Shiny scalps. Sparse hairlines. Clients who used to have a mane and now don't. You're having these conversations every week and you need better answers than the ones on the shelf.

Simone from Apotecari has them. She's a naturopath, twenty years qualified, with a career spent formulating supplements for brands already sitting in your bathroom cabinet. She also had a hair catastrophe of her own, went looking for something that would fix it from the inside, and found nothing worth taking. So she built it.

These are clients you already have. The one whose hairline is quietly moving back. The one on a weight loss injection who hasn't thought to mention it. The one who's oily by day two and blames your shampoo. Simone explains what's happening in each of them, and why the answer is almost never another bottle on the shelf.

What we cover

• The bond builder era and what a lot of stylists were really doing with it
• Why hair is the first thing your body stops feeding when nutrients are short
• Perimenopause hair loss and why nobody connected the dots for so long
• Shiny scalps, receding hairlines and what is actually happening in the follicle
• Oily scalps, dandruff and why washing more often changes nothing
• Why your scalp ages seven times faster than the skin on your face
• The difference between hair shedding and hair loss, and why the word you use changes everything
• Why the hair industry is not great at doing its own research
• What a proper ninety day product trial looks like, with data instead of feelings

She hid her hair for six months. Then she went and fixed it for everybody else.

Frequently asked questions

Why does hair fall out during perimenopause?

Hormonal change alters how follicles behave, which is why thinning often shows down the centre part and around the hairline. It rarely happens alone, and it sits alongside other perimenopause symptoms that are just as real and just as connected.

Does washing your hair more often make it less oily?

No. Washing removes the sebum already on the scalp but does nothing to the rate your body produces it. Balancing oil production happens internally and usually takes two to three months.

How long should you take a hair supplement before judging it?

Give it ninety days minimum, because that tracks with the hair growth cycle. Take before photos and test porosity and elasticity first, so you are working from data rather than a feeling.

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