Hair Care

Healthy hair starts from the root. Most of us concentrate on making our hair strands look moisturized and healthy and forget about taking care of the scalp. Here are some suggestions that we can follow to keep our scalp clean and healthy. Keep the scalp clean Whenever we shampoo our hair, we apply shampoo on strands and forget the scalp. Best practice when you shampoo […]

Healthy scalp for healthy hair

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I get so many questions regarding frizz on the crown part. Lets see what it is and the root cause behind it. Can we really call it frizz? All of us have short hair on our head. Some of them are new growth and the rest are broken hair. These broken hair come out of the clumped curls and start sticking out by day 2. […]

That frizz on the crown

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Many of you must remember the entry of Livon hair serum in Indian market. I think it was the first product of its kind that was marketed to retail shops besides being available in salons. It claimed to give you shiny hair and make hair detangling easier by providing slip to the hair. Now a days you can find a hair serum from every brand and there are lots […]

Hair Serum – good for you or not?

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Many of us face hair fall problem every now and then. There could be many reasons for hair fall including hormonal imbalance, nutritional deficiency, genetics, some medical conditions like thyroid, chemotherapy etc, DHT (Dihydrotestosterone, mostly in cases of male pattern baldness but it can also happen in women). Talk to your doctor first when you feel that the situation is getting out of control so she […]

Essential oils blend for hair growth

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All of us long for healthy and lustrous hair as your hair is considered your crowning glory. How your hair looks on a particular day makes a lot of difference to your appearance . But alas, I remember in my younger days when I had a crown not of glory but of thrones. My hair was unmanageable with lots of split ends. To tame my curls, I […]

Hair Damage – Causes and how to avoid

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If you have read my earlier posts, you know about humectants. So, today lets talk about their role in hair care products. Humectant Humectants draws water from the air and hence are used in the products to increase the water retention in your hair and skin. The water retention capability of these substances comes from the hydrogen bond that they make with water molecules which […]

Humectants, Humidity and Curly hair

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In India, we do only one thing right for curls. Oiling our hair! So what does oil do to our hair and which ones are the best for hair? There are two types of oils. One that penetrates the hair and the other that do not penetrate and just form a layer or coating on hair. For curly hair, we should include both types in […]

Oils – Penetrating vs Coating

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