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  • How to grow your hairline or edges back and causes of thining hairline.

    How to grow your hairline or edges back and causes of thining hairline.

    Receding Hairline

    Are you suffering from thinning hairline? Does your hair edges appears annoying? Do you have an hard time growing back your hairline? Read on!!!

    Thinning hairline otherwise known as traction alopecia is a a type of hair loss that occurs at the edges of the hair. Thinning hairline occurs in both men and women and can greatly affect your look.

    Causes of Thinning Hairline

    • Too tight hairstyles: Installing tight hairstyles such as Ghana braids, or weave, braids ,twists, pigtails and pony tails can cost you your edges and doing these styles repeatedly too.
    • Tiny hairstyles: Tiny braids, small cornrows or weaves can also pull on your edges.

    • Chemicals: Applying chemicals on your hair can weaken it leading to breakage of the baby hair. Also, applying relaxers on your edges for a prolonged time can burn it leading to hairline loss.
    • Using brushes and gel on your edges: Applying drying alcohol gels on your edges and brushing down to achieve a slick look are also the usual culprits.
    • Heat: Using heat all the time on your hair can also break your hairline.

    •  Headgears: Knotting your scarf and head gear too tight for a prolonged time and using headgears made of  cotton or wool can also thin out your hairline. You can opt for a silk or satin headgears instead.
    • Hairbands: Using rubber bands, hairbands adorned with beads or steel can break your edges.

    • Certain health condition: Some postpartum women also experience hair loss and also those with thyroid problems.
    • Night caps with cotton edges: Wearing night caps with cotton edges can also lead to a receding hairline overtime.
    • Wigs, sew in weaves and glues: Wearing wigs and sew in weaves especially those with bangs too often can break your edge and also using glues to secure your wig and sew ins.

    • Over touching: Touching your edges too much can also break it.
    • Scalp infection: Infection such as dandruff can be responsible for hair loss.
    • Bad diet: Not eating healthy can also play a major role in hair loss.
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    Growing your edges back

    • Eat healthy: When you take in an healthy meal and avoid junk food, this will help all your systems to function better and keep your hair loss at bay.
    • Avoid tight and tiny hairstyles: Give your hairline a break from tight and tiny hairstyles that snap hair off and watch your edges grow back. Also don’t keep an hairstyle for too long.
    • Stay away from chemicals and heat: You should try to stay away from chemicals and heat until you get your edges back and when you finally do, use heat and chemicals sparingly.
    • Massaging: This increase blood flow around the edges promoting hair growth.
    • Vitamin E: It helps repair damaged follicles and also increase blood circulation to the scalp thereby promoting hair growth.

    • Castor oil: Castor oil is effective in promoting hair growth and fighting infection. Just pour a little amount on your palms and apply evenly on your edges everyday and watch your hairline grow back in about 2 months
    • Coconut oil: This also also promotes hair growth and penetrate deeply into the hair follicles. Apply on your edges daily for awesome result.
    • Aloe vera gel: This gives a soothing relief to the scalp, combat scalp infection and improve hair growth
    • Oil mix: Making a mix of coconut oil, castor oil, olive oil, vitamin E, essential oil such as rosemary and peppermint oil and applying on your scalp everyday will boost hair growth.

    • Onion Juice: Onion can improve hair growth and also restore thin edges. Blend an onion, massage the juice on your hairline and wash off after 30 minutes. Doing this biweekly for about 3 months will grow your edges.
    • Ginger juice: Ginger also aids hair growth. Apply ginger juice on your edges, leave for about 30 minutes and rinse off.

    Got any more tips on growing edges back? Have any natural tips you would like to know about? Drop your questions and comments in the comment box. Thanks for reading.

     

  • Cucumbers: What are the benefits?

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    Have you ever given a closer thought to how beneficial cucumber is? Cucumbers can be easily found around but do you know it has tons of benefits?
    Cucumber belongs to the family name Curcibitaceae. It is made up of 95% water, low in calories and high in fiber and potassium. It contains lots of vitamins such as Thiamine (Vitamin B1), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Nicatin (Vitamin B3), Vitamin B6.

    Cucumber is very beneficial for your health, skin and hair.The benefits are explained below.

    Health benefits of Cucumber.

    • Hydration: Due to cucumber’s high water content (95%), it helps in hydrating the body system and can be used as an alternative when you don’t feel like taking water.
    • Weight loss: It helps with weight loss owing to it low calories and high water content.
    • Bone Health: It is rich in silica which helps promote bone health.
    • Fresh Breath: When you place a slice of cucumber on the roof of your mouth, it fights bacteria responsible for bad breath.
    • Controls Blood Pressure: Cucumber contains high potassium and low sodium which helps in regulating blood pressure level.
    • Aids Digestion: It contains high fiber which aids digestion and prevent constipation and also acts a natural laxative.
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    • Helps the heart to function well: Lignans are the active and beneficial ingredients in cucumbers according to research findings. They help in reducing risk of heart diseases.
    • Detoxification: It flushes toxins out of the body system because of it high water content.
    • Helps with Diabetes: Cucumber contains an hormone needed by beta cells for insulin production.
    • Fights cancer: Lignans in cucumber also reduce the risk of cancer.
    • Antiinflammatory:Cucumber flesh contains Vitamin C that helps soothe skin rashes, irritation and reduce swelling.

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    Beauty Benefits of Cucumber.

    • It soothes puffy eyes and get rid of dark circles
    • It removes sunburn: Applying  slice of cucumber to sunburn areas helps whiten it.
    • Hair growth: It contains silicon and sulfur that stimulate hair growth.
    • Hair strengthening: It also strengthens the hair thereby preventing breakage, this can be done by making a cucumber deep conditioning treatment.
    • Slows down aging: Applying cucumber face mask or slices all over the face prevents and reduce freckles and wrinkles.
    • It is a good skin toner: Cucumber tones the skin overtime thereby revealing glowing skin.
    • It also helps with acne and treats open pores.
    • Facial Cleanser: It can help remove dirts and makeup from the skin. Just make a cucumber juice by blending it in a blender, dab a cotton wool inside and apply all over your face.
    • Facial Mask: You can use cucumber as a facial mask by making a cucumber paste and mixing with either honey, lemon juice or avocado.Apply the mixture all over your face and wash off after 30 mins.It rejuvenates the skin.

    Thanks for reading, do you know of any other benefits of cucumber? Please share in the comment section.

  • Doing it natural

    stockvault-close-up-purple-flowers233162Hi guys, hope your day is going well? I noticed that some people don’t have enough knowledge on natural alternatives to do things so i created this blog to share my knowledge. Some of the chemicals found in our skin, hair and food do a lot of harm than good, some causes cancer and penetrate into our body system causing a lot of diseases.

    I will be writing on natural ways to do things including hair and skin care, weight loss, harmful effects of certain cosmetic chemicals on your skin, hair and health and the natural alternatives available and my experience on many things.