Saturday, July 17, 2010

HEALTHY HAIR


  • The first step to beautiful hair is cleanliness. You must wash your hair every alternate day or even daily, if necessary. This will not harm your hair as long as you make sure of the quality of the shampoo. Never compromise on the quality.
  •  Your shampoo and conditioner should be used separately. Both have entirely different functions and hence must be used separately for adequate results.
  • Henna has a very drying effect on your hair. So, avoid using it and instead choose a quality hair dye to colour your hair.
  • Always trim your hair at least once in six weeks. This will help you maintain your hairstyle and also keep split ends away. 
  • Go in for a hair massage with glycerin once a week followed by steaming your head with a wet towel. This will ensure that the glycerin is absorbed down to the roots of the hair and help condition the follicles and the shaft alike.
  • Avoid blow dry to style your hair as far as possible. The heat leads to weakening of the hair roots. If your cut requires a blow dry to style, you must first let your hair to be half dry and only then use the dryer to style. This will reduce the duration your hair is exposed to direct heat from the dryer.
  • Always change the brand of shampoo and the conditioner you use, every two months. This will help your hair to avoid developing resistance to the products and greatly improve their efficacy on your hair. This also reduces the chances of causing a build up, that is, the deposition of chemicals from your shampoo on your hair shaft, after regular and continuous use of a particular brand of shampoo. As a result, you will find your hair having that much coveted shine and bounce.
  • Never brush your hair when it is wet, as this only leads to breakage. Use a wide toothed comb to disentangle your hair after shampoo.
  • What is important is not what you put on your hair but what you put into your hair. For this, you  need to eat right and be healthy. So, remember, for healthy and shining hair you need a healthy body.       

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SPACE

  • Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension.
  • Mercury, Venus, earth and Mars are called the inner planets as they are closest to the sun!
  • December 21st 1968, was the first time that humans truly left Earth, when Apollo 8 became the first manned space vehicle to leave Earth orbit and to orbit the Moon.
  • Olympus Mons, a volcano found on Mars, is the largest volcano found in solar system. It is 370 miles (595 km) across and rises 15 miles (24 km).
  • We know more about space than we do about our deep oceans!
  • The space age began on the 4th October 1957.
  • If you attempted to count all the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
  • The one and only satellite that Britain has launched was called Black Arrow.
  • The odds of being killed by space debris - 1 in 5 billion.
  • The Earth's revolution time increases .0001 seconds annually.
  • Driving at 75 miles (121 km) per hour, it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn's rings.
  • Astronaut Neil Armstrong (the first man on the moon) first stepped on the moon with his left foot.
  • "Moon" was Buzz Aldrin's (second man on the moon) mother's maiden name.
  • The first conventional use for rockets was rocket mail and catching whales and deer.
  • The only married couple to fly together in space were Jan Davis and Mark Lee, who flew aboard the Endeavour space shuttle from September 12-20, 1992.
  • The first millennium, 1 - 1000 AD, consisted of 365,250 days. Our current millennium, 1001 - 2000 AD, will consist of 365,237 days. The third millennium, 2001 - 3000 AD, will consist of 365,242 days. The reason for the differences is the calendar system that was in use during the milleniums.
  • If you shouted in space even if someone was right next to you they wouldn't be able to hear you.
  • Feb 1865 and Feb 1999 are the only months in recorded history not to have a full moon.
  • The first man-made satellite in space was called sputnik.
  • Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
  • Just 20 seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
  • The first woman in space was a Russian called Valentina Tereshkova.
  • One Day on the planet Pluto is about the length of a week on Earth.

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