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Acid Diet: Beware for Your Hair!

Contemporary food tends to favour acid substances, as opposed to basic (alkaline) ones. This unbalance can have a negative impact on our hair’s health, and sometimes even favour  loss...
linkExcessively Acid Diet, Beware for Your Hair! - Men linkExcessively Acid Diet, Beware for Your Hair! - Women

Aging of the Hair

There are two types of hair aging processes: the first has to do with keratin wearing off because of poorly adapted treatments. The second comes with getting older and the natural erosion of the hair follicle… hair lossWhat is an Aging Hair

Alopecia Areata and Hair Loss

Alopecia areata is different from other types of hair loss because of its sudden and unpredictable character. The cause of the condition has become better known over the past years: it is more than likely an auto-immune disease. But this hypothesis is still subject to controversy… linkAlopecia Areata and Hair Loss

Androgenetic Alopecia

Androgenetic alopecia, which is of hormonal origin, is the most common type of hair loss: it corresponds to 80% of cases in women, and more than 95% in men …
linkAndrogenetic Alopecia- Men linkAndrogenetic Alopecia - Women

Androgenetic, a Word that Scares Women…

You think you suffer from androgenetic alopecia, you enquired wherever you could, on the web, in forums, and the word scares you… Here, Hélène Clauderer answers the questions you ask yourself, in order to reframe your problem and help you face it in a positive way... linkAccess

Androgen Hormones: Impact on Hair Loss

The androgen hormones can have a capital impact on men’s hair loss, as in women’s. In this info file, we explain in detail the metabolism that takes place. This is to better understand how the treatments will be able to neutralise it… linkThe Impact of Androgen Hormones- Men linkThe Impact of Androgen Hormones- Women

Anti-Hair Loss Treatments: the Situation on Regrowing Products

What are the best treatments against hair loss, in France? How can one find one’s way in the midst of the many anti-hair loss products available? linkAnti-Hair Loss Treatments - Men
linkAnti-hair loss Treatments - Women

Baldness Tendency?

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What will you look like in 10 or 20 years? In two clicks and two crossed criteria, Simulate your future badness and visualise how your alopecia risks evolving if you do not treat it... linkWill You Turn Bald? The Simulation Game

Breaking Hair and Split Ends

A breaking hair and/or one with split ends has aged prematurely, and its keratin has lost all of its elasticity. This diminished resistance can have multiple causes... linkBreaking Hair and Split Ends

Chemotherapy and Hair Loss

Hair loss is one of the most feared side effects by patients going through chemotherapy to treat cancer. Here, Hélène Clauderer answers the questions that are the most frequently asked to her by patients themselves, or their friends and family… linkChemotherapy and Hair Loss

Child-Bearing and Hair Loss

The hair can go through considerable changes during child-bearing. During pregnancy, the hair is often at its best; inversely, after delivery, it falls excessively. This so-called post-partum hair loss is typical, but not always neutral… linkChild-Bearing and Hair Loss

Cholesterol and Hair Loss

The discovery that an excess of cholesterol can have a relation with androgenetic hair loss is rather recent, and the explanation remains uncertain. One fact has however been verified: bad cholesterol can be an aggravating factor in people with a natural predisposition for hair loss... linkCholesterol and Hair Loss

Clauderer Anti-Hair LossTreatments

All Clauderer anti-hair loss treatments are personalised to each particular case. They are prescribed following a diagnosis, and guarantee precise specific results. By subscribing to a Clauderer treatment, you also benefit from a regular follow-up that enables to control the progress of your hair and your scalp…linkClauderer Treatments

Clauderer In-Depth Hair Diagnosis

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This diagnosis enables you to locate in time the origin of your condition, and identify all of the factors that triggered it. You will obtain a full hair checkup and recommendations, without false promises, to reenact your hair cycles and prevent your hair to continue deteriorating itself… linkHair Diagnosis

Contraception and The Hair

Because the hair lives under hormonal dependence, a contraceptive (pill or any other hormonal contraceptive) can have a negative or positive impact on it. This applies to scalps with a natural predisposition for ‘androgenetic’ seborrhea or hair loss problems… linkThe Hair and Contraception

Contraceptives

Contraceptives are here classified into 4 categories, according to the effect they have on the scalp and the hair’s vitality: Very positive – Positive – Neutral – Negative… linkInternational List and Rating of Contraceptives

Daily Hair Loss: What is the Norm?

How many hairs can we lose daily on average? As of what quantity does a hair loss become pathological? linkDaily Hair Loss - Men linkDaily Hair Loss - Women

Dandruff and Itchiness

Dandruff and itchiness correspond to an abnormal activation of the scalp’s dermic cells and their expulsion by ‘desquamation’. This abnormality remains a mystery… Whereas we now know what causes the dandruff and favours its appearance, we still do not know why some hair is predisposed to it, and some is not. There are however now effective treatments, and isn’t that what matters most? linkDandruff and Itchiness - Men linkDandruff and Itchiness - Women

Diabetes and Diffuse Hair Loss

In the case of an unbalanced diabetes, the hair can fall in a diffuse fashion. Few diabetologists feel concerned about this symptom, which is not vital, and consider it to merely be a ‘cosmetic’ sign of the condition. But for patients who already have difficulties accepting their diabetes, hair loss can be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. This info file is for them… linkDiabetes and Hair Loss

Diet and Hair Loss

To keep one’s hair is first about properly feeding it ‘from the inside’. The right diet for the hair should avoid refined industrial sugars and should bring you the five daily nutrients it needs, i.e., protein, sulphur, zinc, iron and group B vitamins... linkYour Diet and Hair Loss linkYour Diet and Hair Loss - Women

Drug-Associated Alopecia (Hair Loss)

We take more and more medication, and alopecia (hair loss) due to the intake of drugs has continuously increased over the past fifty years. Explanations and a precise list of the molecules that can trigger hair loss… linkDrug-Associated Alopecia in Men linkDrug-Associated Alopecia in Women

Dry Hair

A lack of sebum, or a sebum deficiency, makes the keratin and the hair’s scalp more fragile. Here are some recommendations to make up for the problem… linkExcessively Dry Hair

Dull and/or Porous Hair

Dull or porous hair has a common problem as its cause: the more or less significant deterioration of its cuticle, which is the external part of the hair stem. Today, there are several remedies in order to cure this unsettling… linkDull and/or Porous Hair

Electrically-Charged Hair

Why does the hair become electrically charged? How can hair that is impossible to comb be tamed? What intensifies the problem of electrically charged hair… What we recommend to fix the problem... linkElectrically Charged Hair

Free: Express Online Test

Test your symptoms in a few clicks: hair loss and/or thinning... linkFree Online Test - Men linkFree Online Test - Women

Frizzy Hair: Excessivelly Dry

Is your hair frizzy? What you should primarly look for in hair hydrating products are essential fatty acids (EFA). In this info file, you will understand the role that this type of acid plays in the hair’s organic composition and why, in your particular case, its eventual deficiency causes excessively dry hair. In terms of treatment, you will see that EFA are found in most vegetable oils, although some are more effective than others… linkExcessively Dry Frizzy Hairs: Treating it with Essential Fatty Acids

Frizzy Hair: Natural is back!

The number of our clients who decide to no longer have their hair straightened increases every year. For them, beautiful afro hair means healthy hair, and not artificially straightened hair, as they had long thought. Here are the tips and advice we give them, to help them love and take care of their new hair.… linkNatural Frizzy Hair is Back!

Frizzy or Semi-Frizzy Hair Loss

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Several specificities about frizzy or semi-frizzy hair loss justify that a special info file be dedicated to them, as well as the anti-hair loss treatments to recommend… hair lossFrizzy or Semi-Frizzy Hair Loss

Frizzy/Straightened Hair, Daily Tips

Seven practical tips to optimise the health and beauty of straightened hair on a daily basis...
link7 Every Day Tips for Your Straightened Hair

Frizzy/Straightened Hair: How to Treat and Fix It

You regularly straighten your hair and are afraid that your head of hair will decrease as a consequence in the long term… Hélène Clauderer answers all of the questions you can ask yourself… linkFrizzy/Straightened Hair, How to Treat and Repair It?

Greasy Hair and Sebum

Seborrhea, or excess of sebum, is of androgenetic origin. But it is often amplified by stress, the diet and an upkeeping that is poorly adapted to the hair. Some tips to prevent the hair from becoming excessively greasy… linkGreasy Hair and Sebum (Men)  linkGreasy Hair and Sebum (Women)

Hair Care

10 Quick Tips by H. Clauderer:
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Taking Care of Breaking Hair
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Taking Care of Dry Hair
porousTaking Care of Dull and Porous Hair
hair-lossTaking Care of Falling Hair
greasyTaking Care of Greasy Hair
dandruffTaking Care of Scalp Dandruff or Irritations
thinningTaking Care of Thinning Hair

Hair Follicle

The hair follicle is the root’s wrapping, 4 mm under the scalp. That is where the hair’s life cycle is developed, and where one should act in the case of malfunctioning. Explanations and sketch… linkHair Follicle

Hair Growth and Regrowth

Over the past 5 years, research has accelerated, and biologists now have a better understanding of the hair’s mysteries. We now understand with more precision the functioning of the ‘underground factory’ in which the hair is born, grows and renews itself. We especially know where precisely to act when malfunctionings occur. Explanations and sketches... linkHair Growth and Regrowth: Where Precisely to Act?

Hair Growth: What Daily Pace?

At what pace does our hair grow? What length can it reach? Can we make it grow faster? linkCaucasian Hair linkFrizzy or Semi-Frizzy Hair


Hair Life Cycle: Anagen, Catagen and Telogen

A hair’s life cycle is on average 3 years in men and 5 to 7 years in women. During that period, each hair grows continuously. It is the anagen phase. Then, it suddenly stops its growth, which is the catagen phase. Finally, it dies. That is the telogen phase. Explanation and sketches… linkThe Hair’s Life Cycle

Hair Loss Treatments FAQ

Every week, we receive dozens of emails regarding the effectiveness of anti-hair loss treatments. Here is our answer to the 15 most frequently asked questions… linkHair Loss Treatments FAQ

Hair Loss: How to Identify Your Type of Hair Loss?

- The different types of hair loss
- The symptoms that trigger or aggravate them
- The symptoms that distinguish them from each other…
linkMen's Hair Loss: How to Identify Your Type of Hair Loss
linkWomen's Hair Loss: How to Identify Your Type of Hair Loss

Hair Structure

A side view of the hair shows three concentric layers: 1) the cuticle, on the outside, 2) the cortex, in the intermediary zone and 3) the marrow, at the centre. Explanations and sketches… linkHair Structure

Hypertension an Androgenetic Alopecie

As for cholesterol, there seems to be a link between androgenetic alopecia and arterial hypertension. But, apart from a clear clinical observation, research has not yet been able to explain the correlation between the two conditions. Also, some medications against hypertension can decrease hair loss, while others can cause it.… linkHypertension and Androgenetic Alopecia

Iron Deficiency and Hair Loss

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Iron is vital for the oxygenation of the hair’s reproduction cells. A lack of iron, once settled (iron deficiency anaemia) can lead to thinner, more tern and scarcer hair... linkIron Deficiency and Hair Loss

Is Clauderer a Rip-Off?

Here and there, on web forums dedicated to hormonal hair loss, one can sometimes read that Clauderer treatments are a rip-off, and that so are all other natural anti-hair loss remedies...
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Keratin

What is Keratin? How can it be treated? Is it a living or a dead body? Its multiple properties make it complex and difficult to classify... hair_lossRead more

Lifestyle: 6 Anti-Hair Loss Tips for Your Hair

When the body is neglected, the first victims are the rapidly renewing cells (skin and the hair). If your hair falls excessively, here is a tip: closely monitor your lifestyle… linkLifestyle - Men
linkLifestyle - Women

Massages, Exercise for the Hair

Three exclusive Clauderer massages, to make your scalp more supple and remove stress from it, favour the blood flow towards your hair, and boost regrowth. Precise sketches of the moves to make… Massages, Exercise for the Hair linkMen linkWomen linkFrizzy Hair

Menopause (and Premenopause), and Hair Loss

Menopause is characterised by the progressive loss (premenopause), and then the disappearance of female hormones. This loss can trigger symptoms of hyperandrogenia (excess of male  hormones), especially in terms of hair density… linkPremenopause, Menopause and Hair Loss

Menopause: HRT - Hormone Replacement Therapy

The HRT (hormone replacement therapy) are here ranked into 4 categories, according to the impact they have on the scalp and the hair’s vitality: Very positive – Positive – Neutral – Negative… linkInternational List of HRT and Rating for the Hair

Puberty and the Hair

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Just like the rest of the body, the hair changes at puberty. It is often greasier, less docile and sometimes has dandruff. On some people, the head of hair even starts to become scattered. Those symptoms, from the most benign to the most concerning, can be cured. What matters is to not let them settle in… linkThe Hair and Puberty: Hair Treatment for Adolescents

Quiz - Hair and the History of France

Why did Joan of Arc have her hair cut? What triggered the use of curly wigs for men in the XVIIth century? What happened to Napoleon’s hair for people to believe he was killed by poisoning?... A ten question quiz on the hair that has made French history… link The Hair and History of France

Quiz - Hair Properties

For how long does our hair live? What is an abnormal hair loss? What makes the hair whiten? A 12 question quiz on basic knowledge about the hair… linkHair Properties

Quiz - The Hair in the Eyes of Painters

From Renaissance to Picasso and Dali, a selection of 70 paintings with a special focus on the hair ... linkThe Hair in the Eyes of Painters

Quiz - The Hair in the Eyes of Poets

A living and mysterious substance that constantly renews itself, the hair has often aroused the imagination of poets. Here are ten examples illustrating its symbolic richness: can you guess the authors?... linkThe Hair in the Eyes of Poets


Seasonal Hair Loss (in Autumn)

For many of us, the hair falls three to four times more in autumn. What is such seasonal loss due to? Should one worry about it? Explanation, and tips… link Seasonal Hair Loss

Shampoo: Get Rid of Common Misconceptions

Shampooing is a familiar process, which we think we master. However, just like tooth brushing, it is not neutral, and partly determines the hair’s health. Eight Q&A to get rid of your misconceptions and shampoo successfully… linkYour Shampoo

Spring and Hair Loss

In the spring, boost your hair regrowth in order to better face beginning of season hair loss. Everything you do for your hair at that period of the year will be returned to you times one hundred: just like for plants, it is the period when it is optimally receptive… linkThe Spring and Beginning of the Season Hair Loss: Boost Your Regrowing Hair!

Stress and Hair Loss

If you tend to lose your hair, beware of stress! Because our hair’s health is very sensitive to our mind’s, stress can strongly accelerate the loss process… linkStress and Hair Loss - Men    linkStress and Hair Loss - Women

Telogen Effluvium

So-called telogen effluvium hair losses affect the whole of the head. That is their main common denominator. In that respect, they are different from androgenetic hair loss which only affects some zones of the scalp… linkTelogen Effluvium - Men linkTelogen Effluvium - Women

Thinner and Fewer Regrowing Hair

Two parameters can modify the density of the hair: the regrowths are thinner, or there are fewer of them, sometimes both… Why? What can be done? Explanations, sketches and Clauderer tips… linkThinner and Fewer Regrowing Hair - Men linkThinner and Fewer Regrowing Hair - Women

Thyroid Problems and Hair Loss

Rather unknown from the general public (except from those who have problems with it), the thyroid gland secretes hormones the role of which is vital for the body, in general, and for the hair, in particular. When they are in sub-production or in over-production, those hormones can unsettle the hair’s health and lead to major diffuse loss. Why? How? What can be done?... linkThyroid Problems and Hair Loss

Traction Hair Loss and Trichotillomania

Traction Hair loss (alopecia) is caused by poney talls, extensions, small African braids or afro hair complements… The problem is the same for all these types of hairdressing : a strong and prolonged traction of the roots can lead to localised and irreversible hair loss. Another cause of traction is trichotillomania. Even if the cause of the condition is very different and relates to psychiatry rather than cosmetics, the result is the same: as a consequence of being pulled, the hair falls prematurely ... linkTraction Hair Loss and Trichotillomania

 

Vital Functions of the Hair

A hair’s health depends on five factors, identified by Hélène Clauderer as its five vital functions. Indivisible, those functions must be rebalanced with regards to each other, within the hair follicle. If one or more of them is unsettled, the hair’s whole vital function is affected. Explanations, tips and detailed sketches… linkThe Hair’s Vital Functions - Men linkThe Hair’s Vital Functions - Women

Vitamins and Hair Loss: Effectiveness and Limits…

Can vitamins for the hair help to solve problems such as hair loss, weak regrowth, excessively greasy or dry hair, and dandruff? And, if so, how can one find one’s way in the jungle of products and promises? An overview of the effectiveness of those treatments, and their limits...
linkVitamins by Oral Intake and Hair Loss: Effectiveness and Limits

Winter Hair

Weak regrowths, much dandruff, electrically charged hair… Here, minor and major winter problems are explained and taken into consideration… link Winter Hair

What's new with natural treatments against hair loss?

Fully natural vegetable-based formulas to fight hair loss are now available on the market thanks to recent scientific findings. More than a trend, this type of anti hair loss treatment is a response to consumer demand... link Learn more


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