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Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:55 am |
The SA July issue had a little article on a new product they are working on for preventing gray hair that might give you some ideas:
Hannah's Notes
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New scientific findings about gray hair and, soon, a new SAS product
SAS will be soon presenting a hair serum to help prevent gray hair.
Gray hair happens because there is little or no melanin incorporated in the hair as it is formed in the follicle. It has been known for some time that oxidants were implicated in the damage and death of the melanocytes in the follicle. New evidence shows that hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) accumulates in the hair shafts of gray-white hair. Two enzymes are involved in the prevention and repair of oxidative damage: catalase and methionine sulfoxide reductase. In gray hairs they are almost completely gone.
Catalase breaks down hydrogen peroxide, preventing damage to the cell's DNA and membrane lipids. Conversely, methionine sulfoxide reductase (MSR) repairs protein damage. For example, MSR can fix a damaged amino acid in tyrosinase the key enzyme of melanogenesis. Another way of preventing damage of tyrosinase by hydrogen peroxide is to have L-methionine in the environment.
Our SAS no-gray serum will contain, among other actives, catalase, methionine sulfoxide reductase and L-methionine. The objective of our no-gray serum is to prevent the loss of hair color.
There is no evidence that anything can restore the original color to gray hair, but there is room for hope. If the color loss is relatively recent, the non-oxidant environment provided by our serum may prevent the death of melanocytes and allow tyrosinase in those melanocytes to do its job again.
Wood, J. M., Decker, H., Hartmann, H., Chavan, B., Rokos, H., Spencer, J. D., Hasse, S.,
Thornton, M. J., Shalbaf, M., Paus, R., Schallreuter, K. U. (2009) Senile hair graying: H2O2-mediated
oxidative stress affects human hair color by blunting methioninesulfoxide repair. FASEB Journal online.
http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/content/abstract/fj.08-125435v1
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Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:11 pm |
Skippie,
I have heard of it but never run across it, I can't swear to this but I think it is one of those really pricey ones. Might be able to special order it.
I will check out what I can and let you know.
HTH
DM
link to a seller:
http://www.bluelotus-export.com/index.php?lay=show&ac=article&Id=333952&Ntype=1
here is another:
http://www.essentialoil.in/lotus-essential-oil.shtml
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They are pricey as suspected, but if it was cheep it would probably be a "fragrance" oil artifical which unless all you want to smell it, you need the actual essential oil to receive benefits. |
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Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:32 pm |
Hi Skippie. I take a powdered B formula that you can only get through a naturopath. We have brands in Australia that are 'practitioner only' ones. Not sure if you have the same thing wherever you are - the vits/herbs are presumably in a higher dosage than normal and only a professional can put you on them. So giving you the label is probably not much use to you.
Some people think that B12 *might* be the key, so maybe look for something with a reasonable quantity of that.
Though there is some indication that it is a combination of a few of the Bs that is important:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Why-Does-Hair-Turn-Grey
HTH! |
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Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:19 am |
Skippie,
The Blue Lotus Extract is from the same plant so close in that sense. Essential Oils are more potent and concentrated than extracts. Essential
Oils are usually steam extracted the other methods are solvent extraction and effleurage. Basically just leaving the pure oil essence of the plant. Extracts are less concentrated most commonly the plant material is soaked in alcohol or water for a period of time then strained leaving the extract, some evaporate off the alcohol and put it in a glycerin base that is why you see both alcohol free and alcohol based liquid extracts in the health food store. They will have the concentration shown on the bottle 1:1 1 part extract to 1 part base 2:1 2 parts extract to 1 part base. Dry extracts should show some concentration as well.
So after my lesson on the two, your extract should be fine, you will need to use more extract than an essential oil to achieve the desired benefits.
I hope this helps!
DM |
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Tue Sep 30, 2014 8:50 am |
grayban is a dye, a progressive one, it washes out when shampooing and colors your clothes as well.
LLLT stands for low laser light therapy.
The PABA is more effective on recent graying I've heard, is that correct? |
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