From Root to Ritual
Daily science, ritual, and botanical intelligence for hair and scalp health. By Laritelle Organic.
Episodes
27 episodes
The hair you will have in six months is being grown right now. That is not a metaphor.
From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. The hair you will have in six months is being grown right now. That is – LARITELLE Skip to content Submit Close search Hair Treatments Shampoos Conditioners Sets Travel Facial Care Body Care Samples Find ...
Your scalp microbiome is being shaped by your lifestyle right now. Here is what that means.
From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. Your scalp microbiome is being shaped by your lifestyle right now. Her – LARITELLE Skip to content Submit Close search Hair Treatments Shampoos Conditioners Sets Travel Facial Care Body Care Samples Find ...
Medicine just confirmed that combination treatment outperforms single drugs. Botanical formulation has known this for centuries.
From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. Medicine just confirmed that combination treatment outperforms single – LARITELLE Skip to content Submit Close search Hair Treatments Shampoos Conditioners Sets Travel Facial Care Body Care Samples Find Y...
Hair loss causes anxiety. Anxiety causes hair loss. Science just confirmed the loop is real — and how to interrupt it.
From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. Hair loss causes anxiety. Anxiety causes hair loss. Science just confi – LARITELLE Skip to content Submit Close search Hair Treatments Shampoos Conditioners Sets Travel Facial Care Body Care Samples Find ...
The trichologist's verdict on 2026 hair trends: what works, what doesn't, and what nobody is saying.
From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. The trichologist's verdict on 2026 hair trends: what works, what doesn – LARITELLE Skip to content Submit Close search Hair Treatments Shampoos Conditioners Sets Travel Facial Care Body Care Samples Find ...
The plant that just outperformed two pharmaceutical hair loss drugs in a clinical trial.
From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. The plant that just outperformed two pharmaceutical hair loss drugs in – LARITELLE Skip to content Submit Close search Hair Treatments Shampoos Conditioners Sets Travel Facial Care Body Care Samples Find ...
Your scalp has a microbiome. It has been trying to warn you.
From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. Your scalp has a microbiome. It has been trying to warn you. – LARITELLE Skip to content Submit Close search Hair Treatments Shampoos Conditioners Sets Travel Facial Care Body Care Samples Find Your Formu...
Researchers just measured stress inside the hair shaft. Aromatherapy changed it.
From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. Researchers just measured stress inside the hair shaft. Aromatherapy c – LARITELLE Skip to content Submit Close search Hair Treatments Shampoos Conditioners Sets Travel Facial Care Body Care Samples Find ...
The pharmaceutical industry just spent billions arriving where botanicals started.
From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. Something significant is happening in the hair loss research landscape in 2026 — and it is not what the pharmaceutical industry intended to communicate. Three major drug candidates are moving through late...
They called it folklore for a thousand years. Modern biology just called it pharmacology.
From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. In the Tang Dynasty — somewhere between 618 and 907 CE — Chinese physicians were prescribing a dark, bitter root for a specific cluster of symptoms: greying hair, thinning strands, the gradual diminishmen...
The weight loss drug nobody warned you would affect your hair.
From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. There is a conversation happening in bathrooms across the country that is not yet happening in doctors' offices. Women who started GLP-1 medications — semaglutide, tirzepatide, the drugs sold as Ozempic, ...
The stem cells are still there. Science just found them.
From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. For sixty years, the textbook answer to "where does hair growth begin?" was the same: the bulge. A cluster of stem cells near the base of the follicle, responsible for initiating each new growth cycle. Th...
What baby hair knows that adult hair forgets.
From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. There is something we can learn from the very beginning. Before the first box dye. Before the years of sulfate shampoo. Before the hormonal shifts and the chronic stress and the supplements that promised ...
You've been washing your hair wrong. So has everyone.
From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. This is the blog post that the beauty industry has no incentive to write. Because if your wash-day technique is wrong, the products aren't the problem — and fixing the technique costs nothing. There is no...
The season your hair starts growing back.
From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. The Biology Your follicle isn't growing hair. It's deciding whether to. There is an entire conversation that the hair loss industry refuses to have. It talks constantly about the falling — the drain, the ...
What does your hair remember?
From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. There is a moment most women can identify — a before and an after. Before, the hair was something she didn't think about. It was simply there, doing what it was designed to do. After, it became something ...
The Morning Ritual That Treats Three Problems at Once.
From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. The beauty industry has spent decades separating your problems into separate products. A shampoo for hair. A supplement for hormones. A meditation app for stress. Three separate budgets. Three separate ri...
Why ancient aromatherapists knew what dermatologists are only now proving.
From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. Somewhere around 1500 BCE, Egyptian physicians were prescribing castor oil for hair growth. In ancient Rome, Pliny the Elder documented rosemary's use for scalp health. Ayurvedic practitioners in India ha...
The Sweet Secret Your Hair Follicles Have Been Waiting For.
From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. For as long as people have been losing their hair, the solutions have stayed remarkably the same. Two FDA-approved drugs. One rubs on your scalp every morning. The other tinkers with your hormones. Neithe...
The hair loss drug that works by changing how follicles produce energy. And what that tells us about everything else.
From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. Every significant advance in hair loss treatment for the past thirty years has worked by targeting one of two things: the hormone that shrinks follicles, or the blood vessels that feed them. Finasteride b...
One million people just told science exactly what causes their hair loss. Here is what the data says.
From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. The hair loss industry has always operated on anecdote, small studies, and the assumptions of a medical model built primarily around middle-aged men with male-pattern baldness. For decades, the research b...
Scientists just mapped exactly how the hair follicle ages. The picture changes what prevention means.
From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. Every hair strand you have ever grown was produced by a follicle that communicated — constantly, precisely, in a language of molecular signals — with the cells around it. The dermal papilla cells at the b...
The hair loss conversation just moved to your gut.
From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. Everything we have covered this week has been about the scalp. The microbiome living on it. The senescent cells accumulating in it. The stem cells still present in it. The cortisol stored in the hair grow...
What five minutes before the world begins can actually do.
From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. There is a version of your morning that belongs only to you. Before the messages. Before the decisions. Before the particular texture of the day ahead — its demands, its complications, the ways it will as...
An oral drug just grew 30 extra hairs per square centimetre. Here is what that tells us about where hair loss actually lives.
From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic. The dominant model of hair loss treatment for the past thirty years has been topical: apply something to the scalp, hope it reaches the follicle, measure what happens. Minoxidil is rubbed in twice daily. ...