14 Ways to Get Your Hair to Grow Faster in 2024
My hair colorist was astounded at how much my hair had grown since September during my most recent hair visit. Although my highlights are bothersome, my hair has been growing at the speed of light lately. For years, I wasted time and money trying everything to get my hair to grow faster (ahem, hair-growth vitamins, shampoos for hair loss, castor-oil scalp massages, aloe-vera treatments—the whole nine yards), and I've finally nailed down a few methods that have significantly helped encourage a healthier scalp and a lil hair growth.
HOW TO GET YOUR HAIR TO GROW FAST
1. Include bond-building therapy.
Yes, hair development begins at the scalp, but if your ends are damaged and breaking off, your hair will never appear longer. Enter: Bond-building treatments salvaged my own hair after a lot of bleaching and heat damage from style. These treatments effectively repair the links in your hair shaft that are destroyed over time due to chemical treatments, heat, and mechanical damage.
They all function slightly differently. Olaplex and Epres, for example, use unique ingredients to actively mend broken bonds, whereas K18 uses a blend of peptides to rebuild and repair broken peptide chains in your hair. Other treatments including peptides or proteins, such as Living Proof, can aid.
2. Consult your physician about prescription hair-growth medications.
If you're serious about treating hair loss and increasing hair growth, see your dermatologist for a prescription option like spironolactone (a blood pressure medication commonly used off-label in women to treat hormonal acne) that can potentially help increase hair growth over time, according to board-certified dermatologist Dhaval Bhanusali, MD. I've been taking Spiro for years to help with my zits, and I believe it has significantly reduced the hair thinning I was experiencing due to stress.
You could also ask your doctor about a compounded-topical treatment, such as HairStim, which allows your dermatologist to construct a personalized cocktail of prescription hair-loss medications for you. Think: Minoxidil at a higher concentration
3. Increase your protein consumption.
When I started weight lifting and increased my protein intake significantly, my hair seemed to grow more faster. It makes sense: your hair follicles are largely formed of protein, and not obtaining enough protein from your diet can lead to hair loss and thinning. Eggs, black beans, collagen peptides, plant-based protein powders, lentils, poultry, yogurt, and cottage cheese were among the ingredients I used.
But protein isn't the only thing you should think about because good nutrition is the foundation of hair health and development. "There are a lot of people who are vitamin deficient and don't realize it, either because of dieting, poor nutrition, or intense stress," trichologist Dominic Burg previously stated.
4. Remove build-up Consistently removing buildup is majorly important for scalp health and hair growth. Why? When your scalp is gunked up with oil, grime, and excess product (dry shampoo and hairspray, I'm lookin' at you), you can cause buildup that leads to irritation and inflammation, which could potentially stunt hair growth. Once a week or every two weeks (depending on your hair type and scalp—more often for oil-prone scalps), do a "reset" wash with a clarifying shampoo to help deeply clean your scalp and get rid of any built-up oil or product. I'm, personally, in the "pro-sulfates camp" every once in a while, especially on my ultra-oily hair or after I use any product that contains silicones, which are difficult to remove with sulfate-free
5. Massage rosemary oil into your scalp.
No, scalp massage isn't some magical procedure that will make your hair grow faster. However, it may aid by improving blood circulation to your hair follicles. What's better? Combine it with rosemary oil. Although additional proof is needed to confirm that rosemary oil can help grow hair, it has shown some data to *potentially* aid stimulate growth. When administered on males with genetic androgen-related hair loss, one 2015 study indicated that rosemary oil functioned comparably to 2.5 percent minoxidil (the main ingredient in Rogaine). In fact, rosemary oil was less irritating for the majority of scalps in the study.
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