| Although female hair loss is becoming a common | | | | thick hairy bush off my head and left the shop. I didn't |
| occurrence among women of all ages it still causes | | | | want to be bald. I didn't want to be Elvis. I just wanted |
| emotional turmoil. Fortunately, after the initial | | | | to be me again and without hair that seemed |
| devastation I learned how to successfully restore my | | | | impossible. |
| hair using potent but natural solutions. | | | | Eventually I purchased a more suitable, less "wiggy" |
| As a young girl I suffered with alopecia areata but | | | | looking wig. At the same time I began investigating |
| was not prepared for what happened when I was | | | | natural hair loss solutions. Of all the natural solutions for |
| also struck with another type of hair loss which took | | | | hair loss, I was most intrigued by aromatherapy. |
| complete control over me. | | | | Learning about how essential oils can help stimulate the |
| Horrified by my own reflection, I fell to the cool tile of | | | | scalp into producing new hair, was fascinating. Each |
| my bathroom floor and sobbed uncontrollably. "Why | | | | type of oil had its own function such as cleansing, |
| God, why are you doing this?" I demanded. It was now | | | | nourishing, increasing circulation, supplying oxygen, |
| impossible to conceal my baldness with the few | | | | balancing ph levels etc. As I continued experimenting, I |
| strands of hair remaining on my scalp. It was | | | | learned which oils complemented each other and |
| inevitable...soon I would be completely bald. | | | | began mixing my own formulas. |
| It all began when I was seven years old. I can still | | | | Every evening I massaged the essential oil blends into |
| remember the day. Mom sat me in a chair under the | | | | my scalp. Their soothing aroma seemed to lure me |
| big oak tree in our yard and began brushing my long | | | | into a deep sleep. In the morning I washed the oils out. |
| chestnut brown hair. The sun shone in my face as I | | | | Instinctively I knew this was going to work for me. |
| dangled my bare feet in the soft green grass. This | | | | Becoming absorbed in learning everything I could about |
| deeply relaxing moment was abruptly interrupted when | | | | the healing powers of aromatherapy allowed me to |
| Mom discovered a small, perfectly round bald patch at | | | | stop focusing on my hair loss. Taking control of my |
| the nape of my neck. | | | | own health gave me a new sense of confidence. I |
| The patch eventually filled in with new hair, but soon | | | | learned that aromatherapy works on many different |
| another patch appeared. At times I had two or three | | | | levels. It works in harmony with the body's own natural |
| bald patches at once. Although they were well hidden | | | | healing system. |
| beneath my long layers of hair, knowing they were | | | | Soon I felt an overall sense of well-being. I was |
| there made me feel like a mangy old dog. | | | | beginning to look and feel better. Within three months |
| My parents carted me from doctor to doctor until we | | | | of applying the oils I began to notice very fine, soft |
| finally accepted the fact that there was no known | | | | new hairs covering my scalp. Later the hair began to |
| cause or cure for the mysterious, but common hair | | | | thicken and darken and I was finally able to discard my |
| follicle disorder called alopecia areata. I didn't like it but I | | | | wig! My new hair was dark, shiny and healthy looking. I |
| learned to live with it - until many years later. | | | | vowed to keep it that way by continuing to use |
| Then at age 32 my hair started falling out by the | | | | aromatherapy and natural hair care products. |
| handfuls and this time it wasn't stopping. At first I | | | | For over seventeen years now I've been able to |
| thought the hair loss was a severe case of alopecia | | | | maintain healthy growing hair. I no longer experience |
| areata. Later I learned I was experiencing yet another | | | | alopecia areata symptoms but periodically I notice |
| form of hair loss called telogen effluvium. I was told | | | | signs of telogen effluvium. Thankfully I now have the |
| that it's not unusual for women to experience more | | | | knowledge and experience to blend essential oil hair |
| than one form of hair loss, sometimes even | | | | loss formulas that will come to my rescue. I am able to |
| simultaneously; and that having any type of hair loss | | | | restore growth and minimize hair loss quickly and |
| could be a catalyst for developing another type. | | | | effectively, before any thinning is ever noticeable. |
| Because I was deemed otherwise healthy, I was | | | | Losing my hair was a painful, life changing experience. |
| advised to get a good wig and get on with my life. | | | | But it was this experience that led me to explore |
| With an ache in my heart and a sick feeling in my | | | | aromatherapy and to experience the beauty and |
| stomach I took a deep breath, and pushed through the | | | | power of nature's gentle yet potent healing oils. |
| door of the wig shop. The sales person asked what | | | | Almost all cases of female hair loss can be improved. |
| my hair - when I used to have hair, looked like. She | | | | Overall health, good nutrition and natural hair loss |
| quickly proceeded to locate a dark brown shoulder | | | | remedies can greatly improve most female hair loss |
| length wig and plopped in on my head. "There" she | | | | conditions but it is also important to determine the type |
| said, "you look beautiful, just like a movie star." | | | | and cause of hair loss, and to address the underlying |
| "I look like an Elvis impersonator," I cried as I flung the | | | | issues. |