Whether through a salon or through products purchased for use at home, hair products can damage hair, even lead to hair loss. Watch for these ingredients. In the pursuit of naturally beautiful hair, Americans subject their hair follicles to a lot of substances that can actually harm them. This includes the possibility – probability, evenContinue reading “Are Your Hair Products Causing Hair Loss?”
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Toupees, Wigs & Hair Systems: Synthetic Versus Natural Hair
With both materials offering different advantages, it might make sense for the wearer to have one or more of both synthetic and natural human hair wigs for different occasions and purposes. People have all kinds of reasons to purchase and wear a wig, a toupee, or other kinds of nonsurgical hair systems. Maybe they haveContinue reading “Toupees, Wigs & Hair Systems: Synthetic Versus Natural Hair”
Hair Loss and Hot Styling Tools
The heat is on! But what provides a good style for today – with hot curlers, dryers, and irons – could mean hair loss and breakage tomorrow. Proceed with caution. Male and female hair loss can be caused by many factors. One might be poor nutrition, another is genetics, while traction alopecia can result fromContinue reading “Hair Loss and Hot Styling Tools”
Cannabis and Hair Loss
Does weed help, harm – or both? The research is scant, but relaxed marijuana laws and lots of industry interest, pro-hair solutions from cannabis might come soon. For decades, the beneficial effects of cannabis – marijuana and hemp derivatives – were not subjected to rigorous scientific review. The best one could do in determining ifContinue reading “Cannabis and Hair Loss”
Folliculitis and Hair Loss
Not all bald spots are from genetics. A particularly patchy type of loss can result from folliculitis, a condition characterized by eruptions to the scalp. It comes on, generally in the 30s and 40s, a good dozen years or so after the person thought he or she were past the acne years. And where itContinue reading “Folliculitis and Hair Loss”
The Thin Spots: Where Hair Loss Concealers Work Best
Hair loss in men and women comes in varying degrees and patterns. It might be an overall thinning, as women tend to experience, or most often at the crown on men. Fortunately, for those who wish to combat sparse follicles there are several different approaches for doing so. But not everyone wants to initially jumpContinue reading “The Thin Spots: Where Hair Loss Concealers Work Best”
Propecia vs. Rogaine: The Differences
These two very different medications were given regulatory green lights around the same time, transforming millions of heads. How do they differ? The two primary medications for treating male pattern baldness – androgenic alopecia, which also affects women but in different ways – are finasteride (sold as Propecia, Fincover, Finalo, Finpecia, and Finax, among others)Continue reading “Propecia vs. Rogaine: The Differences”
Handheld Laser or In-Studio Laser: Which Works Better?
The application of low-level laser light to the scalp to restore hair growth is not entirely new. But the options for how to get it can affect its effectiveness. Addressing skepticism, several studies have investigated the efficacy of low-level laser hair loss treatment for hair growth. Researchers Pinar Avci, MD and Gaurav K. Gupta, MC,Continue reading “Handheld Laser or In-Studio Laser: Which Works Better?“
Stem Cell Research and Hair Loss
There is genuine reason to be excited over what human stem cells can do to regenerate tissue – and hair restoration might become a common application. There are many kinds of hair loss conditions. But the one associated with aging is almost universal. Men and women alike lose their hair over time, some more soContinue reading “Stem Cell Research and Hair Loss”
What is Trichotillomania?
The obsessive, compulsive, and seemingly involuntary tugging and pulling of one’s own hair is a perplexing condition with complex solutions. With so much social attention on healthy, lustrous hair, it might be hard for most of us to grasp the trichotillomania, one of the more troublesome hair loss conditions. It involves the chronic, compulsive-obsessive behaviorContinue reading “What is Trichotillomania?”
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