Another question on shampoo and whether or not shampooing can affect hair loss from one of my patients. Here is the question: Can I hurt my hair by doing too much shampooing? Is there any shampoo that can help my hair loss or can increase the growth of my hair?
The external factor such as shampoos and conditioners generally cannot really affect the growth or fall of your hair. You can wash your hair on a regular basis with shampoos if you have greasy scalp or hair. You can choose shampoos for that matter as well; shampoos that have a better cleansing effect for oily scalps. You cannot possibly hurt your hair by washing your hair if you are not having obsessive compulsive disorder. Not washing hair may cause you to lose your partners or friends, but it does not affect your hair strength.
We have so many different shampoos in the market with the claim of helping your hair growth and preventing further hair loss or for hair loss treatment. Unfortunately most those statements are not quite accurate. Even using the shampoos with some effective ingredients such as minoxidil or DHT blockers chemicals cannot be that effective on preventing your hair loss. The active ingredients of the shampoos cannot freely enter the skin and even if they can be absorbed to some degrees, they cannot reach the generative layers of the skin. The availability time of the shampoo and conditioner on the skin is also limited that does not allow for the ingredients to penetrate the skin.
My suggestion to our patients in our Los Angeles Hair Transplant Center is to stick with whatever shampoo that they are comfortable with and not to change the shampoo because of the miracle shampoo advertisement they saw on the news paper.
