Post HRT Shedding: Why It Happens and What Helps

Post HRT shedding is the burst of hair fall that follows starting, changing or stopping hormone replacement therapy, and it typically arrives two to three months after the change rather than straig...

Heat Damage to Hair: How to Spot It and Prevent It

Heat damage is permanent change to the hair fibre from tools running hotter than it can tolerate. Here is how to recognise it, the temperature ceilings that suit your hair type, and why prevention ...

Why the Same Hair Product Gives Different Results

Why the same hair product gives different results is mostly a question about the people, not the formula. Cause, stage, scalp condition, application habits and hair type all vary between two users ...

Androgen Receptor Expression and Your Hair, Explained

Androgen receptor expression is how strongly a hair follicle responds to hormones, and it explains why thinning follows a pattern. This guide covers receptor sensitivity, why the back of the head i...

Exosome Therapy for Hair: What the Evidence Shows

Exosome therapy is offered in UK hair clinics as a course of scalp injections or microneedling sessions. This guide explains what exosomes actually are, what the human evidence in hair does and doe...

Hairline Preservation: How to Protect Your Edges

Hairline preservation means keeping the fine hair at the front of your scalp rather than trying to bring it back later. Here is what actually damages a hairline, the two minute test for any new sty...

Scalp Care Under a Helmet: Stop the Itch, Spots and Breakage

Helmets trap heat, sweat and friction against the scalp, which is why riders and site workers get itching, strap line spots and snapped hairs. Here is what scalp care under a helmet actually involv...

Hard Water Hair: What It Does and How to Fix It

Hard water hair is a coating problem, not a follicle problem. Dissolved calcium and magnesium react with shampoo and leave a film that dulls and roughens the fibre. This guide covers the UK hardnes...

How Much Product to Use on Your Scalp: A Practical Guide

How much product to use on your scalp is a question of coverage rather than volume. This guide gives the working amounts for each area of the head, the parting technique that actually gets product ...

TrichoScan: What It Measures and What It Cannot Tell You

A trichoscan photographs a small clipped patch of scalp and counts hairs, measures their thickness and reports how many are growing. This guide explains what those numbers mean, why the automated c...