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The Hair’s Five Vital Functions
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OVERVIEW. A hair’s health depends on five factors, identified by Hélène Clauderer as its five vital functions. Indivisible, those functions must be balanced with each other, within the hair follicle.
If one or several of them are unsettled, the whole hair renewal process can deteriorate itself. |
Blood contains vital elements that will enable the hair to renew itself. Irrigation is established via the hair follicle’s papilla, by a multitude of small vessels. When they are compressed by local micro tensions, the blood can no longer freely reach the roots. Vasodilatation is then necessary to free the path |
Keratinisation is the formation of keratin cells (keratinocytes) and their transformation into hair. The synthesis is carried out via the elements brought through the blood. But the blood can also carry negative messages (caused by an androgenic, or thyroid problem, a lack of iron, or a medical treatment ...). The hair follicle must therefore receive a substance that is rich in essential substances and free of messages that could inhibit its activity. |
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The Hair Follicle |
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Two root sheaths surround the forming hair stem and guide it. They must be firm and well differentiated so that the hair can anchor itself solidly and be directed towards the top.
. The surrounding collagen must necessarily remain supple, especially at papilla-level and all around the follicle (pre-follicular collagen). If it loses its elasticity or prematurely ages under the action of free radicals it locks the whole hair follicle into a stranglehold and curbs its action. |
Secreted by the sebaceous gland, sebum must be evacuated outside the follicle in order to protect and lubricate the hair. If it stagnates under the scalp, it infiltrates the hair follicle and generates toxins that agglutinate around the roots and interfere with blood circulation. When that is the case, the roots, because they are then asphyxiated, produce weaker hair. |
Whatever the initial causes unsettling a hair’s life cycle, the Clauderer hair diagnosis first analyses how its five vital functions have deteriorated locally. This information precisely locates where the treatment should take place in order to be effective, i.e.:
 Thicken the hair’s caliber,
Stabilise the length of the hair cycles and therefore prevent premature hair loss,
Generate an environment that is favourable to regrowing hair.
Treat your Hair to the French Touch!
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