Best Biotin Shampoo for Hair Growth

Best Biotin Shampoo for Hair Growth Reviews

Especially when used on the scalp, a biotin shampoo can help increase your body's levels of biotin, without having to take an oral supplement, and encourage healthy hair growth. Most biotin shampoos include other hair-boosting ingredients to improve hair strength, shine, and thickness. But without the additional time to add volumizing sprays, dry shampoo and serums to my hair, wearing it down reveals the years worth of heat damage. It’s fine, its thin and the older I get, the more hair I find clogging up my shower drain and trapped within the teeth of my brushes and combs.

While I typically space out my shampoo days (every two or three days) to avoid excessive damage from water, sulphates and heat damage, for the past month, I’ve been washing my hair every other day with one biotin-infused shampoo that claims to add volumes to my hair.

Best Biotin Shampoo for Hair Growth

OGX Thick & Full + Biotin & Collagen Shampoo

But the heck is biotin and what does it do?

Often associated with hair and nail restoration, biotin is actually just a more sophisticated term for water-soluble B vitamin, which quickly dissolves in water after entering the body. Formerly known as vitamin B7 and vitamin H, it helps the body metabolize proteins and process glucose to convert it to energy.

OGX’s Thick & Full Biotin & Collagen promises to thicken and texturize any hair type with just one use.

“This powerful formula helps volumize even the skinniest strands into fuller and more abundant looking locks,” reads the description.

But because I haven’t seen any results yet, I reached out to a dermatologist to figure out if biotin shampoos work when it comes to fine and thinning hair.

“There isn't a shampoo on the market that reliably grows hair or stops hair loss. There are some which are touted to block DHT (dihydrotestosterone), however, their absorption into the hair follicle apparatus to affect hair growth patterns Best Biotin Shampoo for Hair Growth.