Spending hours in front of the mirror brushing your hair has far more benefits than just styling. Brushing our hair properly is said to be a useful practice for the maintenance and restoration of our hair, and when combined with a scalp massage, the result gets even better.
Benefits of brushing your hair apart from styling
Spending hours in front of the mirror brushing your hair has far more benefits than just styling. Brushing our hair properly is said to be a useful practice for the maintenance and restoration of our hair, and when combined with a scalp massage, the result gets even better.
Our scalp accumulates a lot of debris from the environment along with deposits of uric acid grain like particles. Brushing helps removing all these as well as preventing our scalp from inflammation. It clears other acids and impurities that build up and form a coating on the scalp. Brushing also stimulates the scalp by increasing blood circulation and the flow of oxygen to the hair roots or hair follicles. But how we benefit the most from brushing of hair is that it keeps the pores on scalp open so that it can breathe as well as retain their natural oils.
Hair fall is often related to the sebaceous glands that produce oil naturally. The imbalance in the functioning of these glands results in overproduction or underproduction of sebum. Sebum provides nutrients to the hair so when it is over produced, hair follicles get too much oil and that oil interferes with the nourishment of hair. This weakens the hair and thus results in hair loss. In case of underproduction of sebum, hair follicles are undernourished. This makes hair rough and dry, which finally results in hair falling out.
There have to be certain things to take care of before we start brushing our hair. Before we start combing or brushing, we should check for any tangles first. Because trying to working through the tangles by brush or a comb, we might end up pulling the hair strands from their roots that eventually will result in those strands of hair falling out. Stand erect and then bend over from the waist. This way due to gravity, hair is suspended in the downward direction and there is a blood flow to the scalp. It stimulates the scalp and hair follicles thus promoting hair growth. Easy gentle strokes should be made from the crown downwards. It loosens the debris as we move towards the front facial hairline. The same process can be followed in the reverse direction.
So next time you are combing your hair, you know you are doing much more than just styling!