The battle between the center half and facet half is ongoing, however do you know that the place you half your hair may affect extra than simply your aesthetic? Claims have been made that altering your half occasionally may be helpful to your pores and skin and hair well being. Earlier than we go switching up our half within the identify of well being, we wished to listen to from specialists on whether or not or not this principle is true. Ostensibly, specialists agree there could be one thing to those claims. Nevertheless, New York dermatologist Elaine Kung, MD notes that there isn’t a variety of scientific analysis on the advantages, so it’s exhausting to substantiate.

Featured Specialists

• Elaine Kung, MD is a dermatologist based mostly in The big apple Metropolis
• Gretchen Friese is a trichologist at BosleyMD
• Dr. Isfahan Chambers-Harris is a hair professional and founding father of Alodia

Does switching your half assist forestall pores and skin most cancers?

In principle, “altering your half may help shield the scalp from pores and skin most cancers as a result of the identical a part of your head shouldn’t be at all times uncovered to UV rays,” says BosleyMD trichologist Gretchen Friese. Based on Dr. Kung, there’s a chance that switching your hair half can play a “very minor” function in stopping pores and skin most cancers in your scalp. “Whenever you swap your half, you alter the areas of your scalp that obtain direct daylight. This implies you’re not exposing the identical spot to UV radiation continuously, probably lowering the chance of pores and skin most cancers in that particular space,” she explains.

Nevertheless, Alodia founder and hair professional Dr. Isfahan Chambers-Harris notes that any substantial claims “about defending in opposition to pores and skin most cancers would want robust scientific backing, and must be supported by strong proof,” that we don’t have. So, whereas switching up your half can’t damage, we will’t affirm it’ll maintain you completely secure, so at all times put on sunscreen!

Can altering your half assist with hair loss?

Altering your half received’t halt hair loss altogether, notes Dr. Kung. Nevertheless, “it might assist forestall hair breakage attributable to repeated mechanical stress on the identical hair strands,” which may play a job in hair loss.

“After we put pressure on our half, like with tight ponytails and braids and even sporting a hat over time, can create stress to the follicles within the space the place the hair separates (the half). This may be damaging and should result in hair loss,” explains Friese. Subsequently, altering your half might have some constructive results on hair well being like “lowering pressure and stress on particular hair follicles,” which “might not directly assist with lessening hair breakage,” says Dr. Isfarahan.