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Health Facts

The Key to Natural African Hair Care – Moisturize, Moisturize, Moisturize!

The key to healthy Black hair and growth is moisture. I just recently changed my moisturizing regiment, because while I religiously moisturized my hair, it was still very dry. I found that although I was frequenting African hair care vlogs and blogs like Curly Nikki, I wasn’t truly paying attention to what contributors were writing about. I think because my hair had grown 5 inches in 6 months (when previously I hadn’t achieved any growth due to breakage) and I completely repaired the damaged sections of my hair, I thought my moisture regiment was on point. Boy was I wrong!
First, I would mixed around three tablespoons of coconut oil and one table spoon of olive oil together and heated it up in the microwave (not too hot). I would then wet my hair, soaked it with the hot oil and put on a heat cap for about 30 minutes. Next, I would co-wash (wash with conditioner) the oil out of my hair, spray in Hawaiian Silky leave-in conditioner and let my hair air dry. Once it was dry, I would moisturized my scalp with my Jojoba mix, which consists of 5 drops of Rosemary, 2 drops of Lavender to one tablespoon of Jojoba oil. I then separate my hair into 11 big sections, twist each section, put on a satin bonnet and I’m done.
With this regiment, I didn’t comb my hair much, once a month at best. I found that detangling with my fingers while co-washing worked just fine. Its common knowledge in the natural African hair care community that our hair isn’t supposed to be combed or brushed too much and not combing worked for me when I grew my hair out over the winter.
My hair would only remain supple for ONE day on this regiment. It would literally be dried out on the second day even after re-spritzing with the leave-in. I do co-wash two to three times a week, one because I can’t stand that frowsy hair smell and two, washing allows me to get some moisture. Although some may consider 3 co-washes a week a bit much for dry hair, its the only way I can get that suppleness back.
My hair had always been super, duper dry and I just thought I had to live with that fact and do whatever I could to keep it moist for as long as possible. After sticking with this treatment for eight months I realized there should be something I could do to stay moisturized, so I started researching again. I spent a couple of hours on Curly Nikki as opposed to just browsing for a few minutes and low and behold, I came across a post from a sista with baddest Afro I have ever seen in my life! One of the first things she wrote about was how dry her hair is and she went on to outline her moisture regiment.
When she co-washes, she uses around five different types of conditioner together and she doesn’t rinse it out! Further, if she feels her hair is getting a little dry between co-washes, she’ll spritz in more conditioner! I first thought that all of that conditioner would cause a lot of build-up and eventually be damaging, but the truth is everything the mainstream teaches us about natural African hair care is backward. We can basically do the opposite of what other people do with their hair, especially in the case of conditioning. After all, her hair is incredible! She’s maintained this regiment for the better part of six years and her hair is gorgeous, so all of that conditioning must be working!
As I researched on, I came across a post about sealing with oil. The post described how sealing locks in what ever type of moisturizer you are using and aids in keeping your hair moisturized. I’ve never sealed my hair. I figured since I hot oil treated my hair, oiled my scalp and used a very rich leave-in, I didn’t need to put in any more oil. However, it was still very dry between co-washes, even when I added more leave-in, so whatever I was doing wasn’t working and my hair was telling me it was time for something new.
So, when co-wash day rolled around, I dove right into this sista’s moisture regiment. I co-washed with Garnier Fruictis Triple Nutrition and Suave Almond and Shea conditioner. I repeated the co-wash three times and on the third time, I didn’t rinse it out. To seal it, I mixed Shea butter and coconut oil together until the consistency was a little thinner than normal Shea butter, but not too oily. After my hair dried, I coated it liberally with the mix, but I didn’t saturate it. I didn’t use the Jojoba oil mix …

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Fitness

Natural Hair Care Tips

Do you want to keep your hair beautiful? It is not a secret; all women dream about healthy, beautiful, natural hair. It is well known you can spend hundreds of dollars buying the numerous products available for natural hair use. Some of them are useless, some useful, as luck would have it.
However, breaking the bank is really not necessary to keep a healthy, strong and shiny natural care. Natural hair care implicates natural products. You might be surprised to know you already have necessary natural ingredients in your own kitchen and your own garden!
Creating your own hair recipes helps you to make new, closer, even intimate relationship with your hair. If you take care about them in holograph, think about them, and look after them, they will love you back undoubtedly.
You may use many products for natural hair care: herbs (as hair rinses); eggs, oils, honey (as hair masks components). There are some simple rules to follow to find your perfect devising:
– Start with simple recipes. Ask an experienced person to help you, or look for some books or articles. After you go through the will, start making your own recipes.
– Do not mix too many things at once. Start with mixing one main ingredient and adding a small amount of another. It is much easier to find out the effect of the particular remedy when your ingredients list is limited. The best way is to create two-ingredient masks and try them until you see that works well on your hair.
– If there is one particular ingredient you find the best on your hair make it a constant component for your hair recipes, use it as a standard part of all your masks.
– Use only fresh and natural components. Prefer herbs grown with your own hands (you can place some flower boxes of the balcony and grow rumple, calendula, chamomile and salvia) or herbs from your nearest wood or field. Make sure they are rather far from the city industrial area and car roads.
– Take note of what herb works for you and how it works. Write down recipes those which are better for clarifying and those that can be used for great deep conditioners.
– Be creative! Make experiments with essential oils (just some drops), try herb extracts (sometimes it is good for oily hair), and make your own hair oils (use nettle and burdock roots).
– Keep in mind, zero result is also a good result! It lets you know what you should not use. The worst case scenario with the use of your homemade products is the need to wash your hair again. Remember: natural ingredients are safe!…

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Health Department

Natural Products For a Sensitive Scalp

Chronic dryness in your scalp can be aggravated during cold and dry weather. Along with reduced moisture in the scalp, combined with considerably reduced sebum production, (the oily stuff your scalp produces) to create a balance between dryness, can cause flaking of the scalp, itchiness and redness. Reduced scalp oil combined together with shampoos and hair products, which have surface scouring components that, lead to the cause of itchiness in already dry scalps occurring naturally.
Normal oil production from the sebaceous glands provides a naturally occurring soothing and repairing coat of oil to the follicles and the scalp. Sebum provides the protection needed from dryness while supplying moisture and added nourishment to your hair. Windy and cold weather dries the skin on the scalp and increases brittleness of the follicle shaft.
Most commercially available shampoos and conditioners contain chemicals or cleansers that will strip the natural moisture from your scalp. While you may get really clean looking hair, in reality, you are doing an injustice to your scalp.
It is now a well-known fact, that lack of sebum production, combined with hair products that are non-hypoallergenic (not allergy producing), are considered to be the primary cause of dry and an itchy scalp. Along with lowered humidity, this leads to excessive dryness and itchiness, in most cases beginning around the hair line and towards the sides and back of the head.
Jojoba oil is known to restore sebum balance and moisturizes the scalp quite well. This was an accidental discovery made in the United States, when their government banned the import of whale oil in 1971. Jojoba oil is well known for its anti-fungal properties and is a coveted addition to any cosmetic line.
It is generally agreed that Tea Tree oil and its derived components are excellent natural products to use in cases of itchy scalp and dandruff. By facilitating the growth of hair by activating dormant scalp cells, this natural product is sought for both herbal and medicinal purposes. Tea Tree oils are known for their usage in sore treatments and killing lice in the hair.
Another natural substance that is now in widespread usage in hair products is Basil. It is known to promote hair growth. Chamomile is also known to decrease scalp itchiness and helps target fine grade hair. Clary sage, notwithstanding its estrogenic boosting quality, helps to boot out dandruff. Lavender is considered as an excellent way to treat hair loss although it is usually combined with jojoba and grapeseed oils.
Lemon is good for your hair, as it aids in eliminating dandruff. Rubbing or massaging lemon juice on your hair regulates the blood in your head, fostering, hair growth. The sebaceous glands are regulated too which help in promoting oil production. Having listed so many natural products, it is a wonder that we still go out and buy expensive artificially produced products for our hair. Always try and use natural products and use as many of nature’s offerings as possible.…

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Healthier

Find Natural Anti-Aging Remedies In Your Kitchen Cupboards

If you have tried many anti-aging techniques and you cannot find one that suits you best, it may either be lack of knowledge or simply your implementation methods. Follow the tips provided in this article and you may find something that you have never tried before to help keep you looking young.

Keep your fruit intake high. Fruits are a great source of antioxidants, which help inhibit the aging process of our cells. They are also a great source of other vitamins that provide a host of benefits to our aging bodies. Use fruit as your desert instead of sugar filled treats as an easy way of getting them in your diet.

You may think grabbing an afternoon cup of tea is only for old folk, but it actually works to help keep you young. Tea is incredibly rich in those, oh so useful, antioxidants which help protect our cells from aging. The practice of having a cup of tea is also a great stress reliever, so go ahead and sip away.

Be sure to protect your skin from the sun. Getting a bit of sun each day can be very beneficial but be sure to wear sunscreen while you do it. Overexposure can lead to wrinkles and even skin cancer. Taking care of your skin is vital to living a long and healthy youthful life.

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In order to protect your skin from the effects of aging, be sure that you have plenty of Vitamin A and Vitamin C in your diet. If you eat plenty of fresh produce you should be getting enough. Both of these vitamins help to prevent wrinkles. If you think that you do not get enough of these vitamins from what you eat, you ask at your health store about quality vitamin supplements.

Health Tips

Quitting smoking is one of the most important health tips at any age but as you get older, you are going to hear it more and more from doctors and friends. Smoking does not only lead to cancer, but it will also accelerate the aging process of your face. You will develop more lines around the eyes and mouth.

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A large part of healthy aging is forming lasting, caring relationships with others. Being involved in many community activities has been proven to promote a healthier and a longer life. In order to get the greatest benefit of your social interactions, you should focus on those which involve intimacy with people you can pour your heart out to.

For even healthier aging, eat more fish and less red meat. Red meat can muck up your arteries by sticking to the linings. Seafood has the exact opposite effect. Seafood not only does not stick as much to the arteries, it even helps prevent other things from sticking as well! As an additional supplement, consider taking omega-3 oil, the same oil found in seafood, every day.

In conclusion, if you have tried all of the common ways that people use to keep themselves looking young but nothing is having the impact that you wish for, hopefully this article has helped. The advice provided will help you to not only maintain your youthful look but also bring you peace of mind.…