The Ultimate Guide on How to Regrow Your Hairline Naturally

Reduce How Often You Wash Your Hair

Shampooing is traumatic for your hair no matter how careful you are or how good your shampoo is. Even just rinsing your hair can be a problem. You see, when hair is wet, it is very delicate. In fact, when it is wet, it is very susceptible to frizz and breakage.

There is no real way to avoid this problem except by reducing the frequency with which you wash your hair. By being careful of the kind of environments you spend your time in and avoiding commercial hair care products, it is possible for you to avoid washing your hair more than once or twice a week.

The best example of this is the “curly girl” method. Also known as “no-poo,” this method requires you to avoid shampoos altogether. Instead, it counsels only the use of conditioners in the initial phases and only oils for more advanced followers.

In fact, as your hair gets used to the “curly girl” method, you’ll realize that your hair doesn’t need to be washed more than once a week or even a fortnight. Since you won’t be washing your hair so often and you’ll be keeping it moisturized (this is important as you’ll see in the next section) through conditioners or oils, you’ll see less hair loss. As a result, your hairline will stop receding.

Make Sure Your Hair is Never Dry

We’ve explained above that if your hair gets wet, then it is prone to damage. However, the opposite of this is true too. If your hair is not well-moisturized, then it will become brittle and weak from inside. This will not only make it more prone to breaking, but will also make it look listless, lifeless, and limp.

The best way to do this is to use hair products that don’t pull away the natural oils created in your scalp. The majority of mainstream shampoos, for example, tend to strip the hair and scalp of these natural oils.

Similarly, some hair products coat the hair in artificial substances that prevents them from absorbing moisture from the scalp. These types of products also end up drying the hair, except over the long term instead of immediately.

The best way to keep your hair moisturized is to use a natural conditioner after washing it or oiling it regularly. You can also try to keep your hair covered in the sun to keep it from losing moisture through evaporation.

Learn to Dry Your Hair Properly

Even if you manage to reduce the number of times you wash your hair every week, your hair will still be at risk of breaking. Therefore, when you wash your hair, you need to find a way to reduce the potential damage that excess moisture can cause.

After a wash, how you dry your hair can play a huge role too. For example, if you aggressively rub your hair with your towel, then you’re already making a big mistake because aggressive rubbing causes the hair to break. The proper way is to squeeze sections of the hair with the towel gently.

Similarly, another mistake you may be making is using a cotton towel. Cotton can hook and grab hair strands, leading not only to breakage but also unnecessary stress on the hair.

Microfiber towels are better for drying hair because the fabric absorbs more water without catching and pulling hair. Another way is to use a microfiber brush. The microfiber bristles on these brushes allow them to pull out water even from near the roots of your hair.

Once you’ve dealt with excess water in your hair after a wash, the best thing to do is to let your hair air dry. Air drying is the safest and healthiest option for your hair.

However, if you’re usually short on time and can’t do without the use of a blow dryer, then we recommend using a natural heat protectant to shield your hair from all the heat generated by the dryer. Most naturally occurring oils, including castor oil, argan oil, coconut oil, and avocado oil, are great for this kind of use.

You can even mix some essential oils into the carrier oils such as peppermint oil, jojoba oil, rosemary oil, lavender oil, cedarwood oil, pumpkin seed oil, tea tree oil, sage oil, lemongrass oil, or others to boost the nourishing and protecting qualities of your homemade heat protectant.

Use the Right Type of Brushes or Combs

Believe it or not, even the type of brush or comb you use could be contributing to your receding hairline. Most of us make the mistake of using brushes and combs with bristles that are closely spaced.

Their proximity to each other causes these bristles to catch and pull hair. While your hair may already be brittle or weak, using brushes and combs with closely spaced bristles only aggravates the issue further.

If you were to use brushes and combs with widely spaced bristles in place of those with closely spaced bristles, you would be relieving your hair and scalp from a lot of pressure.

Wide-toothed combs are especially recommended to women with hair that gets tangled easily. As a result, they’re easy to find in the market. In terms of brushes, there are those that are made specifically for people with thinning hair.

Another alternative will be to use soft boar bristle brushes. Since they’re soft, they’re gentle, but they offer another benefit too. Boar bristles mimic human hair. As a result, they can absorb the natural oils produced by your scalp and spread it through the entire length of your hair.

These oils are very beneficial for hair as they not only nourish but also protect them from environment-related risks such as excess sunlight and moisture.

Avoid Using Hot Tools

Whichever way you look at it, using hot tools is never beneficial for hair. The damage hot tools cause to our hair isn’t one-time either. It is cumulative, which means the more you use these tools, the quicker you’ll lose hair and the faster your hairline will recede.

To understand why you just need to understand that our hair isn’t meant to handle the kind of heat that hot tools generate. In fact, the entire working principle behind hot tools is the use of high temperatures to break down hydrogen bonds formed by various components of the hair so that its physical state changes. This is bound to damage hair.

However, just because you have to choose between your receding hairline and the use of hot tools doesn’t mean that you have to choose between keeping your hair and styling your hair. It is very much possible to style your hair without using hot tools.

For instance, sunlight and plain air are excellent substitutes for hair dryers. Further, you can tie your hair in a turban with a microfiber towel or even wear a microfiber hair cap to dry your hair. This way, while your hair dries, you can do other tasks such as getting dressed or even having your breakfast.

You can even use the cold setting on the hair dryer to dry your hair. The same cool setting of the hair dryer can be very useful if you like to straighten your hair. All you’ll need to do is brush your hair with the hair dryer on the cold setting till it dries.

There are even ancient techniques of straightening your hair where you dry them and clip them to the head for an extended period of time. When it comes curling your hair, you can use non-heat-based hair curlers such as flexible rods, pillow-soft curlers, or even peco curlers.

Use the Right Styling Tools

Most non-heat-based hair styling tools and techniques are very time-consuming and effort-intensive. This could put them beyond the reach of many individuals who don’t have the time and energy to devote to such elaborate methods.

If you’re one such individual but still need to style your hair regularly, then the least you can do is minimize the damage caused by styling tools. The best way to do this is to find styling tools with specific features and benefits.

Firstly, you’ll need to get a styling tool with variable or multiple heat settings. If you can manipulate the temperatures of the styling tool, then you can keep it from applying too much heat to your hair.

Further, you’ll want to buy styling tools with specific technologies. You should get a hair dryer with the latest technologies for preventing or reducing heat damage.

We recommend the Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer simply because it was specifically developed to prevent heat damage. It also helps that it is far more effective and efficient than all its competitors. This hair dryer from Dyson is quite expensive, though.

If you don’t want to spend so much, then you need to look at hair dryers that offer technologies like ceramic, tourmaline ceramic, and ionic. These technologies also minimize heat damage, but to a lesser extent.

The same principle applies to curling irons and flat irons. You need to look for variable temperatures and the same technologies mentioned above.

In the curling iron category, the Xtava 5 in 1 Professional Curling Iron and Wand Set is one of the best options because it is gentle on the hair and can serve multiple purposes.

If you only straighten your hair, then you should consider the BIO IONIC Onepass Straightening Iron. It is not only gentle on the hair, but also very fast, which means minimal heat exposure.

Color Your Hair Naturally

Chemicals are as damaging for hair as heat. This is why people who color their hair often have weak, brittle hair. In fact, repeated exposure to such chemicals can speed up hair loss and hairline recession significantly. The same styling tips we gave above applieshere – either you stop coloring your hair or you find a natural way to achieve the same results.

It is very much possible to color your hair with natural substances. While the final result will not be as vibrant as what you get with commercial dyes, it will still look more natural and realistic.

Several naturally occurring substances can be used to color your hair such as carrot juice, beet juice, henna, lemon juice, coffee, sage, and chamomile, amongst others.

Avoid Touching Your Hair

Did you know that the more you touch your hair, the more you contribute to your receding hairline and general hair loss? Every time you use your hands while combing your hair or scrunch up your hair, you’re causing them damage. Similarly, every time you fiddle with your hair or play with, you cause them damage.

Two things can happen when you touch your hair. The first is that you transfer the oils, dust, and dirt from your fingers to your hair and the other is that you take away the natural oils that protect your hair. Both these scenarios are possible and your type of skin and hair will determine which one applies to you.

The solution is simple enough here. Stop touching your hair. Dry them, style them, apply any natural products that you have to, and then stop touching them for the rest of the day. In fact, you shouldn’t be touching your hair more than once or twice after you’ve set them for the day.

Increase Water Intake

More than 60 percent of our body is made up of water. As telling as this little fact is, it only hints at the incredible importance of water in our body. Virtually every bodily function depends on water, whether you look at organ-level functions or cellular-level functions. So, dehydration affects the health of our hair too.

Lack of sufficient water intake can cause hair to lose its flexibility. This will not only affect the way it looks but also its ability to resist basic external pressures like heat, moisture, and even mechanical stress. Therefore, if you wish to regrow your hairline naturally, the easiest thing you can do is increase your water intake.

Generally, health experts recommend drinking a minimum of half gallons of water every day. It is often presented as an 8 x 8 rule where you’re supposed to have eight 8-ounce glasses every day.

Practically, this should be easy to do. If you have difficulty, though, you can start replacing the liquids you normally ingest in a regular day such as coffee, juices, soda, etc.

Eat More Natural Foods

While stopping the consumption of highly-processed foods will help you avoid things that encourage receding hairline, you’ll also have to start eating foods that will boost the hairline regrowth.

This means focusing on food items that contain nutrients that help hair follicles grow healthy hair. The following is a list of the most crucial nutrients along with the food items that contain them.

OmegaFatty Acids

If you have extremely brittle and dull hair around your hairline or elsewhere on your scalp, then this means that you don’t get enough omega fatty acids in your everyday diet.

In fact, you should know that the majority of people in the world don’t get enough omega fatty acids because they’re so difficult to get through a regular diet. Omega fatty acids are found in food items such as various types of fish, kale, sprouts, kale, nuts, flax seeds, avocados, eggs, and carrots, amongst others.

Omega fatty acids are a type of healthy fat that supports hairline regrowth by strengthening the hair follicles and making the hair strands more elastic. Stronger hair follicles prevent hair loss by holding onto the hair strands tighter while more elastic hair strands don’t break so easily under stress.

Zinc

Zinc may seem like a minor mineral, but when it comes to hair health, it is pretty important. In fact, many cases of hair loss are caused by zinc deficiency. Zinc is important on the cellular level and improves tissue growth and repair work in the body. Further, zinc boosts oil production in the scalp, which is crucial to good hair health.

While these properties are great, the real reason why you should try zinc to regrow your hairline regularly is its ability to counter excess DHT in the scalp. In fact, research has found that men suffering from male pattern baldness tend to have lower zinc levels in their blood.

Zinc counters receding hairlines and male pattern baldness by preventing DHT from being produced in the scalp. Since it is DHT that causes the stunting of hair follicles, when zinc counters the production of DHT, hair follicles become more prolific.

Fortunately, it is quite easy to combat zinc deficiency. The best way is to incorporate zinc containing food items into your diet. These include meats like beef and lamb, legumes such as chickpeas and beans, seafood such as oysters and shellfish, and even dry fruits and nuts.

If you find this difficult to do, you can always start taking zinc supplements. However, you’ll have to be very careful about the dosage because excess zinc can boost hair loss instead of reducing it.

Protein

Hair is made up of keratin, which is a type of protein. The building block of proteins is amino acids. A diet that doesn’t contain sufficient protein can often lead to hair loss and a receding hairline. In contrast, if you have a protein-rich diet, you’re likelier to have healthy hair and even regrow your receding hairline.

The best sources of proteins are animals. These include food items such as eggs, chicken, turkey, and meats of various types. Consuming these food items can not only slow down hair loss but also boost hair regrowth.

Because the best sources of zinc are nonvegetarian, many vegans and vegetarians don’t get enough protein and suffer from hair loss. If you’re vegan or vegetarian, then you’ll have to pay twice as much attention to your protein intake as other people.

Food items you should look to consume a lot include peanuts, legumes, yogurt, and leafy vegetables. Protein supplements are also an option worth considering.

Iron

Iron is one of the most important minerals, not just for healthy hair but for every other bodily function. Iron deficiency leads to a condition called anemia. Anemia causes the body to weaken and become frailer.

This happens because iron is a key component of red blood cells, which are responsible for ferrying much-needed nutrients to all corners of the body, including the hair follicles in the scalp.

If the hair follicles in your scalp don’t receive sufficient oxygen and other nutrients, they won’t be able to produce enough hair and will become dormant. Moreover, if your hair follicles have already become dormant, then they will need to receive sufficient oxygen and other nutrients to become active again.

Since your hairline is receding because your hair follicles are becoming stunted, fixing iron deficiency will be very helpful in your bid to regrow your hairline. It is very easy to ensure that you’re getting enough iron.

Iron supplements are very safe and easy to take. Further, there are plenty of iron-containing food items that you can have, including seafood, red meat, whole grains, leafy vegetables, legumes, tofu, and even dark chocolate.

Magnesium

According to some estimates, magnesium is crucial to more than 700 functions in the body. While each of them has some impact on hair growth, two are directly related to hair health and hair loss. These are magnesium’s ability to restrict calcium and its role in protein synthesis.

When there isn’t enough magnesium in the body, calcium starts building up everywhere, including the scalp. It ends up clogging hair follicles and the result is weaker, more brittle hair. If calcium buildup remains unchecked, it can block follicles off from producing hair completely. This obviously will lead to a receding hairline.

Insufficient magnesium also affects the body’s ability to synthesize proteins. Since hair is mainly made up of protein, this affects hair growth and causes hair loss.

Like most minerals that help regrow hairline naturally, you can ensure sufficient intake of magnesium by either changing the foods you eat or taking supplements. Generally, foods that are high in fiber also tend to contain a lot of magnesium.

Therefore, foods you should look to eat more often to ensure sufficient intake of magnesium include leafy vegetables, beans, seeds, dry fruits and nuts, and dark chocolate. If you wish to boost magnesium intake, you should also avoid grease, since a lot of fat in the food can prevent absorption of magnesium in the body.

Vitamins

Various vitamins are also vital if you want to regrow your hairline naturally. Vitamins you should specifically focus on include:

1. Vitamin A: This vitamin is important in various cellular functions. Its deficiency can cause hair loss for two reasons. The first is that it adversely affects hair follicles and the other is that it prevents the scalp from producing the oils needed to moisturize hair. As a result, consuming foods rich in vitamin A such as leafy vegetables, carrots, pumpkins, and kale can be very helpful if you’re trying to regrow your hairline naturally.
2. Vitamins B Complex: It is a well-documented fact that biotin deficiency, one of the B-complex vitamins, leads to hair loss. Other vitamins in the complex are critical to other key bodily functions such as the production of red blood cells and indirectly useful to hair growth. All members of the vitamin B complex can be found in daily food items such as meats, seafood, legumes, and vegetables.
3. Vitamin C: Free radicals can prevent normal cellular processes resulting in hair loss. Vitamin C is particularly good at countering the oxidative stress caused by free radicals since it is one of the best naturally-occurring antioxidants.
4. Vitamin D: Like Biotin, deficiency of vitamin D has also been linked to hair loss, but in the form of alopecia areata instead of androgenetic alopecia. One research even showed that vitamin D couldboost the creation of new hair follicles. Therefore, vitamin D is not only very beneficial in slowing down or stopping the hairline recession but also re-growing it. More importantly, vitamin D is the easiest to get of all vitamins. All you’ll need to do is spend time in the sun and your body will produce vitamin D naturally. If you want a dietary source of vitamin D, consider seafood, and mushrooms.
5. Vitamin E: Vitamin E compliments vitamin C since it is also an antioxidant. Increasing your intake of vitamin E can help your effort to regrow hairline naturally and there are studies to prove it too. One study found that, over eight months, people who consumed more vitamin E saw nearly 35 percent more hair growth than others who didn’t. Foods that you should consume more often to get more vitamin E include avocados, spinach, almonds, and sunflower seeds.