In
short, no pun intended, you can't.
Putting pregnancy and illness aside, hair pretty much grows at a
maximum
rate of half an inch per month no matter what you do. A little
faster
in the summer than in the winter.
Of all
the hair questions that we
receive at the Hairstyles Catalog, questions regarding the rate of hair
growth
is by far the number one question. Many people write to us with
remedies
that they have heard about that will make their hair grow faster; from
washing their hair with eggs, to cutting their hair during a new
moon.
This is what we call, "Hair Voodoo". There is not an
inch
of truth to any of these remedies.
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Hair is a
fairly exact science called trichology and
there is not much that we do not know about hair structure, chemistry
and
growth. Most of the Hair Voodoo out there dates back before the
onset
of modern science. All sorts of conclusions were drawn from what
seemed like reasonable observation, but was more often than not just
pure
conjecture based on coincidence.
Although
there is nothing that you
can do to make your hair grow faster with current technology, there are
a number of things that may actually slow the process such as; a poor
hair
care regimen, poor diet, illness, medication, male and female pattern
hair
loss, and emotional stress.
Some of these
things don't actually
affect the growth rate per se, but they affect the hairs' health and
unhealthy
hair will probably not grow to its fullest potential. Besides
regular
shampooing and conditioning with good quality products, the only other
thing that you can really do is take an inexpensive daily multi vitamin
such as Centrum or even Flintstones. Don't waste your money on
super
vitamins. Zinc and Biotin in particular seem to be good for hair
and are both found in the above recommendations. Unless you are
pregnant
or very ill with cancer or the like, your body only requires so many
vitamins
per day and simply flushes out the excess. In other words, you
can't
put twenty gallons in a ten gallon tank.
I frequently
hear of people taking
pre natal pills to make their hair grow faster, even men. The
reason
that an expecting mother's hair may grow slower or faster has to do
with
hormonal activity and not the pills. So please, stop doing that.
Well, there
it is. You may
not like the answer, but that is the scientific facts of the
matter.
If you still insist on buying into the Hair Voodoo or the thousands of
snake oil pitch men out there ready to separate you from your money,
well,
you know the expression.
