Page 15 - What You Need To Know About Natural Hair Care

Vitamin C is important for your immune system and healthy nervous system

function, it helps to reduce stress and to protect your body from illness and helps to

relieve inflammation in your joints!! Vitamin C helps in the production of collagen,

that helps to strengthen the capillaries that supply the hair shafts. Foods to get this

vitamin are blackberries, blueberries, broccoli, kiwi, guava, oranges, papaya,

strawberries and sweet potatoes.

Omega 3

The greatest fatty acids and fats that our body needs and cannot produce on their

own. This is great in helping cells that line our scalp and provides the oils that keep

our hair and scalp hydrated!! Foods to help our body to produce fats are oily fish

like salmon, herring, sardines, mackerel, trout, plant sources, avocado, pumpkin

seeds and walnuts.

Zinc & Selenium

Zinc is important in helping to protecting our scalp, if we do not have enough of

zinc, we will experience hair loss, dry scalp and flaky scalp. Fortified cereals, whole

grain, oysters, beef and eggs are where we can get this wonderful vitamin.

Vitamin A

This vitamin A helps our body to create sebum, and sebum is created by our hairs,

this provides a natural conditioner for a nice and healthy scalp. If we have the

insufficient amount of vitamin A, you will experience an itchy scalp and dry hair.

Foods to get this beaut are from orange/ yellow coloured vegetables, carrots,

pumpkins, sweet potatoes and animal products.

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