Hair Growth Regulation by an Aromatic Plant Extract

摘要

Recently, people are experiencing more stress and some have problems regarding hair growth as a part of the aging process. Resolving this hair growth problem is important for the aging society in the future. This is because not only bodily health butalso mental health is important for a healthy life. Thus, we attempted to find plants having hair growth regulation activity. The Republic of Tunisia is located in North Africa; its northern boundary faces the Mediterranean Sea while its southern side leads to the Sahara Desert. The distance during the Mediterranean Sea and the Sahara Desert is only few kilometers. This environment can be considered that dry inclination is very high. In such environment, plants can accumulate antistress factors in theirsystem. Thus, we collected many plant extracts from Tunisia for bioprospecting purposes. We show that a Tunisian aromatic plant extract has a high activity for promotion of hair growth cycle, or induction of anagen phase from telogen phase.