It has not been proven that any product applied externally to the hair or scalp can promote, advice physician stimulate, cure or accelerate natural hair growth.  Most people who complain of little or no hair growth are blaming it on the wrong reason.  They think the problem is lack of natural growth form the scalp, when in reality; the problem is the hair is breaking off from the ends for a variety of reasons.  If hair growth stops, then baldness begins, and yet you have people complaining their hair has not grown at all over a period of years.  If the person has hair, then it is growing.  Once hair stops growing, it is eliminated by way of attrition.  In other words, as every hair shaft dies out due to the normal life span of the hair shaft (5 to 7 years), then it will not be replaced by another.  Therefore, permanent baldness becomes apparent.

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The truth of the matter is hair grows at the same exact rate as the fingernails.  And just as your fingernail breaks due to normal day-to-day activity and maintains only a certain length the hair shaft does the same thing due to misuse of combing, brushing, perms, tints, relaxers, pressing and hot curling.  They come off a little at a time at the same rate or more from the ends as the hair grows from the scalp.  Therefore, natural hair growth goes unnoticed.  Manufactures who identify their products with the word “GRO” are using a non existing word, thus sending you subliminal massage as to its ability to grow hair, however, in all fairness, these products will not harm the hair and may have some benefits but hair growth is not one of them.

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The only way that a product can benefit, and stimulate hair growth is if it is consumed orally and gotten into the blood stream as a vitamin.  Certain vitamins that can benefit healthy hair are available and so labeled.  The root of the hair (papilla) dips into the blood stream and picks up the nutrients and supplies them through the cortex and medulla to enhance healthy hair.  Hair health is promoted from within the hair shaft.  Products that are applied to the outer surface of the hair are for the most part to enhance the appearance of the hair and to repair the outer surface (cuticle) if it contains Keratin, Amino Acid or Poly PepTide Proteins.

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There is no product you can purchase that has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration that can cause, promote, or accelerate natural hair growth.  So, rather than buy products that claim to grow hair, invest your money in products that will reconstruct and maintain the existing hair.  Then and only then, will natural hair growth become noticeable and apparent.  However, it is important to remember that any treatment designed to promote longer hair must start with a hair cut, because you must first eliminate the split, damaged and frizzy ends, otherwise they will continue to split down the entire hair shaft, then break off somewhere along the way.  Most people who complain of lack of hair growth will not allow it to be cut because they think that it is not growing.  The truth of the matter is that it does not appear to grow simply because they will not allow it to be cut.  Surprisingly, if you submit to the first initial cut, then continue to clip the ends every 4-6 weeks, you will notice considerably longer hair in a very short period of time.

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DOES THE CURLY PERM, RELAXERS AND HAIR COLORING

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HELP THE HAIR TO GROW?

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No!  However, many curly perm customers do claim that the curl did help grow their hair.  The reason for this is because the restructuring portion of he procedure relaxed out most of the kink in the hair; and when a person combed or brushed their hair prior to a curl, the comb or brush pulled hair off the ends as they attempted to comb through, or free the comb from the kinky hair when it became entangled.  Therefore, much of the hair growth was lost from the ends and not from a slower rate of growth from the scalp.  As a result, the customer assumes the curl procedure accelerated the rate of growth.  In reality, the cold wave procedure eliminates most of the kink, which was the reason for the breakage; thus, the assumption of slow, or no hair growth.

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However, the main reason for the belief that the curly perm grows hair is because of the necessary HAIR CUT associated with the permanent curl.  Just about all hair that has not been cut recently has split ends.  Split ends will not curl, so they must be eliminated by cutting.  Since most curl procedures either start or end with a hair cut, this is the primary reason for healthy noticeable hair growth after a permanent curl.

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Another reason that people believe that curly perms, relaxers, and hair colors help to grow the hair is that with such services there is a very clear and defined line of demarcation when the new growth appears.  They can now actually see the new natural growth as distinguished from the treated hair.  However if they measure the length of the hair, they will discover that the hair is the same length or shorter then before.  Chemical services such as those mentioned above actually weaken hair, not make it stronger, so hair growth is not one of their advantages.  If they did aid in promoting and stimulating hair growth, then the manufactures would proudly say so in they’re advertising.

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CAN SPLIT ENDS BE PERMANENTLY SEALED

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The leading cause of complaints about lack of hair growth is split ends.  When the ends of a hair shaft are split, that hair shaft is dead from the ends down to where the split stops.  When the hair shaft splits, the Medulla structure and the life giving bonds or cells dry out, leaving an empty shell or Cuticle and some Cortex fiber.  The hair shaft, at that point, is no longer able to absorb nutrients.  A split hair shaft cannot be permanently curled, with permanent cold wave products.  (The split ends will remain straight).  Hair straightening relaxer will dissolve the split ends, and hot curling irons and pressing combs will burn them off, all of which will leave another split end in its wake.  Split ends will not adequately accept permanent or temporary color and its natural color will easily fade in direct sunlight.  Products that claim to seal split ends only temporarily coat them and create a cosmetic cover-up that may appear to seal until the hair is shampooed, combed, or brushed; at that point, the ends come apart and continue to split further down the hair shaft until the split is controlled.

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HOW TO CONTROL SPLIT ENDS AND ACHIEVE NOTICABLE

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HAIR GROWTH

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The only way to control split ends is to cut the hair just below the area where the split stops.  Then and only then, will you start with a healthy hair shaft by which normal, natural hair growth can continue unencumbered.  Once the split ends are eliminated by controlled cutting, and the ends clipped at least once a month, you will begin to notice longer, healthier hair in less than three (3) months.