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There is a mistaken opinion that frequent hair washing is harmful. This is not so. Washing doesn't take off hair "natural grease" and doesn't cause hair falling out but it leaves feelings of freshness and cleanness. Moreover washing only improves nourishment of roots and stimulates hair growth. At the same time washing moves off dead scales from the hairy part of a head. This improves exchange processes and once again stimulates hair growth. But hair becomes beautiful and healthy only in the case you wash and care for it properly.

What shampoo to choose?
First of all it is necessary to define what type of hair you have. For soft and straight hair you can use a shampoo with proteins. Wiry hair needs softening and moistening. Curls are usually dry and also need moistening. Dyed hair requires special means which will moisten and soften. If you got greasy hair, don't use shampoos containing synthetics. Defective hair structure can be restored with the use of means containing hydrolyzed carotin and hydrolyzed protein out of wheat grains. Such components as vitamins especially vitamins of group B are also very desired.

How often to wash hair?

If your hair is normal, wash it once in 3 or 4 days.

Usually dry hair weakly keeps a hair-dress. It also gets statistical charge right after the wash. If you got dry hair, wash it not often than once in 5 days and use a conditioner.

Greasy hair should be washed every day according to the following scheme: 1 or 2 times a week you wash it with the special means for greasy hair and the rest 5 days you wash it with a shampoo for normal hair.

Besides dry, normal and greasy hair we distinguish three types more: thinning, defective and mixed. Such types of hair have their own care peculiarities but frequency of washing depends on whether it is dry or greasy.

How to wash correctly?
To have clean and non-affected hair you should use a shampoo and a balsam rightly. Before washing brush your hair to remove the remains of hair-dress means. You should put a shampoo on the skin of your head but not on hair (don't forget to make a shampoo foam in your hands) and then spread it over the length of your hair. Try to take a small amount of shampoo. It's better to take it twice than to pour half of a bottle at once. Thoroughly and gently rub your skin and then rinse your hait with a lot of water. Wash your hair with warm but not hot water. Then use a conditioner. Read the instruction attentively as there should be written whether it is necessary to wash your hair after it. Take into account that some of medicinal balms which provide a strong effect should be put exactly on hair but not on the skin of a head.

A comb or a hairbrush?
Combing is not of less importance for the health and beauty of your hair. But there are also some obligatory rules.

What to choose: a comb or a hairbrush?
Combs are considered to be qualitative and harmless if they are made out of special antistatic substances. Every tooth of such combs is treated separately. Wooden combs gently care for your hair (of course, a wooden comb should not be covered with any varnish or paint). Combs with widely set teeth are suitable for equal putting on of a balm-rinser and dress-hair means. Hairbrushes on a rubber pad with flexible teeth comb hair better and more gently. It is better to use a hairbrush with mixed teeth: natural and synthetic. Natural bristle absorbs grease and cleans hair, synthetic teeth with rounded edges tenderly massage the skin of your head.

How to comb correctly?
Long hair should be combed from ends to roots with easy movements. Use a comb with rare teeth for your hair not to become entanged. Combing your hair before sleep you will remove the remains of hair-dress means: mousse, gel and hair spray. In the morning combing will help you to raise a little the locks.

Natural care
Homemade hair care means can be very useful. You will always find something very worthwhile in your kitchen. If your hair is dull and if it splits, you can rinse it with a decoction of medicinal herbs. Lavender will help you to remove grease. Parsley will heal dandruff. Rosemary will save your hair from being electrified. Nettle will favor hair growth.

The mixture out of one yolk, a pinch of sugar and a pinch of salt, one spoonful of vinegar and 8 spoonfuls of vegetable oil is very useful for dry and brittle hair. Put prepared mixture on your hair, then put on a polyethylene hat and wrap your head round with bath towel. In half an hour you can rinse the remains of this mixture and thoroughly wash your hair.

Greasy hair will look clean for a longer time if you rub a lemon juice into the skin of your head right after the washing and then rinse your hair with cool water. Besides in this case there is no need to use a balm-rinser after the washing.

Aromatic health
If you have brittle and thinning hair you can add to a shampoo 2-4 drops of aromatic oils of orange, ilang-ilang, camomile, myrrh, mandarin, sandal or incense. Or you can rinse your hair with water enriched with 5-7 drops of incense, sandal, bergamot, rosemary or cypress oil.

If you got dandruff you can use aromatic oils of mandarin, eucalyptus, cedar or balm. If you want to add aromatic oil to a shampoo or to a balsam, take 3-5 drops of rosemary, eucalyptus, incense or balm oils. If you want to enrich the water for rinsing hair, take 3-4 drops of cedar, balm, incense or ginger oils.

To prevent intensive hair falling out you can use oils of eucalyptus, orange, cedar, camomile, ginger, pine, lime or sage. You can add 3-4 drops of eucalyptus, orange or pine oils to balsams and 4-5 drops of pine, cedar or ginger oils into the water for rinsing hair. If your hair mask is based on essential oils you can add to it 3-5 drops of these oils.

Additional nutrition
To make your hair look well and healthy you should use not only shampoos though this product is the main component of hair care. You are to use a conditioner. If you are really in need, use restoring balms, masks, wheys – there is a variety of them nowadays and you can choose something suitable for your hair. With their help you can cope with almost any problem concerning your hair.

In spring sun rays become more active and they can hurt your hair causing decoloration and drying up. That' why choosing hair care means and hair-dress means pay attention to the contents whether there are anti-sun filters.

Moments of happiness
Psychologists advise if you are in low spirits, then go to your bathroom and wash your hair. In reality well-groomed hair, good make-up and carefully chosen clothes give confidence to a person. There is also an inverse relationship: stress, bad mood, depression influence hair outward appearance and can stimulate hair falling out (the loss of 100 hairlines is considered to be normal).

The explanation is that during a stress an organism burns vitamins of group B which participate in ferment forming and this ferment in its turn regulates metabolism. The loss of these vitamins adversely affects the state of hair, skin and nails. That's why if you notice that something is wrong with your hair, then include in your ration products containing vitamins of group B. If you have recently overcome stress situation, then do just the same. Whole wheat grains are especially rich in these vitamins. The same can be said about brewer's yeast.

Take vitamins
One more condition of your hair care to be effective is health, nourishing and wholesome food. Hair state as well as skin state greatly depends on what we usually eat. You can have healthy and beautiful hair only if you eat food containing enough of proteins. Staunch vegetarians and people who keep to a diet should take vitamins and different food additions. But even if you take microelements, proteins mustn't be excluded from your ration. As a result of malnutrition your hair can become defective. This defective hair can restore only after three months after you finish your diet.

Grey hair
The hair color depends on the quantity of melanin produced by cells-melanocytes which are situated in a hair follicle. After a number of years these cells decrease their activity and hair becomes grey. Stress, disbalance of nutrition and alcohol strongly affect the activity of these cells and thus provoke early appearance of grey hair. Women are constantly trying to hide their grey hair. But do not be in a hurry to buy fast dyes: if your hair is not completely grey, try a toner. May be you belong to the type of women who become even more beautiful and stylish with age.

Our expert
Jessica Jacobs, an art-director of beauty shops "Mone"

Grey hair are deprived of a pigment. To color grey hair you should choose dyes with high percentage of oxidizing agent which is responsible for good penetration of dye-stuff into the hair structure. It slightly opens scales of an upper layer and in such a way it carries dye-stuff to the centre of a hairline (to the cortex). Often if percentage of grey hair is high it becomes difficult to dye it because it is necessary to stick to a technology – it can be done better in a salon. At home you can use dyes with high percentage of oxidizer but not toners, especially if you've got 40-50% of grey hair. To dye grey hair in dark color is not worthwhile. Fair colors look even better on grey hair. Dyed in fair colors grey hair creates the effect of sun glare and growing roots won't be evident.

So, change your color on more fair and become blonde.