VITAMIN E : THREE PRONGED STRATEGY FOR BEAUTIFUL HAIR

 Vitamin E reduces oxidative stress and keeps hair follicles healthy. It repairs cells as it removes free radicals present in cells, keeps the scalp healthy. It locks moisture in hair strands, keeps the hair strands glossy and healthy.

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin. It is found in several forms such as alpha, beta, gamma, delta. It is known as tocopherol. It acts as an antioxidant and reduces free radicals.

Natural sources of vitamin E

 It is found in several food items suggesting nuts, fruits, and vegetables. These food items are sunflower, safflower, soybean oil, sunflower seeds, nuts, peanut, peanut butter, almonds, spinach, pumpkin, asparagus, mango, and avocados.

 Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin, it is naturally stored in the liver. People with liver illness are usually deficient in vitamin E.

Vitamin E oils 

Vitamin E is found in natural oils of sunflower, safflower, soybean oil, sunflower seeds, nuts, peanut, peanut butter, almond oil. These items can be added to the diet.

Vitamin E oils are also available in over-the-counter capsules.

VITAMIN E FOR BEAUTIFUL HAIR

Glossy, long, strong hairs are always beautiful. Healthy hair can grow from healthy hair follicles. The hair follicles are embedded in the dermis. Hair follicles get nourishment from the blood supply that is directly from hair papilla. If you want beautiful hair you must have a good supply of nutrients to your hair follicles.  For this, you need a good level of nutrients and especially, vitamins A, C, B, and E in your blood. Further, the blood must contain a good amount of oxygen. It must not have free radicals for hair growth.

We need to have a three-pronged strategy for good hair growth one is our nutrition, second is a healthy scalp, and third is healthy strands 

Area	Hair follicle	Scalp	Hair strand
Damage	Oxidative stress is due to the presence of free radicals.	Itchy scalp, dandruff, inflammation, clogged oil ducts.	Dryness, decoloration
Result	Retarded hair growth, hair fall	Hair fall	Split ends, dry hair
Vitamin E used in	Nutrition	Massage	Application on strands
Effects of Vitamin E	Reduce oxidative stress, increase hair growth	Repair scalp, Keep it flake-free, reduces hair fall	Repair damage caused by the environment, chemicals

 If you take care of the Nutrition of hair follicles will grow and produce good hair strands. For this, we need all nutrients along with Vitamin E. Vitamin E acts as an antioxidant and it prevents oxidative stress in our blood that damage directly hair follicles.

  For hair health, prevent your scalp from being dry, itchy, and damaged.  Vitamin E prevents the scalp from becoming itchy and is covered with flakes. As it nourishes the skin of the scalp and makes it a healthy scalp. It will prevent hair damage and the breaking down of strands.

 Further, vitamin E with Essential oil and other oil such as coconut oil or castor oil when applied on the scalp and strands keeps the hair fizz-free and locks the moisture of the hair. This will protect the cuticle of the hair, to prevent environmental damage to hairs.

 Vitamin E also prevents the hair to become split ends, a possibility that occurs due to dryness and damage. Applying Vitamin E on your scalp and hair reduces chemical damage that occurs when we apply chemical-based shampoo and other hair care products.

 It also relaxes hair muscles,  that got strained due to hairs do processes.  To some extent reverse the hair damage caused by using heat processes for hair styling.

Hair damage is caused at three levels

 nutrition level,

scalp level and

 to the strands

 Damage to scalp

 It is caused by chemicals used for hair styling, shampoo, conditioners, etc. It increases cell damage and flakes on the scalp that directly clogs the oil gland associated with a hair follicle and this prevents moisturizing the hair strands.

 Itchy scalp damages hair muscles and increases hair loss. 

Vitamin E when applied on the scalp, repair the cells of the scalp, keep it flake-free. Reduce irritation on the scalp. This decreases hair fall.

Damage to hair follicles

The lack of nourishment to the hair follicle prevents the growth of hair follicles.  This is visible through retarded growth of air, damaged hair strands, and hair fall. So, for healthy hair, we must have all nutrients in our food especially vitamin A, E, B, C, and proteins.

 Vitamin E which is present in our nutrition helps in reducing free radicals and cell damage. It increases oxygen supply to hair follicles. It also prevents oxidative stress to the hair follicle and thus nourishes the hair follicle for better hair growth.

Damage to hair strands

 The environmental damage to hair occurs at the level of strands due to hairstyling. It makes our hair dry and infectious scalp. This increases incidents of dandruff and other damages.  For hairstyling, we use hairspray that directly damages the cuticle and keratin of the hair strand. This damage appears in form of split and over-drying of hair strands. All these damages are preventable by minimizing the use of chemicals. 

Using heat also damages our hair, this damage also appears in the form of split ends, decoloration, and breaking of hair strands.

Using Vitamin E in massage oil moistens hairs, Protects the cuticle, and prevents hair damage.

 How to use vitamin E capsule for hair growth

 Scalp massage

For reversing the damage use Vitamin E capsule in massage oil. Vitamin E capsules that are available over the counter are used for scalp massage.
 For getting better results a massage use a vitamin E capsule in massage oil. Take a tablespoon of coconut oil or castor oil. 
Warm this oil.
Add 2 Vitamin E capsules, mix them gently. 
Massage with your fingertips in a circular motion on your scalp. Apply the leftover oil on your strands.
 Leave overnight wash with shampoo next morning, tap dry with a towel.

 For split hair, Vitamin E capsules, a spoonful of Cedarwood oil and a spoonful of almond oil mix them gently and apply the mixture on the hair, and scalp this mixture massage the strands and help speedy repair of split ends.

Hair decoloration is also repaired by using Vitamin E capsules. Add tea tree oil to it. Add 1 tablespoon of coconut oil, apply it on hair strands and scalp. Leave for overnight. Shampoo in the morning. Avoid using heat-based processes for hair styling.

For the good health of hair follicles add fruits vegetables and nuts rich in Vitamin E in your diet.

Conclusion

Add vitamin E to the diet.

Add vitamin E capsules in massage oil for a healthy scalp.

Apply vitamin E-rich oil on hair strands.

Have beautiful, glossy hairs, healthy from their roots to tips.