Hair Growth Tips for Men and Women

Long and thick hair would be a dream of many! While there is no secret to healthy and long tresses, a healthy and stress-free lifestyle, and using suitable hair products would be all you must do for healthy hair. Besides this, you can make use of a couple of home remedies like rice water, aloe vera, amla and vitamin E. these tips would be helpful for you in the long run. Also, remember hair growth is a gradual process, and the time may vary according to different hair types and other factors like health, lifestyle etc.  Below we have listed some of the ideal hair growth tips that you can easily follow at home and achieve long and healthy hair.

Simple & Effective Ways to Boost Hair Growth

1. Generous Scalp Massage with a Hair Oil

A regular scalp massage helps to improve blood circulation, and it is one of the best ways to strengthen hair from roots and promotes healthy hair growth. It also helps to get rid of the stress, which at times is one of the primary reasons for hair loss or hair fall.

A nice hair chumpy with hair growth oil is bliss for the scalp! Hair oils such as almond oil, coconut oil, olive oil are good for hair. However, if your skin is sensitive to hair oils, you can substitute it with hair growth serum.

2. Regular Hair Trimming

Another most promising and natural hair growth tip is, trimming your hair after 3-4 months. It encourages hair growth. Trimming gives your hair a nice look; in fact, it makes them look healthy and thick. It also removes split-ends and fizziness. It further contributes to reducing hair fall. Having said that, you should not get a hair trim too frequently!

3. Shampoo in a Right Manner

Believe it or not, shampooing your hair in the right manner is as important as using the right shampoo. At times, you might use ideal hair shampoo, but it won’t give you results as it supposed to be. This could be because you aren’t applying your hair shampoo in the right manner.

Before anything, you would have to understand that applying shampoo frequently would not resolve your query; in fact, it would make your tresses even dryer and could even lead to fizziness. The same goes for the quantity of shampoo that you apply to your hair and scalp.

Take a sufficient quantity of the shampoo depending upon your hair length. You can even mix some shampoo with water and then apply it over your scalp so that you do not end up applying gallons of shampoo. Plus, shampoo should be applied to the roots. Give your hair scalp a nice massage while applying the shampoo; it would help to boost blood circulation. And, it would be more than sufficient to shampoo your hair 2-3 times a week.

Note: Detangle your hair before shampoo as it would allow your shampoo to work effectively. Also,  our hair is weak when wet and combing damp hair would prevent this hair from falling and breaking.

4. Apply Onion Juice

One of the best tips for hair growth at home is to apply onion juice to your hair. Though it might smell good but it isn’t less than a boon for hair. Onion has certain minerals, including sulphur. It supports thick and strong hair. Sulphur may also help in the production of collagen, and it also helps to boost blood circulation. You can extract some juice from onions and apply it over the scalp. Let it rest for some time, and then wash it. Alternatively, you can use hair oils that have onion juice as the main ingredient. You can apply it once or twice a week for the best results.

5. Keep a Check on your Diet

What you eat plays a vital role in hair growth. Consume healthy food as much as possible. Restrict the intake of fried and junk food as they aren’t good for your health, skin or hair. Foods like eggs, berries, spinach, fatty fish, sweet potatoes, avocadoes, nuts, beans. Most of these foods are a good source of antioxidants that removes free radicals from the body. In addition to this, one should consume foods that are a good source of biotin, vitamin D, vitamin E, iron, vitamin C and omega-three fatty acid. These nutrients help to stimulate hair follicles, strengthen your tresses and reduce oxidative stress.

Iron deficiency can even lead to hair fall. You can even consider multivitamins that fulfil your daily nutritional intake and promotes hair growth.

6. Exercise Regularly

Exercising daily not only keeps you fit and active but also keeps stress at bay. Plus, it promotes healthy hair growth. Exercise increases blood circulation, allowing the scalp to absorb more nutrients and oxygen. The stimulated blood flow then enriches hair follicles and imparts strength. Cardio exercise and many yoga poses like Ustrasana and Sirsasana are good for hair.

7. Avoid Constant Heating & Drying

This goes without saying! Blow-drying, curling and straightening might give you a fabulous look, but in the long run, they aren’t safe for your tresses. Heating tools tend to damage hair follicles, and at times they burn the tresses badly, all this could later contribute to hair fall breakage and even balding. So avoid heating hair tools as much as possible. And in case you have to use a straightener or a curling iron, do not forget to apply heat protection spray before styling your hair. It would protect your hair follicles and reduce the chances of hair damage.

8. Use Less Chemical Products

Chemicals, mainly Sodium Lauryl Sulfates or SLS or sulfates, are used in shampoos and other hair products to make frothing foams, but they aren’t good for hair. It can rip off the natural oil from the strands and make it dry. Thus, one should use sulphate-free shampoos and other hair care products. It is always wise to look at the back of your hair care products before purchasing them, as it would give you an idea of what ingredients the product has.

9. Follow Right Hair Care Routine

Maintaining a good hair care regimen is very important as it gives your hair all the desired nutrients, would make them soft and healthy. However, before selecting a hair care routine, it is crucial to analyse your hair type, identify the causes of hair problems, and choose suitable products for the hair care routine. Hair oil, shampoo and conditioner are staples of any hair care regimen. For additional benefits, you may use a hair conditioner, serum and hair masks. Like other hair care products, one should also invest in a suitable hair comb. Wide hair combs are better as they detangle hair; they are easy to run through the hair length, improve blood circulation, and encourage hair growth.

10. Treat Hair Woes-Dandruff/Hairfall

This should be the first step towards hair growth. Whether you are struggling with dandruff or your hair fall isn’t stopping, you need to get it treated, whatever your hair problem is. If the problem is serious, you should visit a hair specialist and follow a hair care routine as suggested by him or her. You can even resort to homoeopathy for hair fall and regrowth or for any hair related problem.

Conclusion

In this blog, we have tried to cover all the tips that would promote hair growth. Do follow these tips, and if you are struggling with serious hair problems like balding etc., you must visit a hair care expert.

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