How to Take Care of Your Hair in Winter Don’t let winter send your hair into hibernation. You can keep it alive and vibrant more easily than you think. The changes in tem­perature, humidity and the environment that occur in winter take their toll on you and your hair. Every time you step from a dry and heated home, office, store, cinema or theater into the cold air and out of doors,... 

How to Perm Your Hair Fashions come and go, and the ‘fashion’ of hair perming is not as popular now as it once was. The main reason, it seems, is that the curly look, most fashionable perhaps in the late 1970s, is at present considered passe. This is not to say that it won’t eventually return. Another reason is hair styling products. It is only during the past ten to fifteen... 

Hair Loss Treatment Options for Men Topical Anti-androgens Taking an anti-androgen – that is, a drug that reduces or blocks testosterone and therefore di-hydro-testosterone or 5-alpha-reduc­tase – can certainly be beneficial to your hair. The amount needed to have an effect, though, can cause side effects: tender breasts, loss of libido and lower sperm counts. And sometimes even... 

Hair Loss in Men - What Happens Behind Androgens restrict the growth cycle of hair. By not allowing the hair to reach its optimum growth, which is approximately three and a half years and 21 inches long, it stops at, say, three years, then two and a half years, two years and so on. A shorter growth phase results in the hair being shed sooner – hair doesn’t remain in the scalp unless... 

Hair Loss in Men - The Connection between Scalp Hair and Body Hair You may already be aware of it, but if not, look at the men on the beach or at a pool. The men with obviously thinning hair, and certainly those that are bald, have more hair on their body, particularly the chest and back, than the men with full heads of hair. An anomaly, you may think. It’s not. Body hair and beard hair... 

External Hair Loss Treatment for Men Minoxidil, also known as Regaine (Rogaine) was initially marketed as an orally taken drug for hypertension. It was noticed that one of its side effects was randomly spaced hair growth on the face and body and sometimes on the scalp. This effect arises from the drug’s tendency to dilate the blood capillaries. On the basis of this, a 2 per cent solution... 

Diagnosing Hair Problems with Blood Tests The amount of information these can give is often crucial in the treatment of falling, thinning hair. My consultants, as well as myself, have a number of ‘blood profiles’ that we recommend in relevant cases. The tests are administered by a doctor who sends the blood drawn to a laboratory for analysis according to the profile we rec­ommend.... 

Malnutrition, debilitating diseases, certain medications or a severe hormone imbalance can affect hair growth, the reasons for hair grows non-faster. Hence, cutting of hair frequently is not the solution, but it seems unlikely that you could have such difficulties without knowing about them.  The problem is far more likely to be rooted in your genes, for that is where the hair growing cycle... 

Anthropologists have made many attempts to devise a satisfactory division of the world’s population into racial groups, using characteristics such as skin color and type of hair to separate the different units One difficulty is that characteristics overlap: every group will have some people who do not conform. Some racial groups are groups are hairier that others. Africans have more hair... 

hair cut Almost your entire body is covered with hair, though much of it is so fine that it is barely visible. The hair grows from some five million follicles, of which about 100,000 are in the scalp. By the time each hair emerges from within a follicle, it is already dead and no amount of massage, hair tonic or wonder cure can revive it. Scalp hair grows on average about 12 to 15 cm (5...