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Fine hair is the dream of all women, and men too. A tool to achieve this goal can be a balanced food from hair products specially selected in the diet.
Healthy hair for a month is longer than one centimeter. Is this a lot or a little? A real woman will say: little - and will do everything to help nature speed up the process. After all, long, curvy hair is always in fashion. They are not just decoration, but real wealth, because they testify to the well-being and good health of their owners.
How to achieve the desired without super-expensive cosmetics?
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Products for hair restoration
If the hair is not all right, they have lost their former charm, you need to pay more attention to their nutrition, in particular, take care of hair products. They should prevail in the diet, because it is the wrong food provokes different problems with the skin and scalp.
- Structural material for hair is protein substances, so they should be enough in a balanced diet.
- With a deficiency of fatty acids, hair suffers from a deficiency of collagen and keratin. All this is available in simple and in most available products for hair restoration, which must be present on the table daily: meat, poultry, fish, eggs, cheese, legumes and nuts.
Olives, avocados, sea delicacies are also on the list of hair restoration products.
Simple water is essentially poured in the restoration of dry, with breakable tips of hairs. Daily requirement - up to two liters. Partly it can be replaced with green tea.
Be sure to include in the diet more products with zinc to supplement its deficiency (more about this - a little bit lower).
Products for hair certainly contain a lot of iron - this is red meat, game, yolks, beans and other legumes, vegetables are dark green.
Products for shine hair
A healthy look for your hair will provide ordinary hair products. Because the concept of eating well does not mean expensive and caloric, cooked in restaurants or supermarkets.
If the hair does not shine - they lack first of all proteins. With such a deficiency, the hairs lose their smoothness and do not reflect the rays of light.
- Bread with bran will benefit the body as a whole and hair individually, primarily thanks to biotin and panthenol.
- Protein is abundant in chicken and turkey meat.
- Eggs of chicken and quail are also an excellent source of digestible protein. Eggs can be consumed in various forms, in combination with other products. They also contain biotin and vitamin B12.
- Fish days are a wise invention of cooks and nutritionists. The fish is full of very necessary proteins and minerals.
- Bananas are not just pleasant tastes of overseas fruit. They are directly related to the subject of hair: besides biotin, they are rich in silicon, the presence of which directly affects the beauty and strength of the curls!
- Nuts are always the way when it comes to the beauty of hair.
- Quality water in sufficient quantity also positively affects the condition of the hair.
Some products for shine of hair - egg yolks, olive oil, sour-milk production, green tea - are successfully used by women for nutritious masks and hair rinses.
Sour-milk products for hair
Sour-milk products for hair - inexhaustible pantry is very valuable for human substances. Cottage cheese, yoghurt, yogurt, yogurt, ryazhenka, sour cream, different cheeses - the choice is great and to any taste. Sour milk contains calcium, potassium, phosphorus, sulfur, as well as biotin and casein - a very necessary, although not so quickly digestible protein.
A variety of milk processing products, especially kefir, yogurt contain useful microorganisms, the so-called probiotics. These bacteria contribute to the assimilation of vitamins B, strengthen immunity, which also has a beneficial effect on the health of the hair.
Sour-milk products affect silkiness and shine, relieve hair of dandruff. Especially effective are masks made from hair products. There are many recipes for such masks, where kefir or curdled milk is mixed with olive or essential oils, egg yolk, honey, yeast. These substances strengthen each other's action, strengthen hair follicles, nourish the skin and roots.
Kefir masks are indicated for both dry and oily hair. After them a film is formed on the hairs, which protects from external unfavorable factors. The visual effect of such care is observed in the fluffy eastern women, where such use of sour milk is an age-old tradition.
Products for hair density
Normally, about 150 hairs fall daily. If more is an alarming symptom, possibly associated with improper diet, eating disorders. Setting food, including in the menu products for the density of hair (fruit, vegetables, dishes from the liver, red meat, oats, buckwheat, other whole cereals) will stop their loss.
- Useful sprouted grasses, eggs, nuts, brewer's yeast.
- Beef liver in the diet prevents hair loss, dandruff and other troubles.
- Nuts are useful any, as all contain biotin, important minerals, antioxidants.
A good effect is the intensive use of natural juices. For example, it activates hair growth, makes them strong and beautiful
- cocktail of carrots, lettuce and alfalfa (9: 4: 3). Take a month for half a liter every day.
The mixture is simpler -
- Carrot-cucumber juice 1: 1 will also help restore the natural shine and strength to your hair.
See also: Products for hair growth
Vegetarians or people temporarily observing a diet are advised to take complexes of vitamins and minerals. Of course, it's better on the advice of a specialist, not random people. And be ready to use hair products regularly, for several months in a row, as there is no quick solution to this problem.
Products for moisturizing hair
The presence in the hair products of different B vitamins makes the curls moisturized, healthy, immaculately beautiful. It removes aging and graying. Eat more bread with bran, wheat, sea fish, eggs, liver, poultry - and there will be no hair problems.
- Vitamin E in various oils, nuts, beans, leaf lettuce will ensure normal blood circulation and satisfactory skin nutrition in this area of the head.
Softness, silky and elasticity ensures the presence of stimulants for the production of sebum in hair moisturizing products. Broccoli and white-headed cabbage, carrots and spinach, peaches and apricots are reliable suppliers of this substance.
- Dishes with gelatin, at least once a week, favorably affect the hair.
Soft as silk, make braids Vitamins A - they are found in dishes from the liver, in sea-buckthorn, apricots.
- Vegetable fats - peanut, olive, sunflower, flaxseed - abundant source of non-caloric fats. Useful are pork lard, butter, fats in sour cream, cheese, fish, hazelnuts.
Products for hair moisturizing are available in zucchini, cucumber, garlic, onion, asparagus, eggs, shrimp, squid.
By nature, man is given the opportunity to have strong, long, beautiful hair. In any case, for many centuries, they were exactly the same in women and men. Civilization changes fashion, habits, food - and not always for the benefit of people. But everyone can have healthy hair. To do this, take care of hair products in your kitchen.
Products for hair strengthening
We offer an approximate list of products for hair strengthening, giving the desired effect when combining different ingredients.
- Green vegetables as a source of vitamins (A, C) are useful in that, with their participation, the body produces sebum. This substance serves as a conditioner for the hair. With its sufficient amount of hair does not dry out and is not depleted. Broccoli, lettuce, spinach - these are the plants for vitaminized nutrition. Vegetables of dark green color provide the body with calcium, iron.
Cereals and legumes also make a big contribution to the strengthening of human hair. In peas, beans, soy, lentils, there is a necessary protein for this. These cultural plants supply iron, zinc, biotin, without which the girl's braids cease to cause delight in the male population. Zinc, iron, B-vitamins, trace elements are present in the right doses and in whole grains.
- Dairy products, in the first place, are a rich source of calcium, and also milk proteins (whey, casein).
Carrots have many advantages, primarily due to the increased content of vitamin A. It has a beneficial effect on the scalp. In healthy skin, respectively, - strong follicles and hair roots.
- Bird meat and eggs are irreplaceable protein products for hair. With a permanent deficit of proteins, the hairline becomes a dull "patella". A small, but regular consumption of dietary chicken, turkey meat will replenish the reserves of protein available for assimilation. Eggs fill the deficiency of proteins, biotin, vitamin B12.
Fish, seafood are expensive, but extremely useful delicacies. In the first place nutritionists put salmon, the fillet of which is saturated with fatty omega-3 acids, protein, iron, vitamin B12. A sufficient number of these products in the diet guarantees a brilliant look of the hairdo.
- Nuts for dessert are an excellent addition to the daily menu. Enrich the body with selenium (Brazil nuts), fatty acids (greek), zinc (pecans, almonds, cashews). Their combination will ideally affect the condition of the hairline. Oil from flax seeds will also provide a daily requirement for vegetable fat (one or two spoons).
A variety of berries, some herbs, dark chocolate without fillers - delicious sources of antioxidants. Keep the hair young.
Products with zinc for hair
Products for hair must contain zinc. His chronic shortage causes problems with the hair until they fall out.
Disregard for such advice from dermatologists and cosmetologists led to the fact that almost 80 percent of the population, for the time being without suspecting it, are experiencing a zinc deficiency (say, this trace element was sufficient when people used zinc dishes massively, although this is also harmful). And when the problem becomes acute, it is not easy to overcome it. In any case, you need a great desire and patience. But the result is worth the effort.
Products with zinc for hair are useful for stimulation, protection from aging. Under the influence of zinc there is an intensified production of natural oils on the scalp, which envelops every hair, so that they acquire a healthy, "luminous" appearance. These are the products:
- oysters;
- beef;
- young mutton;
- chicken heart;
- eggs;
- cheese;
- liver;
- kidney;
- Nuts (almonds, pecans, cashews, peanuts);
- whole grain (bread, cereal);
- legumes (from 3 cups per week);
- green tea (2 cups a day);
- mushrooms;
- seeds of pumpkin, sesame, sunflower;
- cocoa;
- bananas;
- avocado.
Harmful products for hair
Harmful products for the hair is all harmful in itself. These are all kinds of soda, caffeinated drinks, sugar, saturated fats, alcohol.
Smoking also causes irreparable harm to the hair and scalp. Nicotine and strong drinks slow the circulation of blood, delivery of nutrition to hair bulbs, which has a very negative effect on the roots.
Fried, canned food, fast food, pastries, flour sweets do not contribute to the growth and strengthening of hair.
Taking care of hair, it is necessary to exclude from the diet products that can cause allergies.
- To have beautiful braids, you need to be fanatic about dieting for weight loss. After a complete rejection of some products can trigger catastrophic consequences for the hair, which will take a long time - and it's good, if successful, to eliminate. Without vitally important hair products, they will not just look worse, but can fall out in whole pamas. Even a model figure is unlikely to please in this state.
Do not overdo it with vitamin E: its excess is also dangerous (increased blood pressure and decreased blood clotting).
- Wanting to achieve results faster, it is not necessary to go to extremes - there is excessive and everything, no matter how useful it is. As well as too addicted to cosmetics, turning his head into an experimental range for masks, balms, conditioners, shampoos.
If you provide proper care, use exceptionally useful products for hair, and the proper effect is not, - perhaps it is worth asking for advice to official medicine.