Are you sure it's good for your hair?
The attention we give to our hair to keep it healthy, beautiful, clear and bright usually includes:
Wash too often because clean hair looks good;
Application of any type of shampoo, conditioner, volumizing or regenerating mask of many brands offered by the market;
We use a hair dryer, a plate and thermal brushes to give them a style, or at least we try;
We color them with many colors and shades.
All these things are done without considering that these actions have harmful effects 90% of the time.
The purpose of this article is to give you five simple but useful tips for natural hair care to improve the health and natural appearance of your hair.
In many blogs and online articles on hair wellness and beauty, people give a lot of advice, but what is missing in almost everything is a detailed explanation of the main purpose that hair helps to understand why our action puts them in their place. to make them healthier and more beautiful.
What is its main purpose?
If the hair is in that precise point above our head, there must be a very specific reason that does not exceed the function of seduction; we know that this is one of the many factors of attraction of the opposite sex. It also plays a protective role for the scalp and protects it from the ultraviolet rays of the sun.
Wondering what your hair is made of? Let's find out.
About 65% to 95% of the hair consists of solid proteins, such as keratin, the rest consists of water, lipids, pigments and trace elements. Melanin is another solid protein that gives it its color.
While amino acids, lysine and cysteine form keratin. This protein is present in white and red meat, in fish, in the liver and in some types of vegetables.
Hair is also made from other important substances such as iron, which mainly synthesizes hemoglobin in the blood for tissue oxygenation; and zinc, magnesium and finally copper, which facilitates the process of melanin formation.
And the structure of the scalp?
The hair is implanted in the scalp or epidermis (skin) that covers the skull and protects the brain by filtering the sun's rays and preventing excessive dispersion of heat in cold environments. The scalp, which is nothing more than a layer of skin, is subject to problems such as changes, anomalies, disorders or diseases.
The capillaries, small veins that cross the entire scalp, nourish the hair through the blood.
The sebaceous glands and sweat glands, located in the scalp, help lubricate and protect the hair through the secretion of sebum and sweat.
Each bulb corresponds to the exit of a sebaceous gland. The greater or lesser activity of the sebaceous glands presents a peculiarity of the hair, as well as some problems. In fact, if the sebaceous glands are very active and secrete a lot of sebum, the hair will be fat because it is easily covered by fat secretion. If these glands produce little sebum, we have very dry hair.
