Helping you spare your hair

There's a lot women can do to halt and even reverse hair loss

Female hair loss is a difficult issue no one wants to talk about

There’s no question losing your hair is an emotional issue, but female hair loss often causes more anxiety and despair than that experienced by the male half of our population. Society expects men to experience hair loss as they age — men like Bruce Willis and Jude Law are still considered attractive with a minimum of hair.


But it’s different for women with hair loss. It’s a devastating issue that affects self esteem, quality of life and sense of self, and it’s all the more difficult because most women are too embarrassed to talk about it.

How common is the problem of female hair loss?

More women than ever before are experiencing female hair loss, and at a younger age, as well. While it’s not uncommon to see hair loss in older women, today even teenagers are experiencing this problem.

This website has been developed to help provide women with the information, support and knowledge they need to manage and slow their hair loss — and hopefully stop it.

Because the causes of female hair loss are as diverse as the women themselves, it may be necessary to try several different approaches, techniques or products before you find the solution that’s right for you.

There’s no doubt — women’s hair loss prevention is not a “one size fits all” situation. Fixing the problem requires patience, perseverance and flexibility — but it can be done.

Some of our favourite solutions include:

  • Raising your iron stores to healthy levels
  • Exploring if medications for things like depression, anxiety or blood pressure may be causing hair loss
  • Examining medical conditions like hypothyroidism to see if they might be the cause.

This website has been designed to help you navigate the challenges of hair loss.  You are not alone. There are many simple solutions that can help you.  It gets better. Just give it time.

The section below contains information about female hair loss causes, treatments and prevention.  There are also some facts to help reassure you and to support you in choosing a strategy that will spare your hair.

Causes of female hair loss

Atenolol hair loss

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Zoloft Hair Loss

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Hairloss treatments

Nizoral Hair Loss

Can Nizoral shampoo help reduce hair loss? Nizoral hair loss treatments have been debated for the past couple of decades. This shampoo…

Iron And Hair Loss

Iron is often the culprit with female hair loss The relationship between iron and hair loss is well documented. Low iron levels…

Hair loss info

Women With Hair Loss: What’s Normal?

Evaluating your hair loss: How bad is is? For women with hair loss, a sense of dread becomes a common state-of-mind. Dread when you wash your hair and count the number of hair strands in the sink. Dread when you see the hair that has collected on the bathroom floor.…

Women’s Hair Loss Prevention

Working to prevent women’s hair loss As devastating and demoralizing as hair loss can be, womens hair loss prevention strategies offer effective ways to slow or stop hair loss. In fact, for women with hair loss, the best treatment is often prevention. It’s not too late to take control of…

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