Grey Hair Solutions – The Best Vitamins to Preserve Hair Color

Grey hair is a natural part of aging. It happens to nearly all of us at some point, and it’s nothing to be ashamed of. But if you’re noticing hair fading and greying, then you may be looking for grey hair solutions, including the best vitamins to preserve hair color.  

 

 

We believe that preserving the melanin (natural pigment) in your strands is the best grey hair solution – because it’s easier to preserve your hair color than it is to reverse grey hair. That’s why the best proactive solution to grey hair starts with a hair-friendly, melanin-boosting, combination of vitamins, and minerals to slow, delay, and even reverse greying hair. 

What Is A Clinically-Validated Grey Hair Solution?

Clinically-validated means that a product has been through a rigorous third-party, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical study. This is the Gold Standard of clinical testing and is considered by scientists¹ to be, “medicine's most reliable method for representing things as they really are.” Here’s what we found:

 

 

We chose to use the double-blind randomized controlled trial (RCT) testing process for our nutritional supplement and serum combination The System, because it’s considered the best way to produce unbiased results. Related: read more here about Arey’s Gold Standard clinical study.

 

Which Vitamins Can Help Preserve Hair Color?

A wide variety of vitamins and minerals play a role in your healthy hair growth and color. They also help support a strong immune system which is important for healthy, pigmented hair.²

 

 

There’s so much information out there about the link between preserving hair health and vitamins that it can be overwhelming. My top Trichologist tip – it’s safer and easier to find a hair health supplement you trust, and stick with that.

Here’s what we found out about the best vitamins and minerals that really do deliver healthier, thicker hair, and can even help reverse greying hair:

Discover The Top B Vitamins For Hair Health and Color:

The B vitamins are really important for your overall health and your hair color. There are eight B vitamins in total, and they each play a different role in maintaining your skin, gut, and hair health. 

 

 

B vitamins are water-soluble and are key to a healthy metabolism. They also boost your red blood cell production, and help make the brain chemicals that regulate your mood and overall sense of well-being.³

Here are the B vitamins that we believe are the best for preserving hair color, and also deliver healthier, shinier, thicker hair:

✅ Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic Acid)

Vitamin B5 hydrates and soothes your body and scalp skin while also nourishing your hair strands for thicker, shinier hair. We use the form of B5 in Not Today, Grey called D Calcium Pantothenate which is a salt of vitamin B5 and works on your scalp skin to increase hair growth, reduce shedding and nourish your hair follicles (roots). 

✅ Vitamin B6  

We love B6 in Not Today, Grey because it metabolizes protein – a crucial ingredient for healthy hair. It also boosts red blood cell production. The more red blood cells you have, the more oxygen your blood can carry, and oxygen is key to the production and repair of your cells – including cells that target hair growth. 

✅ Vitamin B7 (Biotin)

Biotin is one of the best known hair vitamins, because a biotin deficiency can cause thinning hair and weak nails that easily split or crack. Not Today, Grey contains biotin because a healthy level is needed for your body to produce enough keratin – the protein which your body uses to make your hair, nails and skin. 

✅ Vitamin B9 (Folate or Folic Acid)

Not Today, Grey contains another red blood cell and keratin-booster, vitamin B9 also aids your body in the production of methionine, an amino acid that plays a role in hair color.

✅ Vitamin B10 (PABA)

Para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA), is an organic compound found in certain foods. We use PABA in Not Today, Grey because research⁴ suggests that PABA may help boost pigment in grey hair, making it grow back darker from the roots. 

✅ Vitamin B12

Lack of vitamin B12 has been linked with hair loss and premature greying⁵ as well as being an important vitamin for your overall health. If you’re vegan or on a restricted diet you may be at risk of B12 deficiency, since the vitamin is found naturally in animal-based foods. A supplement like Not Today, Grey is a good way to balance out what you may not be getting from diet alone.

 

Other Important Hair Health Vitamins and Minerals:

I get it, it can be hard to always eat right, especially when you’re juggling work, family and personal commitments. Additionally, the effects of aging make it harder for your body to process nutrients efficiently. 

The good news is that a supplement can help your hair and body get what it needs. Here’s an example of all the foods you’d have to eat to get the same nutritional boost from taking a daily dose of Not Today, Grey:

 

 

You may experience hair thinning or excess shedding if you are not getting the right balance of vitamins and minerals from your diet. If you have serious or sudden hair loss, be sure to consult your doctor to rule out any other health or scalp issues.

✅ Vitamin D

We include vitamin D in Not Today, Grey because studies have shown that vitamin D deficiency is connected with hair loss⁶ and loss of pigment in hair.⁷ Findings also suggest that adequate levels of vitamin D are important for your hair follicles to produce melanin. Boosting melanin production can mean darkening hairs that are fading to grey, potentially reversing grey hairs. 

 

✅ Essential Minerals:

Not Today, Grey includes several minerals that are essential for hair growth, color and health:

• • Iron – iron boosts growth by carrying oxygen to your hair follicles.⁷
  • Copper – one of the micronutrients your body needs to produce melanin. 
  • Selenium - helps keep your scalp healthy and boost hair growth.⁸

Not Today, Grey supplement safely delivers the optimum amounts of these important minerals for your hair growth, shine and color.

✅ Fo-Ti:

Also known as “he shou wu,” which means “the black-haired Mr. He,” this traditional Chinese herb is used by practitioners to restore color in grey hair, and combat premature aging. 

 

What Happens When You Stop Treating Your Grey Hair?

Our experience shows that when you stop using Arey grey hair solutions, any noticeable reduction in gray hair growth or repigmentation achieved will likely taper off and new grey hair growth will resume.

Consistency is key when it comes to any nutrition-based grey hair solution. Your scalp and hair health is important to us. That's why we offer up to 25% off on all subscription orders to help keep you on track with your hair health goals. Because we believe that science + consistency = results.

We are Arey.

Have questions? Check out our FAQ page or email us at hey@areygrey.com.

 

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REFERENCES:

1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895435600003474
2. https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/vitamins-minerals-and-hair-loss-is-there-a-connection. 
3. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/depression/expert-answers/vitamin-b12-and-depression/faq-20058077#:~:text=Vitamin%20B%2D12%20and%20other,may%20be%20linked%20to%20depression.
4. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82633092.pdf https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/vitamin-b-10#safety-precautions
5. https://www.medicinenet.com/can_vitamin_b12_reverse_premature_gray_hair/article.htm
6. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321673
7. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3746220/
8. https://wimpoleclinic.com/blog/do-selenium-supplements-benefit-your-hair-evidencereview/#:~:text=At%20the%20recommended%20daily%20dose,is%20needed%20to%20verify%20this).