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  • Caring for and repairing straightened frizzy hair

    Caring for and repairing straightened frizzy hair

    You often have your hair straightened and for more than 2/3 of you, it's clear that this causes a lot of damage to your lengths and also risks damaging the health of your scalp. But it's a bad thing...
  • Frizzy hair care by Clauderer

    Frizzy hair care by Clauderer

    Frizzy hair needs special care and attention. More than any other hair type, frizzy or curly hair can be confronted with 3 main types of problem, which can all be added together. THE...
  • The return of natural frizzy hair

    The return of natural frizzy hair

    Since 2015, the percentage of our Clauderer customers who have decided to stop straightening their hair has continued to rise. For them, having beautiful hair means having healthy hair and not artificially straight hair, as they have...
  • Scalp problems after straightening

    Scalp problems after straightening

    Why do scalps with relaxed hair often have problems? A number of factors can cause an imbalance in their pH. In temperate climates, the epidermis, which is naturally adapted to humid tropical climates, becomes...
  • Loss of frizzy or mixed-race hair

    Loss of frizzy or mixed-race hair

    There are a number of particularities concerning frizzy or mixed-race hair loss that require a great deal of attention and warrant a special report. The appropriate treatments should also be the subject of a special report. Hair loss can be...
  • Types of frizzy hair

    Types of frizzy hair

    Your hair plays an important role at the Centre Clauderer. Whether it is African or mixed race, straightened or natural, its characteristics are the subject of specific attention, products and dedicated care. How do you know what type of frizzy hair you have? What are the particularities...
  • Medication and hair loss in women

    Medication and hair loss in women

    Hair loss caused by medical treatments has become increasingly common over the last 50 years. Chemical substances arrive directly via the bloodstream at the level of the hair follicle, where the hair's keratin is manufactured. When they...
  • Too acidic a diet and hair loss

    Too acidic a diet and hair loss

    Today, our diet tends to favour acidic substances to the detriment of basic (alkaline) substances. This imbalance can have a negative influence on the health of our hair, sometimes even leading to hair loss. If your hair mass...
  • Hair colouring and hair loss

    Hair colouring and hair loss

    The answer is NO! And here's why: colouring products are only applied to the length of the hair, they don't penetrate under the scalp, where...
  • Hair loss due to pulling or trichotillomania

    Hair loss due to pulling or trichotillomania

    There are usually two types of traction alopecia: one is caused by a certain type of hairstyle, the other is the result of bad habits (in children) and/or a behavioural disorder called trichotillomania (from the Greek for "hair" and "pulling"). Like its...
  • Chemotherapy and hair loss

    Chemotherapy and hair loss

    Hair grows back gradually after chemotherapy. With a little patience and a few tricks to keep the scalp healthy, it's possible to regain beautiful, healthy hair.
  • Alopecia areata and hair loss

    Alopecia areata and hair loss

    SYMPTOMS OF HAIR LOSS HAIR LOSS BY PLATES Fortunately, this is the most common form of hair loss, because it is also the most easily cured. It is defined by sudden hair loss, in isolated areas of the scalp, and by the appearance of...
  • Vitamin D and hair loss

    Vitamin D and hair loss

    What you need to know Discoveries about vitamin D Vitamin D used to be strictly confined to its role as a bone growth factor, but its scope has now been considerably broadened and it is the subject of wide-ranging research. It...
  • Diabetes and hair loss

    Diabetes and hair loss

    In the case of unbalanced diabetes, some people suffer from diffuse hair loss. Few diabetologists are concerned about this symptom, which is not vital and which they regard as a "cosmetic" sign of the disease. But for...
  • Hair loss and thyroid problems

    Hair loss and thyroid problems

    1° THE THYROID IN A NUTSHELL The thyroid gland, which is located at the base of the front of the neck and weighs only 20 to 30 grams, is little known to the general public (except for those to whom it plays tricks)....
  • Iron deficiency and hair loss

    Iron deficiency and hair loss

    ♦ Iron is vital for the nutrition and oxygenation of the hair's reproductive cells.♦ A settled iron deficiency can lead to thinner, brittle hair and diffuse, continuous hair loss.♦ Nearly half...
  • Symptoms and causes of non-androgenetic hair loss

    Symptoms and causes of non-androgenetic hair loss

    Things to remember Only 10% of female hair loss is not linked to an androgenetic problem* The same is true for male hair loss.10% of hair loss can be caused by a variety of factors.
  • Treatment for baldness: 3 real-life stories

    Treatment for baldness: 3 real-life stories

    These days, there are countless ways to combat baldness, from the simplest to the most sophisticated, from the most original (to say the least) to the most professional. It's not always easy to make sense of all these treatments...
  • Baldness and coronary heart disease

    Baldness and coronary heart disease

    Are bald men more likely to develop coronary heart disease than hairy men? Yes, says a team of researchers from the University of Tokyo, in an article published in the very serious British Medical Journal* on 3 April...
  • Hypertension and hair loss

    Hypertension and hair loss

    "Bad head, bad heart". As with cholesterol, there may be a link between androgenetic alopecia and high blood pressure. Apart from clinical observation, researchers have not yet been able to explain the correlation between the two. Furthermore,...
  • Androgenetic hair loss in men

    Androgenetic hair loss in men

    Key facts: In men, androgenetic hair loss accounts for 97% of cases. The earlier it starts, the more severe it is likely to be. It never stabilises on its own. The sooner it is treated, the more likely it is to improve...
  • Pre-menopause, menopause and hair loss

    Pre-menopause, menopause and hair loss

    Hair loss at the menopause is caused by androgens. These hormones weaken the hair. To neutralise the process of deterioration, we need to intervene at the point where hair life is developed: the root and the hair follicle.
  • Contraception and hair loss

    Contraception and hair loss

    Because our hair is hormone-dependent, a contraceptive pill can influence its health, for better or for worse. This applies to scalps that are sensitive to the activity of androgen hormones* and can have a positive or negative influence on hair loss...
  • Hair loss after pregnancy: what to do?

    Hair loss after pregnancy: what to do?

    Hair can change with motherhood. During pregnancy, hair is at its best, but after giving birth, it falls out too much. Normally, hair loss is reversible and everything returns to normal after a few months. Normally...