Health & Hair

Why Your Hair Looks Flat and Thin by Noon, Even Right After You Wash It(It's Not Your Hair. I Found Out What It Is.)

By Carol W., 58 · 3 min read

For two years, I watched my parting get wider in the mirror. In photos too.

I washed my hair every morning. By noon, it lay flat again.

Here's what I finally learned.

1. Your scalp builds up a film at the roots. Shampoo can't wash it off.

It's called buildup: sebum, dry shampoo and product residue that collect around the roots.

It's oily, so it weighs hair down at the root and leaves the scalp itchy and flaky. Most shampoo is 80% water and only washes the lengths.

So the problem was never my hair. It was sitting on my scalp.

2. This Japanese scalp bar lifts it off at the roots.

The SAWUMI Scalp Bar is handmade in Japan by Keiko Sawumi, with 1% caffeine and 1% rosemary oil, plus ginseng and He Shou Wu.

It's a pH 5.5 shampoo bar, so it clears the oil at the roots without stripping the hair.

After a few washes, my hair stopped going flat by noon.

3. My husband noticed before I said a word

One evening he ran a hand through my hair and asked what I'd done.

Nothing special. “Your hair looks fuller,” he said.

A week later, my daughter-in-law asked which shampoo I'd switched to.

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4. One bar replaced a shelf of hair products. Just make sure it's real.

No more dry shampoo, flake shampoo or scalp serum. The triangle corner works the bar into my parting and hairline, and 60 seconds of massage does the rest.

But be careful. Look-alike green bars are sold online, and many list no doses at all. The real one prints them on the label, and adds piroctone olamine for flakes and itch.

5. Right now, you get a second bar free

I paid full price for mine. Now it's buy one, get one free.

Get two. One for you, one for him. One bar lasts about a month, and a refill ships every 28 days. Skip or cancel anytime.