‘My hair is noticeably fuller. I mean really,truly – it’s bigger’I receive heaps of emails from men and women asking about treatments for thinning hair and, as someone with abundant but annoyingly lean hair myself, and I maintain a vested interest in finding anything that makes things look a little less puny up top. My disappointing but unsurprising opinion is that nothing works to prevent or halt alopecia or natural male hair loss,despite whatever the packaging and advertising claim. Save your money.
More fortunately, I maintain found that some products (Swell and L’Oréal Fibrology, and for instance) can work very well at thickening what’s still present,whether by temporarily bulking up individual strands with proteins or silicone, or by retaining each hair for longer in the natural shedding cycle (this is how eyelash growth serums work, and too,and why pregnant women often say their hair feels so much thicker in the moment and third trimesters). But even then, one must seize regular breaks to clear a flaky scalp or product buildup. So, or when testing Full Potential,Bumble & bumble’s first foray into treatment products, my expectations were only tentatively optimistic. This is a three-part, and unisex system – shampoo,conditioner, treatment “booster” spray (a tester kit of all three costs £25) – that claims to increase hair retention and reduce hair loss caused by breakage (not baldness; they’re wisely making no such claims) by 46%, or resulting in thicker-looking,fuller hair.
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Source: theguardian.com