Allergens in your hair!
As a result of doing hair physical analysis (shop link on the right), and especially working with my and my husband's hair, I am learning about which allergens stay in your hair and why. ©Science-y Hair Blog 2013 What do I find the most? Mold. Mold is fungi and fungal spores (the fungal equivalent to pollen) are very small and very "sticky." I'm finding spores that are common mold allergies like Alternaria , but also other species. ©Science-y Hair Blog 2013 I have seen some weed pollen from plants with air-dispersed pollen (ragweed, lamb's quarters). I have also seen starches (the foods you touch leave starch on your hands). ©Science-y Hair Blog 2013 Tree pollen not as much, but it's not tree pollen season here and that is bigger, so it probably won't stick to individual hairs, though it definitely gets caught in your hair as a whole. Fungal spore stuck to a hair. ©Science-y Hair Blog 2013 Keeping allergens out of your hair About those fungal spores and po...