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  • jackjohn12
    Junior Member
    • Dec 2016
    • 29

    I think baking soda permanently destroyed my hair

    About 2.5 years ago I washed my hair with about 3 table spoons of baking soda. The second I washed it, my hair got completely fried. Became insanely thin instantly, wirey, very dry, lifeless. Hair is diffuse thinning, while I have noticed the crown and temples are slightly thinner. Im thinking it either completely destroyed my hair permanently, diffuse male pattern baldness or chronic telogen effluvium. I have had my blood checked multiple times, seen multiple derms who know nothing. While this did happen about 6 months after my last accutane pill, I first thought it was that but when looking back on it. My hair was completely destroyed from the baking soda.Click image for larger version

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  • alapopaeric40
    Junior Member
    • Mar 2017
    • 4

    #2
    When you tried using the baking soda on your hair, did you balance out the baking soda with some vinegar? I think that might have saved you some trouble back then. I'm very sorry to hear what you've gone through. I've been also experiencing a receding hairline now and found this forum to get some help with my problem.

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    • ShinjiKa
      Junior Member
      • Oct 2016
      • 8

      #3
      wow

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      • jackjohn12
        Junior Member
        • Dec 2016
        • 29

        #4
        I forgot to use the vinegar but its been 2 years. Everyone has been saying there no possible way baking soda could have permanently damaged my hair and left me with diffuse thinning

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        • jackjohn12
          Junior Member
          • Dec 2016
          • 29

          #5
          Originally posted by ShinjiKa
          wow
          do you think its possible

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          • jackjohn12
            Junior Member
            • Dec 2016
            • 29

            #6
            Originally posted by alapopaeric40
            When you tried using the baking soda on your hair, did you balance out the baking soda with some vinegar? I think that might have saved you some trouble back then. I'm very sorry to hear what you've gone through. I've been also experiencing a receding hairline now and found this forum to get some help with my problem.
            forgot to use ACV.

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            • Louish
              Senior Member
              • Aug 2015
              • 337

              #7
              Why would you wash your hair with baking soda....

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              • Notgivingup2
                Senior Member
                • Aug 2016
                • 123

                #8
                This might just be the weirdest thread I've ever seen on this site...

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                • HarpreetSingh
                  Junior Member
                  • Apr 2017
                  • 4

                  #9
                  I also have read the story that using baking soda for washing hair helps to avoid premature grey hair.

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                  • BaldBearded
                    Senior Member
                    • Jan 2017
                    • 548

                    #10
                    How is that AT ALL POSSIBLE? Grey hair is from GENETICS... it's the melanin.

                    Keratin is the protein that makes up our hair, skin, and nails. Throughout the years, melanocyctes continue to inject pigment into the hair's keratin, giving it a colorful hue. With age comes a reduction of melanin. The hair turns gray and eventually white.

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                    • jackjohn12
                      Junior Member
                      • Dec 2016
                      • 29

                      #11
                      Originally posted by BaldBearded
                      How is that AT ALL POSSIBLE? Grey hair is from GENETICS... it's the melanin.

                      Keratin is the protein that makes up our hair, skin, and nails. Throughout the years, melanocyctes continue to inject pigment into the hair's keratin, giving it a colorful hue. With age comes a reduction of melanin. The hair turns gray and eventually white.
                      i just dont understand my hair was very thick, one day I showered using baking soda in my hair. Immediately after my hair was insanely thin diffusely and never stopped and its been 2 years. I assumed accutane to be the cause as every doctor denies baking soda can do this.... Do u have any idea.

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                      • Louish
                        Senior Member
                        • Aug 2015
                        • 337

                        #12
                        Originally posted by jackjohn12
                        i just dont understand my hair was very thick, one day I showered using baking soda in my hair. Immediately after my hair was insanely thin diffusely and never stopped and its been 2 years. I assumed accutane to be the cause as every doctor denies baking soda can do this.... Do u have any idea.
                        Keratin is at it's peak strength at a pH of around 4. At that pH HCO3 will act as a base thus weakening the différents bonds in the Keratin fiber. So yeah it does that...Why it's doesn't seem to get better now that I can't tell you.

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                        • pkipling
                          Inactive
                          • Sep 2014
                          • 603

                          #13
                          Aside from the fact that I don't think there's any chance baking soda on your hair can have longterm effects on your hair at the root, I also don't see any signs whatsoever of you having thin, brittle, weak hair. I think you're fine, dude....
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                          • onegolusingh
                            Junior Member
                            • May 2019
                            • 6

                            #14
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                            • onegolusingh
                              Junior Member
                              • May 2019
                              • 6

                              #15
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