Prenatal vitamins and hair?

Question

I'm not pregnant though I noticed that when my friends became pregnant their hair grew ridiculously long - their fingernails, too. I asked and they said that they took prenatal vitamins and I was given some. I was wondering if it's a hormone when you're pregnant or the prenatals that help your hair grow? I trim my hair often so it will grow but it just doesn't.. help! Any other ideas as well?

Answer 1

prenatal vitamins will only help your hair grow if you are not getting enough vitamins to begin with (which most people dont)...also dont get your hair trimmed it is a myth that it will make it grow faster

Answer 2

Here is the deal with prenatal vitamins and hair/nail growth. The vitamins do not actually make your hair/nails grow faster. This is what they do. The vitamins make your hair/nails stronger inturn making the breakdown process shorter. Because your hair/nails are getting so much nutrients, as they grow out, they will be stronger and make it seem as though your hair/nails are growing faster because they are not breaking or splitting as fast as they normally would. If you find that your hair is still not growing after a certain point, this could be a result of your gene makeup. Some people have a natural hair growth point, meaning that it will only grow to a certain length and stop. While other peoples hair can just keep growing longer and longer. I had a friend who took prenatal vitamins for the same reason and she found that, regardless of the vitamins, her hair would not grow past a certain point, but it wasn't stringy and split at the ends anymore. As far as trimming is concerned, you need to do that. On the average, a persons hair will grow a half an inch each month. To gain growth you should have your hair cut every other month. Over a year you should have an extra 3 inches in growth, as long as you are only cutting off a half an inch every other month. Please do not rule out the importance of trimming your hair, especially if you use heat on it everyday. Blow drying and curling on a daily basis causes a lot of damage and breakdown, and trimming your hair cuts down on that. My backgound knowledge on this; I am a cosmetologist/hairstylist.

Answer 3

What type of hair do you have? im sure i can help/

Prenatal vitamins do help athough they are not as potent as doctor precribed.. You can take with Vitamin E+ 1,000 mil.gram 4.00 bucks @ target.Also get some tea tree oil and mix with hair condioner. Let your hair air dry with light kemi oil and leave in conditioner 911 or infusium.best conditoners: vo5 tea tree oh..and paul mitchells tea tree.
I have long think hair so I add .

if you have braids,,extension..weave to where your hair is braided up...you can by World of Curls: spray on scalp and on braids it keeps you hair lighty mosturized (like that jerry curl stuff..believe me I do hair and I have grown out girls hair who only had an inch to start with. ps. also switch you hair shaft pattern..parts,bangs,so hair can grow .