider. From hair growth and loss, to keeping your strands as long as possible; one of the most prevalent issues affecting our kinky, coiled hair is keeping it moist and damage free. The following recipes will help ease the process to gaining a healthier head of hair.

However, before we delve into the recipes, lets take some time to answer a few questions that will give you some insight toward the causes of hair growth, loss, and how moisture retention will help your progress along this journey.

S ome of the things that one needs to know, when it comes to the actual growing of hair, is it's structure and the pattern in which it grows. Hair develops via two different structures - the follicle can be found in the skin, buried in the scalp, and second, the hair we see growing out of our heads.

The tubular portion of the strand is actually the strand which nestles down deep beneath the skin's surface. It contains several layers, and each layer serves a different purpose. The papilla is the first layer, which contains capillaries that carry blood, cultivating and nurturing the cells. The bulb is a layer that lives and breathes, and it surrounds the papilla and is right near the surface of the scalp waiting to assist your hair in it's growing process. Extending out and surrounding the follicle are an inner and outer strand, the cuticle of the hair. The inner casing follows the hair helping to develop curl patterns and ends right on the edge of a scent gland, or a sebaceous gland, which is more widely known for secreting oil. There is an erector pili muscle that forms around the bottom of the follicle and when it squeezes on tight, it forces the sebum out onto the hair and scalp. The natural oil secreted by the sebaceous gland is necessary to the conditioning of our skin and nails.

All of that luxurious hair atop of your head is actually created from keratin which is a dead protein, a three layered, hardened, dead protein to be exact. The medulla, the cortex, and the cuticle form that wonderful hair band called Keratin. The leader of this group is the cortex which hogs the fame as most of the hair shaft is developed from this layer. Cuticle is doing backup, making those tightly formed, overlapping scales, similar to roof shingles. While the medulla is rounding out the trio helping to bring color to this group and to your hair.

Understanding the composition of each strand will give you a better understanding when it comes to your particular hair. Now consider how it grows. The average person can see about seven to nine inches of hair growth within a year. However, periods of growth and shedding vary from person to person. Your hair cycle flows in three separate stages, which are the anagen, catagen, and telogen. Unfortunately, every strand doesnt have to be in the same stage at the same time. This may be why you notice one side of your head grows longer and faster than the other. The anagen stage is when your scalp just can't seem to stop itching! It's growing baby. Those shingle-like scales of the hair are splitting and piling onto each other rapidly. A new hair makes room for itself and pushes the hair that is no longer in the growth phase up through the deep layers of your skin and out of the scalp, which results in the length of your hair. Hair will grow abundantly or very little during this stage, but most average about half a centimeter every month. And again, this varies between individual scalps. Your hair can actually be in this replenishing state for two to six years. Some years are better than others for our scalps, and there are several outlying factors that contribute to this, which are gone over in a later section. Naturally, it makes more sense that the shorter your anagen phase the shorter your hair and vice versa.

The catagen period can affect up to some five percent of hair at any given time. This part of the hair cycle is when each strand has to be told to stop growing before the shedding can begin.

Lastly, about 8-11 % of your hair will be shedding in the telogen stage of your hair cycle. It lasts for about 110 days for hairs on the scalp. Growth and all of the itchiness associated with such should be subdued as you scalp and hair follicles are to be resting during this period. If you ever lose a strand at the root during this time, you'll see that solid, hard, white bulb clinging to the bottom. One can expect to lose about 22 to 115 of these hairs daily during this phase. Good thing we have so many.

S oft, moisturized hair isnt enjoyable if youre constantly losing it. Whether it falls out or breaks off, pay attention to some signs of hair loss prior to jumping into an entirely new hair care regimen. Figuring out if theres a problem and/ or what the problem is, is way better than trying a bunch of solutions that band aid a more serious issue.

Stress can be one of the culprits to hair loss. One of the most common types of stress to cause hair to shed is telogen effluvium. Effluvium means outflow, and telogen is the hairs natural shedding phase so you can only imagine the increased amount of strands leaving your scalp when under stressful situations. Try some stress relieving exercises that may temporarily ease the pressure because stress not only affects your hair, but your overall physical and mental health.

Our internal health can also wreak havoc on our follicles. The duties performed by our hormones are regulated by the thyroid, so as the largest endocrine gland, when it's not in tip top shape prepare for life altering effects. When the thyroid starts acting up, many of us suffer from severe hair loss. Whether it's producing too many hormones or not enough, when this particular gland is out of whack, many will experience hair loss, thinning, and even dry hair.

Sometimes illness intruders affect our bodies. Intruders like cancer and polycystic ovary syndrome. From their treatments to the actual disorders themselves, problems with hair loss from the scalp arise in many women. They can also cause fertility problems, irregular periods and severe thinning of hair on the scalp.

Be sure that if you notice any significant changes in the density or shedding of your. hair that you seek medical attention, whether it be from a dermatologist or your primary care physician. But, thats enough stress about losing our hair, lets check out some ways to help it grow and retain the length of your choosing.