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These days I get questions about my writing from all over.
I thought it was a question about writing or the path to becoming a writer, but surprisingly, even after I washed my eyes and looked again, it was a question about “hair loss.”
“The author Lina, after reading your article, I looked at the shampoo I have and, oh my God!, there is one that contains menthol.”
My eyes lit up at the word menthol and I immediately responded to KakaoTalk.
“That’s right, there are many shampoos that secretly contain menthol. But as I wrote in the article, menthol itself is not a bad ingredient.
This is an ingredient that should only be avoided by those showing hair loss or signs of hair loss or those with sensitive scalps.
“If you have a normal scalp, you can use any product that contains menthol.”
Fortunately, the person who asked the question carefully read my article and was fully aware of this part.
He said he was the only one in his family who suffered from hair loss and decided not to use that shampoo for a while, and that thanks to it he learned a lot about menthol. I was very proud and grateful.
Also, some people have asked me for more recommendations on hair loss products and some have asked me what product I’m currently using.
So I decided to write this article.
I can’t tell every person, “This ingredient and that ingredient are different. Don’t misunderstand.”
Just looking around, there were more people around me suffering from hair loss than I thought, and it seemed like we were even more defenseless against hair loss than I thought.
YES. When I look back at myself, no one in my family suffers from hair loss, but it took me a long time to accept the reality that I had hair loss.
Even though it was late, out of curiosity I knocked on the door of a hair loss clinic and an expert diagnosed me that I was in the “middle stage of hair loss” and I accepted it.
Who might suddenly wonder, “Is this the beginning of hair loss?” just because their previously normal scalp is losing more hair than usual?
Honestly, even if I knew, I wouldn’t even want to admit it.
At least for me it was like that because I always took care of myself. It was hard to accept.
I felt like my hair was falling out significantly, but even though I saw it, I didn’t want to accept it easily. In fact, I turned my head away from the numerous hairs scattered across the floor, thinking that it probably wasn’t hair loss.
Then I got scared.
“I put it off and put it off because of my petty shame and embarrassment.
“What if I got to the point where I couldn’t do anything anymore?”
This fear came over me.
It didn’t take long to recover from the shock after I was diagnosed with hair loss at a clinic.
After that I began to study hair loss very actively.
Based on the advice and suggestions I received from the director of the hair loss clinic, I looked back and delved into what I should eat, use and watch.
Then, I learned that alcohol, ethanol, and rubbing alcohol, which are denaturants containing ethanol, are all harmful ingredients for sensitive scalps or hair-losing scalps.
The director of the hair loss clinic said this.
“Oh, and the shampoo you use must not contain alcohol or ethanol.
“Those ingredients are harmful to hair loss on the scalp.”
I remember nodding my head as I wrote down every word the teacher said.
When I got home, I started looking for alcohol, ethanol, and even rubbing alcohol through Naver.
Alcohol, ethanol, and rubbing alcohol are all volatile chemical ingredients for disinfection.
As everyone knows, there is a lot of alcohol in alcohol.
Ethanol is commonly included in the toners and sprays we use because it plays a role in tightening pores and evening out tone when it comes into contact with the skin, however, if the concentration is strong, it is not good to use it continuously.
Of course, the ethanol contained in the cosmetics we use is often “natural ethanol” obtained from the fermentation of cereals or fruit.
However, if “ethanol” is used continuously, it volatilizes and irritates the skin, stripping away the natural oil that coats the skin. Therefore, it dries out the skin and is not beneficial for problematic scalps such as sensitive scalp and hair loss.
Both shedding scalp and sensitive scalp are basically dry. Therefore, it is not good to irritate the scalp in this way.
Rubbing alcohol is a product made by adding a denaturing substance to alcohol and is an ingredient created to distinguish between the ethanol used in alcohol and industrial ethanol. Therefore, rubbing alcohol is unlikely to be good for the body.
Unfortunately, many of the products sold as specific hair loss shampoos contain ethanol or alcohol.
Even rubbing alcohol is sometimes noticeable.
If you have a sensitive or problematic scalp or suffer from hair loss, you need to check whether the hair products you use contain ethanol, alcohol or rubbing alcohol.
I also took a look at the “menthol” that the director of the hair loss clinic recommended along with the alcohol trio when I got home.
There’s something new I learned while studying menthol.
That is, L-menthol and menthol are different.
Menthol and L-menthol are both natural ingredients and have similar names, so it resembles that, but these two are different inside and out.
Shape and particles of menthol ingredient
Just as a peppermint candy feels cool when you put it in your mouth, both serve the same function of making you feel cool when they touch the surface.
However, menthol acts to increase the temperature in the cold spot, but L-menthol, which consists only of “levomenthol”, unlike menthol, reduces surface heat.
Therefore, L-menthol reduces skin heat, regulates skin tone and reduces fatigue.
Furthermore, the two had different compositions and molecular shapes.
Right. They were born differently.
L-menthol is known to be very helpful against hair loss on the scalp and is an ingredient that has been widely used in hair loss products recently.
Shape and particles of the ingredient L-menthol
Hair products like shampoos and treatments are everyday products that we use every day.
Therefore, you should research carefully before purchasing.
Also, if you have a sensitive scalp, show signs of hair loss, or already suffer from hair loss, you need to look more carefully and choose a product.
Of course, if you take care of your problematic or sensitive scalp and it improves to a normal scalp, you can use products that contain ethanol and menthol.
I, who was diagnosed with “intermediate stage hair loss” in January of this year, currently use L-menthol in the products I use.
The number of hair products containing L-menthol has increased more than before, so you can find it easily with a little research.
Most diseases have a cause and, if you know it and improve it, it can be cured.
Fortunately, hair loss is not an incurable disease, so it is included in this category.
If many people suffering from hair loss like me gained strength together and improved their habits and lifestyle one by one, wouldn’t we all be able to escape hair loss one day?
“There will definitely be a happy ending!”
I scream under the spring sun.
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