Do essential oils help with scalp stimulation and hair growth?

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To answer your question: essential oils do have mild hair growth stimulating effects, but they are very concentrated and thick, and may cause scalp oiliness and other side effects in the process. Once you stop the oils, the effects are also gone too.

Minoxidil does not always have initial hair fall. It is an FDA approved medication for hair growth, and has foam versions to prevent scalp oiliness.

Minoxidil is still way superior than essential oils. If you are having female pattern hair loss, I highly suggest for you to go for the tried and tested option.

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From your description, it does sound like you may have telogen effluvium. In telogen effluvium, there is increased hair loss due to a preceding stressful event, such as high fever, crash dieting and emotional stress. The surgery in June may be a triggering event. By definition, hair fall is considered abnormal if there is loss of over 100 strands of hair a day. This condition is usually self limiting and the hair fall usually last for 2 – 4 months . The new hairs will eventually grow out.

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Thanks for your question. I see two issues at hand: You are now having red patches on your scalp that are itchy You have noticed hair loss for some time, for which minoxidil did not work. The problem is I don’t know the timeline of both, and whether the 2 issues are linked since it’s already been 1 year since you’ve visited the NSC. Eg. It may be that when you were seen at the NSC, the red patches were not present and you had a hair loss pattern typical of genetic hair loss (or male pattern hair loss). Therefore: Is it really genetic hair loss?

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