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Fake News Exists in the Beauty World, Too. Don't Believe These Viral Headlines

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"Baking Soda Shampoo: It Will Make Your Hair Grow Like It Is Magic" The claim: This news story on dailyhealthkeeper.com claims that washing hair with a simple paste of baking soda and water has an array of benefits including preventing hair loss, boosting hair growth, and eliminating hair of "toxins" and product build-up.

Shared: 129.8K times

Fake or fact: Super fake-y

Why: Washing your hair with a baking soda paste certainly can help soak up hair-product residue or an extra-greasy scalp, as the article's author suggests. But the idea that baking soda will help hair grow faster or prevent hair fallout? That's bunk.

"Sorry to report that a baking soda shampoo will not influence the growth cycle magically," says Cunnane-Phillips. "Optimal nutrition, balanced hormones and stress management are some of the multitude of factors that will help to ensure that you are growing your best head of hair. Shampoo should function as a cleanser for the scalp and hair, but to suggest that baking soda and water will influence the growth cycle is simply not accurate."

"Baking soda will only clean your scalp and ends from buildup," Hazan agrees. "Hair growth is internal."

To promote healthier hair growth, Hazan suggests taking vitamins or eating a more balanced diet.

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