The saying goes, beautiful skin comes from within. As the body's biggest organ system, skin not only protects your body, but reflects the health of other internal organs, so healthy skin usually indicates good internal health. Melanocytes in black skin produce more melanin, however skin of any color requires a balanced and nutrient rich diet to stay healthy. Hair and nails, as the skin's accessory organs, also benefit from the same nutrients as your skin.
Hair color affects hair composition and strength. While lighter colored hair tends to be fine and silky, black hair is often coarse and dry. This makes it especially prone to breakage. Dry, coarse, black hair needs extra moistu...
An ostomy does not necessarily curtail the enjoyment of spicy foods and foods with black pepper. Generally speaking, whatever foods your system tolerated before the ostomy surgery, it will continue to tolerate after. However, b...
Across various cultures, women often go to great lengths to make their hair look great. Black women may use harsh products to create fashionable styles -- a practice that can damage and destroy the hair. Damaged hair requires s...
Moles are a common skin growth. The Mayo Clinic website says most people will develop between 10 and 40 moles in their lifetime, in a number of places on their body. Most moles occur before you reach age 20, but it is not uncom...
The care given to black hair depends on its texture; however, the most important considerations in caring for black hair is keeping it very clean, moisturized and trimmed. No matter what texture of black hair you may have, whet...
When pregnant, women may be faced with some conflicting emotions regarding hair care. While you want to protect your developing child as much as possible from harmful chemicals, you still want to look and feel your best. You ma...
Hair grows at approximately one-quarter to one-half inch per month and black men's hair is no exception. However, black men's hair is also very tightly coiled and can be more brittle, and prone to breakage, than straighter hair...
Essence.com says that it can be more difficult for black hair to grow than other types of hair. Whether your hair is thinning, you chopped it off, or you just want it to grow longer more quickly, you do not have to resort to ex...
As with any other race, African Americans desire healthy, luscious hair and smooth, glowing skin. Keeping your hair and skin in optimum health enables you to put your best foot forward every day. Healthy hair and skin doesn't h...
The natural texture of black women's hair can make it difficult to style conventionally. While magazine covers show soft, pin-straight hair, if you have typical African American hair, you know that it's often coarse with a kink...
Many black women believe that natural hair does not grow. In reality all hair, whether black, white, or otherwise grows at a rate of 1/2 inch per month. The issue with nappy hair is that the ends are quite delicate and prone to...
Black hair can grow long with proper maintenance. Black hair comes in several textures--straight, wavy, kinky, spiral curls and tiny coils. Natural black hair can grow long with proper maintenance. Natural curly black hair is l...
Everyone, regardless of hair type or texture, can use olive oil to condition their hair or treat certain scalp, skin and hair conditions. However, due black hair's constant need of deep conditioning, olive oil is most often ass...
Kinky, thin hair tends to break more easily than other textures because it dries out easily, but curly and wavy hair is also more prone to dryness than straight hair. Dryness and breakage may keep a young black girl's hair shor...
African-American hair tends to have thicker shafts and larger scales than hair of other ethnicities. While this creates fullness and tight curls, it also means that black hair dries out very quickly. According to "Hair Care fo...
Many black women have coarse, curly hair that is prone to frizziness, dryness and breakage. Fortunately, a number of hair-care companies have stepped up to the unique challenges of black hair care. Whether you straighten your h...
The hair growth stage can continue for two to six years, with hair growing about 1/2 inch every month, states Paula Begoun, author of "The Original Beauty Bible." Black or African-American hair goes through the same stages as a...
Natural black hair has certain oils, which serve to protect the hair follicles and keep the hair looking shiny and healthy. It's important to look for shampoos that help replenish these oils, as some shampoos can actually strip...
Black hair can easily dry out, making it more susceptible to frizz and damage, particularly if it is also chemically treated or colored. No matter its texture, black hair needs special products to help keep it healthy and nouri...
Though the hair of children of color requires the same basic care as children of other ethnic groups, there are noted differences. To ensure the hair of an African American child grows at a healthy rate, a regular hair care reg...
Your scalp has between 100,000 to 150,000 follicles that produce hair individually or in units of up to four hairs, according to the Bernstein Medical Center for Hair Restoration. At any given time, about 90 percent of your hai...
Over shampooing, excessive blow drying, electric curlers, perms, coloring and swimming can contribute to unhealthy black hair and damage the natural protective oils in black hair. Salty, chlorinated, or soapy water can also par...
If your hair has been damaged by the ravages of chemicals and heat styling, and you long for hair that is full of luster and bounce, worry no more. The head of healthy hair you so desire can be yours, but you must first adapt ...
African American babies tend to have beautiful, thick curly hair with specific hair care needs in order to enhance and maintain the natural curl they were born with. African American infant hair care involves making educated ch...
Natural black hair textures range from tight corkscrew curls to small coils. The structure of tightly curled hair prevents the distribution of natural oils along the hair shaft, which causes tightly curled hair to be drier than...
Hot oil treatments are one of the many hair treatments employed by women of color to help ease the stresses of chemical processing and day-to-day styling. They are a quick, convenient way to revitalize brittle hair and restore ...
Because the scales that cover all hair shafts are larger on most ethnic hair types, black women's hair has a tendency to dry out very easily. The same structure responsible for those gorgeous tight curls also allows moisture to...
Many people of African descent have hair that's naturally prone to dryness. Black hair is the most fragile of hair types and is often easily damaged through daily styling and handling. Although it can be challenging at times, t...
Black people growing natural hair are familiar with the eccentric qualities of tightly curled hair. Natural black hair has different textures ranging from corkscrews to fluffy s-shaped curls; in fact, it is rare for an individ...
Winter air is not only bone chilling--it is also drying. The dry heat that keeps you warm indoors further compounds the dryness problem. Despite the fact that black hair receives adequate moisture from the scalp, the tight curl...
Black, highly textured hair grows at an average rate of 1/2 per month. While there is little difference in the growth rate of highly textured and less textured hair types, lack of length retention can give the false impression ...
Either way, a head of shiny, luscious, natural hair is a luxury, but not exactly effortless to maintain. Finding the proper hair care routine can be tricky, but some basic guidelines are adaptable to every natural black hair ca...
The coiled or curly structure of black hair can make its growth less visually obvious than other hair types, but black hair certainly does grow long. Daily styling abuse can cause damage and hinder length gains, though. The bes...
Also known as, a contusion, bruise or ecchymosis, a black and blue injury results from a blow to muscle and tissue that leaves the skin intact. Kids Health explains that when a black and blue injury occurs, blood capillaries bu...
The curly or coily strands are prone to dryness and breakage, which unfortunately leads to the incorrect belief that healthy black hair is difficult to attain. Black hair care is actually a simple process that involves keeping ...
Retaining moisture in highly textured hair is one of the most common concerns for people of African descent. Oils naturally produced by the scalp may not be able to travel easily down the length of the hair, putting the ends of...
When trying to learn more about black hair care, there is a lot of misinformation to sort through. The naturally curly or coiled structure of the hair strands can make daily hair care seem more tedious or complicated than the c...
Getting black hair to grow can seem impossible, but take heart, there's nothing inherently "wrong" with black hair that affects growth. According to Samara Crayton at Growblackhair.net, the problem is the products most black wo...
Chemically relaxed hair may look silky, smooth and healthy, but the process actually breaks down the structural integrity of your hair, weakening it and making it prone to break. Developing a routine of proper relaxed hair care...
Caring for a black child's hair can be a challenge if you are a white parent and haven't had experience in the coarse and curly hair structure indigenous to African Americans. Parents who adopt black or biracial children often ...
An African American woman's hair is susceptible to breakage, split ends and limited growth. Relaxers and other chemical treatments only accentuate the hair problems of African American women. However, there are simple and inexp...
For many men and women of African-American descent, it is easy to feel like your hair just isn't growing. While the rate of growth for Black hair is the same as it is with the hair of people of other races, it doesn't always ap...
Black hair, due to its coarse texture, often takes a bit of chemical relaxing and heat to get it to adopt some of the sleek hair styles that are fashionable these days. Many men and women are beginning to notice that their hair...
The texture of natural African American children's hair varies from child to child and, thus, the maintenance routine will vary. Due to the structure of African American hair, it has a tendency to become dry, which decreases el...
Categorization systems, such as Andre Walker's types one through four (see Resources) and the LOIS system (see Resources) can help to determine your hair texture, although most black and mixed-race people have more than one typ...
Those with ethnic hair might struggle with not being able to use the products, try the styles and get the silky looks shown on television commercials about hair products. Regular hair products are mostly made for people with n...
When trying to stimulate hair growth for African American hair it's important to shy away from things that can damage it, such as repeated use of chemical relaxers instead of using natural products. Unfortunately, chemical proc...
African-American hair grows best when cared for with natural products that do not contain drying or pore-clogging ingredients. The basic tenets of African-American hair growth include regular shampooing, deep conditioning and a...
Ultimately, black hair growth is best encouraged through proper maintenance of healthy hair and scalp. Though beauty supply shelves are lined with products promising to stimulate hair growth, the rate of growth is determined by...
Although many people consider it somewhat traditional, if you have naturally curly or kinky hair, pressing and curling your hair is a great natural alternative to a perm or relaxer. Admittedly time-consuming, it does take some ...
However, ethnic hair tends to be a bit more temperamental and requires additional steps. Taking the time to understand the differences between ethnic, or black, hair, and European hair textures is important for both hair stylis...
