Choosing Hair Loss Products

The market today is filled with products for hair loss. Are you confused with which one to choose? Here are 5 quick tips that you can use to select the best and most effective product.

Let me first brief you about the reason why we lose hair and why we have so many products for hair loss.

A male hormone called Androgen (which is present in women too) is the basic cause of this problem. It undergoes an enzyme reaction and gets converted to Dihydrotestostrone (DHT).

DHT when gets attached with the hair follicles, completely cuts the blood supply to them. This causes the follicles to shrink and makes them incapable of growing any new hair.

Due to this shrinking, the hair also becomes thinner and ultimately falls off. Since the follicle is no more capable of growing a new hair, the lost hair is never re-gained back.

Worry not. Like we discussed before, there are many products for hair loss available today and here are the quick tips to help you select one.

1. Check the list of ingredients in that product. Make sure that it has the proven and powerful substance called Minoxidil which inhibits the production of DHT and prevents damage to hair follicles.

2. Make sure that the ingredients used in that product are approved by FDA or a medical authority. This helps in keeping a check on those products for hair loss which cause bad side effects due to invasive and low quality ingredients used in them.

3. Make sure that your diet is supplemented with accurate amounts of vitamins and minerals. Vitamin B6, Biotin, Magnesium and Zinc etc help in facilitating hair re-growth and also help in maintaining the overall health of the hair.

4. In general the hair loss lotions are better than hair loss pills. This is so because lotions have the flexibility to be applied directly on the affected area and thus they show better results.

5. Make sure to use the product in specified dosage and at specified times. Some people make the mistake of overdoing it, assuming to get quicker results. But that just doesn't happen. Instead you may develop some harmful side effects. So it is advisable to strictly follow the dosage specified.