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Coconut Milk

Coconut milk is lush, lustrous, and healthfully oily. Adding coconut milk to a hair care product can help your hair stay flexible and supple after you shampoo, rinse, and dry. And because natural coconut milk is the world's best source of lauric acid, these products can also protect your scalp against the overgrowth of the tiny Malassezia furfur fungus that can grow around hair follicles and cause skin to flake off in ugly pieces of white, gray, or even yellow dandruff. You don't have to take a hammer to a coconut to get the milk you use on your hair. Just check the ingredients list on the products you already buy.

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Aloe Vera

Ever have those days you could just pull your hair out? Or did tangled hair get caught in your comb and come out in clumps? First of all, use hair care products that minimize tangles, and never tug and tease on dry, tangled hair. But if you do, and you want to apply some hair care first aid, dab a bit of aloe vera on your scalp--you don't need to apply it in gobs--just a fine coating before you go to bed at night. Aloe vera won't repair your hair but it can repair the skin arround your follicles so the hair you have will stay in place longer.

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Aloe Vera: A Valuable Ingredient for the Food, Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industries—A Review&quot
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Hibiscus

Hibiscus tea is colorful, tangy, and tart. If you drop hibiscus tea on your clothes, you need to rinse the stain immediately before it sets. And hibiscus tea also makes an interesting stain on the scalp when used as a rinse. Soothing hibiscus tea--applied lukewarm or cold, never hot--"tans" the scalp. There will be less oozing, itching, and flaking of skin at least until the next time you shampoo. And because the tannins in hibiscus tea cross-link proteins on the very top layer of the skin of the scalp, they help hold hairs in place, keeping them in your scalp longer and stronger. The effect isn't tremendous, but every little bit can help--and you will see a different tint in your hair.

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Henna

Henna has been used as a hair dye for 6,000 years. Although people in India and in the Islamic world are familiar with henna as deeply rooted aspect of culture, most Americans only became aware of henna through the classic 1950's television program I Love Lucy. The star of the show, Lucille Balle, kept a trunk of henna on hand at all times to use to keep her hair its characteristic red. Depending on your skin tones and hair color, dying with henna may bring out colors that take the attention off how thin you hair has become and on to its highlights. Ask a hairdresser for advice on this one. And if the answer is that you should try it, try just a tiny dab of the product first. Some people are allergic to it.

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Canola Oil

Canola oil is extracted from the tiny seeds of a wild mustard plant. While there is some debate about just how healthy canola oil is for frying foods, there is strong evidence that canola oil is fine if applied on you rather than in you. The erucic acid in canola oil interferes with biological reactions in the skin that can cause an accumulation of fat. In the skin, accumulating fat isn't a bad thing. It keeps the scalp just a little more flexible, just a little less prone to irritation and allergy, and reduces stress on the hair follicle. And if you are taking care of every last hair you have, that's a good thing.

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Green Tea

Lukewarm (never, ever hot and certainly not steaming) green tea, the kind of green tea you would make to drink, is a surprisingly effective tonic for hair. The antioxidant catechins in green tea can "tone down" the immune system, and if you have any of the autoimmune conditions of sudden hair loss called autoimmune alopecia, adding green tea to your rinse can be on more part of your remaining-hair care program. You don't have to brew up pots of tea and pour them over your head. It's fine just to look for green tea, green tea catechins, green antioxidants, or EGCG on the ingredients list. Drinking green tea doesn't hurt, but probably won't help as much.

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Amla

The Ayurvedic herb amla, also known as the Indian gooseberry and by its botanical name Phyllantus emblica, is a fruit that is used as a food and as a traditional medicine. Sour and astringent, light and drying, amla is extremely popular in various natural healthcare products, but it is more appropriately used in a mixture of herbs than by itself. Eating amla fruit as the Indian dessert amla ka murrabah, made by soaking the berries in sugar water, is tasty, but won't do a lot for your hair. But try the Ayurvedic herbal formula chyawanprash and see if the additional depth of color and natural brightness in your complexion doesn't complement your hair.

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Saw Palmetto

Unlike the other herbs we have discussed to this point, saw palmetto is a product taken as a supplement rather than applied to the scalp. And it's primarily a product for androgenetic alopecia, that is, hair loss driven by excessive levels of testosterone, the male sex hormone. Testosterone levels drive hair loss in men, of course, but they also are a problem in women who have polycystic ovarian syndrome, also known as PCOS. Don't overdose. Take the manufacturer's recommended dose and no more. Women who have PCOS-related hair loss will also benefit by reducing overall calorie consumption and especially consumption of sugar. Results for either men or women usually take about six months.

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Dulse

It's a scenario that happens over and over again. First you start feeling sluggish and cold. You lose your get up and go. Then you start gaining weight without overeating. Then your hair gets dry and starts falling out. If you have clearly abnormal thyroid hormone levels, you may get a diagnosis of hypothyroidism and a prescription for thryoid hormone replacement. More often than not, however, thyroid hormone levels are not clearly high or low. In those cases, your best bet is to make sure you get enough iodine, selenium, and copper in your diet, and a great way to do that is with dulse. You don't even have to eat it every day, 2 or 3 times a week is enough. Do what your doctor says, but eat dulse to get natural sea minerals.

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Flaxseeds

Flaxseeds--which always have to be eaten in a ground form, because your digestive tract can't break down the whole seeds--ground flaxseed and flaxseed oil are great sources of alpha-linolenic and linoleic acids, which the body turns into the hormones that regulate inflammation. Less inflammation in the scalp can mean more hair, as hair stays in place longer when there is a lower level of inflammation. Flaxseed oil can be what the body needs to make more of the hormones that reduce inflammation, but only if it is used in the context of a low-fat diet. And because the process of making inflammation-lowering hormones requires the presence of estrogen, flaxseed oil is more helpful for women than for men.

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