Shopper's Guide•Hair & Beauty
5 signs your hair is stuck in the shedding phase
Summary: I spent a year blaming my shampoo. The amount coming out in the shower never changed, and neither did how thin my ponytail felt. What finally helped wasn't something I put on my hair — it was understanding that hair grows in phases, and too many of my strands were sitting in the wrong one.
Here's all 5 👇
1. The brush tells you before the mirror does
Everyone sheds. The number that matters is whether it's more than it used to be, and the brush is where you notice first. Mine went from a few strands to something I had to pull out with my fingers every morning, and I told myself for months that it was normal.
2. Your part looks wider in photos than it feels
I could stand in my own bathroom and see nothing wrong. Then someone took a photo from above and I could see scalp where I hadn't seen it before. Photos are unkind, but they are also the most honest record you have of a slow change.
3. It's a phase problem, not a breakage problem
Hair cycles between growing and resting, and resting strands are the ones that let go. I'd been treating this like damage — bond builders, trims, a silk pillowcase — when the actual issue was how many of my strands were sitting in the resting phase at the same time.
4. The ingredient that moved it comes from wheat
Ceramosides are plant ceramides extracted from wheat, and they are what I'd been missing. In an eight-week study on Ceramosides, hairs moved out of the resting phase and back into growing 2.53 times faster than placebo. That is the ingredient's clinical result rather than a promise about my head, but it is the reason I stayed with it.
Nobile et al., 2025 — Ceramosides™ clinical study.
👉 see what's in it
5. What's actually in a packet
One packet, 6.22 grams: 30 mg Ceramosides, 2,500 mg bovine collagen peptides, 120 mg hyaluronic acid, 100 mg vitamin C, 500 mg coconut water powder and 45 mcg biotin. Worth knowing before you buy — it contains wheat and it is not vegan.
👉 give it eight weeks
