The causes of graying
This or that color is attached to the hair by the pigmentation of the hair follicles, which are formed due to two types of melanin - pheomelanin and eumelanin. The lower the melanin content, the more light the hair, the more melanin, the darker the hair.
Gray hair is obtained due to white or gray pigment, in gray hair there is no pigmentation, which means melanin. Virtually all in adulthood appears gray, but more often young people find their gray hair. The first gray hair can appear in 15, 20 and 30 years. The appearance of gray hair, as a rule, coincides with the age when it appeared in our grandparents and parents. Early gray hair is laid down at the genetic level, and this is a hereditary phenomenon.
Another cause is stress
If a person has experienced a severe psychological trauma, and in the case of experienced horror, shock, almost instantly appears gray. But experts associate instantaneous graying with focal alopecia, when a large amount of pigmented hair appears abruptly, when the illusion of sharp graying is created by the remaining gray hair. Many associate the appearance of gray hair with smoking, sinusitis, chronic cold, anemia, thyroid disease, with a lack of vitamin B12 at an early age. It is believed that smokers have 4 times more early gray hair than non-smokers.
Gray - preventive measures
Genetics plays an important role in the appearance of early gray hair, but this process can be slowed down a little. And of course, the best way to prevent graying is a healthy lifestyle. You need to take regular minerals and vitamins, start eating right, give up bad habits, exclude stress.
To prevent early graying, you need to pay attention to the menu. The diet should include elements such as copper, iodine, inositol, pantothenic acid, B vitamins, iron. I will have to give up diets, without protein diets.
Many believe that the appearance of gray hair is due to the fact that the head is washed with hot water. This opinion does not confirm the medical profession, but you can hedge and reduce the temperature of the water slightly, to which you are already accustomed. There is an opinion that staining your hair, you can stimulate the appearance of early gray hair. You need less to use such electrical means that injure your hair, it's a hair iron, a curling iron or a hairdryer. In order not to break the microcirculation of the scalp, you should wear a warm hat in the cold season. Do not remove even one gray hair, because "at his funeral will come six."
Methods of combating gray hair
When graying appeared, in this case a moderate consumption of curry leaves would serve as a spice. Curry helps the roots of hair to regain their vitality. Updated hair thanks to these leaves have a normal amount of pigment. You can prepare a hair tonic at home, if you brew curry leaves in coconut oil. This product returns hair pigment and stimulates hair growth.
A product such as butter, which is made on the basis of cow's milk, will help prevent premature aging. Every day you need to consume butter, and 2 times a week rub it into the roots of the hair.
In your daily diet, add yogurt, and before eating, you should eat 1 tablespoon of yeast. This nutrition leads to the appearance of specific bacteria in the intestine, they are responsible for the production of B vitamins, which prevent the early appearance of gray hair.
Nettle helps with graying. It will take ½ liter of apple or table vinegar, ½ liter of water, 50 grams of nettle. We insist on the nettle in vinegar and water, then cook for 30 minutes. Cooled and strained broth, rub into the scalp every evening. The course of treatment 2 or 3 weeks.
The most effective remedy for gray hair is a medicinal emblem, which is known as Indian gooseberry, amla, amalaki. We cut the fruit of the amalaki into pieces and dried them in the shade. Then cook them in coconut oil until the hard part of the fruit becomes dark. The oil, which has darkened from cooking fruits, is an effective remedy against early graying.
Or mix 1 teaspoon of almond oil and 1 teaspoon of amalaki juice, add a few drops of lime juice, and this compound massage the scalp every evening.
Buyers are very popular with Antiseed. Producer promises that this tool will save from early gray hair, that it stimulates the production of pigments, which will restore the natural color of hair after 2 or 3 weeks. But consumer reviews about this tool range from laudatory to negative reviews.
Correct staining of gray hair
There are many recipes to deal with gray hair, but many women believe that the only good way is to stain them. Not every paint will cope with gray hair, and before buying, you need to check with the seller if this paint is suitable for your hair. The darker the tone of the paint, the easier it will be to color the gray hair.
Useful natural dyes are basma and henna. But from the first application they can not completely color the gray hair, but can only shade it. But with the secondary use of basma or henna paint over the gray hair.
At home coloring, gray hair can not be painted, or can be of different shades, in the form of green, pink. It happens that at first glance you have painted gray hair, but after 2 or 3 washing of hair, the paint is washed off from the gray hair.
Traditional medicine offers the following folk recipes
- Every day rubbing into the scalp juice of blackberries, apricots, cherries, juice of burdock, cabbage.
- A good effect is the decoction of burdock roots with fennel seeds. For its preparation, take 2 tablespoons of dill seeds, 2 tablespoons of burdock roots, pour ½ liter of boiling water and insist 2 or 3 hours. Strain and rub it in the scalp in the morning and evening. The course of treatment is 2 or 3 months.
Now we know how to color the early gray hair with the help of folk recipes. And your choice for staining gray hair, it is better to provide professional hairdressers or stylists. Staining of gray hair is very difficult, it requires great skill. Secrets of long-term and complete shading of gray hair are known only to professional hairdressers.