The Causes of Split Ends - Part Three
Split ends are exactly what they sound like - they are splits in the ends of your hair ! The picture above is a great...
The Causes of Split Ends - Part Two
Split ends are exactly what they sound like - they are splits in the ends of your hair ! The picture above is a great...
The Causes of Split Ends - Part One
Split ends are exactly what they sound like - they are splits in the ends of your hair ! The picture above is a great...
Hair Care
For a lot of us our hair is an extension of our personalities and an important part of our daily life. However a lot of...
Scalp Concealers
A form of daily cosmetic applied onto the scalp, scalp concealers are an effective and easy to apply hair loss cosmetic. This style of product...
Prosthetics
When it comes to prosthetics for Hair Loss its easy to think about the unnatural looking toupees that became infamous over the years. In reality...
Medication
There are currently 2 available FDA-approved drug treatments on the market to treat genetic hair loss (androgenetic alopecia). These two drugs are FInasteride and Minoxidil...
Low Level Laser Therapy
Low Level Lasers were first seen to have a therapeutic effect on hair growth as early as the 1960’s when a study on their effect...
Medications that can cause hair loss
Alopecia, also commonly known as hair loss, can sometimes occur as a result of taking some medications. The risk of drug-induced alopecia depends both on...
Family History
Who’s To Blame For Your Balding, Mum Or Dad?The answer is both.While baldness in men has been attributed to their mothers for quite some time...
The Ludwig-Savin Classification for Females
Many people think of hair loss for men but hair loss in women is very common and there is a lot of misinformation around here...
The Hamilton-Norwood Scale for Men
The Hamilton-Norwood scale was created to show the progression of male-pattern baldness, it’s an accepted standard scale. It was developed by James Hamilton in the...
Telogen Effluvium
Spotting Telogen Effluvium SymptomsOur hair has a natural life cycle including growing and resting phases. So it’s very natural and normal to lose between 30...
DHT Hair Loss - Androgenic Alopecia
The most common type of hair loss is DHT hair loss, also known as Androgenic Alopecia. The odds of having DHT are slim at a...
How Hair Grows
To understand how hair grows, we first need to look at its parts. Hair is made up of two parts: the follicle and the shaft.The...
The Hair Growth Cycle
The hair cycle is made up of four phases: the anagen phase, the catagen phase, the telogen phase and the exogen phase.Anagen (Hair Growth) PhaseThe...
The Anatomy Of The Hair Follicle
Hair follicles are small, pocket-like holes in our skin and they grow hair. The average human has about 100,000 hair follicles on the scalp alone....