Hair growth rate: the norm, on what depends and how to accelerate?

Many girls dream to have beautiful healthy long curls, creeping along a waterfall along the back, but far from all this dream becomes a reality. Why do some hair grow quickly while others grow slowly, is there any norm?

The cutaneous part of the hair, called the pivot, consists of a medulla, a cortex, and a cuticle. Medulla is a medulla through which nutrients pass. Cortex - the main element of the hair, which occupies 85% of its volume. It includes the natural keratin protein and the natural pigment melanin, which is responsible for color. The cuticle responsible for strength is 10 layers of scales. The part of the hair inside the skin is called the root. It has many components, including the hair bulb (follicle).

During the day, 50-100 hairs fall out of the head when combing and twitching. The older the person, the more this indicator. On average, on the head of a healthy person about 90% of anagen hair. For our lives, hair is renewed about 25 times. But the longer the life cycle of the hair, the longer the strands will grow.

Growth rate is a very individual indicator, therefore, to show how much hair grows in different people, present several comparisons.

• The rate of hair growth per day: for women - 0.5-0.6 mm, for men - 0.04-0.5 mm.
• For women per month, strands grow by 15–20 mm, for men, by 2–15 mm.
• Over the year, women's hair grow by 10-20 centimeters. This is the maximum length laid down by physiological processes. No advertisement of magic bulletins can overcome this norm.
• Passing the entire cycle in men is twice as fast as in women.
• Hair grows most actively between the ages of 15 and 30 years.
• In the Negroid race, hair grows by 0.27 mm per month due to the fact that they curl into curls; for Mongoloids - by 1.5-2 cm; Caucasians - by 1.2-1.5 cm.
• During the day, the follicles are in the active phase, at night - at rest.

And a few more facts about the speed of hair growth.

• In winter, curls grow more slowly than in summer, as blood circulation in the winter months slows down.
• In a warm climate, their growth rate is higher than in a cold one. In a humid climate, hair grows much faster.
• With proper nutrition improves overall condition and hair growth.
• If in the family of older generations hair grows quickly, then it is likely that heredity will play a positive role in this matter.
• The myth that the more often you cut your hair, the faster your hair grows, remains a myth. After shearing, the growth rate does not change, as the ends are clipped, and the growth comes from the root.
• Good cosmetics, including homemade, improve the structure of hair and accelerate its growth.

Women are most susceptible to hormonal changes, which adversely affects many life processes. That is why during pregnancy, hormone therapy, endocrine and menopausal changes hair growth can slow down. Any diseases also have a negative effect: the body fights the disease, slowing down all other functions.

Specific skin diseases of the head (seborrhea, ringworm, psoriasis, microsporia, eczema, folliculitis) do not just inhibit hair growth, but can generally lead to baldness. In such cases, you need to think not about the growth rate, but about how to save hair, and run to a dermatologist and a trichologist.

For women, it is very important to get the vitamins of group B. This also applies to other vitamins and microelements. Reducing the level of iron in the body makes the curls dry, thinning them, they lose their color and fall out abundantly. Because of the disturbed blood circulation of the vessels of the head, the bulbs weaken and move much faster into the second and third phases of life.

Harmful habits and poor ecology (gas pollution, heavy metals, radiation) weaken the body's immune system. It is often enough to start treating not the scalp and hair, but the body as a whole.

Stress sucks all the forces out of the body, forcing it to work in an unusual mode. At such a moment, the work of many organs deteriorates, the condition of the skin and hair also becomes much worse. Night or rolling work schedule, an unusual image and lifestyle makes the body to be in a state of constant alertness. All these causes significantly change the anatomy of the hair, slowing its growth.

• Use a comb should be as often as possible. Everything is good in moderation: combing massages the head and distributes lipids from the roots to the tips; but frequent combing tears up hairs.
• Using shampoo "for every day", you can wash your head often. This is not so: daily use of shampoo disrupts the PH balance of the scalp and hair.
• Chlorinated pool water gives the hair a greenish tint. Yes, but it is noticeable on the hair of blondes. To avoid this, it is recommended to apply the conditioner to the entire length of the hair before bathing or to choose a swimming spot with ionized water.
• Thanks to folk remedies you can grow hair faster. To assert this, it is necessary to identify the cause of slow growth: if there is a disease of the scalp, then using folk remedies it is possible to make progress instead of treatment.
• Cold water is good for hair. Specify: cool water. After washing their hair should be rinsed with cool water, from this they look and grow better.
• Standing on the head promotes hair growth. Yes, it is, because at this moment the blood flow to the skin and hair follicles increases. But this does not necessarily stand on his head. It is enough to tilt it and make a massage.
• If you shave baldly, hair growth will increase and they will be better. This is not true. It is just that every hair is clearly visible on the shaved head, so it seems that there are a lot of them.
• If you cut your hair in the growing moon phase, it will grow faster. The growth rate does not depend on the phase of the moon. Growth is also not affected by tides, ebbs and other natural processes.

Trying to accelerate hair growth, you can and should act in several directions at once.

• Change the power mode. In the diet must be present:
  1. animal protein from chicken, turkey, beef, veal, rabbit;
  2. Sources of iron, phosphorus, calcium: fish, seafood, dairy products (cottage cheese, kefir, cheese, bio-yoghurt);
  3. trace elements supplied by bran and cereals;
  4. acid that comes in with sour vegetables and fruits - it breaks down protein and helps create keratin at the base of the hair.

• Need to consume a lot of water. Best of all - regular drinking. Worst of all - sweet soda. The fluid prolongs the youth of the skin, fills the bulbs with the necessary moisture.

• In order to quickly fill the missing vitamins and minerals, You can drink the pharmacy course of multivitamin complexes every six months.
  1. Minoxidil, Revalid, Pantovigar, Perfectil - all of them are designed to improve the structure of the hair, stimulating their growth. But these drugs have side effects and are not suitable for everyone. Before use it is necessary to consult with a specialist.
  2. Vitamins of group B, A (retinol), C (ascorbic acid), E (tocopherol) stimulate hair growth. But taking vitamin complexes, you need to be careful of women with cancer. Many doctors warn that vitamins in their pure form provoke the growth of cells, including patients. Although vitamins struggle with dry and brittle hair, split ends are treated.
  3. Supplements You can search for complex courses or change courses every 3-4 months: selenium, zinc, calcium, chromium, magnesium, beta-carotene and other elements are needed for hair.

• Use physiotherapy (darsonvalization) and mesotherapy. If the Darsonval apparatus is, perhaps, in every physiotherapy room, and the procedure is painless and cheap, then mesotherapy is another matter. At the moment, it is considered the most effective procedure for hair growth and treatment.

• Do regular head massage. It contributes to:
  • penetration of nutrients deep under the skin;
  • skin toning;
  • increased blood flow;
  • stimulation of the hair follicles;
  • improving the sebaceous glands and protecting them from the appearance of fungi and infections;
  • improvement of psycho-emotional state.

• Choose cosmetic products for the head with less silicone. Preparations with silicone can actually lengthen hair for 1 year. But you can not use them forever, they clog the pores on the scalp. As a result, the nutrients in the bulb cease to flow and it dies much faster.
• Minimize the use of pleyok, irons, hair dryers, corrugation. If it is impossible to completely abandon these devices, then before working with them it is necessary to apply thermal protection to the hair.
• Refrain from dyeing hair. If, for example, you do not dye your hair for 5 months, they will grow an additional 2.5 cm.
• Use the means to fix the hair to a minimum. Hairpins, rubber bands, headbands injure them.
• Take care of your own mental health. Calm, abstraction in conflict situations will have a beneficial effect not only on the hair.
• Protection of hair from external exposure: ultraviolet rays, bad ecology.
• Even during accelerated hair regrowth At least once every six months, you must trim the ends of your hair.to cut split, damaged hair.

Since there are so many of them, it is possible to alternate them in order to avoid addiction and weakening of the effect. Here are some more recommendations.

• Do not overdo the mask or violate the dosage - this can lead to overdrying and irritation.
• The purpose of many masks (especially with pepper) is to activate the blood supply and, thereby, make the bulb work harder. Therefore, heating components are used, which are often allergens. Therefore, it is important to make an allergic test and apply the mixture to the bend of the elbow. If after 30 minutes of discomfort did not appear, then you can use the composition.
• The main rule is regularity: a mask is made a couple of times a week for 1-2 months, and then a break for a month.

• Salt. Not suitable for those who have very dry skin. After shampooing with fine salt, massage the scalp. As a result of such a peeling, keratinous skin will exfoliate and allow new hairs to grow. You can perform the procedure no more than 1 time per week.

• Cognac. After washing and drying with a towel on the head 2 tsp. cognac room temperature rubbed into the roots for 2 minutes. Using a larger amount of the ingredient, it is good to apply it over the entire length, especially on dry tips. After 30 minutes, the hair is rinsed. The mask is suitable for regular care.

• With pepper. Fill the jar with a glass of vodka, add 1 pod crushed red pepper. When closed, leave for 2 weeks in a cool place. 1 tbsp. l Tincture mix with the same amount of olive oil and apply on hair roots for 15 minutes. Wash off the mixture with shampoo. Pepper masks are very strong, and therefore are considered the best.

• With pepper tincture. Mix pepper tincture, honey, burdock or olive oil (1 tbsp) and 1 yolk until the mixture is homogeneous. Spread it the entire length from the roots. Cover with plastic and a towel. An hour later, wash it off.

• Cinnamon. 3 st. spoons of olive oil and kefir, 1 tsp. cinnamon powder and honey, mix 1 egg thoroughly. Mass is distributed over the entire length of the hair. Keep it under polyethylene for a quarter of an hour, then rinse with shampoo.

• Onion. Two onions, crushed on a grater, squeeze out excess juice and mixed with 1 tbsp. l honey Gruel for 40 minutes is applied to the entire length of the hair, wrapped under the cap. Wash off with water.

• With aloe juice. 50 g of cognac is heated in a water bath to a warm state. Add there for 1 tsp. honey and aloe juice, mix. Massaging, rubbing the mixture into the scalp and incubated for 20 minutes. Soon the growth rate reaches 2 cm per month when applying a mask 2 times a week.

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• Mustard. 1 tbsp. l Mustard powder is soaked in 100 ml of kefir for 15 minutes, after which the mixture is applied only to the roots, not spreading it through the hair. Head wrapped. Light burning is the norm for a mustard mask. After 15 minutes, rinse the mixture without shampoo. Mask make every 6 days.

• With burdock oil. From burdock oil, onion juice, honey and liquid soap in equal parts knead the mask and apply it over the entire length of the hair. Having wrapped up the head, maintain 2 hours. Wash off with water, which is added lemon juice to get rid of onion smell.

• Kefir. 4 tbsp. l dry yeast is stirred in 0.5 cups of kefir and put in a warm place for fermentation for an hour. Add 1 tbsp. l honey and put a mask on your head for 30 minutes. Wash off the mixture with shampoo. The first 10 days make a mask every day, then - every 7 days.

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