https://renata.com.my/en/knowledge/scalp-care/ Recent content in Scalp Care on RENATA Malaysia Hugo en-MY https://renata.com.my/en/knowledge/scalp-care/scalp-is-skin/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://renata.com.my/en/knowledge/scalp-care/scalp-is-skin/ <p>The moment usually arrives late on a humid afternoon. The hair still looks clean, yet the roots feel coated, and the reflex is to think about the hair. Look one layer closer. Every strand on your head grows from skin, and that skin has been doing its work, and absorbing the day, all along.</p> https://renata.com.my/en/knowledge/scalp-care/haze-season-scalp/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://renata.com.my/en/knowledge/scalp-care/haze-season-scalp/ <p>In most years, typically between August and October, the haze returns: the light over the Klang Valley turns flat and the air carries a faint smell of smoke. Most people think first of their lungs and eyes, and rightly so. Skin is the other surface that meets the air all day, and the scalp is skin.</p> https://renata.com.my/en/knowledge/scalp-care/pollution-and-thinning-what-we-know/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://renata.com.my/en/knowledge/scalp-care/pollution-and-thinning-what-we-know/ <p>Search for haze and hair during any haze season and the headlines arrive quickly, and many are more certain than the research behind them. If you have just noticed thinning in the mirror, that certainty can land hard.</p> https://renata.com.my/en/knowledge/scalp-care/tropical-climate-scalp-care/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://renata.com.my/en/knowledge/scalp-care/tropical-climate-scalp-care/ <p>Malaysia changes how quickly a scalp feels ready for another wash. It does not create one correct schedule for everyone.</p> <p>The useful rule is simpler: wash according to how oily or dirty your scalp becomes, then adjust for hair texture, chemical treatment and comfort.</p> https://renata.com.my/en/knowledge/scalp-care/rinse-off-vs-leave-on/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://renata.com.my/en/knowledge/scalp-care/rinse-off-vs-leave-on/ <p>A third bottle can look like a more complete routine. It is not automatically a more useful one.</p> <p>Shampoo and scalp serum are different formats. One is designed to be rinsed away; the other is designed to remain after application. That distinction tells you how to use them, but it does not establish that everyone needs both—or that longer contact guarantees a better result.</p> https://renata.com.my/en/knowledge/scalp-care/what-are-plant-vesicles/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://renata.com.my/en/knowledge/scalp-care/what-are-plant-vesicles/ <p>“Exosome” sounds exact. In plant science, it is often more exact than the available evidence allows.</p> <p>The practical lesson for a haircare shopper is not that all vesicle technology is false. It is that <strong>identity, preparation and finished-product evidence must be separated</strong> before the term can support any useful conclusion.</p> https://renata.com.my/en/knowledge/scalp-care/is-hair-shedding-normal/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://renata.com.my/en/knowledge/scalp-care/is-hair-shedding-normal/ <p>The drain gives you a pile. It does not give you a diagnosis.</p> <p>The American Academy of Dermatology considers <strong>50–100 shed hairs a day</strong> within the normal range (<a href="https://www.aad.org/public/diseases/hair-loss/insider/shedding" rel="noopener" target="_blank">AAD: hair shedding</a>). That number is best used as context, not as a daily counting exercise.</p> https://renata.com.my/en/knowledge/scalp-care/postpartum-hair-shedding/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://renata.com.my/en/knowledge/scalp-care/postpartum-hair-shedding/ <p>Postpartum shedding can look disproportionate to everything else happening in the bathroom. Its timing, however, is recognisable—and usually temporary.</p> <p>The American Academy of Dermatology describes it as excessive shedding related to falling oestrogen after delivery. It often peaks around month four, and most women regain normal fullness by their child’s first birthday (<a href="https://www.aad.org/public/diseases/hair-loss/insider/new-moms" rel="noopener" target="_blank">AAD: hair shedding in new mothers</a>).</p> https://renata.com.my/en/knowledge/scalp-care/fine-limp-hair-scalp-care/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://renata.com.my/en/knowledge/scalp-care/fine-limp-hair-scalp-care/ <p>You washed your hair before leaving. By the time you had walked from the car park, or lifted the helmet off, the scalp already felt warm and slightly damp. Two hours into a cool office and the crown has quietly come back down to meet your head, and the parting looks wider in the lift mirror than it did at the bathroom sink.</p> https://renata.com.my/en/knowledge/scalp-care/tap-water-chlorine-hair-care-malaysia/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://renata.com.my/en/knowledge/scalp-care/tap-water-chlorine-hair-care-malaysia/ <p>“The water changed my hair” can describe a real observation. It is not yet an explanation.</p> <p>Water quality, building plumbing, washing technique, chemical processing and an unrelated change in shedding can arrive at the same time. Separate them before buying a filter—or blaming the municipal supply.</p> https://renata.com.my/en/knowledge/scalp-care/home-scalp-ritual-daily-rhythm/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://renata.com.my/en/knowledge/scalp-care/home-scalp-ritual-daily-rhythm/ <p>After a humid commute or a long day under a helmet, it is tempting to turn scalp care into a long list of compulsory steps. The evidence supports something simpler: clean the scalp when it needs cleaning, minimise avoidable friction, and add products only when they have a defined job.</p>