Yin is the cold or cool energy. Cooling foods like aloe vera, honey, cucumbers and peppermint are examples of Yin foods.
Yang is hot or warming energy. Hot foods like chili, beef and cherries are examples of Yang foods. When your Yin and Yang are in balance, you skin and hair are at their best.

Oily skin, Yang.
A person with oily skin, a tendency to break out in pimples and a hot temper tends to have an excess of Yang, not enough Yin.
Pimple, boils and the like are due to toxic heat. Smoking and stress also aggravate the situation. Note that stress can lead to acne and dry skin at the same time.
If that sounds like you, the best food for you would be the cooling food. Food like carrots, cucumbers, peppermint, honey suckle, apples, bananas and chrysanthemum are great for cooling the ‘fire’.

If you are experiencing hair loss, the last thing you want, is to worry about which of the many products on the market is the right one for you. Extra worry will only make the problem worse, and for the majority of sufferers, the idea of going into a shop to ask about hair loss products or buy them over the counter only causes further stress and anxiety.

There are many reasons why people experience hair loss in varying degrees. Medical conditions, chemical treatments, heredity factors, poor diet/prolonged and excessive dieting, pregnancy, harsh or over use of hair products.

Equally, there are a wide range of treatments available for the successful reversal of many types of hair loss and thinning. They work for men and women and offer real results. The choice includes:

• Products to conceal and disguise hair loss, colour matched.
• Fibres and solutions to thicken thinning hair.
• Laser combs to directly stimulate the scalp and promote hair re-growth. Portable laser therapy to use in the privacy of a home environment – a treatment that costs serious money at hair loss clinics, but is now available through portable Laser combs.

• Shampoos and serums to cleanse and nourish the hair follicles.
• Vitamins and dietary supplements to nourish the hair from the inside and give the body what it needs to produce healthy hair growth.
• Patches to wear on your skin (placed on a different, non visible part of your body each day), these patches act from within, strengthening the nucleus of the hair follicle.

What we eat has a profound effect on our outward appearance as well as on our physical well-being. An ideal diet should provide adequate quantities of all the nutrients essential to health and beauty. And don’t forget to nourish your mind! The nutrients which are of particular importance for beauty and their main sources are briefly examined here.

Vitamin A / Beta Carotene.
Vitamin A is essential for healthy hair and eyes. It is also important in the prevention and clearing of infections of the skin. Vitamin A counteracts dry skin, dandruff and wrinkle formation. It is needed for healthy blood circulation which gives a glow to the skin. Vitamin A deficiency can lead to eruptions or dry, coarse, wrinkled skin; dull and dry hair or dandruff; ridging or peeling fingernails; pimples or acne and visual fatigue.
Natural Sources of Vitamin A:
Cod liver oil. Dairy products. Eggs. Carrots.
Green leafy vegetables. Tomatoes. Papaya
Melon.

Vitamin C plays an important role in forming collagen in the bones as well as in maintaining healthy gums, teeth, skin, and blood vessels.
A powerful antioxidant, vitamin C also reduces allergies and heals wounds. Since it’s involved in collagen formation, vitamin C glues cells together and prevents foreign organisms from penetrating this first line of defence.

A stylist and coiffeur Angelica provides vital advice on haircare, hair loss and looking good.

Actually, healthy, well-groomed hair is one of the most important components of image of a modern successful lady. But some women are endowed with magnificent and brilliant ringlets by nature, and some women should achieve their wished purpose by their own efforts. In a pursuit of fashionable tendencies, in experiments with our image, sometimes, we forget about protection of our hair, and it becomes often lifeless and fragile. There is a question: how to make hair not simply beautiful, but healthy?