What type of oils are best for hair growth?
What oils are best for hair growth?
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Oils do not cause hair to grow.
In fact, products that advertise themselves as able to "nourish your hair!" are engaging in deception- hair is dead- it cannot absorb, or fix itself or be anything but a strand- long or short- of dead hair cells. The only part of a hair strand which is alive is the root- which is why it is the part of a hair strand needed to do accurate genetic testing.
Can you keep the skin of your scalp, wherein your hair follicles reside, healthy? Sure!
First, stop stripping the natural oils out of your scalp- just stop. If you must use shampoo more than once, maybe twice, a week, use an amount the size of a dime and a whole lot of water- the shampoo may be stripping oil off the scalp and hair strands, but it is actually the agitations- the vigorous scrubbing with the finger pads- which is cleaning your hair.
Try it- no, really- try it for a week: FAR less shampoo, FAR more water (rinse rinse rinse) and, only if you need it for de-tangling (long or very curly hair) a light cream rinse that you rinse rinse rinse all the way out. If you are one of those every day hair washers, try using shampoo every other day, and just warm water and a lot of finger pad scrubbing on the no-shampoo days.
And, finish your hair washing with COLD water- cold as you can stand. That helps make your hair shiny.
Use very little heat- blow dryers, curling irons, straighteners- just don't unless you must, and even then, keep the heat setting low; heat destroys the hair strands' integrity, making it more easily breakable, and causing it to split (which does not, no matter what a woman I once knew claimed, make your hair thicker ;) )
Eat well, use appropriate portion guides, get good sleep, wear a hat outside in the sun, and, above all, do as little to your hair as possible. Everything you do to your hair damages it- especially anything with heat, either thermic or chemical.
Let your hair grow all by itself without you doing things that leave it weaker, coated in a waxy plastic, and your scalp stripped of its natural and protective oils.
Honest.