Hair loss & thinning.
What this actually is
Hair shedding and hair thinning are different, and the difference decides what to do.
Everyone sheds — fifty to a hundred hairs a day is normal, and more in autumn. Telogen effluvium is a temporary surge in that shedding, three months after a trigger: illness, surgery, childbirth, crash dieting, a bad stretch of stress, stopping the pill. It looks alarming, it comes out in handfuls in the shower, and it usually resolves on its own over six to nine months. The three-month delay is why people rarely connect it to its cause.
Thinning is different — the hair itself gets finer and the part gets wider, with less coming out. That pattern is usually androgenetic, it is progressive, and early treatment matters because it is far easier to keep hair than to regrow it.
Then there is the medical layer that no salon should skip: iron deficiency, thyroid disease and vitamin D deficiency all cause hair loss and all show up on a simple blood test. Anyone losing hair noticeably should have those checked before spending money on serums.
Scarring hair loss, patchy round bald spots and sudden loss need a doctor promptly, not a shampoo.
A routine that suits it
Where we would start. Build it up one step at a time rather than all at once.
- Rule things out first
Ask your GP for ferritin, thyroid and vitamin D before buying anything. This step is free and it is the most useful one on the page.
- Wash
Regularly and gently. Dirty scalps do not grow better hair, and avoiding washing does not reduce loss.
- Treat
A scalp serum for density, used daily and given three to six months before you judge it.
What we use - Support
Only if a blood test says you are short — iron supplements taken without a deficiency are not harmless.
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Frequently asked
- How much shedding is normal?
- Fifty to a hundred hairs a day, and considerably more in autumn or if you only wash your hair twice a week — you are seeing several days' worth at once. What matters more than the count is whether your parting is widening or your ponytail is thinner than it was a year ago. Shedding is about volume lost per day; thinning is about the hair itself getting finer.
- Should I get blood tests?
- Yes, before spending anything on products. Low ferritin, thyroid problems and vitamin D deficiency are common, they all cause hair loss, and they are all treatable — but only if someone looks. Ask your GP for those three. We would rather you spent forty euro on a blood test than four hundred on serums that cannot fix a deficiency.
- How long before a scalp product shows anything?
- Three months at the earliest and six is a fairer judgement point, because hair grows about a centimetre a month and the cycle is slow. Take a photograph of your parting in the same light at the start. Anything claiming visible regrowth in weeks is describing how the hair sits, not how much of it there is.