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In hew new book “101 Ways to Avoid Hair Loss: For Persons with Relaxed, Natural, and Afro-Caribbean Hair” (published by AuthorHouse) author and veteran hairdresser Mary Juliana Brice offers the knowledge she has built about preserving hair.

While the book is seemingly aimed at the hair issues of persons living in the Caribbean, it is not meant to focus only on the Caribbean population. “Our people have migrated to all parts of the world,” Brice says, “and all persons with ‘black Afro hair’, whether they have it relaxed, permed, weaved, braided or natural will find solutions from it for hair loss.”

An excerpt from “101 Ways to Avoid Hair Loss”:

“The combination of sun, sea and chlorine can have a tremendous bleaching effect on the hair. A day tour on a boat, with sea bathing and sun bathing, can produce dramatic changes in hair colour. The resulting ‘sun-kissed hair’, though lovely and alluring, can become dry, brittle, and prone to breakage.”

Brice is certain of the appeal her book answers. “There is a tremendous increase in hair products and styles that are focused on our Afro-American, African, and Afro-Caribbean hair textures,” she says. That increase, she believes, is driving an epidemic of poor hair care, as users increase the incidence and abuse of hair-care products.

Categories: Hair Care

LLC announced today the launch plans of the exclusive, new Zenagen Hair Thickening Revitalization System, an innovative and complete approach to hair health and beauty formulated specifically to increase hair volume and dimension while addressing the issue of weak, thinning hair and hair loss. Zenagen launches its new updated website, www.Zenagen.com, in early 2012 to unveil the improved nutraceutical infusion products that make up the new Zenagen Hair Thickening Revitalization System and the science behind this unique approach to optimal hair care.

Zenagen, comes from the Japanese derived "zazen" which means the attainment of enlightenment, an experience known in Zen, and the science rooted cell cycle related term "agen" and embodies the hair and scalp revitalization focus of the brand.

Zenagen invigorates the hair and scalp with a research focused unique fusion blend of natural compounds, known as nutraceuticals. The company has been focused on biochemical action preserving extraction techniques, that allow the unique components including bioflavonoids, free radical scavenging compounds, liposterols, and fortifying amino acids and minerals that synchronistically utilize the scalp and skin systems to invigorate and revitalize the head and scalp to an optimal and natural state of health.

Designed and researched in collaboration with formulation science and biochemistry experts, the Florida and Tennessee based nutraceutical company, Nutraceutical Research Innovations, LLC, has been focused on nutraceutical focused consumer goods. The new Zenagen Thickening Revitalization System is an extension of NRI, LLC's focus on fighting hair degenerative effects of DHT, fortify against environmental pollutants and nutritional deficiencies associated with overall hair and skin health.

This New Hair Thickening Revitalization concept combines innovative new nutraceutical research and formulation technologies with refreshingly simple yet powerful emulsification system specially designed to help scalp vitality and follicle dysfunctions to promote stronger, healthier, and thicker hair.

Categories: Hair Care

Anytime Jennifer Aniston gets a new hairstyle it makes headlines but recently the actress explained why she decided to chop off her long layered hairstyle for a shoulder-length bob in February.

Thinning hair is never easy for women. Whether it is from anxiety, hormones, or genetics, researchers and product-development companies have tried to come up with acceptable solutions for years. Now, hair extensions are being attributed to causing hair loss. Jennifer Aniston admitted in an interview with E! that she has changed up her hair due to damage from constant hair-extension use.

But, in what seems like an ironic scenario, adding hair is actually causing thinning hair, as well as breakage and complete loss. Consistent re-styling, along with adding and taking away the fake ponytails, thickening combs, and beehive toppers, has caused customers to shorten their real tresses due to excessive extending.

Aniston started sporting the new look last year. According to OnTheRedCarpet.com, however, in the January 2012 issue of InStyle, she finally comes clean about the cropping, saying that it was due to years of extensions that were thinning her hair, causing it to look fake.

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The drug, which in its earliest, unsexiest incarnation existed solely as a glaucoma treatment, is best known as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved wonder drug that can grow and darken your poor listless lashes . Now, it's being tested for a new use: growing hair on your dome.

No one tracks just how many doctors across the country are using Latisse off-label to target hair loss, but Dr. Alan Bauman, a Boca Raton, Fla., board-certified hair restoration physician has been using the drug this way for about three years, beginning around the time the FDA approved it for eyelash growth in December 2008. He describes his own personal "eureka!" moment:

"Patients who were using it for eyelashes sometimes have eyebrow problems, so it’s a short hop to the eyebrows," he explains. "So, of course, if it was working there, too — from the eyebrows, it’s just a short hop to the hairline."

Allergen, the health care company that manufactures the eyelash enhancer, is currently testing the safety and efficacy of a new formulation of bimatoprost, the active pharmaceutical ingredient in Latisse, in growing hair on the scalp, says Heather Katt, a spokeswoman for Allergen.

The appeal of using Latisse for hair loss is its ease and convenience, as it seems to only require one drop to the affected area once a day; minoxidil (better known as Rogaine) requires two, and Propecia requires daily pill taking.

Bauman says he sees about 1,000 new hair loss patients each year, about 700 of which end up on some kind of medical management — and so far, he's only used Latisse on a "couple dozen" patients, usually those who are allergic to the usual treatments, which is what happened to 70-year-old Rhoda Kelly.

Kelly's hair was thinning a bit on the back of her head, so she tried Rogaine, but suffered a bad allergic reaction. So Bauman suggested she try Latisse.

Categories: Hair Care

Iain Sallis, one of only a handful of trichologists in the country, is extending his reach to those with hair and scalp problems across the UK this month as he talks about the effects the winter weather has on your hair and just how you can deal with it (Including a homemade formula with eggs and yoghurt!)

Winter months have a double impact on the hair - firstly and most obviously the weather is very cold and dry, as our hair cannot ‘react’ and tell us how dry it is becoming (like the skin can) we have to find out by how it feels and how it reacts.

If you think of how dry and chapped your lips can become, you can now imagine how dry your hair can become before you actually ‘feel’ that it’s been affected.

But there is an equally damaging process going on in the winter months...the cold weather does have a drying effect on the hair, not to mention the damp weather making styles last less time, but the main problems is actually man made.

Central heating makes for very dry atmospheres inside homes and businesses which can cause just as much damage as the cold weather outside. In centrally heated rooms this moisture content is very low and so the moisture is expelled from the hair causing it to dry and frizz...this exacerbates the drying effect of winter.

The reason this ‘drying out’ phenomenon outside and in is because the hair is ‘Hygroscopic’.

A substance which is Hygroscopic allows it’s moisture content to equalises to the atmosphere it’s in at that time, This means that in a dry atmosphere (such as a centrally heated room) hair will expel moisture until it is the same level as the room it’s in, or in damp atmospheres (eg mist, or an indoor swimming pool) it will absorb the moisture in the atmosphere until it is the same ...this is the chemistry which allows blow dries to work and why styled hair never lasts in damp conditions!)

Now you’re aware of this amazing property of hair you can now use it to explain to your clients (in scientific terms) about best hair care practice for the winter.

Educate them by teaching them that to avoid this two-pronged onslaught to their hair they will need to follow some simple rules:

Using humidifiers in the home (or even a bowl of water where the radiators are located) will have a long lasting effect on the atmosphere of the room, making the hair less arid and so the hair will not expel the moisture content into the atmosphere so readily!

Wear a hat! You can put your hair into when you’re going outside in the cold, the heat from your head will allow the immediate atmosphere to stay ambient and again not lose that precious moisture into the air.

Use intensive treatments in the winter months, intensive conditioners are really good as they offer a simple solution to this major problem and your clients are more likely buy one intensive treatment rather than a shampoo and a conditioner.

Categories: Hair Care

Static electricity is a real cosmetic problem for many people causing bad hair mornings and annoying frizz during the day.

This problem is the same thing that causes you to get a shock when you touch a metal doorknob after walking across a polyester carpet. We all know the phrase ‘static hair’ but do you really know why your hair acts like it does because of it?

The science bit

Your hair is made up of atoms, which in turn are made up of electrons, protons and neutrons. If the atom has the same amount of protons and electrons, it is neutral. When electrons move from one atom to another, though, the atom becomes an ‘ion’ which means it’s either positive or negatively charged.

If you remember your physics “what happens when two of the same charges come together…they repel!!

And so with your hair, each hair becomes positively charged because it is loosing electrons and so each hair is repelling the other!

That’s great but what causes it?

There are two main culprits to static hair and some easy remedies to solve this annoying problem!

Dry hair

The main culprit is dry hair, your hair is mostly made up of water and so hair what is dry and porous tends to lose more water than other types.

The loss of the water molecules leaves the hair more ‘+’ charged than ‘-‘ so static starts.

Categories: Hair Care

With the market for women's shampoo in Japan saturated, cosmetics makers are competing to grab the middle-aged male market with shampoos that strengthen hair and protect against hair loss.

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. began selling a scalp shampoo for men under its UL OS brand on Sept. 13. Combining ingredients that remove skin oils and foreign matter from the scalp without damaging the skin, the company is targeting men in their latter 30s to 40s. Executive official Chiaki Sakurai says the shampoo "leads to a healthy scalp."

Although at 1,575 yen for a 300 milliliter bottle the shampoo is more expensive than many regular shampoos, Sakurai was confident, saying, "This generation will spend money for quality products."

The men's shampoo market expanded from 7.6 billion yen in 2008 to 11.2 billion yen in 2010. Contributing to that growth was the fact that relatively expensive scalp shampoo came to account for over half of sales.

A pioneer in the recent targeting of the middle-aged male demographic was Angfa Co., which released its men's scalp shampoo "Scalp D" in 2005. While expensive at 3,800 yen for a 350 milliliter bottle, the shampoo was received favorably for giving hair volume and strength. In July this year, cumulative sales of Scalp D reached four million bottles.

Categories: Hair Care

Iain Sallis, East Yorkshire’s only trichologist, is setting the ball in motion to unite hair salons and clinics across the country for the first time as he looks to provide free training for hairdressers and their employees on how to spot hair and scalp problems in clients.

Iain’s first free ‘Trichology Training Evening’ will be held at the Andrew Barton salon in Leeds on the 29th September lasting approximately 3 hours. Although literature and invites will be sent out to salons in the surrounding areas, any interested parties are welcome contact Iain directly to book in.

Trichology is the branch of medicine that deals with the scientific study of the health of hair and scalp and Iain, who owns his own hair salons and heads up his ‘Iain Sallis Trichology clinics’ in London, Leeds, Hull, York, Sheffield, Lincoln and Nottingham is one of only a handful of qualified trichologists, or ‘hair doctors’ in the UK. Through this ‘first of its kind’ training exercise, Iain is looking to make a shift in the attitudes of hairdressers, highlighting everything from what a trichologist is, and how they can help their particular salon as well as explaining hair myths and common hair problems - identifying scalp disorders and what to do with a client with a potentially medical problem.

Commenting on his desire to amalgamate trichology skills with hairdressers potential to help their clients, Iain comments, ‘As both a hairdresser and trichologist, I’m passionate about creating closer links with other salons as I we see what we do as two sides of the same coin - we look after peoples hair and scalps.

Categories: Hair Care

German brand Alpecin, a shampoo that is said to reduce hereditary hair loss through its key ingredient caffeine, is far from glamorous. Nonetheless, threatened by the prospect of baldness, German men have been buying the product for decades, with 2m bottles sold nationally in 2010.

But how to expand beyond Germany? Having launched in the UK and South Africa 18 months ago, Alpecin sales got off to a slow start. As a result, brand owner Dr Kurt Wolff, a family business founded in?post-war?Germany, decided to bolster the launch with a new campaign. The television ad features several Alpecin bottles zooming across the screen in the style of race cars until none remain. Its tagline: “German engineering for your hair.”

“For all the goodwill on both sides, Britain’s relationship with Germany remains profoundly ambivalent,” says campaign creator Graham Drury. “But there is undoubtedly a deep respect for the country’s technological excellence.”

Categories: Hair Care, Hair Loss

Did you know that hereditary hair loss affects approximately 80 million men and women in the U.S.? To help raise awareness of this widespread condition, the Academy of Dermatology (AAD) has designated August as National Hair Loss Awareness Month, making it the perfect time to seek solutions to this all-too-common follicular challenge.

Bosley Professional Strength is using the month-long public awareness campaign to reaffirm its commitment to help treat fine and thinning hair. The first salon-only, comprehensive hair preservation regimen for men and women, Bosley Professional Strength helps maintain thicker, fuller-looking hair.

"Hereditary hair loss affects millions of Americans, yet so many let their thinning hair go untreated," said Bosley Professional Strength President Eric McLemore. "Bosley Professional Strength is taking this time to remind folks with fine and thinning hair that there is a solution. Our line of products offers an easy yet effective way to help thicken and regrow hair."

To keep hair in tip-top shape, Bosley Professional Strength recently introduced its Healthy Hair Moisture Masque, which restores moisture and sheen to dull, dry, brittle hair, and Healthy Hair Strengthening Masque, which strengthens limp, damaged or weak hair. These two new unisex products are the latest additions to the Bosley Professional Strength collection, which includes daily-use thickening products for color-treated and non-color-treated hair, volumizing styling products and healthy hair treatments.

Categories: Hair Care, Hair Loss

Men are as touchy about hair as women are about their backsides. It's a sensitive subject, one that raises many concerns and results in paranoid treatments and extreme measures. However, until the problem begins, there is little thought put into nourishing hair other than the lather and rinse routine.

Before you start losing sleep over hair loss and book appointments with trichologists, take a closer look at what you're eating.

Chances are that even slight modifications made to what you eat by incorporating ingredients that aid hair growth and health will have a drastic impact.

While genes and lifestyle will always have the upper hand, here's what you could eat to help curb that receding hairline.

Carrots

It's not just the eyes, Vitamin A-rich carrots provide excellent nourishment for the scalp. A healthy scalp ensures shiny, well-conditioned hair that is strengthened and moisturised. An overall balanced diet of lean proteins, fruits, and vegetables, whole grains, legumes, fatty fish like the Indian salmon and low-fat dairy are great boosters for healthy hair.

Categories: Hair Care, Hair Loss

Millions of Americans battle some form of hair loss, spending upwards of $3.5 million annually on treatment solutions that oftentimes are ineffective. Though hair loss is commonly due to genetics, it can also stem from unhealthy or aged scalp conditions. Research recently conducted by Rhonda Allison, founder and CEO of Rhonda Allison Cosmeceuticals, found many of the cosmeceutical ingredients used to maintain skin health, produce the same rejuvenating benefits when applied to the scalp and hair.

The scalp ages much like the rest of the body's skin. It loses tone and elasticity, and cell production declines. As the scalp ages, the hair weakens. It is part of the lifecycle of the hair follicle, but that lifespan can be extended when the same methods and ingredients for skin care are applied to the scalp.

"Through research, we now know that many of the ingredients traditionally used in aesthetic treatments also have the power to inhibit the progression of hair damage and loss," Allison said. "Using cosmeceutical-grade peptides, amino acids, antioxidants, and organic stem cell technology we can stimulate the mitochondria, support keratin, fight free radicals, and maintain a healthy hair cycle."

In healthy conditions hair strands go through three stages – the anagen (active growth) phase, catagen (transition/end of active growth) stage, and the telogen (resting) phase. The hair falls out and is usually replaced by new hair. The cycle continues like clockwork, but as the scalp ages or is affected by a disorder or disease, the cycle can be disrupted.

Categories: Hair Care, Hair Loss

I love bald men. Just because you've lost your fuzz don't mean you ain't a peach.

Dolly Parton

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try help another without also helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's one thing about baldness -- its neat.

Don Herold

"How you lose or keep your hair depends on how wisely you choose your parents."

Edward R. Nida

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Kahlil Gibran

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think that she's attractive to the opposite sex.

Earl Wilson

Categories: Hair Care, Hair Loss

We’re looking for case studies from StopHairlossNow to tell us their stories.

We want to know about your hair loss journey and in particular, your thoughts on the Nanogen products.

Whether you’re a fan of the Nanofibres, or have found success using the Serum VEGF, Intervention supplements, Hair Prepare Shampoo or Daily Volume Thickening Conditioner, we want to hear from you!

We’re also looking for individuals to trial various products from the Nanogen range. So if you’ve not yet discovered Nanogen, and are looking for a solution to combat hair thinning or loss, we want to hear from you too.

By sharing your experiences you can help others who are losing their hair and aren't sure what to do about it.

Candidates chosen to take part in the activity will be offered free product samples in return for their involvement. If this is something you would be interested in please email joanna@peppermintpr.com or owen@peppermintpr.com

Hope to hear from you soon!

The Nanogen team

*Participants must be willing to show full face and before and after photographs.

Categories: Hair Care, Hair Loss, Nanogen

Nanofibres are applied quickly and without mess by simply shaking the unique container over thin or thinning hair. This releases thousands of microscopic colour-matched hair fibres, which bind electrostatically to, and branch off of, each individual hair.

Charged with static electricity, they bond to your own hair in fir-tree patterns, creating a natural looking and natural feeling density. Nanofibres bond to your hair so securely they will stay in place all day, and will not stain or smear. Nanofibres will even resist strong winds, rain, and swimming when combined with Locking Mist Plus.

Categories: Hair Care, Hair Loss, Nanogen, Nanoguard for hair loss

A team of U.S. and Chinese researchers have discovered a chromosomal mutation responsible for a very rare condition in which people grow excess hair all over their bodies.

The finding ultimately will lead to new treatments for this and less severe forms of excessive hair growth as well as baldness, said researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC).

The researchers made the discovery in cooperation with their counterparts at Peking Union Medical College. Study findings were published in the June issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics.

The initial discovery of the mutation came from a lab at the Peking Union Medical College, which examined the condition, known congenital hypertrichosis syndrome (CGH), in a Chinese family. Males with this disorder have hair covering their entire face including their eyelids and their upper body, while females have thick patches of hair on their bodies.

Then researchers confirmed the finding in a Mexican family that Pragna Patel, professor in the Keck School, the USC Institute for Genetic Medicine, and the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, first began studying in 1993.

Categories: Hair Care, Hair Loss

Most problems seen by trichologists involve either excessive loss of hair, thinning hair, patches of baldness, hair breakage, scaling problems or excessive oiliness and itching of the scalp. Conditions range from psoriasis, hair loss, alopecia and baldness.

As a hairdresser as well as a professional trichologist, Iain Sallis asks: Summer is coming, so how do we get the best out of our hair? Here Iain looks at the tips and treatments you can take to make sure you’ve the most luscious locks on the beach and at home this summer.

Summer months are usually wonderful for people’s skin (apart from if you burn) and general well being, but precautions need to be taken to ensure you don’t damage your hair.

Strong sun light equals strong UV radiation (the light waves from the sun...which can affect us even on cloudy days) and UV light is something that causes the chemicals in our hair to oxidise.

It’s this oxidisation process which slowly ‘bleaches’ our hair and ruins many a good colour as well as takes the condition out of it...this as well as jumping in pools of chlorinated water, the salt from the sea and of course lots of ladies ‘feel summery and so want to go lighter’, this all takes the toll on the hair so we have to give it some summer TLC!

Categories: Hair Care

An Auckland woman has been left with bald patches and "straw-like" hair after a beauty treatment went horribly wrong.

Kirstine Morris, 32, paid $100 to have her curly hair chemically straightened at the Hair Co salon in West Auckland's LynnMall shopping centre three weeks ago.

Her hair was covered with a straightening product mixed with a thickener, before being left under a heat lamp for about 20 minutes.

"My head was burning. I've had colours in the past, and you do get sensations. But this was intense," said the mother of three.

"[The hairdresser] said that's okay, it's the chemicals. Then when it was time to take me out of the lamp my head was banging."

Despite the initial pain, Ms Morris was happy with the results until she washed her hair for the first time seven days later, as advised.

She said her hair matted "like glue" under the water, and fell out in clumps when she brushed it afterwards.

Categories: Hair Care, Hair Loss

Hair colour shows signs of age-related changes only one of which is the well known reduction of melanocytes in hair. There is a 10-20% reduction of pigment producing melanocytes for every decade after 30 years of age (in Caucasian).

Though it’s gradual in the skin, it can be quite sudden in the hair follicle. The predominant factor of this appears to be heredity.

The mechanisms for these two types of reductions in both hair and skin are unclear and there is no convincing explanation the reason why one population in the skin dies gradually and its neighbour disappears suddenly.

There is a ‘free radical’ theory of why hairs lose their colour, which postulates that the accumulative action of ‘oxidative damage’ is an important element in the rate of ageing.

Damage to the DNA through ‘environmental’ issues (diet, stress, and genetics) can lead to mutations which in turn can induce oxidative stress and thereby trigger destruction of the colour producing cells.

Categories: Grey Hair, Hair Care

Just in time for summer, Dr. Robert Leonard, chief surgeon and founder of Leonard Hair Transplant Associates, is setting the record straight on the top 10 myths of summertime hair loss in men and women:

1. Myth: Wearing a baseball cap or hats will cause thinning hair and loss of hair.

Dr. Leonard’s truth serum: Hats off to this myth! No matter what your mother has told you, wearing a hat does not cause hair to thin or fall out.

2. Myth: Exposure to chlorine in swimming pools will cause hair loss.

Dr. Leonard’s truth serum: Another dive in the truth department…chlorinated water can affect the hair shafts by drying them out and making them more brittle, but does not cause hair to thin or fall out. Also, watch out for bleached hair---it has been known to turn green with exposure to chlorine!

3. Myth: Applying sunscreen to the scalp will cause hair to thin and fall out.

Dr. Leonard’s truth serum: No! If you have thinning hair, it is very important to use sunscreen on your scalp to prevent burn and worse. In fact, one of the first hints that a person is losing his or her hair is, indeed, sunburn.

Categories: Hair Care, Hair Loss