Our hair is one of the most important and noticeable parts of our personality. We can use dye on it, style it, shave it off or cover it with a hat. In order to provide an opportunity for self-expression, hair scalp really does have positive effects. Hair is a specialized type of skin. The hair on scalp provides protection and maintains homeostasis. Hair also helps to filter out debris and contamination, like nasal hair, and protects from sun and wind such as eyelashes.

Hair Grooming

Your hair reflects your overall grooming. The sebum, that keep your skin moist also accumulate on your scalp hair. If your sebaceous glands produce large quantity of oil, it can give your hair oily or stringy look, so you may need to wash your hair daily. But if your body does not produce much sebum and your have fine and thin hair, less shampooing is better for your hair and scalp.

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The structure of hair is similar like the scales on the skin of a fish, that has overlapping scales around a central core called the cortical. Smooth overlapping produce shiny hair and smooth the hair looks. This also provides easy combing while a tangled or rough structure makes the hair look dull.

Nutrition and lifestyle are two key factors that sway the health of the hair. Poor diet, illness, vitamin and mineral deficiencies affects the strength of hair and conditions like dandruff, thinning hair, balding, premature graying etc. spoil the hair.

For an individual the hair condition completely constitute the reflection of him. If the person is not healthy then the hair would be in worst state.

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