THE FOLLOWING HAIR CARE TIPS offer helpful advice to answer frequently encountered hair care problems for men and women suffering thinning hair, baldness and hair loss. Each year, men and women spend billions of dollars on hair-care products and treatments. Unfortunately, many invest in the wrong products or use them incorrectly. The result can be hair damage. Damaged hair stays damaged until it grows out and is cut off. This can take many months, because your hair grows approximately 1/2 inch each month.

HAIR CARE TIPS FOR Proper Shampoos & Conditioners While this advice is valid for anyone, those suffering hair loss, thinning hair and baldness, should especially choose shampoos and conditioners that is right for their hair type.
Price and exotic ingredients bear little or no relation to efficacy. Most conditioning products that claim to nourish hair do nothing of the sort as the ingredients cannot enter the hair unless they contain transformants (molecules small enough to pass into the cortex).

Shampooing
It is a myth that shampooing increases hair loss. Whether dry or greasy, hair should be washed as often as required to look good, even every day.

Conditioning
Most modern conditioners contain compounds that reduce static and make hair less "fly-away" and more manageable. Those with added polymers, collagen, balsam, silicones or resins that bond with and coat the shaft, may provide a protective film, smooth out the cuticle, reducing snarls and tangles.

Styling
Certain styles and treatments can cause breakage or root damage. Avoid excessively tight braiding, buns, or ponytails. Do not roll your hair too tightly in curlers. Teasing and back combing should be done gently. Too much exposure to sun, wind, or swimming-pool chemicals will dry out your hair and cause it to knot.

Combs and Brushes
Eliminate metal combs, extra fine teeth combs and those with sharp teeth. Use brushes and combs with widely spaced bristles and teeth with smooth tips. Sharp tooth combs can cause various types of damage, cause split ends, and scratch your scalp.

Bleaching
Bleaches chemically alter the melanin granule in the middle layer of each hair strand. Despite careful treatment, persistent bleaching eventually damages even healthy, strong hair, but it does not injure the roots from which future growth takes place.

No Connection with diet
Transition spokespersons have consulted with some of the country's leading dermatologists. They have said, "Diet has very little to do with hair loss!" Case studies of World War II concentration camp victims show that while many were starving... there was little evidence, (if any) of hair loss.

A Scam Called "Analysis"
Various claims are made for the value of analysis of hair samples-- measuring its mineral content -- as a means of assessing nutritional status or detecting nutritional deficiencies, but the process has no validity and can be considered one of the many ongoing scams.