If you want your hairstyle to hold out through a long night, or tropical-storm winds, hairspray is a secure style mainstay.
But, some people are wondering if hair spray causes hair loss or may have damaging effects on your hair.
While you don’t exactly need to put down the hair spray, there may be ways that you can use hairspray in a healthier manner that is less damaging to your hair.
Below, we will cover if hairspray can cause hair loss, the potential negative effects that can occur with use, other factors that may be having a negative effect on your hair, and how to use hairspray in a way that is more gentle to your strands and scalp.
Unless you are fully dousing your scalp in obscene amounts of hairspray and letting it stew for days, it is unlikely that hairspray alone can cause hair loss.
However, there may be ways that you can use hair spray and the styling techniques that normally come along with it to help reduce any unwanted negative hair effects.
One of the possible negative effects of hairspray use is over drying your strands and scalp. Some hairsprays have very drying ingredients like ethanol, that can sap moisture from the hair. If this happens, your hair may start feeling dry, crunchy, and brittle. Potentially, if left unmoisturized, brittle hair may break off more readily, making you notice hair loss from increased breakage. For your scalp, you may feel itchiness, dryness, and experiencing flakiness.
Also, it is possible that some people have an allergic reaction to certain hairsprays, called contact dermatitis. This may cause redness, irritation, and swelling. If you have a reaction to a hair product, you should stop using that specific product. If you still want to use hairspray, you may be able to find another hairspray product that does not cause this reaction for you.
Even if some people are pointing fingers at the hairspray when they are noticing hair loss or breakage, the hairspray may not always be the culprit.
Other possible causes of hair loss or breakage during styling may include:
If you are noticing increased hair shedding, it is unlikely that your hair spray is to blame. But, there are situations where hair spray use can increase the dryness of your hair, making it more prone to breakage.
These are a few tips on how to continue using your hair spray with less risk of hair dryness or scalp irritation:
If you are noticing increased hair loss or shedding, it is more likely that you are experiencing hereditary hair loss, not reacting to your hair spray.
Here at Strut, we formulate customized medications that target genetic hair loss like male pattern and female pattern hair loss. The goal of treatment is to help slow the progression and reduce the extent of hereditary hair loss.
If you want to see if your hair loss is likely due to male pattern or female pattern hair loss, and are curious if a hair loss medication is a good fit for you, you can have a free online questionnaire and image-based consultation with our U.S. licensed doctors today.
If you are a good candidate for treatment, your doctor will put together a treatment plan, and your medication will be shipped from a U.S. compounding pharmacy to your front door.
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