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The facts about hair are something different than what many people thinks. So here, once and for all, we show some facts about hair .
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Does hair get used to the same shampoo?
No. The same shampoo, used on the same hair under the same circumstances, always gives the same result. Shampoo buyers are noted for their disloyalty, and manufacturers frequently take advantage of consumer dissatisfaction with other competitors. Very few people are truly happy with their hair’s performance so they try to improve it by switching products.
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Will frequent shampooing dry my hair?
Quite the contrary; shampooing, if done correctly and with the right products, actually remoisturizes. It is often thought that frequent shampooing dries out the natural oils . Oil flow does not control the hair’s dryness it’s the moisture, or water level that does this. You can apply as much oil to the hair as you want, but without moisture it will still be dry. Anyway, who wants oily hair?
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Will frequent shampooing make my hair oilier?
No. You might as well say that the more you bathe, the dirtier you get. Clean hair shows grease faster than hair that is already oily; similarly, clean clothes show dirt immediately, whereas dirty clothes have to get much dirtier before it shows. It is a matter of individual perception. As cleansing oily skin does not stimulate oil glands, shampooing does not make your hair oilier.
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Will frequent shampooing make my hair fall out?
No. Everyone’s hair falls out and all hair is eventually replaced. It may be falling out due to metabolic reasons. Shampooing only loosens the hairs that already have become detached from the follicle’s base. In fact it may encourage faster growth as it has a stimulating effect on the hair follicle.
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Will a cold rinse after shampooing close the pores and add shine to my hair?
Cold rinses may be invigorating but they don’t exactly close the pores, they actually constrict the blood capillaries. These tiny blood vessels carry nutrients and pick up waste products from the skin’s surface need to be active for optimum effect; suddenly constricting them does no good at all to your hair. A cold shower doesn’t make your skin shinier!
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Will a lemon or vinegar rinse add shine after shampooing?
This doesn’t apply nowadays. In the old days, before modern shampoo, you would have washed your hair with soap. These soaps would deposit an alkaline film on the hair, dulling the hair’s cuticle. An acid rinse, from lemon or vinegar, would neutralize this alkaline deposit and add shine. Modern shampoos do not create an alkaline film so an acid rinse is unnecessary.
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Are products labelled as natural healthier and better for me?
This is a psychological ploy adopted by advertisers. Products labeled ‘botanic’, ‘organic’ or ‘herbal’ carry the connotation that they are ‘natural’ products and therefore healthier or better for us. We could easily say that poison ivy and beestings are ‘natural’ however, these are hardly good for us! ‘Chemical’ has negative connotations, although everything is chemical. Water is natural, but it is composed of the chemical elements hydrogen and oxygen.
By the time a natural ingredient has reached a commercial product it is completely different to its original form. Truly natural expressed oils of flowers, herbs or fruit are many times more expensive. If you are buying a reasonably-priced product, the chances are that the fragrance is not natural either. Any plant, fruit or food will spoil without preservation and the most effective preservatives are chemicals, which are found in so-called natural products.
The ingredients on labels are printed in descending order of percentages, the highest first – look and you will see where the ‘natural’ ingredients are!
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Are products labelled as alcohol free better for me?
‘Alcohol free’ is a gimmick. Most cosmetic manufacturers will have you believe that alcohol as an ingredient will do dreadful things to your skin, scalp and hair. There are many different types of alcohol – types to rub on your skin, to drink – even a gas alcohol. Some alcohols are drying agents but other alcohols are emollient, protective, smooth to the touch and highly beneficial when dryness is a problem. The latter are used extensively in cosmetics for this reason. An ‘alcohol free’ product is not necessarily better than one containing alcohol – it may even be worse.
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Can my hair suffer from build-up or product overload?
Hair and make-up products often have similar ingredients. In making up your face you use many products and at the end of the day you cleanse. You wouldn’t consider that your face suffers from build-up or product overload, so why should your hair be any different?
It’s not. You can remove whatever you put on your hair simply by shampooing it.
Build up is just a term and not a myth. You may want to build-up your hair with leave-in styling aids or conditioners to add body or texture. The myth is that it is dreadful and you need special products labeled as ‘clarifying or cleansing’ to remove them. The same goes for so-called product overload.
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Can cutting my hair make it stronger or grow faster?
Neither is true. Your hair is not like a lawn where cutting can stimulate growth. Cutting your hair short evens out the lengths, but your hair is not naturally all the same length and the ends have more volume than the roots, so when it is cut short it appears to be thicker and stronger.
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Can I repair split ends?
No. The only way to cure them is to cut them off. So-called ‘split end-healers’ may temporarily glue the ends together, but only until the hair is washed or combed.
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Is my hair normal, oily or dry ???
What is normal? Your normal is not everyone’s normal, or even your family’s normal. Abnormalities are very rare – so we are all normal! With the terms ‘normal’, ‘oily’ and ‘dry’ it is impossible to describe our hair accurately. Hair can be fine, straight, limp and ‘dry’, or coarse, curly, frizzy and ‘dry’, or ‘oily’ at the roots and ‘dry’ at the ends… and so on. Each of these hair types could also be colored, bleached, permed, as well as short or long – all different but all dry. We should assess hair by its size and shape. That is whether the texture is fine, medium or coarse and whether its shape is straight, wavy, curly or frizzy. Then take into account what has been done to it, and use all of that information to choose a hair care routine that best suits the individual’s hair.
Ask our consultants to about our products to find your hair type and personalized hair care routine.
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Does dandruff result from a dry scalp?
No. Dandruff is more likely to be oily than dry.
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Is grey hair coarser than other hair?
Grey hair may be drier because hair goes grey at an age when the oil flow begins to be reduced. But it is generally not coarser.
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Can hair turn white overnight?
Scientifically, it is impossibility. The myth may have started with alopecia areata, whereby clumps of hair fall out and are replaced with white hairs, but this can’t occur overnight. It is one of those statements used to convey the degree of stress somebody has undergone. Stress can affect the hair color gradually as the hair is growing, but certainly not overnight.
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If I pull one grey hair out, will two more grow?
When you notice a grey hair you don’t like it and you pull it out. This action can rupture the hair follicle and the replacement hair that will eventually grow takes longer to regenerate, by which time another, mostly grey, hair is beginning to grow next to it. Then the hair that was originally pulled out does re-grow, you have two grey hairs.
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Will coloring my hair makes it fall out?
There is no scientific evidence to support this – coloring does not make the hair fall out more, but unbalanced ammonia can affect weak hair.
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Do tight hats cause baldness?
No. If you wore a tourniquet twisted tightly round your head for hours on end, you would collapse before your hair fell out! This theory started because many men returning from wars had experienced some baldness and proceeded to blame it on the compulsory wearing of hats. Men go to war at an age where they are more prone to hair loss; it’s just a coincidence that they wear hats. It is also possible that the stress of war can accelerate any tendency towards hair loss, the same happen to Pilots, Engineers and people who use safety hats.
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Do women have more hair than men?
No. In a clinical study in the early nineties it was established that the average number of hairs per square centimeter was 279 on women and 312 on men – about 10 per cent difference. It also indicates that men have finer hair than women, because each hair takes up less space, there is room for more of them.
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Are bald men more virile?
No. This myth may well have been instigated by bald men. It is a fact that bald men almost always have hairier bodies, particularly on the chest and back. The reverse is true of men with full heads of hair. Hairy chests and backs might have been associated with virility because gorillas and apes have hairy bodies and it is thought of as being more male, just as a lack of body hair on women is thought of as being more feminine.
Men with very little scalp hair have follicles that are more sensitive to androgens (male hormones), which makes it thin. Body hair is quite the opposite; androgens stimulate it to grow.
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Is baldness inherited from the mother"s family?
It can be, but it can also be inherited from the father’s side, or there may be no history of baldness on either side of the family and you are simply unlucky to have thinning hair. Somewhere in your genetic pool your genes help to control what your hair does. It takes two, a male and a female, to make a baby, and the genes of either sex can affect the onset of baldness. It is really just a matter of luck.
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When a hair comes out with a white bulb attached, does that mean that the root is dead?
You may notice than some of your fallen hairs have a small white lump at the root and therefore you think that the root of the hair has also been removed. This white bead is simply part of the hair follicle lining which is similar to skin and, like your skin, is continuously being replaced.
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About Hair Coloring:
Hair coloring, perhaps, has an undeserved bad reputation. If done properly and with good aftercare, the results can be excellent. However whatever hair color you decide upon, you need to take precautions, as all coloring processes are potentially harmful if the instructions on the packaging are not followed.
Temporary colors
Rest on the surface of the hair. These are generally found in the form of color rinses, applied directly after shampooing and lasting until the hair is shampooed again. A typical example is the ‘blue rinse’ used to mask yellowing in grey hair, but there are a variety of colors that can be added to sprays, setting lotions or other hair products that may be used to add some color to the hair temporarily. Too much application may dull the hair, but these do not damage the hair structure and are unlikely to cause any scalp irritation.
Semi-permanent colours
Are longer lasting, usually up to six washes. These penetrate the outer cuticle layers of the hair and add various tones to the hair. They can be used to darken the hair and cover up to 30% of white or grey hair. These are unlikely to cause scalp irritation or allergy, although some semi-permanent colors do contain a para-dye and require mixing with an oxidizing agent – usually hydrogen peroxide. If this is the case a skin test should be carried out before application.
Permanent colours
Some ‘tints’ will lasts until the colored hair is cut off, though some color fade is to be expected. These will cover 100% of white or grey hair. The formulations are complicated, and an oxidizing agent is always required. They work by depositing small colorless molecules in the hair’s cortex, which then join together to create larger color molecules that become trapped inside the hair. Using this process both lighter and darker shades can be achieved.
A skin test must always be carried out before each application of permanent hair color, as an allergic reaction, though rare, is possible - remember that a sudden allergy could develop even though you have used the same color for many years. All manufacturers put warnings on their labels – safety is their principal and essential concern.
Bleaching
Is the permanent removal of color from the hair. It is impossible to make the hair a lighter shade without the use of a bleaching agent, and of all the coloring methods bleach is potentially the most damaging. However as with all coloring it gives a great psychological boost, but it should ideally be professionally done. If bleaching your own hair great caution must be exercised in application. This process should be done by professionals.
Highlighting and lowlighting
Are techniques for lightening or darkening selected strands of hair with permanent coloring products. Using the various application methods the coloring agents do not actually touch the scalp, and because of the blend of colors in the hair, the re-growth is less noticeable. The most common method of application is by using strips of foil to separate and wrap around the hair strands to be colored.
Vegetable colours
Such as henna date back thousands of years. Henna is a coloring agent made from the dried leaves of a shrub, and when used on dark hair produces various shades of red which quickly fade, though some permanent color remains and it must grow out. The shades achieved are much less predictable and reliable than those achieved with modern tints, and its popularity fluctuates.
Taking care
Most semi-permanent colorants do not damage the hair, however those used with an oxidizing agent will generally cause the hair to be more porous. Always use conditioner, and occasional intensive conditioning treatments. Any hair that has been permanently colored is more vulnerable to damage, because the elasticity (stretch ability) of the hair is reduced and therefore the possibility of breakage is increased. The degree is dependent on the amount of color change and the frequency of application.
Regular intensive conditioning treatments will help to restore moisture to the hair and prevent breakage. Use a deep conditioning treatment three to four days before and after coloring or bleaching, and, once again, always use a conditioner after shampooing. Even if your hair is fine and limp, using the correct conditioner can increase body and help prevent damage. Remember to use protective styling creams with sunscreen to help prevent color fade.
Cancer risk
The issue of hair dyes increasing cancer risk has been debated and researched many times, in particular in relation to bladder cancer, multiple myeloma, leukaemia and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Overall evidence from analysis of all the research data has found that there is unlikely to be any link between personal hair dye use and bladder cancer, and seems to exclude an appreciable increased risk factor for other cancers
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