How Can Silica Make Hair Shinier if Hair is Already Dead

[vtoodler]

Many people have said that silica makes their hair shinier.

How can that be possible if hair is already dead?

 

[hillytmj]

I'm thinking that since the product is sitting on your hair it adds a luster? I'm not sure if I fully understand the question.

 

[vtoodler]

I'm thinking that since the product is sitting on your hair it adds a luster? I'm not sure if I fully understand the question.

Many people who take silica supplements orally report that it makes their hair look shinier. I'm wondering how that's possible since hair is dead.

 

[Golden75]

Because hair grows from scalp, so whatever you ingest, put in your body, your hair gets the by-products. Same as your nails. For example in the case of drugs/medications, sometimes hair samples are used, because it can be detected, in hair strands, longer than in pee/blood. Starts from within the body, which produces the cells, that die, to create hair.

 

[Nonie]

To add onto what @Golden75 said, the hair that looks shinier isn't necessarily the hair that was there before they started taking it, but hair is being shed every day and new hair is growing afresh so all new hair will have the blessings of whatever good you're doing to your body and hair at the moment. And this change becomes evident over time.

Hair cells are not dead when they are born inside the root. It's only when they start to move away from the blood supply at the base of the follicle as they multiply to form the rod we later see hardened, that they break away from the blood supply therefore die and become the hard protein we call keratin. So whatever your blood is bringing to hair follicles at the root gets to the new cells and gives them character.