Hair Care

Hair Care Especially for women in age requires the same approach as skin care. After all, as smooth skin without wrinkles, silky hair in their teens seems to us something natural and eternal. But sometimes women over 30 are starting to notice that the hair was not what was in his youth. Discernible who are not required gray locks, and when something shiny glossy hair becomes weak, not so bright and almost lifeless? Strangely enough, but the usual hair care and styling do not help to bring them into order.

Hair Care

But there is no need to panic. Scientists study how hair changes over the years, studying, and how the hair affected by external factors (sun and heat styling), and how to shine and structure affect the internal factors (e.g., hormonal changes). According to the research, said Stephen Scheel (expert hair care Pantene Company with a doctorate in organometallic chemistry) has been developed entire artillery's Skin anti-aging techniques and tools that help keep the shine, volume and elasticity of hair.

To keep your hair in better condition at any age: in 24, and 34 and 44 and even 64 years, listen to some advice.

How To Make Hair Shiny

The hair shining, need to make some effort. After many years of "humiliation" of hair-namely, sun exposure, chemical processing and heating tools for installation, cause to wear the hair cuticle, creating an uneven surface that absorbs light. More than that, women older than 30 years in the body decreases the amount of natural oils, giving hair a natural shine. "As we age, sebum production is reduced - Scheele said - and this means that the scalp and hair becomes drier."

And yet, how to make hair shiny? To restore gloss every time you use a shampoo balsam conditioner. Look at the composition of cetyl alcohol (cetyl alcohol) and dimethicone (dimethicone) - they retain moisture and add shine to hair. It is necessary to use once a week. To achieve instant radiance effect at the end put on hair styling spray special that enhances gloss.

How To Add Volume To Hair

Over the years, men are usually worried about their thinning hair and bald head stood out, women also suffer from thinning hair in general and reducing the volume. For example, you may notice that when fasten the tail to lock you already have to do extra twist eraser.

The structure of your hair will also change. "As the thinning of the hair to become brittle and weakened - says Scheele - and if your shampoo or conditioner is too heavy, the hair loses its volume." And then pressing question - How to add volume to hair? Tools specifically designed for fine hair, contain cleansing ingredients that gently remove accumulated on the scalp grease, dirt and remnants of styling products that can cause loss of volume.

If you want to have lush voluminous hair, then during installation, use mousse, recommends an expert on hairstyles John Gray, author The World of Hair ("The World of Hair"). Mousse contains the largest concentration of cationic polymers, mixtures, which Gray calls the "magic wand" to make the volume of lifeless hair.

Believe it or not, color of hair can actually make thin hair stronger, healthier and more voluminous. The reason is that the paint lifts the cuticle of each hair thickening rods. A weave gives even more volume, creating a visual effect on the contrast of light and dark tones.

Protect Hair

When painting you give volume to hair with a new color or highlighting, but it is changing the structure of hair. Dyed hair more susceptible to negative effects: they can become rough and easily damaged, as well as tarnish.

The first Hair protection - It's careful when using heat styling tools. Before you blow-dry or straighten their hair irons, apply a means of thermal protection. The instruments set the lowest temperature: so you can make the right hairstyle.

The second Hair protection- Is the use of shampoos and conditioners, conditioners specifically designed for color-treated hair. These products contain UV filters which protect hair from the sun (and they lead to fading colors and bleached), and include moisturizing ingredients that restore and seal the damaged cuticle.

Author

Dr. Lisa Bemstein

Resources

Dr. Robert M. Bernstein (Professor of Dermatology at Columbia University in New York)

Stephen Scheel (Doctorate in organometallic chemistry)

The World of Hair By John Gray

Published: 08.10.11

The Hair Structure

Hair Structure

Hair on their structure is divided into the barrel (visible above the skin surface of the hair) and root (of hair, which is located in the dermis at the root of the vagina). The root and root sheath together form a hair follicle. Trunk or the hair shaft at an angle to the skin surface, while the angle can vary from 10 to 90 degrees (the smaller the angle, the harder it is given installation, but also a high probability of inflammation of the scalp as a result of ingrown hair).

Within the hair shaft is the medulla, cortex and secondary cuticle. Medulla is not completely dead cells, cortical substance - it's dead skin cells, which are pigments responsible for light hair (eumelanin or phaeomelanin). Zumelanin responsible for black-and-brown color, and pheomelanin in the yellow-red. In different proportions of these pigments give hair a certain color: brown, black, blond, red, gray and ashy, and their different shades. The cuticle consists of several layers of cells that resemble scales, are directed away from the hair root to the center.

As for the hair follicle (also known as onion), this is the most important part of the hair, as it is at the root of the hair cells are located, which strenuously sharing, form the hair itself, as well as many blood vessels that provide nutrition hair. By the bulb adjacent dermal papilla, which contains blood vessels and is responsible for monitoring the status and growth of hair? Papilla is extremely important throughout the hair system, because without it, the hair dies (in this case if the nipple remains even when ejection of hair from the root, it will ensure the growth of new hair.) By the hair follicle papilla but also adjacent sebaceous glands (glands of up to 200 000, and the amount produced by fat 50g), sweat glands, as well as the elevator. Sebaceous glands may depend on many factors: the power phase of the menstrual cycle, sex, age, and so on. The sebaceous glands are very important, because using them on the skin creates a water-lipid film, which is protective. This film is composed of dead epidermis cells, sebum and sweat glands and has a slightly acidic medium (which prevents the growth of microorganisms). Plus, this film has a water-repellent effect, prevents drying of the epidermis and protects against harmful UV rays. Above all in the hair follicle contains many nerve fibers that extend from the bulb to the epidermis. To save the water-lipid film, strongly recommended that you use to wash the usual alkaline soap (preferably liquid preferred), and if you do use it, thoroughly rinse it with the skin surface.

hair follicle

Among the main parameters of hair is to provide the length, thickness, elasticity and porosity. On average, hair grows 1 cm per month (it falls every day 40-80 of hair). The length and thickness of hair depends primarily on the race (very long, thick and coarse hair with representatives of the Mongoloid race). The thickness also depends on age: for example, neonatal hair 3 times thinner than adults, and in old age, hair thins again. Plus, the thickness of the hair also depends on hair color: very thick red hair and blondes have the thinnest. Good elasticity of hair guarantees the possibility of the hair to stretch up to 30% of its own length and return to its original condition, and good porosity helps retain moisture in up to 50% of body weight.
Hair goes through several stages: anagen (growth period), telogen (resting period) and catagen (the period of transition from one stage to another, thus there is atrophy of the follicular papilla, resulting in hair follicle cells stop dividing and undergo cornification). In general, healthy people, about 80-90% of hair is in anagen phase, 1-2% - in stage catagen, and about 10-15% - in the telogen phase.

Author:

Dr. Adrina Barack

Resources:

Wikipedia

Hair Structure and Chemistry Simplified By John Halal

Published Date: 16.09.2011