Could Brushing Your Hair Causing Damage & Hair Fall?
Mon, 15 Oct 2012VITAMIN HB | HAIR
By Huda Heidi Kattan
You really don’t realize how lucky you are to have your hair until it starts to fall! I probably get about 8-10 emails a day just on Hair Fall alone! It seems to be one of the most common yet frustrating things any person can go through. I remember calling my husband after my hair started to fall out in chunks after giving birth. I called him crying, and all he could say was “it’s ok” which meant I cried even more since he didn’t get it. It wasn’t about how he would feel whether I lost all my hair, it was about how I felt with my scalp showing through REALLY strong! So that brings me to this very annoying yet popular issue, is brushing our hair the cause behind hair fall?
I’m obsessed with beauty but also the science behind it, so when I go to beauty seminars I’m always the one to sit pull the scientist aside and ask them a million questions! One of the things I find most interesting is learning about daily things we do that some times cause the most damage! It seems like no matter who I talk to, they always say the same thing about brushing your hair and that seems to be when so many women actually cause the most damage!
Brushing Your Hair While Wet:
Your hair is most sensitive to damage while it’s wet, so brushing it is a Big fat NO! Brush your hair before you bathe, or use a comb while it wet and brush GENTLY!
Brushing Your Hair 100 Times Per Day:
I know so many people believe that brushing your hair 100 times per day is a must, but the truth is that you really don’t need to brush your hair that much! Just enough to get the tangles out and that’s it! So if it’s just 10-20 times, that’s enough!
Does Brushing Cause Hair Fall:
Brushing your hair might not be the direct result of hair fall, but constant pulling on your hair is not good for the hair follicle! It’s important to lightly brush and keep it to a minimum! This will show thicker hair long term!
Does Brushing Cause Damage:
Brushing your hair is one of the easiest ways to cause damage! Make sure to avoid brushing your hair while wet, and when you dry brush, use a boar bristle brush that will detangle and be most gentle on your hair!
11 Responses to Could Brushing Your Hair Causing Damage & Hair Fall?
But my hair is super duper curly and huge! The ony time I can get the tangles out is when I have conditioner in my hair
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Same here Thajba, my hair gets damaged when I try to comb or brush it when it’s dry. I only comb when my hair is drenched in conditioner!
Hi darlings, having curly hair myself and always brushing it (until now) when it was wet, I know completely what you mean! But here is the truth behind hair (told to me by hair scientist Steve Shiels among others), when your hair is wet it becomes more elastic than normal, so it may seem to move better and to be smoother as well when you brush it. What’s really happening is that when your hair is wet it stretches better, but it’s also easy to stretch it to it’s breaking point without even realizing. Most often when hair is wet, we pull on it and it begins to break and although the breakage does not show, it is happening inside the hair strands, which means it becomes more brittle and more susceptible to damage when exposed to different conditions such as hair color, UV rays, etc
Wow that makes a lot of sense Huda, thanks!
The amount of hair fall I have, seriously i think i am gonna be bald very soon. I m talkin multi vitamins, omega 3 also. My diet is also not that bad but i have now idea why its happening.
I hate brush, i only use comb!! im curly, and i only comb them when i put my conditionner, after my shampoo!! and if i comb them when its dry omg im killing them like seriously!! and my hair grow up nicely and faster! you totally right!!
I am only 14 and the amount of hair fall I have is like crazy!!! And it’s not like I use a lot of products to it that could cause damage, I only use Pantene shampoo and conditioner and that’s all! However I don’t seem to understand why I go through a lot of hair fall. My sisters used to have insane thick hair however when they got to my age they went through a lot of hair fall too and now they have thin hair, eapecially one of them had really bad thin hair!I dont want to go through the same situation as them. I was hoping you could tell me what I could do to prevent this from happening to me. Because I am quite young (14) and I find it really worrying to go through a huge amount of hair fall. It falls so much that if i pull REALLY REALLY lightly on hair, I will get a handfull Of hair in my hand. Please help me huda, I’m requesting. If you could tell me what my sisters could also do because I don’t want them to have thin hair. I want them to have beautiful thick hair. Thank you huda, I will be waiting for your reply
Keep up the good work xxx
Suman…please check your self for PCOS… Poly cystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is a group of signs and symptoms including irregular menstrual cycle, hair loss, hirsutism, acne, dark patches etc. The major underlying cause for these symptoms is Insulin Resistance (IR). High levels of insulin in the blood cause over-production of the male sex hormones (testosterone).
High levels of testosterone reduces the rejuvenation of the hair follicles in the scalp and MAKES THEM VERY WEAK…thus hair falls off easily. Surprisingly, they activate the follicles where hair growth is not required like chin, cheeks, upper lips etc. which is known as hirsutism. A male pattern of baldness is observed in women with PCOS with hair loss on the top and middle. This brings in a strong connection between women and hair loss.
After reading this post…I’m thankful to ALLAH that I’ve been blessed with naturally straight n manageable n non tangible hair. Alhamdullilah.
Suman…please check your self for PCOS… Poly cystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is a group of signs and symptoms including irregular menstrual cycle, hair loss, hirsutism, acne, dark patches etc. The major underlying cause for these symptoms is Insulin Resistance (IR). High levels of insulin in the blood cause over-production of the male sex hormones (testosterone).
High levels of testosterone reduces the rejuvenation of the hair follicles in the scalp. Surprisingly, they activate the follicles where hair growth is not required like chin, cheeks, upper lips etc. which is known as hirsutism. A male pattern of baldness is observed in women with PCOS with hair loss on the top and middle. This brings in a strong connection between women and hair loss.
Thanks Huda!!!!!!!!!!