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Andrea
Andrea is a busy mother of four who works full time, and puts everyone else first, ahead of herself. She is present to every child event, cooks, and does not want to miss a thing in her family’s life. She started to notice that her “drab” hair was expressing her exhaustion. Listen to her journey of self-love, hair transformation, and new beginnings.Watch Andrea
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Shawn
Shawn learns about his gifts to inspire others. Overcoming weight and relationship challenges, he just had to learn to make himself happy first. Listen to his powerful story of personal transformation, and how Mereltä played a part in his well-being and new beginnings.
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The Scalp: The Source of Hair
Just as a tree grows from its nourishing soil, so too, your hair grows from its source: the scalp. When you nourish the scalp, your hair transforms.
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Your Hair Speaks Volumes
When you connect with the source of your authentic self, you realize your power in so many ways. When you feel your best and look your best, you express the truest YOU.
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Anti-Aging for the Scalp
We’ve discovered special algae and developed the technology to create a healing anti-aging scalp treatment that reawakens the roots, regenerates ageless, shimmering hair, and restores the harmony of who you are – from the inside out.
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Transformation
Root Renewal, our pure, algae-based anti-aging treatment for the scalp is a breakthrough discovery that transforms limp, fragile, thin, and shedding hair into thicker, more voluminous hair with body and flow.
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Get a Hair Transplant or Buy a House?
The dilemma of the day: invest in a hair transplant or invest in a new house? Click to hear how Shawn made that choice. When it matters to you to look your best, and when you care to show up authentically, in your power, this question is worth pondering. We hear from our consumers that getting thicker, luscious and healthy hair is one transformation that makes them energized and happy. Our Mereltä team has a sharp focus on simplifying the path to improved hair health. Since hair changes take some time, we’ve created a subscription service for our scalp treatment, Root Renewal serum to help our consumers get continuity and ease of use to experience fuller and more shimmering hair they so desired. As a subscriber, you always enjoy 10% OFF the regular price, and you always have free shipping on your order. As a busy person, you make sure that you never run out of the product. The options to subscribe are 4, 6, 8 weeks. And, yes, absolutely you can cancel online, easily, any time. We send you a reminder so you know when your subscription renews. Hair changes take some time. Root Renewal serum is a plant-based cosmetic product, NOT a drug, and it is not a one-time fix. Using regularly for 90 days and then 1-3 times a week is the key to promoting thicker and healthier hair. “Mereltä’s new scalp treatment, Root Renewal serum, is efficient in reducing shedding and restoring thicker and healthier hair. This algae-based treatment safely increases aesthetic hair density, hair strength and shine,” said Joseph Greco, Ph.D., President, Greco Hair Restoration Medical Group. Remember the Mantra: "I Need Scalp Care For Better Hair!" The scalp is the source of hair. Subscribe today and enjoy a spectacular, luscious, thick and healthy hair this summer!
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Photography: Thinning Hair In The Spotlight
Some years back, my brother called me and said he wanted to come over and show me the photo proofs of my nephew’s bar mitzvah. (For those who don’t know, photo proofs are the basic, un-retouched prints of all the pictures taken by a professional photographer at an event. The final pictures for an album or printing are chosen from the proofs.) I was flattered, as I taught college photography classes for years and thought he wanted my expertise in choosing pictures for an album. Upon viewing the pictures my delight became dismay, as one glance informed me that it wasn’t my expertise in photography he wanted. Instead, he wanted to give me a heads-up on how bad I was going to look in the album. The photographer’s repeated use of harsh overhead lighting really shone a spotlight on my lack of hair. It not only enhanced it…I looked even worse in the pictures than I did in real life. “So,” my brother asked, “do you want to limit the pictures of you in the album? Or, should we not worry about it and just include all the pictures of you enjoying this life-affirming event? How do you want me to handle this?” Together we chose pictures that weren’t too terrible. I encouraged him to ask his photographer about retouching, a way to add or remove marks. With digital photography, retouching is done on the computer before printing. With film photography, it is done after printing on each copy of the picture. It’s time consuming and unless the retoucher has real expertise, it looks bad. These were prints from film and let’s just say that the retouching was adequate but not great. The good news is that, as is common with albums of events like these, the pictures are rarely viewed. When they are, we get caught up in how much fun it was and how we miss the people who have passed since then. In addition, I look better now than then, thanks to better haircoloring, better haircuts and Mereltä's Root Renewal serum. While we’re here, let me offer some tips if you’re preparing for this kind of photography at an event of your own: speak to your photographer beforehand and express your concerns. A few years after our nephew’s bar mitzvah, when choosing a photographer for our son’s, I told the photographer my concerns. She took pains to use a diffuser to soften the lighting and to light me in ways that did not highlight my hair issues. Also, if you are super aware and sensitive to how your hair looks in photos, then, well in advance of your event, use a great scalp treatment that promotes enhanced hair density, and improved health of hair. Most people do not realize that health of the scalp is responsible for the health and thickness of hair. Using some sort of combination of shampoo and conditioner to help with thin hair is simply not enough. In fact, one needs a potent scalp treatment to work at the roots, and to nurture the scalp in order to change limp and thinning hair into thicker, more voluminous hair. Very important also, search early to find the best hair stylist you can afford and talk to her about your issues. Some styles are better at hiding hair loss than others, especially for photography. All these done, at the event, forget about it all and enjoy yourself. If you fret about your hair it will show on your face and no amount of retouching will fix it. If you are looking at your photos and you do not like what you see, try Root Renewal serum. Transforming hair has meaning at some many levels in our lives. For a start, it enhances one's vitality and joy in life. What do you think? Mereltä Contributor: Marti
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You Look Great In A Hat!
It’s May, the start of hat season for me here in New York. I know most of you probably look at that statement and think, huh? What is she talking about? If, like me, you live where winter is cold, you’re thinking “It’s May, time to stop wearing hats and finally enjoy the sunshine.” But that’s just it. Sunshine on a head with a little too much scalp showing is a recipe for disaster. Many years ago, while on a winter vacation in a lovely, sunny place, I spent a happy day outside exploring with my family. We were thrilled to be out in shorts and tee shirts – no bulky jackets, gloves or hats. I wasn’t so thrilled when hours later my scalp began to sting as it turned a bright red. Yes, we were wearing sunscreen on our faces, chests, arms and legs. I just never thought to put it on my head. Have you ever tried to wear sunscreen on you scalp? If you have thinning hair – and let’s face it, if you’re putting sunscreen on the top of your head, you are either bald or have thinning hair – the remaining hair looks greasy and sticks together. You wind up looking like you have even less hair. And that’s how I looked for the remainder of the vacation. Not pretty! Thanks to Root Renewal serum, my hair is thicker now than it was then, but I still wear a hat every sunny day. I have many, but the one I wear most often was a gift from my husband. It was made just for me and has a high SPF rating and a wide brim. It shields not just the crown of my head but my face. The top of my head may no longer need the coverage, but my face and eyes are the better for all the years I’ve protected them from the sun. My friends tease me about my hat, but many of them admit that I have less wrinkles than they do. Nourishing and balancing your scalp with Root Renewal serum is a necessity if you wish for rich and vital hair that looks gorgeous and protects your scalp. That way, hats are for pleasure and beauty, mainly. I am sure you look great in a hat! Contributor, Marti
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Mother's Day Reflections: Then And Now
Seems that every year around Mother’s Day I get together with some girlfriends. We wind up having our own impromptu Mother’s Day celebration sans husbands, partners and kids. We talk about our own mothers. Channeling our teenage years, we gripe about their injustices to us. Then we talk about how much we love them, and how we never could have become the people we are without their guidance and unwavering love. Those of us who have lost them take a few minutes to mourn once again with affection This year we wound up discussing our pregnancies. Who craved what? Was it an easy pregnancy? Why was it difficult? How much weight gain? Was it easy to lose? Who had morning sickness and for how long? Wasn’t pregnancy sex amazing? Who experienced hair loss? Did it grow back? And why was it that every one of us knew about morning sickness and food cravings, inevitable backaches and interrupted sleep, but not one of us had any idea that pregnancy hormones could cause hair shedding? Every one of us was different. One lucky friend had two glorious pregnancies - fabulous sex, no morning sickness, gained a normal healthy amount and lost it quickly. Easy – don’t we all wish for that? She did admit that she had some hair loss, but it grew back quickly and completely. Another who was vegetarian at the time CRAVED meat, even eating hot dogs and then feeling guilty. She insists it was the perfect training for motherhood because by the end of nine months she could handle her guilt. She had some hair shedding which at the time she attributed to eating meat, but says she knows better now because of pregnancy hormones! Also, admittedly a type A personality, she says for the first time in her life she was always late. Still another was nauseated throughout the entire time. Before she wanted to tell anyone that she was pregnant she was at my home for a community meeting. She pulled me aside and confided because she was so queasy. She was afraid she would bolt for the bathroom. I remember unexpectedly serving everyone cheese and crackers because I wanted to give her saltines, but I didn’t want to betray her confidence. She swears she threw up every day, including the day she delivered. Me? I craved red licorice, had to spend too much time resting, and gained too much weight. It was the first time I noted hair in the shower drain. Some of it grew back but not nearly enough. The wavy, thick mane that was too heavy to wear in a pony tail in my twenties was gone, replaced by finer hairs, and fewer of them, so that in my thirties my hair barely held a barrette. To a woman, it was absolutely worth every bout of nausea, every pound of baby weight never lost, and every hair never regained. All of our kids are perfect, we say tongues in cheeks, though perhaps not as teenagers. Also, we all wish we had Merelta back then for thicker, voluminous and vital hair. It's great we have it today. With kids grown, with the attention and energy shifting back to ourselves, Root Renewal is such a delight of vitality and renewal. Contributor, Marti
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About Hair: Stories We'll Always Remember
The children in my neighborhood play Little League in the spring. Walking by the ballfield today I noticed them at batting practice, donning their protective gear before stepping up to the batting box. They were so eager, so fun to watch. I remember how much my son loved playing. How every time he put on one of the shared batting helmets I cringed. We discovered those helmets were a source of the head lice epidemic that hit our schools one year. Eek! Headlice! Equal opportunity intruders! They happen in any home, in any neighborhood, and parents are not immune. School age children are particularly good at spreading them with their sharing of clothes and sleepovers. Cuddle your kids or lean on their pillows to read with them and chances are that you too become a home for these blood-sucking invaders. Dealing with these arachnids is time consuming and tedious. Furniture, bedding and clothing must be carefully cleaned, and everyone’s hair must be meticulously searched to allow removal of adults and nits, then a special shampoo used to poison any remains. Our son’s dark, thick curly locks made the search long and difficult. Once completed, I asked my husband to check my hair. Barely five minutes later he was done. Surely, he was too cursory. Not so he protested; it was easy to spot them in my hair because it had thinned so. What does it say that I was more upset that my thinning hair was so obvious than the fact that I had lice? And that I remember this as if it were last week rather than 25 years ago? Thank goodness that after using Merelta Root Renewal serum, if my husband had to search my hair today it would take at least 15 minutes. Do you have an emotional hair story that you will always remember? Blog Contributor: Marti
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Why Scalp Care Is the Secret to Thicker Hair
How often do you wash your face? Most people would say once or twice a day. Okay, now how often do you devote time to scalp care? Allrighty. The truth is, the scalp often gets the short end of the stick when it comes to self-care. However, the scalp is composed of skin, just like the face, hands and feet that we care for regularly. What’s more, a healthy scalp helps nourish healthy hair – and, unfortunately, the opposite also holds true. But, why? The Scalp Is the Source of Hair If you’ve done any gardening, you know that nurturing your soil is critical to growing healthy plants. Rich, well-watered soil will nourish plants and help them grow. Dry, cracked soil will do just the opposite, yielding weak growth or preventing any growth at all. Hair’s relationship with the scalp is similar. With the right nourishment, a healthy, supple scalp creates the foundation for strong, healthy hair growth. By contrast, when people neglect scalp care, they miss these benefits and may experience limp, thinning and fragile hair. Poor scalp condition can even lead to hair loss. So, what are the specific benefits of paying special attention to your scalp? A Healthy Scalp Yields Thicker, More Voluminous Hair When your scalp is well cared-for, it can support better hair growth. That includes shinier, thicker hair with more volume, bounce and body. Healthy scalps can also contribute to improved hair texture, higher hair density and increased comfort. Many times, the scalp will not signal the fact that it is inflamed or tense. One does not even know that these conditions -- which are due to aging of scalp, or chemicals-- are even present. When people have hair they love, they exude confidence, which contributes to overall happiness, productivity and well-being. The Scalp Care Movement As we begin to realize the near-magical powers of scalp care, it’s starting to receive more attention in people’s beauty regimens. One easy way to show your scalp some love, for example, is to spend time massaging it while shampooing. This mini-massage prevents clogged pores, clarifies the skin and increases blood flow to the area. Some spas are now entirely devoted to scalp care, thanks to the head spa trend that started in Japan. And scalp care options don’t stop there. Anti-aging hair and scalp solutions are taking the spotlight as health and beauty industries begin to develop effective methods for keeping scalp and hair feeling young, vibrant and luscious. Anti-Aging Hair Solutions The bottom line? Yes, it’s possible to get your hair looking and feeling younger, more voluminous and super shiny. All. The. Time. And despite the slew of chemical-filled products out there, anti-aging hair and scalp solutions don’t have to be risky leaps of faith. Here at Mereltä, we saw the need for honest, plant-based solutions for anti-aging hair and scalp care so we went straight to Mother Earth. We discovered and patented a unique algae extract that nourishes the scalp for beautiful, thick, and youthful hair. Mereltä’s Root Renewal Serum is plant-based, and while it’s low-risk, its results are anything but low-reward. After using our weightless serum every day for just a couple of weeks, many users began to see signs for hair that was fuller, thicker, and shinier. Full results take longer, as hair wellness journeys take time, but one gets to see signals of hair recovery relatively quickly. Keeping in mind that results vary, and that everyone has different hair needs and issues, here's a visual “map” based on many consumers' experience with Root Renewal, to let you know what to expect in terms of hair progress in the first 15 days, 20, 30 and 60 days. See for yourself! Visit us on Instagram for hair inspiration, stories from actual users, and more.
