Best Shampoo to Use for Hair Loss? a Winning Battle, or Bottle, in This War Story

Wondering when your hair will stop being rebellious as your shampoo is planning a secret chemical attack? Tired of sounding like mad Mel while looking down at the money guzzling bottle of shampoo as you're shedding insults? Frustrated there's more hair in your brush than your head? A brittle battle in this hairy war as you can't seem to cease your shampoo from taking no follicle prisoners. When does it end?

Mapping Out Battle Plans

After deciding not to commit hair suicide and cut more off since 4-inches were slashed a month ago, I began mapping out my battle plans. Victory shall be mine!

Visiting Mitchell's Hairstyling School deemed appropriate in a secret attack against my shampoo bottle. After showing a student how I'd like to repair my damaged hair they suggested Matrix Biolage, as she said, "if you can swing the price." Matrix Biolage, sure, I wasn't expecting miracles such as my hair slowly moving after applying and the follicles reconnecting themselves in one wash, but wanted to give it a shot.

Off to Walmart I went. I located the bottle(s) but the price might as well have been attached above the Visine. It can bring tears to the eyes when reading $17, and that's not including conditioner. I left empty handed then went to Food Lion.

You'd think that Food Lion would have low, low prices as advertised. Walmart was lower. I decided to go home and do some serious research first before putting a tank of gas money into a bottle of shampoo.

Research proved valuable on my war efforts.

I found unsatisfied Biolage customers through Make-Up Alley, enough to walk the other way. I contacted the J. C. Penney Salon - yes, I didn't know either, they have a salon. The woman stated that I shouldn't use Biolage on my type of hair, it would just make it worst. Ah, so you ask, what was the condition of my battlefield?

Hair falling out from the ground, or scalp, as follicle is attached. Split ends and drying with a terrible time even putting my fingers through it when it's wet - after washing. But my shampoo had one thing over me at this point - it "conditioned" me blame the leader instead of the follower - the conditioner. It was two against one.

The J. C. Penney assistant was happy enough to shed some light on that duo. I began to round up my shampoo and conditioner soldiers to figure out which one would head towards the battle line. When asking of certain brands the J. C. Penney assistant suggested Nioxin before hanging up. I continued researching online. I found that Nioxin also has some complaints. Am I searching for perfection? You're absolutely right, yes, yes I am. And it was then that I found my answer.

After realizing the ingredients were feeding my enemies I had to cut off their "food" supply. In the last month I've used two kinds of shampoos, Herbal Essences Color Me Happy (created for color treated hair) and Pantene Pro-V. The common ingredients in both are Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, and I warn you Google that chemical with hair loss and see what happens. It's not pretty.

The conditioners I have used this month were Preference and, again, Herbal Essences Color Me Happy. The ingredients weren't too shabby - a little gloss ingredient for shine would be my only question. But I've used the conditioners, not in penny size nor dime size - I would use a half-dollar size and if that wasn't enough, I'd use more, even apply on my scalp. Did you catch that?

I ran across the no-no lists which included never putting conditioner on the scalp because that glossy ingredient can pretty much take out the follicle and possibly plug further chances of hair growth in that hole. Yikes, right? I was scalping myself and self-defeating its purpose, self-inflicting my own hair war. But on the flip-side my shampoo was defeating me. How was I going to win this damaged hair battle? It's obvious.

Stay away from shampoo that contains Sodium Lauryl Sulfate and never use but a drop of conditioner or place it on the roots and scalp. Question is, what shampoos are Sodium Lauryl Sulfate-free? Visit Killer Strands.

Take that shampoo!

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Source(s):
Self-Source
Killer Strands(accessed July 21, 2010)