IHA Spring/Summer

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INSIGHTS

SOCIAL

MARKETING Power of Stem Cell Extract Pg. 12

Tips from Top Dating Site Pg. 30

EDUCATION

The Secrets Of Hair

All About Hair Fibers

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International Hair Authority Volume 27 No 86

The Profesional Publication of Hair Replacement & Restoration

TM

Spring/Summer 2021

Big Increase in Hair Care and Skin Care Counterfeits

Despite prescreening his patients, a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills has died from COVID-19. Dr. Simoni was performing a simple cosmetiSome beauty-product brands and retailers with inventory and shipment operations are reporting e-commerce sales twice as high as their pre-Covid-19 levels, according to McKinsey & Company’s May Beauty Report. Overall, they estimate 20-30% growth will be more typical. Sephora’s U.S. online sales are reportedly up 30% versus 2019, as were Amazon’s beauty-product sales for the four-week period ending April 11, 2020. With the increase in sales comes an increase in counterfeit products. According to Red Points, hair care and skin care counterfeits have increased 136% year-over-year.

Wound Healing with Hair and No Scar! Better than hair multiplication in lab? Exciting news for hair loss patients. Stanford Medicine researchers have found a drug that enables wound healing without leaving a scar. Scars form because they seal an opening in the skin more quickly than normal skin could grow. Scar tissue has no hair follicles and no sweat glands and is weaker than skin. However, the Stanford team discovered that interfering with certain molecular signals during healing can produce tissue indistinguishable from normal skin. The drug Verteporfin is the key agent and the researchers applied it to wounds in mice. “The healed skin looked completely normal” said Michael Longaker, MD. “The first thing we were shocked by was the all the hair in the healed wound. We were also able to see normal glands and the skin was just as strong as unwounded skin.” These findings have major implications for cosmetic surgeons including hair transplant professionals who may be able to harvest donor hair and still see new hair grow in the donor sites as the wounds heal. But the benefits don’t stop there. “It’s possible that many other medical afflictions, such as liver fibrosis, burns, abdominal adhesions, scleroderma and scarring to heart tissue after a heart attack, can be treated with the same approach” the researchers said.

Oscars of Hair Return to Vegas The Professional Beauty Association (PBA) has announced that tickets are now on sale for the 2021 North American Hairstyling Awards (NAHA) 2021. It will take place on August 29th in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Convention Center. NAHA honors top artists who push the boundaries of skill and creativity. NAHA is a must-attend event for the who’s who of the beauty industry. NAHA 2021 was pushed back to August to ensure it could remain live and in-person. Due to capacity restrictions, a limited number of tickets are available and must be bought in pairs of 2 or 4. For more information visit probeauty.org/naha.

ARE THINNING MEN MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO COVID? While studying the effects of androgens on hair loss, Applied Biology Inc discovered an association between baldness (androgenetic alopecia) and the risk of COVID-19. Normal hair loss is linked to the androgen receptor (AR) gene and when the researchers conducted a genetic analysis of 65 men hospitalized with COVID-19, they found that men with certain structural differences in this AR gene were more likely to develop severe COVID-19. The team noted that among hospitalized men with COVID-19, 79% presented with androgenetic alopecia compared to 31%-53% that would be expected in a similar aged match population.” In a presentation at the Spring meeting of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) Goren said the AR gene aberration “could be used as a biomarker to help identify male COVID-19 patients most at risk for ICU admissions.”


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