Growing Your Hair: your first tip to new hair growth

For the past year and a half I have stop perm my hair and decided to leave it in its natural state. As most people may or may not known those store-bought products are full of mineral oils that coat your strand. For many manufactures mineral oils are a staple in the majority of their products that contain synthetic ingredients because it acts as a preservative. For most people the research behind the ingredients of your hair products never happens. I can admit to making that mistake for many years from when i started taking care of my hair. I would go to the hair salon and just go by a product that my stylist recommended. I would go to the beauty shops and just look at the front of the products and except that it tell me it will work. After my hair just stop growing about three years ago I notice something was just not working for me. Mineral oil is the result of the distillation of petroleum which acts as a saran wrap against your scalp, slowing down one of the skin’s main job which is to eliminate toxins. The main oil that about every manufactures love to put in their products, the number one product that was on every one of my hair products at home. On the other hand natural oils are even better and can easily absorbed by the skin. Growing your hair require more than just washing it and styling it. I have looked for months on different products and how they react to my hair. My first product is the jojoba oil for many reasons, number one to me is because it is the closes oil to compare to the one your scalp produces. Taking care of your hair mean to feed it the best products that it needs. These are a few things to known about why jojoba oil should be part of your hair care oils.


Composition of Jojoba Oil
Jojoba oil is actually a liquid wax ester that comprises 50 percent of the weight of the jojoba seed. According to the Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, jojoba oil is an ideal cosmetic ingredient for products designed to moisturizer and protect, due to its chemical composition and stable nature. Natural jojoba oil is an extremely pure triglyceride-free oil, low in, if not entirely free, of gums, carboxylic acids, hydroperoxides, tars, phosphatides, chlorophylls, color bodies and malodorous low molecular weight carbonyl compounds.


Forms of Jojoba Oil

Jojoba oil is a naturally hypoallergenic and non-comedogenic antioxidant with superb moisturizer and clarifying properties. Unrefined jojoba oil is golden-colored with a slight odor. The purity of unrefined jojoba oil has not been compromised in the filtration process. Cosmetic manufacturers often use refined jojoba oil, as it is colorless, odorless, and mixes well with other cosmetic ingredients. The term “cold pressed” indicates that only a small amount of heat was used in the extraction process in order to maintain jojoba oil’s purity. “expelled pressed” requires only a small amount of heat as well, and sustains the integrity of the oil.


How Jojoba Oil Helps

Jojoba is structurally similar to the sebum our skin produces naturally. The Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine explains that if your scalp is dry, jojoba oil acts as a substitute, moisturising the hair follicle and preventing tangles and coarseness. If there is excess sebum, jojoba oil breaks down the buildup, cleaning hair, scalp and hair shaft. Jojoba oil dissolves residue buildup from hair products, as well as environmental pollutants.

 

 

Purchasing Jojoba Oil

If you purchase jojoba oil in its pure form, the brand HobaCare jojoba oil is 100 percent organic, expelled pressed and unrefined. Mountain Rose Herbs offers a cold-pressed unrefined organic jojoba oil, and Dessert Essence sells an organic, odorless, cold-pressed jojoba oil. Crabtree and Evelyn’s Jojoba Oil Shampoo and Conditioner and Rudy’s Natural Emu Oil and Jojoba Oil Shampoo and Conditioner are two hair care lines that feature the moisturizer and astringent properties of jojoba oil. Jojoba oil, especially in its pure, unrefined form, can be expensive, but it has a long shelf life and has an almost unlimited number of uses.