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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 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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Root Renewal serum, our 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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Is Hair Regeneration Possible?
Have you experienced hair loss? If so, you’re probably wondering: “Why is this happening?” and “Can my hair grow back?” Hair loss can feel frustrating, humiliating, and stressful. If you’ve experienced hair loss, you probably have a lot of questions, first among them being, “Will my hair ever grow back?” Unfortunately, the answer isn’t simple. Hair regeneration is a complicated topic with no simple answer. Whether or not your hair can come back depends on many factors, including the underlying reason for your hair loss in the first place. In this article, we examine the facts surrounding hair regeneration so you understand the next steps available to you if you’re facing this situation. Let’s dive in. When Hair Loss Occurs The reason for your hair loss can have a significant impact on whether hair regrowth is possible for you individually. Note: this chart does not depict causes of hair loss in-depth. Our goal is to show you the breadth of issues that can affect hair loss. Cause What Happens Is Hair Regrowth Possible? Stress and other reasons During telogen effluvium, your hair stays in the shedding phase of the growth cycle, without growth occurring. Causes vary but include stress, weight loss, certain medications, and more. Yes. You must discover and treat the underlying causes to see the best results. Pregnancy and hormonal changes Many women experience hair loss after giving birth, or later in life during menopause as their hormones change. Yes. Typically, hair loss from pregnancy or hormonal changes resolves. Poor nutrition Diets that are too low in protein or certain vitamins can cause hair loss. Yes. Adding these nutrients back into your diet can help. Alopecia areata Alopecia areata is an autoimmune condition where your immune system attacks your hair follicles, causing your hair to fall out. Yes. If you have this condition, you should seek treatment from a doctor. Androgenetic alopecia Typically known as male or female pattern baldness, androgenetic alopecia is hereditary and one of the most common causes for hair loss. There are studies and medicines available, but no conclusive proof yet. How to Achieve Hair Regeneration Every case is different. You should know that regenerating your hair is a long journey and that it requires patience. In this section, we’ll examine a few ways to stimulate hair growth. #1: Address Scalp Care Proper scalp care is one of the most important, and often overlooked, component of hair care. If your scalp is affected by oxidative stress, your hair will struggle to grow. Fortunately, you can address and repair many common scalp problems by using a scientifically-formulated leave-in scalp serum to nurture and repair your scalp. One example is Mereltä’s Root Renewal serum, a plant-based and safe scalp treatment that is dermatologist-tested and proven to promote hair growth. Even as your scalp may be stressed, you may not feel that you have an issue. Yet, stress can impede hair growth. Also, excess product build-up can block hair follicles from growing hair or can cause hair to grow thinner, more sparse and prone to breakage. By addressing scalp care, you can get at the root cause of some instances of hair loss and thinning. #2: Take Measures to Manage Stress Stress can have serious negative consequences for your hair. By taking steps to manage your stress, you may experience healthier hair, too. You can take several measures to manage your stress. A therapist or other mental health professional can work with you to address the reasons behind the stress you’re feeling and put together a plan to help you move forward. If you don’t have the time or space to see a therapist, there are numerous stress management techniques you can try at home, from box breathing to a quick, gentle walk. You could also use an app, such as HeadSpace to practice calming meditation. #3: Mind Your Diet Your hair needs nutrients to thrive. Eating a balanced diet, rich in vitamins and minerals, can help promote hair growth. Here’s what your diet should include to promote hair growth: Protein: Protein is important for keeping your hair healthy and strong. Most people don’t get enough protein in their diets. Look for lean protein sources, like chicken, eggs, and fish to up your intake. Essential fatty acids: Fatty acids like omega-3s are very important for maintaining hair and skin health. You can find these nutrients from foods like salmon, flax seed, and almonds. Vitamins: Vitamins B6, B12, and folic acid are great for your hair. You can find these vitamins in foods like bananas, spinach, beans, and lentils. #4: Seek Professional Help For Your Hair If you’ve experienced sudden hair loss, or if you’ve tried many different strategies without seeing results, it is time to consult a professional. A dermatologist can help you determine the underlying reasons for your hair loss and address any medical issues that may be putting your health at risk. Similarly, if you struggle with stress and you are concerned about it, a therapist or social worker can work with you to put together a comprehensive plan to help you start feeling better. Hair Regeneration: What to Do If you’ve experienced hair loss, you may deal with a lot of emotions: confusion, embarrassment, frustration, and hope. You may want to know when, how, and if your hair can grow back. While there’s no easy answer for hair regeneration, there is hope: depending on why and when you lost your hair, you can use specific strategies to improve the look, feel, and strength of your hair. It’s important to first understand the root cause, then look into treatment options based on that. Take good care of your mind and body! Start by using a scalp treatment first and see if your hair improves. Your scalp is the source of hair, so you will go straight to the root of your hair issue. Also, check in with your dermatologist to exclude any underlying conditions that may affect hair loss. To learn more about your hair and scalp, take our Hair Assessment Quiz.
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A 4-Step Scalp Routine For Thicker Hair
Scalp health is essential to hair health. In this article, we suggest a 4-step routine to take care of your scalp in order to grow thicker and healthier hair. How often do you spend thinking about your hair's health and appearance? What about your scalp’s health and appearance? If you’re like the majority of people, you spend more time focusing on how your hair looks and feels than how your scalp looks and feels. But in reality, your hair’s vitality and appearance starts with your scalp. If your scalp isn’t healthy, your hair won’t be healthy either. That’s why we believe you should have a routine to take care of your scalp, just the same way you have a routine to take care of your hair. In this article, we outline four steps you should incorporate into your daily scalp routine to help you grow thicker hair. Why You Need to Care About Your Scalp First Your scalp is skin, just like the skin on the rest of your body. And like the skin on the rest of your body, the skin on your scalp can suffer from conditions like dryness, irritation, product buildup, and more. Each of these can negatively affect your hair's growth. Take buildup, for example. Your scalp can experience buildup of haircare products, oils, dead skin cells, etc that t impacts your hair follicles. As a result, your hair will grow thinner, and break more easily. Many of the problems that you experience with your hair (breakage, thinning, loss etc.) can be traced back to your scalp’s health. Thus, it’s important to create a strong daily scalp routine to ensure that your scalp, and, by extension your hair, stays strong and vibrant. 4 Steps to a Healthy Scalp For the best hair growth and appearance results, you should have a scalp care routine, just like you have a hair care routine. Here’s what we recommend incorporating into your daily scalp care rituals: #1: Use a Scalp Treatment Most people use shampoo and conditioner daily. While those products are important for taking care of your hair, scalp treatments address the issue of hair growth itself. Oxidative stress accelerates the scalp’s aging, and can damage the hair inside the follicle before its emergence from the scalp, causing hair shedding, hair loss and premature baldness. Keeping the hair follicles as healthy as possible stimulates growth of stronger and more beautiful hair. A better formula to give you beautiful and thick hair is shampoo + conditioner + leave-in scalp treatment Mereltä is a once-a-day weightless serum, scientifically formulated to create optimal results for your scalp and hair. Mereltä Root Renewal serum supports the scalp with a unique complex of algae, encouraging thicker, healthier hair with more volume, improved texture and renewed softness. Using a scalp treatment should be a nonnegotiable part of your hair care routine, just like using shampoo and conditioner. #2: Choose Clean and Gentle Shampoos And Conditioners You can care for your scalp by looking for gentle shampoos and conditioners with safe ingredients for your scalp. Many shampoos and conditioners are made with dangerous ingredients like sulfates. Sulfates are what create the suds in your shampoo. Basically, sulfates are strong detergents—too strong, really, for your scalp. Sulfates don’t just clean your hair, they strip it (and your scalp) of healthy oils. Using sulfates can cause dryness and irritation on your scalp. While sulfates may make your hair feel squeaky clean, they also hurt your scalp and hair in the long run. Similarly, parabens can cause a number of hair problems, including dryness, irritation, and hair loss. Look for products labeled “sulfate and paraben-free.” #3: Work in a Massage During Your Shower Who doesn’t love a scalp massage? Besides feeling great and releasing tension, a scalp massage can help stimulate blood flow to this region of your body, helping to prevent buildup and to promote growth. Incorporating a scalp massage into your shower routine is a great way to keep your scalp healthy. Using your fingertips, start at the base of your hairline and work your way up to the crown of your head, applying gentle pressure as you go. If you haven’t tried this technique before, you’ll be surprised how relaxed you feel afterwards. #4: Mind How You Brush Your Hair Are you brushing your hair mindlessly? Think again! Brushing your hair can cause serious scalp stress and hair breakage. Thankfully, there are a few steps you can follow to make de-tangling safe. First, toss aside the brush and use a comb when your hair is wet. Wet hair is more fragile than dry hair. That means it’s more vulnerable to damage and stress. If you brush your hair when it’s wet you risk breakage. Second, start at the ends of your hair, not at the root. Brushing at the root can strain your scalp and hair follicles. Using a comb, detangle the knots at the end of your hair gently until they’re worked free. Then, slowly move up to the root, avoiding any harsh pulling. That way, you won’t accidentally stress your scalp. Scalp Care: A Key Part of Your Daily Routine If you’re longing for stronger, healthier hair, but haven’t addressed your scalp care, then you’re missing a key part of your daily routine. Scalp care is the root of hair care: you can’t have vibrant hair without having a healthy scalp. Fortunately, crafting a scalp routine is simple. By following the steps outlined in this article, you can have a strong, healthy scalp in no time. To learn more about your hair and scalp, take our Hair Assessment Quiz.
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Growing Hair with Mereltä: How To Be Successful
In the past weeks, I allowed myself often to feel warm comfort pondering the concept of “acceptance.” These days, work from home, even work for a beauty brand, comes with some forgiveness of the daily beauty routines. Before Covid-19, like most women, I used to discipline my hair every day. A bad hair day would spill fast into all the areas of life and work. Hair Is A Deep, Intimate, And Profound Part Of Our Identity I knew that the hair sends signals about our health, personality, age, and race. Yet I started to understand the depth of what hair signals at a much deeper level in the past few years when I spoke with many women and men who shared the meaning of their hair loss with me. Our work at Mereltä is as much about science as it is about the emotions hair loss triggers. One man in his mid-70s told me that he purchased our scalp treatment. Mereltä, to regenerate his hair so that when he died, he could be buried with all his hair on his head. A poignant statement about identity, shared with a somewhat sheepish smile, almost like a joke, but not quite so, as I could tell by the surprisingly emotional intensity he radiated. “This is who I am. I want to look like myself when I die,” he added. At this unique time in the world, a lot of issues are essence-deep, and not quite visible. This is also true about hair issues—they are partly hidden and rooted into the scalp. The Importance Of The Scalp Or What Is Hidden Within While other countries long ago developed elaborate scalp care routines and treatments resulting in healthier hair, here in the US, we are still catching up on scalp care, and on the way it affects hair growth. Hair health requires scalp care first. The scalp is skin, too. Yet we don’t talk about the scalp as we do about the skin on the rest of the body. Think of the attention we pay the face, neck, or hands. We know that the state of our skin’s health speaks volumes about our age. The scalp is affected by oxidative stress, just as the skin on the face, stress which can damage the hair inside the follicle before its emergence from the scalp, causing hair shedding, hair loss, and premature baldness. I wonder if we are reluctant to focus on the scalp’s health because the scalp becomes visible mostly at times of illness, and grief, such as during chemotherapy. One of our consumers who recently overcame cancer, shared with us that it was the moment when she started growing her hair back, that it became obvious to herself, her family and friends that she was regaining her health and vitality. Mereltä: One Month Of Hair Growth Post Chemotherapy Finding Beauty In Imperfection The Japanese expression wabi-sabi, has a complex, centuries-old meaning that can be loosely defined as finding beauty in imperfection, in something we would otherwise find “ugly” or rough, and in impermanence– in that which exists in the moment, and will not last forever. In the past few months, listening to many consumers whose lives were altered by Covid-19, I learned to appreciate wabi-sabi as a way of life, as the choice to accept joy during adversity, imperfection and loss. At this moment, the world is visibly and painfully imperfect, and nothing can be resolved with a quick or even an elaborate makeover. No matter what we do, we can’t make life better instantly. It's the same with the hair. All those who start on their hair healing journey and are serious about results, know that hair takes a while to regenerate, that they need patience, resilience, a ritual (daily) and the ability to celebrate small wins-- even as everything is still imperfect around us. So wherever we are on our beauty or health journey, we can start by accepting ourselves, exactly where we are, and by caring for ourselves-- lovingly. If you wish to learn more about how we can help you regenerate your hair, please take our Hair Quiz. Here's to your health! Ligia Buzan Chief Marketing Officer
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Three Things We've Learned From Our Consumers
“Life is a continual process of having the rug pulled out from under your feet,” says Buddhist teacher, Pema Chodron. This has been particularly true in the past few months. Collectively, we are going through a prolonged and accelerated transformation that triggers major emotions for most of us. As we grieve, adapt, and juggle various responsibilities, it can be easy to forget the soothing, transformative power of compassion, and of small gestures that help us stay in the flow of the everyday moment, balanced, and strong. During Covid-19 Growing a digital direct-to-consumer brand is not conducive to inner peace during the best of times These are the worst of times for so many people. And yet, it is precisely now that we got to experience the greatest impact of compassionate gestures. Even before we incorporated Mereltä, our hair care company, we were sitting down and talking with lots of people about the pain of hair loss. It’s not only about the hair. It’s about self-expression, and vitality, as well. Many women and men who lose hair struggle with self-confidence; they feel that they miss out on opportunities available to others; they want to be seen, and to feel great inside and out. As a result of these heartfelt conversations, we set out to formulate a safe, and clean scalp treatment, free of sulfates and parabens, to support not only hair growth, but also our consumers’ overall health. Some of our consumers battle immune conditions responsible for hair loss and wanted to be sure that our scalp treatment was safe to use for the whole person. Does Hair Matter? When Covid-19 hit earlier this year, it seemed rather peculiar to continue to speak about hair. The world had just turned upside down. Did hair matter anymore? It turns out that it does. We learned that as we started listening to our consumers for as long as needed, and as deeply as possible, just as we did in the beginning, now to better understand their Covid-19 stories, and priorities. Some consumers lost their jobs; some others were overwhelmed by the lack of financial prospects; grand kids graduated, and some grandparents could not be there to celebrate them; people were anxious about the uncertainty looming ahead. Some consumers shared that, while in isolation and absent their social habits, they could barely recognize themselves in the mirror. Consumers spoke to us about hair because even under dire circumstances, hair was an important part of who they were. Alas, stress is a major culprit for hair loss. 3 Things We've Learned From Our Consumers Consumer conversations have evolved over the past months, yet three messages stood out for us, consistently: 1. Prioritize and develop meaningful relationships. Trust, connection, and better listening became essential for many of our consumers. That was true for us as a brand, too. 2. Return to the basics and focus on safety: consumers shared that now less was more— for instance in skincare and haircare they focused on health and maintenance over appearance. Less washing, and styling of hair, but more scalp care to address the root of hair loss. For us as a brand, it meant laser focus on consumer safety and intensified support to see consumers enjoy results. Any small win matters, and we wanted consumers to be happy. 3. Choose mindfulness and slow down: we learned from our consumers to not underestimate the power of small daily gestures to bring joy. We run a survey to ask consumers to share the one thing that they did consistently that made them relax and be more joyful during these difficult times. Some consumers did puzzles, others knitted or launched an art project; others made new recipes with their partners, and others, yet, took time for themselves, stretching, running, meditating, and pampering the body. One consumer quoted Eleanor Brownn: ”Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.” Why Compassion? Just six months ago, while in pursuit of bigger and larger business accomplishments, these small gestures may have seemed irrelevant. In the past months, we’ve seen how slowing down, and listening can change one person’s day for the better, and how one kind word can turn a situation around. When we show up with presence and compassion, we adapt more easily to the challenges we face daily. Self-care reinforces one’s trust in one’s own ability to recover and regenerate. When we feel better, we are more willing to be kind, and to see the world as manageable. The world may just return the favor and be friendlier. And when life pulls the rug from underneath me, which happens often lately, I remember to slow down, get some perspective, and take a deep breath so that I can be more intentional and present. Ligia Buzan, Chief Marketing Officer
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7 Tips on How to Take Care of Your Hair in the Summer
Summer is almost upon us and with it comes, for most people, more time outside. Even though our summer events might be downsized or different this year, it’s likely that we will still want to enjoy summer events with friends and family. Just as time outside necessitates special protection for your skin, in the same way, it’s important to take good care of your hair in the summer, too. In this article, we’ll cover how to keep your hair summer-ready gorgeous: hydrated and healthy. How Heat Affects Your Hair Heat and humidity can do a number on your hair in the summer. Depending on where you live, you’ll experience different hair care challenges. People who live in drier climates, for instance, may find that their hair is more brittle in the summer. On the other hand, if you live in a humid climate, you may find yourself fighting more frizz and curl than you’re used to. Regardless of where you live, it’s important to practice proper hair protection in the summer to keep your hair feeling healthy and strong. Summer Hair Care Tips Want to know how to keep your hair healthy when the weather warms? Here are our best summer hair care tips and tricks. #1: Take Care of Your Scalp If you want to take care of your hair this summer, you need to take care of your scalp, first. Healthy hair starts with a healthy scalp. Scalp care is important year-round, but especially in the summer, because your scalp is particularly vulnerable. It can suffer from sunburns and sun damage just like the skin on the rest of your body. Often, our hair care routines change in the summer, too. We might wash more often if we’re sweaty, which can dry out the scalp. Or, we might be swimming more often and salt in the ocean or the chlorine in the pool can cause damage to our scalp and hair. These issues can impact hair growth and health and should be addressed at the scalp level. Fortunately, there are steps you can take to protect your scalp during the summer. For instance, by using a scientifically formulated, plant-based scalp treatment like Mereltä, you can provide your scalp with the nourishment it needs to stay healthy and fight the added stress that comes in the summer months. The result? Thicker, healthier hair. #2: Condition More Than Usually Think about how thirsty you feel on a hot summer day. Your hair experiences the same need for hydration when it’s hot out. Regardless of whether you live in a dry or humid climate, you’ll want to condition your hair more frequently. If you’re in a dry climate, the added conditioning can help your hair retain moisture. If you’re in a humid climate, conditioning can make it easier to fight frizz and make your hair more manageable. Consider adding a leave-in conditioner or a conditioning mask to your hair care routine to fight the summer heat. #3: Use Hair Sunscreen Believe it or not, hair sunscreen is a thing! Just like face and body sunscreen protects your body from harmful UV rays, hair sunscreen shields your hair. These products form a barrier between your hair and the sun, helping to keep your hair and your scalp safe from the sun. There are tons of hair and scalp sunscreens out there, from mists to foams to mousses. Do your research, test a few product options to find the right fit, and then make hair sunscreen a permanent part of your summer hair routine. #4: Watch Your Washes Because of the high heat, many people shower more frequently in the summer. If you exercise, spend time outside, or hop into the pool, you may find yourself showering more than once a day. If you wash your hair frequently, you risk damaging your tresses. Washing your hair, strips it of needed oils that keep your hair and scalp healthy and moisturized. If you shower more frequently in the summer, you can cause your hair to dry out and break. Instead of washing your hair every time you shower in the summer, try simply rinsing it with water instead or piling it under a shower cap and keeping it dry. That way, you can shower more frequently without hurting your hair. #5: Ditch the Heat Hair can be more challenging to style in the summer, so one of our top summer hair care tips is to skip the heat styling completely. Anyone with curly or wavy hair that’s tried to keep their hair smooth and frizz-free in a humid climate knows that that particular battle is often a lost cause. Rather than spending extra hours wielding a straightener, ditch heat styling for the summer months. Try loose braids or a low ponytail to keep your hair manageable instead. #6: Rinse Before You Hop in the Pool If you swim during the summer, your hair is at risk for drying and breakage. Your hair naturally absorbs water. If you hop into the ocean or a pool with dry hair, your hair will absorb that water. Unfortunately, both saltwater and chlorine can dry out your hair even more, making it prone to breakage later. You can prevent this damage by rinsing off with fresh water before you swim. If your hair is already wet when you hop in, it will absorb less salt or chlorine. Pro tip: if you swim a lot in pools, consider investing in a protective hair mask designed specifically for swimming to add an extra layer of safety. #7: See Your Hairdresser As salons around the world start to open up again, be sure to check with your stylist to make sure they are following proper safety precautions. Regulations may differ based on your location, but your salon should be respecting social-distancing and wearing masks at the very least to keep you safe. It’s worth taking a few minutes to check in on these practices before you make the trip. Your hairstylist can help keep your hair looking and feeling its best this summer. Make sure you stop by for a quick trim to chop off your dead ends. If you cut off a few inches, your hair will be less tangled and likely to break. Consider asking for an easy, low-maintenance style that you can keep up without heat. That way, you can protect your hair even more by setting aside damaging tools. Summer Hair Care Tips: Final Thoughts Be proactive and address the health of your hair at home and at your salon, respecting the Covid-19 guidelines in your town or city, to keep yourself and your hairdresser safe, and to be able to enjoy lovely hair this summer. There are many ways to protect your hair when the seasons, and your routines change. With a little forethought and a few extra products, you can keep your hair and scalp healthy and happy while you enjoy the warm weather.
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Healthy Hair Habits to Improve Your Hair Care at Home
Stuck inside? Your hair doesn’t have to suffer! In this article, we discuss how to improve your hair health while you are at home. What was your reaction when you learned we would spend more time indoors? If you’re like most people, your first reaction was to plan. To go out to the stores and get the supplies you and your family needed. To feel nervous or scared about what was to come in the next few weeks. But then, as it became apparent that there would be significant, prolonged disruptions to routine, the questions and feelings may have shifted: How long will this strange time last? When will life get back to normal? How am I supposed to make progress on the goals and dreams I had before the pandemic started? All of these questions are normal. What’s also normal is to feel frustrated or sad about the changes in your life that have occurred because of the Covid-19 pandemic. In this article, we’ll address how you can continue to make progress towards your hair health from home. First, we’ll talk about why it’s okay (and even important) to continue to care for your hair amidst all that’s going on. Then, we’ll offer our best tips for making progress on your hair goals while stuck inside. It’s Okay to Be Upset With so much going on in the world, it might seem trivial to worry about something like personal hair care. But if you’ve been working towards improving your hair health (or even just hoping to improve your hair health), it’s only natural to feel frustrated and upset at a drastic change in your routine. Health, including hair health, matters. As many experts have noted, the discomfort we feel in relation to the pandemic is grief: at the disruption of our daily lives, at the dissolution of events we’d anticipated, at the setting aside of goals and dreams, large and small. It's normal to feel upset that you can’t get access to the same services and resources you’re used to. It’s normal to feel anxiety about getting back to your routine. It’s normal to feel worried that you might not be able to care for yourself and look and feel your best. Before we dive into our list of home care tips, remember to give yourself time and patience to process, as well as grace and acceptance for all the emotions you might be feeling in this changed reality. A Few Essentials: Home Hair Care Tips After the long weeks of isolation, you may feel that your hair is looking a little, well, less groomed and healthy than normal. You may have had to skip your scheduled appointments at your stylist. You might not have the same products you’re used to. That’s perfectly okay! Even without ready access to a stylist, there are steps you can take to improve your hair from home. Taking care of your hair from home doesn’t have to be complicated. By following these simple home hair care tips, you can make sure your hair is healthy and looking its best. You may also feel better #1: Eat Well Hair health starts with body health. If you eat a balanced, healthy diet, your hair will have the nutrients it needs to grow strong. While it may be tempting to binge on chips and cookies as you’re stuck inside (and we’ve certainly done more than our fair share of that, too), try to round out your diet with fresh, whole foods to stay healthy. Consider adding (or keeping) the following foods in your diet to improve hair health: Eggs: Eggs are a substantial source of protein and biotin, both of which lead to healthy hair. Berries: Berries are loaded with vitamins and antioxidants that are good for your tresses. Spinach: Spinach is full of essential nutrients like Vitamins A and C which can help your hair grow stronger. Fatty Fish: Fish like salmon and herring are great sources of omega-3 fatty acids, which can promote hair health #2: Exercise Exercising regularly is another part of taking care of your body. Regular exercise can improve blood flow and circulation, which can cause healthier scalp and hair. If you’re missing your gym or favorite workout classes, don’t worry! Taking a few laps around the block will help get your blood pumping and do wonders for your overall health and mood. In addition, there are numerous free online classes now to guide you and offer new routines. #3: Prioritize Scalp Care Healthy hair starts with a healthy scalp. If you care for your scalp while you’re at home, you’ll also be taking care of your hair. During your time at home, your scalp may accumulate a buildup of oil, dead skin, and/or product residue, particularly if your normal hair washing routine has changed. Similarly, the stress of staying home can trigger less-than-ideal side effects for your hair. By taking care of your scalp, you can keep your hair looking its best. Mereltä’s scientifically proven formula promotes stronger, healthier hair by taking care of your scalp, first. Learn more about Mereltä here. #4: Keep Your Hair and Scalp Moisturized Spending a lot of time indoors can make your hair and scalp dry out, particularly if you are in a home where the heat or air conditioning is constantly on and your normal haircare routine has changed. Keep your hair looking its best by making sure it is moisturized. You might add a new oil or product into your routine. Drinking water helps support hair health. Having a water bottle by your side can help you remember to drink. #5: Drink Plenty of Water Drinking enough water helps support hair growth and hair health. It can also help prevent split ends and keep your hair strong and flexible. While you’re spending time at home, you may forget to drink the proper amount of water. After all, at home, there’s no water cooler to head to for a break from work! To encourage yourself to drink enough water, invest in a water bottle that you can bring with you around the house. Try to fill and drink it all at least twice during the day to stay hydrated. #6: Try Out New Styling Options Spending more time at home is a great opportunity to try out new styling options. If you’re home, you’re not seeing as many people, so you don’t have to worry about taming those pesky flyaways if you don’t want to. Use your time at home to try a new trim or style. If you can, skip using hot tools to give your hair and scalp a break. Take this time at home to play around and try unfamiliar things. If it doesn’t look great… well, no one will see it, anyway! If you decide to give yourself a home haircut, head over to YouTube to look for advice. Many hairstylists have shared tips and tricks for cutting your own hair to make sure you don’t end up needing to invest in a cute hat for your Zoom calls. Here’s a great video to get started. Home Hair Care: You Can Make Progress Your hair might look a bit different during quarantine. That’s okay! Even if your roots are peeking through or your stylish haircut grows out, you can still make progress towards having stronger, healthier hair. By following the tips in this article, you can ensure your hair has the nutrients and tools it needs to look and feel its best. And don't forget to start with the essential, which is scalp care: treat your hair at the source. Try Mereltä Root Renewal serum to help regenerate your hair. When the world goes back to normal, you’ve already built a strong foundation for your home hair care routine.
