Hair Restoration Blog

Q:

Dr. Mohebi,

What do you think about Nioxin for hair loss treatment? Do you offer it in your Los Angeles hair restoration offices?

A:

We currently do not sell any products in our Los Angeles hair restoration offices. Nioxin makes different products such as cleansers (shampoos), conditioners, reconstructors, and other products for hair and scalp. They are in the market and could be purchased from beauty salon. Nioxin shampoos are popular, but there appears to be nothing in them that will cure hair loss. I have had many patients who used them in the past for a while and they gave me a mixed report. If they are affordable and you are happy using them as cleansers or conditioners I have no problem with that. However, by looking at what is out there on the ingredients on Nioxin products and the reports from my patients, I cannot recommend them as a treatment for hair loss.

Many people ask me on the use of hair products such as shampoos or conditioner after a hair transplant procedure in our Los Angeles hair transplant clinic. My answer as you probably have seen in this blog is that you can go back to your routine hair wash and maintenance after the first five day after your hair transplant surgery. They practically cannot damage the transplanted hair at that time by washing or shampooing it.

Can shampooing affect our hair loss? Can I hurt my hair by doing too much washing and shampooing? Is there a shampoo that can help the growth of my hair? These are some questions that patients ask me in my office on a daily basis.

The answer is simple. The external factor such as shampoos and conditioners cannot really affect the growth or fall of your hair much. You can wash your hair on a regular basis with shampoos if you have oily scalp and greasy hair. You can choose special shampoos for that matter as well; shampoos that have a stronger cleansing effect for oily scalps. You cannot possibly hurt your hair by washing your hair if you are not having obsessive compulsive disorder. Not washing hair may cause you to lose your partners or friends, but it does not affect your hair strength much.

You can find many different shampoos in the market with the claim of helping your hair growth and preventing further hair loss. Unfortunately most those statements are not quite accurate. Even using the shampoos with some effective ingredients such as minoxidil or DHT blockers chemicals cannot be that effective on preventing your hair loss. The active ingredients of the shampoos cannot freely enter the skin and even if they can be absorbed to some degrees, they cannot reach the generative layers of the skin. The contact time of the shampoo and conditioner with the skin is also limited that does not allow for the ingredients to penetrate the skin.

My suggestion to those patients is to stick with whatever shampoo that they are comfortable with and not to change the shampoo because of the miracle shampoo advertisement they saw on the news paper.