Facial Hair Removal for Women

You are a product of your parents, and hair loss is often inherited. Hormones are tricky, hidden things, however, and they have different effects on an individual basis. In a male, testosterone abides abundantly. There are also enzymes working on testosterone which product a substance called DHT. DHT is now known to circulate in the blood and cause other conditions, one of which is the shrinking of hair follicles. When hair follicles shrink enough, they are unable to produce and push a new hair through.

Women pregnancy, childbirth and menopause all cause significant hormonal change and imbalances both physically and mentally. Various changes can also cause hair loss, both temporary and permanent.Loss hair and re-growth products have been around for decade.When old hair dies, is not replaced.Women, hormonal imbalances can also cause hair loss

New medical research has always kelp on ways to re-open and stimulate “dead” hair follicles, so hair growth can re-occur naturally, as well as keep the healthy follicles healthy. Thus,having a number of products become available, both by prescription and over-the-counter.These products are advertised on radio and television and on the Internet. One n only have do a “google” search on hair loss Read the rest of this entry »

Have you ever wondered what causes hair to turn gray? You surely have, everyone probably has at one point or another. Grey hair is even more mysterious when you think about the thirty year old with a full head of gray hair compared against a 45 year old that has no gray hair at all. Well, there is reason for this disparity. It isn’t as mysterious as you may think.

A single strand of hair has two parts. One part is the root which is anchored underneath the skin. Another part is the shaft which appears above the skin. Hair follicles are attached to the hair roots. The follicle is what controls the characteristics of each individual hair, including the hair’s color.

Inside a hair follicle are cells that produce melanin. This gives color to the hair shaft and is the same substance that gives color to the skin. There are two types of melanin. Phaeomelanin produces light hair colors and eumelanin produces dark hair colors. These two substances blend together to create the entire possible range of human hair colors. Read the rest of this entry »

Androgenic Alopecia is also known as male pattern baldness,hereditary balding, and androgenetic alopecia. It is the most common form of hair loss. It is more common in men than in women mainly due to sex hormones.

Androgenic Alopecia is characterized as thinning of the hair on one’s scalp as opposed to follicular hair loss. Male pattern hair loss usually doesn’t present itself until after puberty when the male hormones are elevated. This is when someone with a genetic predisposition to balding will start to notice their hair thinning. Studies have shown that around half of all caucasian men over the age of 40 experience some form of hair loss. The occurence and severity in other cultures seems to be much lower.

Androgens, specifically testosterone and dihydrotestosterone or DHT, are necessary to activate the genes in the scalp to create hair loss.Genes modify the way the scalp responds to circulating androgens in the blood. Read the rest of this entry »