Causes of Hair Damage

Some estimates say as many as 25 million American women (or more) experience noticeable hair loss and the distressing effects that often go along with it.Any rough action will damage the cuticle and expose the shaft. This causes long-term damage to the hair. Keep your cuticles healthy and half the battle is won. Cuticles are like the walls of a house.

This is the most common cause of thinning and affects both men and women. Men generally have hair loss concentrated in a specific pattern from the front through to the crown. Women tend to have thinning throughout their head without being in any specific pattern. This type of hair loss is caused by the androgen DHT, or Dihydrotestosterone.

It is a process in which hair is removed permanently. Each individual hair follicle is destroyed using this technique and this stops hair growth. In this technique a slim probe is put into the follicle of the hair.Hair treatments/ styling like streaking, dying, straightening, perming cause a lot of hair damage. Hair is exposed to heat, chemicals, pulling and breakage.