| So, is there a new shampoo that will stop my balding | | | | natural shampoos which stimulate hair growth and |
| and thinning and restore my hair to its proper thickness | | | | condition the scalp but the problems lies with the cause |
| and pattern? I hate to be the one to break the bad | | | | of most balding and thinning hair; androgenetic alopecia. |
| news but there are no shampoos that stop hairloss. If | | | | Androgenetic alopecia is more commonly known as |
| you run across a shampoo based product that claims | | | | male or female pattern baldness and attack the hair |
| to restore lost hair in record time you probably should | | | | follicle at the dermis level of the skin (just under the |
| take a closer look at some of the fine print or ask | | | | scalp). First it is an inherited condition which makes |
| someone who has tried the product. | | | | many people vulnerable to its damage. Second, it is |
| While there aren’t any shampoos that stop hair | | | | hormone drive. The primary hormone responsible is |
| loss there are a few that create an environment | | | | dihydrotestosterone which accumulates within the hair |
| conducive to new growth and may accelerate the | | | | follicle and actually causes the follicle to shrink to a |
| growth of existing hair. Many of these shampoos | | | | point where hair growth is no longer possible. |
| contain ingredients that are both scalp and hair | | | | Shampoos are simply not capable of reversing this |
| conditioning agents such as horsetail extract, jojoba oil, | | | | mechanism. In fact there currently is only one FDA |
| aloe vera extract, or essential oils such as lavender. | | | | approved topical ingredient that has been proven to |
| These types of ingredients are a good start as long | | | | slow androgenetic alopecia and that is minoxidil. But |
| as a shampoo is not loaded with harmful chemicals | | | | even minoxidil struggles with reopening damaged or |
| whose names you can’t pronounce. Many experts | | | | dead follicles. The success rate is about 30 percent |
| believe that looking for hair and scalp conditioning | | | | and of that number half of the re-growth is very fine |
| ingredients along with a label stating the product is | | | | or fuzzy. |
| organic is a good rule of thumb. | | | | In summary, it isn’t necessarily a bad idea to try |
| The problem with this approach is that shampoo | | | | shampoos that stop hairloss, in fact I have done it |
| carefully formulated in this manner are quite expensive | | | | myself. What I found was that they did a good job of |
| and may be out of the financial reach of many people. | | | | conditioning and a poor job when it came to restoring |
| Others will deduct that the cost outweighs the benefits. | | | | lost hair. A good way to look at these products is that |
| Hopefully, over time high quality organic shampoos that | | | | they are gentle scalp and hair conditioning agents that |
| stop hairloss will become more affordable and thus | | | | may contain ingredients to stimulate the growth of |
| more mainstream. | | | | existing hair, and don’t contain many of the |
| Why aren’t there shampoos that stop hairloss? | | | | damaging ingredients such as sodium laureth sulfate |
| This is a great question and you deserve an answer! | | | | often found in cheaper shampoos. |
| There is no denying that there are some very good | | | | |