Kitsch Rice Water Protein Hair Shampoo Bar

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Beware of the rice protein bar - a lovely honeymoon followed

I first purchased the rice water bar for hair growth after having suffered from chronic hairloss over several years, pre and post menopause. I lost around 25%-30% of my hair and had become quite depressed about it. My scalp was also itchy and greasy at the same time. This was at its worst in the eve...nings. ... so I went online to see what I might find. I was already using caster oil twice a week but this only causes my hair to grow longer more quickly, as in 2 inches per month. It does not significantly cause new hairshafts to grow in my case or make my hair thicker. After seeing before and after pics of people's hair after using Kitsch bars, I went ahead and bought the rice water one. I found the bar did indeed bring back lots of hair growth, as in new hairs, around my hairline, so I left a glowing review of it and bought a second bar. Unfortunately this turned out to be a mistake. Not only has it completely dried out my hair, from the middle to the ends of the hair shafts, but the hair has become so dry that it has started breaking off, and the shampoo bar itself does not last as long as people say it does, because at around the 5 week mark, it breaks into pieces, which in my case happened quickly and suddenly, with the bits that broke off, falling down into the plughole so I could not retrieve them. It was impossible to get what was left of the bar to lather up again, so I lost around 15% of the product, which is expensive when you consider it had already cost me twice what my normal shampoo costs. This has happened with both bars. The bottom half of my hairshafts are pretty much ruined now, much thinner that they were before, and I have lost volume/density in each shaft too. After washing, they are so dry and stuck together/matted that I can hardly brush it, and with more hair at my roots, but thinning hair further down. I can't recommend this product unless it is strongly sandwiched between some kind of pre- and -post wash treatment, and even then I would say use this with caution. If you get even the slightest drying out when using your first buy, stop using it or you will live to regret it. When I started using it, I was aware that it emphasised mainly growing more hair, as in more hairs from each folicle, and that did not mean an increase in the density of each hair shaft, but I did not expect it to make the other aspects of my hair worse. My hair shafts have always been fine, even beore the menopause, but I always had good quality hair and plenty of it - and it was never this tangled and matted after washing. This last time it was literally like the fibres of a brillo pad. Just awful - and that was after a pre-wash treatment with avocado and caster oils! The picture shows what my hair was like before I had menopausal issues, so you can see what I want to get back. ...I am now trying to work out how I am going to heal the mess which this product has left me with? I have just ordered a bond repair product from L'Oreal to use before I shampoo my hair and I shall have to continue searching for shampoo that stops my existing and new hairshafts from falling out (up to 350 hairs per day). Be VERY vigilant when using the rice protein bar - or avoid it altogether.