Black hair has a distinct texture and structure that makes it more prone to dryness, breakage and damage than other hair types. That fragility is part of why thinning hair and hair loss rank as a leading concern for more than half of African American women. The encouraging part is that small, consistent habits can…
Hair breakage is one of those problems that tends to compound quietly. A few split ends become thinning sections, thinning sections become noticeable loss, and somewhere in that progression, most people realize they have been managing symptoms rather than addressing causes. Research suggests up to 50% of women have experienced hair breakage from damage, which…
Summer feels like it has declared war on your hair, you are not imagining it. Humidity is one of the biggest culprits when it comes to frizz. It essentially reactivates the hair's texture, causing strands to swell and puff outward. But humidity is far from the only offender.
Natural hair texture plays the biggest role…
Hair loss has a way of making people reach for whatever is closest, and the supplement industry has built an enormous business around that impulse. The reality is more measured. Vitamins and minerals do play a role in healthy hair growth, but true nutritional deficiency severe enough to cause hair loss is rare in most…
Most people develop hair care habits early and rarely revisit them. The problem is that many of those habits, from how often they shampoo to how they dry their hair after a shower, are doing more harm than they realize. Board-certified dermatologists have a clear point of view on what works, and a lot of…
For most people, hair care begins at the strand and ends there. The scalp, the actual skin underneath all of it, gets treated as an afterthought, something to address only when a problem becomes impossible to ignore. That approach is changing. Scalp care has moved from a niche concern to one of the faster-growing categories…
If you have ever walked out of a hot Pilates class with a flushed face, damp clothes and hair that feels like it has been through something, you are not alone. The combination of intense heat, sweat and humidity that fills those studio walls does affect your strands though perhaps not in the dramatic way…
Spotting your first gray hair in your 20s can feel like a curveball. One day it's a single silver strand; a few months later, a few more appear. While it is easy to chalk it up to stress or bad luck, the science behind premature graying is far more layered and more manageable than most…
Walk into any beauty aisle and the messaging is consistent. Sulfate-free. Silicone-free. Paraben-free. Clean. The implication is that the products containing those ingredients were doing something wrong, and that the newer, purer alternatives have finally fixed it. Dermatologists and trichologists largely disagree with that framing for hair care, and the evidence they point to is…
The hair care aisle has never been more confusing. Between product labels screaming sulfate free and paraben free and a steady stream of influencer warnings about ingredients to avoid, many people have quietly built routines around fear rather than facts. But dermatologists and trichologists are increasingly pushing back and the science behind some of the…

