High ponytails, cornrows, buns, braids, and updos can all pull and even damage follicles, leading to hair pain, says Lars Skjoth, founder of Harklinikken, a Denmark-based brand that specializes in products to help hair loss and thinning. He suggests wearing these rigid styles no more than a couple times a week, and when you do, not to leave them in all day and night. She recommends that patients prone to hair pain use only soft cloth hair ties and opt for loose styles instead of anything that pulls at the scalp. If you just have to wash your hair daily or you have a sensitive scalp, she recommends using a gentle baby shampoo, like Mustela 2 in 1 Hair and Body Wash, which contains glycerin for cleansing and avocado extract to help reinforce the skin barrier. Another notorious cause of hair pain may be your regular date with hair dye or bleach, which Jaliman knows all about firsthand. With allodynia, normally nonpainful stimuli like brushing your hair, wearing a hat or a loose ponytail, and feeling water wash over your hair in the shower become painful.
Key Points:
- 1Dry shampoo, the beloved bestie for women on the go and workout fiends, is becoming a bigger factor in hair pain due to overuse.
- 2When it comes to cleansing, hair can be as fussy as Goldilocks; it doesn’t want to be under washed, but don’t over wash it either and throw the entire pH balance off–that can be yet another cause of painful hair.
- 3Skjoth suggests Harklinikken PH Shampoo, which balances the scalp and uses oat and mustard-seed extracts to cleanse the scalp naturally.
What’s happening is inflammation coming from blood vessels in the scalp is flooding the nerves in the hair follicles and causing them to ache.
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