- Shampoo Less- It might sound crazy, but try to cut your shampooing down to three times a week or less. Shampoo actually dries out your hair and causes harmful sulfates to damage your roots. It might be hard at first, but if you supplement complete washes with dry shampoo a few times a week, your hair will be much healthier and healthy hair grows faster.
- Inversion Therapy - For those who want to take a more direct approach to growing out their hair, I would recommend trying inversion therapy. Inversion therapy involves warming up vegetable oil or coconut oil (basically any oil that is good for your hair), flipping your head over, and massaging the warm oil into your scalp for five to 10 minutes a day, then allowing the oil to soak into your hair over the course of a few hours. Do this for one week each month. Some claim that this can cause your hair to grow up to three inches in one week. Do I think that is possible? No, but after doing it for a week, my hair did look noticeably longer.
- Don’t Brush - Pitch your hair brush in favor of a wide tooth comb. Hair brushes tend to rip and pull hair, causing split ends, and split ends make your hair appear shorter, and result in your hair needing to be trimmed for frequently. Help your hair maintain its growth by getting a wide tooth comb which is much gentler on your luscious locks.
- No Heat - Now I know this is a hard one, I personally was the queen of putting heat on my hair. Luckily the days of pin straight hair seem to be on the way out so let your mane run free in its natural state! Heat is very damaging to hair, causing split ends and dry hair, and if you have not gotten my drift in this article so far, damaged hair is a no go. Hair grows best when it’s healthy, so ditch your hot tools and let your freak locks fly! (And if you’re looking for ways to curl your hair, I recommend researching plopping on youtube!)
- Biotin - Now obviously you are going to want to talk to your doctor before trying any new vitamins or supplements, but if you doctor gives you the all clear biotin can help tremendously with keeping your hair healthy and helping it grow. As an added bonus, it helps your nails grow too!
This article has not been reviewed by Odyssey HQ and solely reflects the ideas and opinions of the creator.
