How to Stop Hair Loss Naturally: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide
Struggling with hair loss? Here are some simple steps that helped me combat hair loss and improve my hair health. By following these guidelines consistently, you will notice a real difference over time. Stay committed, take it one step at a time, and trust the process. Healthier hair is absolutely within reach; don't let hair loss get you down. Embrace the journey back to recovery.
Lets Start with the basics !
How to Brush Your Hair the Right Way
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Brushing your hair may seem like a simple task, but doing it correctly is a powerful way to reduce hair loss and breakage. This essential step not only detangles your hair but also helps distribute natural oils, promoting healthier strands. By brushing your hair properly, you can prevent breakage and maintain a vibrant, shiny appearance. Remember, a little care goes a long way!
1. Never brush wet hair. Wet hair is significantly more fragile than dry hair. When hair is wet, the proteins within the strands form weaker bonds, making them highly prone to breakage, split ends, and texture damage. Always pat your hair dry first, then allow it to air dry before brushing.
2. Use the right brush. Use a wooden paddle brush that has soft, rounded bristles and no rough edges. Rough bristle tips can lead to hair breakage and scalp irritation. You will notice a significant difference when using a quality wooden paddle brush or a neem wood straight comb ,from the very first application. If you wish, you could buy the right universally no-harm wooden hair tools from us
3. Always start brushing from the bottom. Hold your hair just above the point where you begin brushing. Your ends will be the most tangled; working from the bottom upward prevents unnecessary pulling and hair loss. Take small sections, a few inches at a time. Bottom to top, always.
4. Gradually work your way up. As you move higher up the hair shaft, continue brushing downward in short strokes, holding the hair firmly above your brushing point. This technique protects the roots and minimises shedding.
5. Style top-to-bottom only after detangling is complete. Once your hair has been fully detangled from bottom to top, you can then brush from top to bottom to style it smoothly.
6. The Nightly Oiling Ritual: 100 Strokes for Hair Health. Every night, use an anti-static Neem wood or other wooden hair comb to spread your scalp's own natural oils from the roots all the way to the ends of your hair. First, use a wooden detangling brush to remove any knots that have accumulated. Remember to start detangling at the ends and work your way up. Once that is done, take your Neem wood comb or any other wooden hair comb and brush from your scalp to the ends. The comb must gently touch your scalp with each stroke. Do this for 100 strokes every night across all three sections of your hair, both sides and the back. You will notice immediately that your hair starts to become a touch oily. What is actually happening is that the wooden comb is spreading your own natural healing oils along the hair shaft. In a few months, you will notice your hair has become healthier, and you will likely notice a reduction in dandruff too.
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Following these steps consistently, in the right order, you will notice your hair feeling smoother and stronger with each passing week. The breakage will reduce. The texture will improve. And with the nightly oiling ritual, your scalp will slowly come back to life, producing and distributing its own natural oils the way it was always meant to. Give it a few months, and the difference will speak for itself.
How to Wash Your Hair Naturally
Washing hair is a much-debated topic these days. There is a whole no-shampoo movement out there, with many women recommending ditching shampoo altogether and sharing the benefits of not washing their hair regularly. My own experience with hair washing has been one of trial and error, along with guidance from Ayurvedic sources. If you follow the steps above religiously, the next step will be even more helpful to you.
Water Temperature Matters. I wash my hair and scalp with water every day, but I never use warm or hot water directly on my head. As per Ayurvedic methodology, I only use cold water. According to Ayurveda, hot or warm water weakens the hair and scalp over time. Cold water is gentler and helps seal the hair cuticle.
Natural Alternatives to Shampoo for Hair Loss.
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Multani Mitti (Fuller's Earth) + Turmeric Paste. I don't use any shampoo. Instead, I use Fuller's Earth (Multani Mitti), a mineral-rich volcanic clay used in many skin creams and beauty products. You can buy it online in powdered form or in its original stone form and mash it to a powder at home. Email me if you can't find it. I mix it with a small amount of turmeric, roughly 99% Multani Mitti to 1% turmeric, make a paste, apply it to my wet scalp and hair, leave it on for 10 minutes, and then wash it out.
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Bhringraj Powder Paste. Alternatively, I use Bhringraj, an Ayurvedic herb, again in powdered form, mixed with water into a paste, and applied to my wet hair. I leave it in for 10 minutes before washing it out.
Either method, done once a week, gives me very good results: a noticeable reduction in hair loss and silky-soft hair.
Remember, natural remedies work best over time. You'll notice softer hair almost immediately, but for lasting hair loss reduction, commit to these practices for at least a few months, and ideally make them part of your lifestyle long-term for a permanent solution.
Next Step is Hair Food !
Hair Food !
What You Eat Matters
When I realized how serious my hair loss had become and that if I didn't do something about it, I would be looking at significant baldness within a few years, I threw myself into finding answers. I researched extensively, and I consulted my Spiritual Guru. What came out of that process were food choices and daily routines that helped me manage not just my hair loss, but my body and my spiritual self as a whole.
Here is what I found, in short: diet plays a crucial role. I have personally stopped my hair loss and seen a significant improvement in hair quality simply by incorporating the right foods and routines into my daily life. The three foods below were the easiest for me to source and the most effective I came across. I genuinely believe they will work for you too, just make sure you consume them in the right way, as described below.
1. Soaked Almonds: Soak 6-8 almonds overnight, peel them in the morning, and eat them as your first food of the day. Chew each almond thoroughly until it is completely liquefied in your mouth, before swallowing. This maximises nutrient absorption.
2. Roasted Black Sesame Seeds: Soak a handful of black sesame seeds overnight. In the morning, drain them and dry-roast them on low heat in an open pan, stirring continuously so they don't burn or pop. Eat these with breakfast daily. Black sesame seeds are rich in minerals that directly support hair follicle health.
3. Indian Gooseberry (Amla): Raw, cooked, or sun-dried Indian Gooseberry consumed every morning is one of nature's most potent hair-strengthening superfoods. If using sun-dried Amla, soak it for at least 1 hour before eating. This tangy superfood, in either its raw or sun-dried form, made a big difference in stopping my hair loss. Eaten every morning alongside breakfast, it is phenomenal for hair health.
These three foods, consumed consistently every day, especially as part of breakfast in the correct manner for a few months, have shown remarkable results in halting sudden, heavy hair loss in my life.
Do not stop once you see improvement after a few months. Once I stopped eating these foods, I realized that hair loss began creeping back within just a few weeks. So it's best to bring this into your life for a few years, until the imbalance that has been created in your body, or in your external environment, has fully stabilized.
How to Eat for Maximum Nutrition and Hair Health
The way you eat is just as important as what you eat. Here are key Ayurvedic eating principles that I follow and have helped me improve digestion and maximize nutrient uptake for hair health:
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Eating starts with the eyes , nose and hands first ! The first step in eating is to experience the food with your eyes, nose, and hands before you even take a bite. Long before we actually chew the food and bring it into our stomach, our body has already started creating the right kind of saliva to digest it, depending on what the eyes see on the plate and what the nose can smell. Using these two senses, the body decides what kind of saliva is best for the digestion of that food. Further, where possible, when the hands touch the food without the use of spoons or forks, the sense of touch gives the body another input into the right manner of digesting it.
For this bodily process to work, you must be a little patient. So just sit and look at your food for a full minute, until your body can choose the right saliva to produce. When I eat a meal, I do sit and stare at the food, and I've noticed that on most days, at around the 40-second mark, my tongue produces saliva. Sometimes, if I'm dehydrated after a water fast or eating after a 40 or 60-hour fast, it can take 80 to 120 seconds.
So be patient and give your body the time it needs to prepare itself. If you start eating immediately, the right saliva simply hasn't been produced yet, and your body won't be able to digest the food or absorb its nutrients the way it should.
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Don't drink water 30 minutes before or 1 hour after meals. Eating and digesting food starts long before you actually eat, and ends a long time after you have finished. Don't drink water in the 30 minutes before your meal, during it, or for an hour after. Drinking water around meals dilutes your digestive enzymes and reduces the quality of your digestion.
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Chew each mouthful at least 40 times. Chew your food until it is completely liquefied, or at least 40 chews per mouthful. If you chew just a few times and swallow, your body simply won't be able to extract the complete nutrition that food has to offer.
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There is a saying in Ayurveda that, paraphrased, means: "Chew your water and drink your food." Literally, take water into your mouth and move your jaw as you would when chewing, taking it down in small gulps. And chew your food so thoroughly that it becomes tiny particles your body can easily absorb.
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Always eat as per the terrain you live in: Eating food is not as simple as eating what you want, when you want. Always eat according to the terrain you live in. Where possible, eat foods indigenous to your location, as these are easiest for your body to digest and take the least energy to process.
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What follows is knowledge shared with me by my Spiritual Guru. Please consider the points below as a personal guide, and consult your own Spiritual Guru, Healer, Ayurvedic Vaidya, Shaman, Naturopath, Homeopath, Unani practitioner, Chinese Medicine practitioner or Allopathic doctor before you implement any of it
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Reduce meal frequency. When we eat food , even a small bite of a snack , our body rushes all the blood from various parts of the body to the digestive track to digest the food , when we do this 4 or even 6 times a day we deprive many of our body parts of essential blood they need , so the scalp can suffer lack of blood supply and this can lead to hair loss , the body considers the scalp as a non essential organ compared to so many other organs in the body so it willl reduce blood supply to the scalp and energy for hair growth as it needs the blood and energy to digest the food we put in our stomach so many times a day !! Start by coming down to 2 meals a day, one before noon, one around 4 pm. Then, gradually, work towards once a day. I have been eating one meal a day since 23rd November 2023 , for the first six months of my new life style i was eating 2 meals a day and then one day i realized that i can thrive with even a single proper meal per day , not stuffing my self , but having 1 health meal , that's it ! Frist part of the meal consists of raw foods - trail mix ( almonds , dates , raisins etc ) , fresh seasonal fruits and salads and second part of the meal consists of cooked foods - millets , pulses , vegetables and rice , A complete organic vegetarian diet, no wheat, and nothing after sundown, as Ayurveda teaches that our digestion is linked to the sun and weakens once it sets. I am healthier than I have ever been in my life and my hair loss has seen a signifacant improvement ! My Guru calls eating once a day "the road to immortality." I have more energy now than I have felt in my whole life. Try it. It's fantastic.
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Fast on Ekadashi: I fast at least 24 times a year on Ekadashi - the 11th lunar day, falling roughly 14 days after both the full moon and the new moon. Other spiritually significant days can be observed as fasts too. Fasting gives your body the time and space to recharge and recover from what my Guru describes simply as the act of living. The act of living is actually the body slowly decaying and fasting is a way for the body to renew itself.
What you eat, how you eat it, and how often you eat - all three matter equally. Get all three right, and you are giving your hair exactly what it needs to stop falling and start thriving. These are not temporary measures. Make them part of your life, and your hair will show it.
De Stress !
Breathe in, Breathe Out, Let Go !
How to De-Stress Naturally
I won't go into why and how stress causes hair loss; there are enough research reports you can read online to understand the mechanism.
What I can share is the routine that keeps me stress-free. I follow three spiritual practices every day that build a beautiful charge in my body, keeping me relaxed and fit, spiritually, physically, and mentally.
1. Pranayama: The first practice is Pranayama, a simple yogic breathing exercise that I come back to every single day. You can do it at any time, though morning is ideal. Find a quiet spot away from distractions, get comfortable, and close your eyes. Then just breathe - slowly and deeply, in and out. Light a scented candle or burn some incense if that helps you settle. There are no complicated rules here.
Breathe deeply and take in the universal energy, and breathe out the negativity. That's really the heart of it, taking in energy and letting the negativity go with each exhale. It sounds almost too simple, and yet it works in every area of life. Stress, mental noise, that background hum of worry, it all loosens when you breathe with intention. Just close your eyes, let the world fall away from your mind, your body, your heart, and give yourself a few minutes of nothing but breath.
Slow. Deep. Let go.
There are many variations of Pranayama, each with its own rhythm and focus, and you can find excellent free instruction online. Start with whatever feels natural to you; the most important thing is simply that you begin.
2. Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutation): The second spiritual practice I follow is Surya Namaskar - a yogic exercise that keeps me in sync with the sun throughout the day. As the sun moves across the sky, minute by minute, you remain connected to it spiritually from sunrise to sunset, because you began your day by consciously aligning with it. The best time to practise it is about 30 minutes before sunrise, so that the connection is established from the very moment the sun rises.
In the West, it's often called Sun Salutation, but that name doesn't quite do it justice. It isn't a salute, it's a collection of postures that sync the body, change its energy patterns, and essentially create living circuit diagrams within you to connect with our suns enrgy. One small thing worth knowing, call it Surya Namaskar when you practise, not Sun Salutation. The words themselves carry an energy pattern, and when you speak or hold them in your mind, that energy enters your body too.
If you can, learn the mantras that accompany each pose. These aren't just words; they are carefully arranged combinations of sounds and beej aksharas, seed syllables that carry specific vibrations. They add a depth to the practice that is genuinely felt over time. Many teachers offer free Surya Namaskar instruction online, and it's well worth taking the time to learn it properly.
3. Falun Gong / Falun Dafa
The third practice is one I genuinely never imagined I would ever explore or that I would step outside my own cultural and spiritual tradition, and yet here I am, and I'm so glad I did.
It's called Falun Gong, or Falun Dafa. It is a collection of traditional spiritual exercises brought together and compiled by Mr Li Hongzhi, a five-step process that takes around 30 to 45 minutes to complete. I know that sounds like a commitment, and it is. But I can tell you from my own experience that what it gives back to you is worth every minute of it.
If you're curious, their website offers all five exercises completely free, with audio and video content you can download and use at home, at your own pace, in your own space.
https://en.falundafa.org/falun-dafa-video-audio.html
Start there. Keep an open mind. That's all it takes.
Together, these three practices will give you something hard to put a price on - mental peace, physical vitality, and a genuine sense of your own energy and potential as a human being. Combine them with the right foods, the right eating habits, and the right care for your hair, and you have everything you need to stop the loss.
And here's something worth holding onto: you have been through a million different births before you were given a human body to inhabit. You earned this. Don't let hair loss take the joy out of it for you.
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Here's why this matters more than it might seem. Our bodies are deeply connected to how we feel. When you're happy and at ease, your body produces chemicals that support healing and vitality. When you're sad, worried, or low, it produces ones that harm it.
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If these steps have made a real difference in your life, I would love to hear about it. Write to me at ceo@sukalp.life and tell me how you incorporated them, what changed, and how you're feeling. If your experience has been a substantial one, I'd love to share your picture and your story on the website - so that other women can find their way to it, just as you did. Your truth could be the thing that changes someone else's life.
And do visit our website for more ways to approach hair loss, both spiritually and scientifically.
Love and Blessings - Sukalp
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