Is It True!

Mar 13, 2014

kristinee c.

Is it true if you crush prenatal vitamins in your shampoo it will help your hair??

Mar 13, 2014

Jenna P.

Never heard of that.

Mar 13, 2014

Hannah K.

It's supposed to in order to imbue your hair with necessary vitamins, but the same thing can be accomplished with a healthy diet and a hair mask every now and again.

Mar 13, 2014

kristinee c.

Hmmm alright so it's just giving it it's every day vitamins? @hannah W.

Mar 13, 2014

Hannah K.

That's all prenatals are :) just double the vitamins so your baby gets them as well. It won't do much for your hair that your diet isn't already doing.

Mar 13, 2014

Lisa S.

It doesn't really work because hair is 'dead'. It would pretty much just be like pouring water onto your keyboard lol, it wouldn't help it. Like Hannah said, a healthy diet and taking good care of your hair (mask, no heat, getting rid of dead ends) you can achieve getting longer hair. I have done a lot of research on this subject because I too believed that it could help benefit hair growth but unfortunately it does not. Many people recommend taking Prenatal vitamins or Biotin to promote growth but these supplements should not be taken unless you have talked to your doctor because, a-you are not pregnant and b- you naturally already have biotin in your body and should only take it if you have deficiency. As for other ways to speed up growth, the only things I have found is not using any heat on the hair and also people have good luck with the 'inversion method', which is where you lay upside down (like off a couch or a bed) and massage oils (coconut or olive) into the scalp because it creates blood flow to the head, which then helps speed up hair growth.

Mar 13, 2014

Lisa S.

Although, you can take daily vitamins as well to help with your diet/health (like women's daily) and that will help a little with the hair growth. And I forgot to add that the reason pregnant women seem to grow hair faster, is not from the prenatal vitamins, but actually just because of the crazy hormones they produce while pregnant.

Mar 13, 2014

Hannah K.

Lisa, actually the inversion method is total BS. It weighs down your hair with the oils; natural hair grows about 1/4-1/2 an inch in a month, so growing 1 inch in a few hours or days is actually impossible. It's also sort of dangerous, I've heard from Kitty (who has much more information about this than I do), because you're putting your body in a very awkward position for an extended period of time.

Mar 13, 2014

kristinee c.

Well I had some left over from my pregnancy so I thought I would try it but okay thank you @lisa A.