Hair Regrowth Serum: Are You Shedding, or Just Stuck?

Hair fall is hair leaving faster than you'd like. You find it on the brush, on your hoodie, wrapped round the bathroom floor like tumbleweed. That can be proper shedding from the root, or it can be breakage, where strands snap halfway down. A fallen hair with a tiny white bulb on one end has usually come out at the root. One with a ragged, uneven end has probably just snapped.

Slow growth or thinning is sneakier. There's not much in the plughole, but your hair seems stuck at the same length forever, or your parting looks wider in photos than it did two years ago. If that's you, the fall serums aren't really aimed at your problem.

Plenty of us have a bit of both. Go with whichever one bothers you more.

A scalp serum can look after the skin your hair grows from, help the strands you already have feel stronger, and cut down on breakage. It can also make the conditions around your normal growth cycle a bit better, which counts for a lot if stress, tight styling or a terrible diet has been dragging things down.

It can't reverse hair loss that's genetic, or loss caused by something medical like a thyroid problem, hormonal changes or low iron. If your mum and your aunt both have thinning at the parting, a serum is not going to rewrite that. Anyone promising otherwise should make you suspicious.

You notice sudden, heavy shedding, patches where hair has gone altogether, a parting that's clearly getting wider, or a scalp that's itchy, sore or flaking alongside the loss. Don't wait for the bottle to run out. A doctor can work out what's behind it, and sometimes the answer has nothing to do with anything you'd buy over the counter.

Eight to twelve weeks of using it consistently, as the label says, is the usual timeline. Not "when I remember". Hair grows slowly and doesn't care that you've got a wedding in March. If you've done the full stretch and shedding hasn't eased or your hair doesn't feel any better, it probably isn't the one for you.

I take a photo of my parting every couple of weeks, same spot by the window. Memory is rubbish for this and you'll convince yourself nothing has changed.

"Hair serum" can mean the shiny, anti-frizz stuff you smooth over your lengths. That's not what you want here. A hair growth serum for hair regrowth should be a scalp serum, applied to the scalp itself, and the product description will say so.

Ask ten people for the best hair regrowth serum and you'll get ten answers, mostly because they've got ten different problems. So here's how I'd split it.

If it's fall, I'd start with the Love Beauty and Planet Onion & Rosemary Anti Hairfall Scalp Serum. It's made for people watching too much hair disappear, and it's affordable enough that using it every day for three months doesn't hurt.

Dr. Eric Berg, D.C., a Doctor of Chiropractic in his YouTube video said, " Onions can help your hair because they contain sulfur. Sulfur is not necessarily related to hair loss, but it is a raw material that helps build keratin, the main protein in your hair. Keratin is sulfur-based. Onions also contain high amounts of quercetin, an antioxidant that may help support hair health."

If it's growth, there are two I'd look at. The Love Beauty and Planet Curry Leaves & Vegan Biotin Hair Growth Scalp Serum is a plant-leaning option for hair that feels stuck. The Oziva Advanced Hair Growth Serum is the other one worth a look, so read both ingredient lists and see which sits better with your scalp. If your skin is sensitive, do a patch test first.

Hair fall is a common concern and it is triggered by multiple factors like season, pollution, genetics and also lifestyle. While an ordinary serum alone can't guarantee hair regrowth, many ingredients or lifestyle changes can reduce this problem at large. BeBe picks the LBP option with onion–an ingredient that is known to help with keratin production and hair regrowth.