Natural Hair Growth Tips

Eat a Well-Balanced Diet

Vitamins and nutrients have a huge impact on your hair. If you are lacking either one, or both, your hair can become dry and brittle and give off a dull appearance. Make sure you are eating a diet that includes Omega 3 fatty acids, protein, peanuts, peppers, Greek yogurt, and fruits containing Vitamin C. Some common over the counter vitamins can drastically improve the health of your hair. The ones we personally recommend as natural hair growth treatments are biotin, omega-3 and 6 fatty acids, zinc, B-Vitamins, Vitamin C, and Vitamin D.

Massage Your Scalp With Fingertips

This may be obvious to some, but more often than not, people use their fingernails when washing their scalp. This can damage your scalp. Make sure to use the pads of your fingertips, along with a little pressure to get a great cleanse and keep your scalp happy. One of the easiest natural hair growth tips is getting a scalp massage. There are two crucial benefits to massaging your scalp. The first is that a scalp massage can actually help you calm down and boost your mood, relieving stress that is having a negative effect on your hair. The second is the fact massaging your scalp will increase blood flow to your hair follicles, in turn allowing them to receive more blood and nutrients.

Lower Your Stress

We get it. Easier said than done. Stress will manifest itself not only in our skin, but also in our hair as well. Focus on your mental health and reducing all unnecessary stressors in your life first, your hair health will soon follow.

Quit Smoking

We understand this isn’t the easiest thing to do, but nicotine and smoking in general causes damage to the hair follicles, inhibiting growth and causes long term damage to the health of your hair.

Avoid Chemicals and Heat

Finally, to cap off our list of natural hair growth tips is to stay away from heat and chemicals. What they say is true. Bleaching, dying, and other chemicals you use does compromise the overall health of the hair follicles over time. High heat is also not good for your hair. Things such as perms, curling irons, and straightening irons all have long term adverse effects on your hair.

While the above natural hair growth tips and solutions to getting healthier hair may seem a bit obvious, they really do work. While it may be very hard to do ALL of the things listed above, every little bit helps and we suggest starting slow and working your way up to adjusting your life to help get your hair looking healthy again.

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