Use of Sesame Oil for Hair Loss

Did you know sesame oil can be found in soaps, shampoos, skin moisturizers, cosmetics, and medicines? Many people use sesame oil itself directly on their hair and scalp.

We look at the different hair-related uses people pull out the sesame oil for, what benefits it has, and how to use it.

Sesame oil is rich in omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. These are considered essential fats that your body needs to get from your diet.

A 2017 study noted that being deficient in these fatty acids could impact hair loss, and that while more and rigorous research needed to be done, getting more of these essential fats could improve hair growth for some people.

Sesame seeds might be good, too

In addition, whole sesame seeds have many nutrients, some of which have been connected with improving hair growth.

Some types of hair loss and hair thinning can happen if you don’t get the right nutrition. This happens because without the right building blocks, hair may fall out, become thinner or grow more slowly.

Adding nutrients can help prevent or reduce hair loss and hair thinning. Types of nutrients found in sesame seeds include:

·  vitamin B-1

·  calcium

·  copper

·  phosphorus

·  iron

·  magnesium

·  manganese

·  zinc

Sesame oil is an emollient, meaning it can help to soften your skin and make the strands of your hair look smoother. Those same fatty acids in sesame oil that make it good with foods, also make it good for topically combating dry hair and scalp.

Sesame oil contains the same kinds of healthy fatty acids that are added to shampoos, skin creams, and makeup. These include:

·  palmitic acid

·  linoleic acid

·  linolenic acid

·  oleic acid

·  stearic acid

The fatty acids in sesame oil help it to get deep into the skin. Inflammation and irritation on the scalp and around the hair roots can cause hair to fall out or thin in patches. Fatty acids help to soothe and heal the scalp and roots. Sesame oil may improve small, bald patches, or areas of thinning hair.

Sesame oil may also help carry other nutrients into the skin. A 2010 study on mice found that sesame oil helped to carry ozone (oxygen) into the skin. If it has a similar effect with people, this may help speed up healing in cuts or scratches in the skin.

Sesame seeds and sesame oil have antibacterial and antifungal properties. This may help prevent or reduce common skin infections on the scalp. Using sesame oil on your scalp and hair may help reduce dandruff, which is often caused by a fungus or bacteria.

Sesame oil has some occlusive properties, so if applied to a clean scalp, might help the skin stay moisturized. This can help to prevent and treat scalp dryness, flaking, and itching.

Using sesame oil as a hair mask may help make your hair stronger. It may help to prevent hair breakage and split ends. Those emollient and occlusive properties mean sesame oil fills in gaps and forms a protective seal on the hair.

A sesame oil treatment can help reduce how much water each hair strand absorbs when you shower. Too much water inside a strand of hair makes it swell. This weakens and damages it. Sesame oil can help to make your hair longer, stronger, and look shinier.

Use sesame oil as a hair mask before showering. This helps to moisturize and treat your hair and scalp, without leaving an oily residue and sesame scent.

Treat your hair and scalp with a pure sesame oil mask:

·  Pour a small amount of sesame oil into a glass bowl — about 2 to 3 tablespoons.

·  Use cold or warm the oil very slightly in the microwave — for about 10 to 15 seconds.

·  Use your fingers to gently massage the oil into your scalp — begin at your hairline and continue to the back of your scalp.

·  Cover your hair with the remainder of the oil — especially the ends of the hair that may be drier.

·  Cover your hair with a towel or shower cap.

·  Let the sesame oil mask stay in your hair for at least 1 hour.

·  Wash your hair with shampoo and conditioner as normal.

Add sesame oil to your usual hair masks:

Buy pure sesame oil from a specialty hair and cosmetics store. Or look for this oil at your local Middle Eastern or Indian grocer. You can also shop for sesame oil online.

Look for pure raw sesame oil and cold-pressed sesame oil.

Toasted sesame oil has a different flavor and smell. Nutritional benefits may differ between raw and toasted sesame seed oils.

Types of sesame seeds

There are two main kinds of sesame seeds: black and white. Oil is made from either of these. According to a 2010 study, white sesame seeds had higher protein, fat, and moisture content than black seeds. Yet in a 2016 study, black seeds had higher antioxidant activity.

Some commercial hair products contain added sesame oil. Sesame oil may be listed by other names on shampoos, conditioners, and hair treatments. Look for:

·  sesamum indicum

·  hydrogentated sesame seed oil

·  sodium sesameseedate

·  sesame oil unsaponifiables

Like any kind of oil, sesame oil can block pores. This can irritate your scalp and skin. Clogged pores can also cause hair follicles to fall out. Avoid this by leaving pure sesame oil on your scalp and hair for only a short period of time.

Also ensure that all sesame oil is washed out from your scalp and hair. Use shampoo and warm water after a sesame oil hair treatment. Massage your scalp gently in the shower to ensure it is cleansed of all oil.

Warming sesame oil slightly might make it more comfortable to apply. Make sure the oil is not heated too much. Test the temperature with a tiny drop on the inside of your wrist before applying. Hot oil can cause scalp burns and damage your hair.

Sesame oil, also called sesame seed oil and gingelly oil, is pressed from sesame seeds, which come from plants grown in warmer areas of the world. The seeds are composed of about 50 percent oil.

Sesame oil is rich in a number of the nutrients your body and hair needs. So adding sesame oil or seeds to meals can benefit your hair health.

Using this oil on your hair and scalp may help your hair to grow, be stronger, and look shinier.

Hair loss and hair changes can happen for a range of reasons. Several medical and genetic conditions can cause balding, patchy hair loss, or dry, brittle hair. Hair loss is also connected to hormone changes and some medications. See your doctor if you are experiencing any kind of hair loss. You may need medical treatment.

A Healthy Life, the 4 Basics of a Healthy Life and the 3 Important Habits that Create Good Health

 by: Drs. Ralph & Lahni DeAmicis

Good health is easy but being sick is hard. The truth is, maintaining good health is pretty simple although reclaiming it takes patience, consistent actions and smart choices. Your body heals at its own pace. Your job is to help that process along. There are four important components that determine a person's level of health.

Component One: Is their body being fed what it needs to be healthy? From the point of view of the body, many meals today barely qualify as food. That's why disease care is a trillion dollar business and over 60% of Americans are overweight. An amazing amount of the American diet is packed with calories carrying no real nutrition. Like good health, eating vital, real food is easy, but that is a decision you have to make.

Component Two: Does the person have a cork stuck up their butt? Are they constipated? Can the body eliminate toxins effectively? Other organs get constipated besides the bowels. Most diseases involve the starvation or constriction of a group of organs. Often food is clogging the machinery. Some foods clog and others clean. Some foods support the health of the organs and others destroy them.

Component Three: Do they feel loved? There's nothing like loving when it comes to good health. People in loving relationships eat together. The quality of the food is an expression of their affection. Most of good health is attitude and self-image and they're linked to how you love. Continuously work on improving your ability to love and good health is easy.

Component Four: Do they enjoy their work and feel they make a contribution, even if it seems frivolous to someone else? This attitude is often more important to good health than what it is you actually do, or how much you earn. It's being connected, valued and on a mission. It keeps the inner flame alive and like love, offers that most valuable asset to healing, a sense of hope. Patiently improve these four components and good health is easy.

Now, cut yourself some slack. Health challenges make people feel guilty, stupid or victimized. Whether you believe you create your own health or that problems simply fall out of the sky, realize that these days, good health barely seems like an option for many people. Health education has fallen down on the job and the result is a trillion dollar plus medical bill. Part of the problem is that the conscious mind wasn't designed to be responsible for your health. Read that again.

Your conscious mind doesn't have the job skills, although it can be a good helper. Finding healthy foods and detoxification are managed by the autonomic (read automatic) nervous system. For example: When you're low in a certain nutrient, this is what the body does. All blood flows through the liver, the largest internal organ, which notes that the blood is low in that nutrient, so it sends a message to the tongue, forming a crystalline pattern in the saliva, that mimics the food that contains that nutrient.

Now the nose, who is in the same neighborhood, sniffs out that food and then it's lunch. This messaging process bypasses the conscious mind. But modern foods don't offer the choices that the autonomic system requires to maintain good health. It's that simple. A major portion of the American diet is glue; hybridized wheat and cow dairy, cheap, plentiful, with a great profit margin. Wheat is high in gluten (GLUtEn) and cow dairy is high in casein, like the white craft glue from Elmer's. That's why their logo is Elsie the Cow.

Now manufacturers have found an even cheaper food; soy, high in the estrogens that promote obesity and hormonal challenges, which is one of the reasons why today's generation possesses half of the fertility of their grandparent's generation. Choosing to eat these glues causes many people's poor level of health. The body's design requires graceful, gradual change. As you move forward in your healing, realize the pace at which the body restores itself has to do with the design of the cell.

When the body makes a new cell, it will design it for the quantity of nutrition present at the time the cell is created. The body doesn't like to waste resources so it won't create a cell capable of processing huge amounts of nutrition if there's only a fraction of that floating around. When you improve your diet and add supplements, the current cells have very real limits as to what they can use. However, when you maintain high levels of nutrition, the next generation of cells will be created with an increased capability. Even they won't be running at their full potential, because in order to fit in with the previous matrix, their lower capabilities have to overlap the higher capabilities of their weaker predecessors.

As you maintain that high level of nutrition, the following generations will push those limits up another step and another step and so on. That's why it takes a while to reach optimal health. For example, a red blood cell has a life span of 120 days, so how many cellular generations will it take to reach your fullest potential? Then to maintain good health you need to keep providing high levels of nutrition through making smart food choices and active supplementation.

In other words, once you start dancing, keep dancing! The three habits that lead to good health are: Be consistent, be patient and always aim to improve all four components; good nutrition, effective detoxification, good loving and good work.