As the years roll on the skin across your scalp can become quite tight – in fact this can be a major factor contributing to baldness in men even when young – so it requires constant massage to keep it relaxed, elastic and supple. When taking your shower, with the water running through your hair, take your fingernails and run them quite sharply along your scalp front to back several times covering your whole scalp. You will feel your blood stimulate immediately in the skin and give your head a quite pleasant sensation.

Whilst that continues place all of the fingers of both hands against the sides of your head just above your ears where it begins to curve over the top of your scalp. Press firmly and push the skin vigorously upward and over the dome, inward and outward back down again. You may find the skin tight at the beginning, so persevere and continue thirty seconds everyday and after a week or two you will find that your skin loosens up considerably and becomes much more flexible. Once you have achieved this it is then easy to keep it supple with twenty to thirty seconds of massage every time you shower, or even by washing in the basin when not. You can even do it anytime in the dry.

This massaging will stimulate the blood flow streaming through that part of your scalp and feed all of your hair roots, which in turn will assist keeping the hair firmly rooted in its follicle instead of being strangled, dying and falling out.

Once this becomes a habit, you will automatically perform it first up in the shower or hand basin – thirty seconds combined daily of these two techniques will be enough to keep your scalp elastic, relaxed and happy. Also, you will notice that your hair begins to take on a sheen that wasn’t there before, has more bounce and if you have been losing hair that this massaging technique will reduce it considerably if not halt it altogether.

Now, here’s a radical idea you can try. Take all your shampoos and conditioners and throw them out! Can you do it? Add up how much you spend every year on these preparations and you can see how you can save quite an amount of money. Your hair doesn’t need shampoo as is illustrated by the fact that after you have washed it with shampoo(dries it out), you then have to apply conditioner – rather a pointless exercise don’t you think?

How to achieve this? Quite simply. As the water is running through your hair whilst you carry out your thirty second massage treatment it will get its wash at the same time, so you combine both treatments into one – easy huh? Once you step out of the shower, dry your hair in the normal way fluffing it up so that it looks nice and natural. You will be rather pleased with the effect.

Depending on how oily your hair is will determine how long it takes to revert to its natural and lustrous state. This varies from person to person and it could be just a few days for folks with less oily hair to a couple of weeks for more oily hair. But, once you have arrived at this point, your hair will feel and look just great and you will never spend money on all those hair care products again.

Vincent Bossley is a publisher and sailor and lives on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia. He has is own website http://www.sailboat2adventure.com for cruising sailors, sailors planning their lifetime adventure, armchair sailors, virtual sailors and in fact anyone who has ever dreamed of sailing the oceans of this beautiful planet of ours. You can find him and his ebook ‘Voyage of the Little Ship ‘Tere Moana’ on http://www.sailboat2adventure.com