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So much of a woman’s identity is tied to her hair, whether it’s short and sassy, or long and wavy. It’s impossible to measure yourself against the female beauty standard without including one’s hairstyle as a major component of the overall package. From “good hair days” to “bad hair days nothing gives a woman greater pause than the thought of a “no hair day" or the agonizing progression of thinning hair that seems inevitable with age. So before you go fretting over those dozens of precious strands that slip down the shower drain every morning, take heart: we’ve brushed up on the best strategies to address the thinning hair dilemma.
Invati Exfoliating Shampoo
There are those celebrities with lush, glorious manes who attribute the thickness and healthy shine to going one or more days without washing their hair to increase the natural oils which ostensibly nourish the scalp and follicles. Angela Casler, board certified colorist and stylist at Austin’s Ritual Salon shakes her head in wonderment and asks, “If you wouldn’t go a day, or heaven forbid, a week without washing your face, then why would you do that to your poor hair?” The fact of the matter is, if you don’t wash your hair and exfoliate the scalp, the follicles become clogged up with dander, oil and environmental pollutants, which can actually result in hair loss, not gain. Casler adds, “I like to compare hair care to gardening. You’ve got to clean out the weeds, prune the dead stuff and mulch the area to support good growth and moisture.” Clean hair also appears fuller and denser than unwashed hair, so give Aveda’s Invati Exfoliating Shampoo a try to really get down to the nitty-gritty of good hair.
Viviscal Extra Strength Supplements
There are a lot more factors within your control than you may realize when it comes to sustaining good hair density and health, and chief among those are proper maintenance of your diet and stress level. Whenever the body suffers from stress, the hair begins to show it first with dullness and breakage, then eventually by falling out. Naturally within the hair’s growth cycle, women can expect to lose between 80-150 strands per day and as many as 200 strands after the age of 40. You can supplement your diet with biotin, vitamin C, iron and omega 3 capsules to amp up hair vitality and thickness. Grape seed extract is also being touted for its restorative effects on hair because of its high levels of vitamin E and its OPC component (oligomeric proanthocyanidins), which stimulates hair growth. Try Viviscal Extra Strength Supplements—its combination of vitamin C, iron, biotin and other ingredients are specially formulated to increase hair growth.
Theradome
For really adventurous folks seeking follicular fortification, there is a laser technology emerging that promises to give you back some of what you’ve lost, in much less time than other hair loss therapies. Theradome is the result of a biomedical engineer/NASA scientist’s development of the only FDA-approved hair therapy helmet. It uses clinical-strength laser diodes to emit wave energy that is absorbed by hair follicles, stimulating the thickening of the follicle and shaft and generating new hair growth and overall healthy hair appearance. According to the company, after 26 weeks of twice-weekly,20-minute treatments, 98 percent of users noticed significant (20percent) increase in hair growth. While this is one of the more expensive hair loss treatments out there, it’s significantly cheaper than the estimated $3,000 cost per year of visiting a laser hair restoration clinic, which offers virtually the same technology.