Why Your Hair Is Falling, and What Actually Stops It

Almost everyone who sits in our chair and says "my hair is falling" is worried about the wrong number. Losing fifty to a hundred strands a day is normal. Hair grows, rests, sheds and grows again, and the shedding phase is supposed to happen. What is worth paying attention to is not the strands on your pillow, it is whether your parting is getting wider, whether your ponytail feels thinner in your hand than it did six months ago, and whether you are seeing scalp where you did not before.

We are a salon, not a clinic, so we will be straight with you about which of these we can help with and which we cannot.

Why hair falls, and what is actually behind it

Most hair fall we see in Dhaka comes down to a handful of causes, and they are not all the same problem.

• Nutrition. Low iron, low protein and low vitamin D are the ones that show up most often, and they show up in hair months after the deficiency starts.
• Hormones. Thyroid problems, PCOS and the months after childbirth all shed hair, and no treatment fixes that until the cause is treated.
• Stress and illness. A fever, surgery, or a hard few months will push a lot of hair into the shedding phase at once. It usually recovers on its own.
• Water and buildup. Hard water and heavy product buildup make hair brittle and make the scalp unhappy, which is not the same as losing hair from the root.
• Tension and heat. Tight ponytails, tight braids, daily straightening and repeated chemical work break hair off along the shaft. This is the one people least expect and the one that is easiest to stop.
• Genetics. Some hair loss is inherited, and it needs a doctor rather than a salon.

What a salon can honestly do

We can clean the scalp, take off buildup, calm irritation, strengthen the shaft so less of it snaps, and stop the damage that our own industry causes. A hair spa, an ozone or scalp treatment, a protein or bond repair treatment, all of these help hair that is breaking. Our anti hair fall treatment is priced by hair length like everything else and the number is written down before we start.

What we cannot do is grow hair back from a follicle that has stopped, correct a thyroid problem, or replace iron you are not eating. Anyone who promises you that is selling something.

What actually helps at home

• Loosen it. If your hairstyle hurts, it is pulling hair out. That includes sleeping in a tight braid.
• Wash more often, not less. An unwashed oily scalp does not grow more hair.
• Oil the scalp before washing, not after. Leaving heavy oil on for days traps dust and makes it worse.
• Give heat a rest. Straightening every day does more damage than one chemical treatment a year.
• Comb wet hair with a wide tooth comb only, and start at the ends.
• Eat protein at every meal and get your iron checked once.

When to see a doctor instead

Book a doctor, not a salon, if hair is coming out in round patches, if the scalp is painful, itchy or flaking heavily, if a lot of hair has fallen suddenly over a few weeks, or if the front hairline is moving back. Those need a diagnosis. We will tell you the same thing if you sit in our chair with them.

What we do at Noor

Come in and we will look at the scalp and the length before recommending anything, and tell you honestly whether a treatment will help or whether you are better off spending the money on a blood test. If a treatment does make sense, the hair treatment prices are published in full, and you hear the number for your hair length before anything starts.