The Skin Nerd: How to grow your hair and why the pH of your shampoo matters 

Struggling to grow your locks? Trichologist Deborah Whelan talks to Jennifer about the surprising factors that could be halting your hair growth process...
Skin Nerd: Struggling to grow your locks? Jennifer finds out about the surprising factors that could be halting your hair growth process...

Skin Nerd: Struggling to grow your locks? Jennifer finds out about the surprising factors that could be halting your hair growth process...

As hair and beauty frustrations go, getting your hair past a certain length is a challenge that affects many of us. The lengths (excuse the pun) that I have gone to in the pursuit of Rapunzel style locks, only to see my strands stagnant at the same measurement for years has baffled me and seen me pour lots of money into anything labelled "hair growth". 

Because I am a Nerd, and because I spend a high percentage of my time investigating the science behind the skin, I decided to finally get some answers by talking Deborah Whelan, resident Trichologist at The Skin Nerd, about how you can really help your hair grow...

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