Taking Care of Aging Hair

As you add decades to your life, your hair does a number of strange things.  Fluctuating hormones, the environment, and normal aging can cause your hair to become dryer and grayer.  It can even change texture, becoming finer or more coarse.  Here are a few tips that can help you retain shiny, bouncy, youthful-looking hair:

• Protection from the sun.  Just like other parts of your body, your hair needs to be protected from the harmful UV rays of the sun.  Use a product that is infused with sunscreen like John Masters Organics Natural Mineral Sunscreen for hair.

• Vitamin therapy.  Yes, the vitamins you take affect your hair and skin and you definitely should take a multivitamin every day.  But topical application of vitamins is important to hair, as well.  Choose hair cleansers that are rich in vitamins A, B, C, and E.  And your shampoo should not contain sulfate which strips hair of natural oil.  Try Burt's Bees Super Shiny Mango Shampoo.

• Caffeine for thinning hair.  It's normal to lose up to about 100 strands of hair a day.  But as people age, they begin to see more hair loss.  The solution?  Topical applications of caffeine have been shown to reduce hair loss and help hair grow back quicker.  Why not give Alpecin Caffeine Shampoo a try?