Home Care Tips For Hair

The structure of our hair is complex and resembles the scales on the skin of the fish. Hair too like scales have overlapping layers and the smoother this layer the better is the quality of hair. Smooth hair also allows for easy combing of the hair and prevents breakage due to tangling. Hair care is a vast concept it includes care in the form of external treatments like massaging, oil application, herbal applications, home remedies and internal care like eating right, de-stressing and so on.

More or less, all these aspects are inter linked and ideally everything should be in harmony for healthy hair. The overall well being is important for hair growth and prevention of hair loss. Nourished body would mean a nourished scalp and thick lustrous hair.

Hair too needs its supply of vitamins, minerals and proteins. Therefore diet also plays a very important role in hair care. Your hair care regime should be a combination of both external and internal care.

Here we share some external hair care tips:

1) Massage your hair with neem oil and coconut oil mixed in equal proportions, coconut will act like a conditioner since it has emollient properties and neem wil check the dandruff if any. Neem is known to have anti-bacterial properties so it wil also cleanse the scalp thouroughly of all the impurities. Leave this oil overnight and wash off next morning.

2) Lemon juice is also one of the best remedies for dry and flaky dandruff, just squirt a lemon and apply it on the scalp. Leave it for half an hour and then shampoo as usual.

3) Henna application is also known to be effective for hair problems, apart from giving your hair a reddish tinge, it also works as a conditioner for hair and has properties to prevent hair loss. Prepare a henna paste with curd, methi seeds powder (funegreek seed), mint juice, lemon and fresh amla fruit. Apply this paste and leave it for 2 to 3 hours then rinse it thoroughly, so not shampoo on the same day.