Stop Gray Hair

Hair follicles have specialized cells called melanin. The body produces a certain color of melanin based on genetics and aging. When the body stops producing melanin, hair turns gray or white. The key to stop gray hair, then, is to determine how to deal with this end to melanin-production. This step is not as simple as it seems. While researchers feel that there is promise in this area, there is as of now no magic cure for getting rid of those unwanted gray hairs.

The easy way to stop gray hair is not to stop it at all. Instead, it is to deal with it or cover it up. There are kits available from inexpensive over the counter remedies to pricey salon treatments that will help stop gray hair from dominating your features. At-home treatments range from wash-out color that will last a couple of weeks to permanent color that you will need to repeat only every few months. The salon treatments often involve moisturizing the hair and then treating it. These treatments may get expensive, but they are worth it for people who gray in their early thirties, which is not uncommon. These people often want to stop gray hair more than anyone else because they feel it makes them look older.

There are some researchers who are looking into the possibility of trying to stop gray hair through scientific means. Although these scientists say that it will be years before anything they uncover winds up in salons, they are working on ways to make someone’s genes produce melanin again so that gray hair can be reversed and will be the color of hair a person had in her or his younger days. This research is exciting for people who want to be able to change their destiny and for stylists who can get frustrated with not being able to change this aspect of people’s hair.