Stress on your Tresses

Stress on your Tresses

We have approximately 100,000 hairs on our head. According to estimates, if we put it all together, we grow almost 8 miles of hair a year! Hair grows about 1/3rd of a millimeter a day and about 1/2 inch a month.
Hair is governed by our genes. Straight hair usually has a round hair-shaft and grows evenly on all sides. Wavy hair-shafts tend to be oval and curly hair has almost 97% protein.
Hair takes its protein from our body — which is one of the important reasons to have a balanced diet if one wants a healthy head of hair. The length to which our hair grows is also determined by heredity and hormones.
No matter what kind of hair you have — straight or curly, light or dark, dry or oily, thick or thin — the same 3 rules apply if you want it to look its very best. Here they are, in order of importance:
Rule 1: You have to keep it healthy.
Rule 2: You have to keep it clean.
Rule 3: You have to find the hairdo best suited to you.
For a proper hair-care routine, it is better to know one’s hair type — oily, dry or normal. Oily hair is hair that separates; it looks limp and stringy unless shampooed frequently. It sometimes needs more than one lathering of shampoo to become clean and is usually accompanied by oily skin.