From silky-haired women gathered around a caldron cooking up secret concoctions, traditional women with elaborate hairdos warming up essential oils by wood fires, to rubbing onion juice into the scalp, and collecting precious goat pee or pigeon poop (yes, really!), historical hair growth recipes pendulum between genius and darn right gross.

Can you imagine how the lovely Rapunzel's they-lived-happily-ever-after story would have turned out if our heroine had hair thinning or hair loss? For anyone who's ever stared in horror at a hairbrush or drain featuring half of your scalp limply staring back, you know the feeling of helpless dread and the self-esteem hit accompanying hair loss.

What is alopecia? A fancy word for baldness. But why does hair loss and hair thinning happen? Can you slow down or even reverse it? What is there in your arsenal against the cruel, cruel Q-ball boogieman lurking at the darkest corners of pre-middle age?

If you let the lion's mane limply droop around its face and let it roar its head off, you'd take it far less seriously. He is still a scary pussycat but has lost something of the majestic, primal power, yet not so much that you'd pin him down to vigorously rub rosemary oil - one of historical favorites in hair growth recipes - into his fur. The lion would not take kindly to it because he's a strict carnivore

Luscious, envy-inducing hair stars at the root (see what we did there) with scalp care. Explore easy solutions to common issues and wrap it like Rapunzel.