Why does using the wrong shampoo cause hair loss?

Many consumers feel that their hair loss has worsened after using certain shampoos. This actually has to do with the ingredients in the shampoo.

1. Chemical fragrances:
Fragrances may make the scalp sensitive and fragile, causing unexplained redness, itching, dryness, and even stinging and burning sensations in any skin that comes into contact with it, such as the scalp and the skin on your hands and body.

2. Highly irritating surfactants:
Surfactants are important to have in shampoos because they have the ability to cleanse and carry away dirt. Mild surfactants produce soft, dense bubbles that do not irritate the scalp, such as the amphoteric surfactant cocamidopropyl betaine, the low-irritation anionic surfactant sodium cocoyl isethionate, and the plant-derived decyl glucoside.

However, most of the shampoos in the market use SLES and SLS, chemical surfactants that have strong cleansing power and lower cost. They may cause more irritation to the scalp through excessive cleansing, and the skin actually secretes more sebum to protect itself if too much surface sebum has been cleaned off. In the long run, this will gradually result in imbalance in the scalp's sebum secretion, the acceleration of scalp aging, and higher chances of hair loss and grey hair.

Carefully choose a shampoo with ingredients that are completely harmless, safe and pure as well as reducing factors that cause aging is the first step to maintaining a good scalp and reducing hair loss.