Home Remedies for Healthier Hair (3)

Older woman with healthy-looking gray hair
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Home Remedies for Dandruff
 
Soak 2 tablespoons of fenugreek seeds in water overnight. In the morning, grind into a fine paste. Apply all over the scalp and leave for 30 minutes to control dandruff. Fenugreek is a Mediterranean herb used for flavor enhancement and that is purported to treat many different conditions.
 
Boil a handful of neem leaves in 4 cups of water. After cooling and filtering, use it for rinsing hair to get rid of dandruff. Neem leaves come from the Neem tree which is in the mahogany family and is indigenous to India and several other tropical and sub-tropical regions.
 
Massage warm oil onto the scalp well and let it sit for an hour. Then rub a mixture of lime juice and vinegar (1:2) onto the scalp and leave it on for another hour to remove dandruff. The oil helps to emolliate the skin of the scalp combating dry skin, while the acidity of the lime juice and vinegar will help to strip off the oils and help reduce the prevalence of any fungus.
 
Gray hair
 
Vitamin B deficiencies may cause early graying of hair. If copper is lacking in your diet, it can also result in premature hair graying since it is involved in the hair pigmentation. A healthy diet with nuts and fish should meet your requirements. If you have to resort to dyes, prefer to use henna or those extracted from vegetables since the chemical dyes could do you more serious harm.
 
One must remember that grooming and using styling products alone does not solve hair problems. A diet rich in protein, vitamins, and minerals enhances and maintains the health and luster of the hair.
 
Home remedies for Gray hair:
 
It has, of course, never been proven that any home remedy can prevent or eliminate gray hair, except as a cover-up or cosmetic solution. However, it is widely thought that making sure to eat a nutritious diet and keep your stress levels managed can help to prevent the development of prematurely gray hair. The fact that these tips are part of growing healthy hair is probably why they are so widely relied on.
 
Prematurely gray hair
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However, there are some home remedies that are touted:
 
Massaging amla juice and lime juice into the hair is found to be effective for gray hair.
 
Eat protein-rich foods. Protein sources: Sprouted whole grains, cereals, meat, and soy in your diet.
 
Eat foods rich in iron, minerals, and vitamins A and B. Vitamin A sources: dark green vegetables and yellow fruits. Vitamin B sources: fresh green leafy vegetables, bananas, tomatoes, cauliflower, cereals, liver, kidney, yogurt, yeast, and wheat germ.
 
You also should eat food containing minerals like zinc, iron, and copper. Sources for zinc: red meat, chicken and green vegetables. Sources for iron: beef, dried apricots, red meat, parsley, eggs, wheat and sunflower seeds (Iron Rich Foods). Sources for copper: sunflower seeds, cashews, almonds, crabs, and oysters, egg yolk and whole grains.
 
Eat foods rich in iodine such as bananas, carrots, and fish.
 
Drinking buttermilk with 2 teaspoons each of yeast and wheat germ can prevent premature graying of hair.
 
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