The lion's share of requests for hair ever heard and seen from different women is to "increase its density.
In response to this request, an impressive number of different tips can be obtained from any Internet search engine, from onion masks to hair transplants, which only one thing unites - they DO NOT WORK.
What does carrot have to do with it?
Suppose you planted 100 carrots. Some of the seeds have risen normally, some of them have chewed the worm. As a result, 60 carrots grow on the bed. Some of them were blown up by a mole, and they "died". The remaining 40 carrots can be watered, fed with vitamins and fertilizers, cut, sprayed, etc., but they will not increase in quantity.
If a rabbit eats a canopy of some carrots, the carrot will not "die" and the canopy will grow again.
Everything is the same with the hair. The hair grows out of the follicle (conditionally speaking, "seed").
There are a certain number of follicles on the head from which the hair should grow.
But in reality, only a part of the follicles (upward seeds) produces hair, while some of them are "reserve" and "sleeping", and there is still no way to "awaken" them in the world. "The "worm-beaten" follicles will remain asleep for the rest of their lives and you will not see a single hair from them.
The number of active follicles on the head is determined genetically and increase this number is impossible.
Under the influence of intrafollicular dihydrotestosterone - this is the main "pest" for hair, in fact, the only reason causing the death of the follicle - part of the follicles over time will stop growing hair.
If you don't have androgenetic alopecia (genetically related to chronic hair loss), this number will be between 10-15% of the total hair mass, and more if there is an AHA.
Under the influence of a factor (hare), you may lose some of your hair as a result of increased loss (for example, under the influence of severe stress), but the follicle (seed) cannot damage this factor and your hair will grow out of the same follicles again.
However, increasing the density, i.e. the number of hairs (follicles) on your head, is unfeasible. NOTHING. NEVER.
Those of you whose brains are not able to reconcile with this idea may close the article and search for a "philosopher's stone". If you find one, please write to me, because I'm not against increasing the thickness of hair, despite the lack of such a possibility in the world.
If you are upset by this thought, but not stuporous, let's take a critical look at each of the "ways", which allegedly can increase the density of hair.
Group 1 "ways" - "folk" recipes.
I open the first link on the Internet to the request for hair density and read:
"The mask stimulates the growth of new, healthy hair, effectively infiltrates the baldness. To prepare it, take half a glass of kefir, add 1 egg and 1 teaspoon of cocoa powder. Excellent, I must say, breakfast.
The second reference: "An ancient Siberian recipe. Siberian herbalists claim that the application of this procedure makes the hair thicker by half or two times.
A handful of peeled pine nuts (raw, of course) are ground in the mortar. Little by little add water to make a thick porridge. Then put the mixture in a ceramic pot and put in a heated up to 150 degrees oven for 30 minutes. The cedar milk is then rubbed into the hair and scalp every day for 2 weeks.
In the mortar, then, grind. And there is no need to fly to the Bald Mountain?
What a fascinating shamanism! We stir, push, cook, rub. And we should, and baldness overgrowth and the number of hair increases 2 times!
It is strange, but for many years of researches on a theme of hair, I NEVER saw one real review from the person to whom the similar recipe - to get rid of a bald spot, or to increase the quantity of hair in 2 times. On the other hand, there are plenty of such tips and advice.
I'm very interested in whose sick imagination first came up with the idea of using foodstuffs in such a way? Has a person forgotten what to do with food (or where the mouth is) due to severe brain damage and tried to rub it in the head?
Nuts, kefir, eggs, mayonnaise... What's next? Salted cucumbers, goose in apples, pumpkin casserole, apple pie?
What is this - the desire to go back to nature? Well, then let's wash ourselves with yolks or bread, cucumber or sour cream instead of face cream. What is it that one hair is so "lucky"?
To be continued