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Thinking that since I have very little hair on top, using a shampoo bar like Leggitts or even Mitchell Wool Fat Bath soap would be good. Maybe stripping the oils from my scalp may not be a great idea, so the Mitchells Wool Fat bar soap or using one of those 72% olive oil soaps would be good?
 

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I just keep it cropped close (for that grizzled NCO look) and use a standard shampoo, the same thing I use on my beard.
 

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In my early 60's I realized my hair was going. I noticed B-7/Biotin is for hair, skin and nails. 5000 units a day. well nothing. Then read about Essential Oils for health and cancer. Read about Hair and tried it, with 3 x B-7. some new growth about 5" long now. we'll see.
 

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As the hair on the top of my head thinned out, I really didn't lose any hair, but instead the missing hair on the top simply relocated to my ears, my eyebrows and my nostrils. It take a real artist to craft a comb-over from the hairs growing out of one's ears! LOL. ;)
I don't remember the name of the comedian, but a hilarious stand up routine in the early 90's focused on this. He said somethig like..

"wonderful, I'm going through middle age, and my back and shoulders are going through puberty!"
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As the hair on the top of my head thinned out, I really didn't lose any hair, but instead the missing hair on the top simply relocated to my ears, my eyebrows and my nostrils. It take a real artist to craft a comb-over from the hairs growing out of one's ears! LOL. ;)
There's more hair on my back and chest than on my head.
 

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The issue of thinning hair is one upon which I have been obliged to expend much consideration recently but I am pleased to report that I have acquired a reasonably satisfactory solution.

My problem was emphasised by product (pomade) and style (left hand parting) which colluded to the detriment of the appearance of my hair.

I had long sported that most proper gentleman's coiffure, the ne plus ultra cut, the left hand side parting, as illustrated here:



Whilst I was accustomed to plastering my thatch into a left hand parting with pomade - I recognised that my hair was naturally inclined towards a part from the right, and would flow more readily into this position. As my barnet thinned and receded the benefit once bestowed by the left-hand part diminished and I was willing to submit to the right hand part, thusly:





However, this was but the initial step. My pomade, once bestowing a glossy dazzle upon my locks, now merely exaggerated the thinner grey hair.

A radical approach was required and so I toddled off to my local hipster barber for advice - my regimen now includes the two items pictured below and grants a shock of silver atop my bonce.

It is a rather dreich, dismal and dull day here in Lancashire but I will upload an image of my new luxurious grey mane once adequate light permits.



 

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I found that by keeping my hair short (1/2-3/4") it stands up and looks like there's more than there really is. And since hats are good for you, I wear them.
 

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With no hair on top and increasingly whispy grey hair on sides and and beard, I find that frequently buzzing off my remaining hair with barber's clippers, and maintaining a closely trimmed beard and mustache, results in a reasonably flattering appearance and requires minimal maintenance.

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Gurdon
 

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I'll let just let it fall out naturally because if my Mother sees me with a shaved head, she'll go crazy. I don't think I'd want to see myself with a bald head anyway because I have had a scar since I was a boy on the left side of my head, it wouldn't look good.
 

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My hair is thin and silver. My wife chooses the shampoo. Right now it is some nice big pump thing with a lemon and rosemary scent. After washing my hair I towel dry it and brush it with a nice bristly military brush. If I’m going out, I don a gimme cap. Should I be doing anything else?
 
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