Doctor Reviews: Baby Mama Haircoming Queen

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Baby Mama offers a variety of supplements, many designed to help women dealing with hair loss, especially after pregnancy. But does their well-known supplement, Haircoming Queen, really live up to the hype? Let’s break down the ingredients and see how effective it might be.

Ingredients in Haircoming Queen

Haircoming Queen contains a combination of vitamins, minerals, and a special blend of herbal extracts. At first glance, it might seem similar to a standard multivitamin. But let’s dive deeper, starting with one key ingredient: biotin.

Biotin

Biotin is often hailed as a go-to vitamin for promoting hair growth. You’ll hear it recommended all the time, but does the science back it up? The truth is, the evidence supporting biotin’s role in hair loss prevention is pretty thin.

There’s only one notable study that looked at biotin specifically for hair loss. In this study, adults experiencing hair thinning received injections of biotin and vitamin B5. They saw improvements in hair density and less hair shedding. However, this study had some big flaws.

For starters, there wasn’t a placebo group, so we don’t know if the results were truly due to the biotin or just a placebo effect. Additionally, the biotin was given alongside vitamin B5, so it’s impossible to say which ingredient was responsible for the improvements. And to complicate things further, the biotin was injected, not taken orally, which means the results may not apply to biotin supplements.

Beyond this, there are no solid clinical trials focusing on biotin for hair growth. Most of the evidence comes from case reports, which aren’t as reliable as large-scale studies. For example, one review looked at 18 individual cases where biotin was used to treat hair and nail problems. While these patients saw some improvement, these case reports are based on personal observations and don’t include the strict controls needed to prove biotin’s effectiveness.

So, what’s the bottom line? If you’re healthy, the belief that biotin will significantly boost your hair growth isn’t backed by strong evidence. Biotin supplements might help in rare cases of deficiency or specific conditions, like brittle nail syndrome, but for most people, there’s no solid proof that it makes a real difference in hair health.

Other Vitamins and Minerals

Vitamins like A, C, D, E, and the B vitamins are essential for overall hair health. However, there’s no solid evidence that taking supplements with these vitamins can directly help with hair loss or regrowth. So why don’t these nutrients boost hair growth when taken in supplements? The key is that only severe deficiencies in these vitamins might affect hair growth, and such deficiencies are quite rare in North America. Once your body has the right amount of vitamins, taking extra won’t speed up the process. In fact, taking too much of certain vitamins, like vitamin A, can actually cause hair loss.

The same goes for the minerals found in Baby Mama’s hair supplements. Minerals like calcium, iron, magnesium, zinc, manganese, and potassium are all beneficial for hair health. But, unless you have a significant deficiency—which is also uncommon in North America—taking these supplements won’t really impact hair growth.

That said, some deficiencies are worth mentioning. A lack of vitamin B12, magnesium, or iron is more common than other deficiencies. However, while these nutrients are important, only iron deficiency has been consistently linked to hair loss, especially in women. Supplementing with iron can help reduce hair loss if you’re iron deficient.

So, when it comes to these vitamins and minerals, iron is the only one that might help with hair growth, and even then, only if you have a deficiency. The idea that you need “exact minerals in exact doses” to restore hair is a myth. Your body is very efficient at pulling the nutrients it needs from your regular diet. It knows how to store, produce, and use those nutrients when necessary. You don’t need to take every single nutrient for hair growth daily—your body’s got this under control.

Horsetail extract

Horsetail extract contains small amounts of silica, a nutrient that plays a minor role in hair growth. Despite its popularity in hair supplements, there’s no solid evidence that silica supplements actually boost hair growth. While a severe silica deficiency could affect hair health, this is extremely rare in North America. Plus, the amount of horsetail extract in Haircoming Queen is so minimal that it doesn’t have any meaningful nutritional impact.

Spirulina

Spirulina is often praised for its nutrient content, but there’s no evidence linking it to hair loss prevention or promoting hair growth. It does contain a small amount of iron, which might help women with iron deficiencies, but the amount of spirulina in Haircoming Queen is too low to offer any real benefit.

Saw Palmetto

Saw palmetto is another ingredient often mentioned in discussions about hair loss. However, research on its effectiveness has shown minimal benefits—and only in men.

Some clinical studies suggest that combining saw palmetto extract with beta-sitosterol can slightly improve hair quantity and quality in men dealing with hair loss. But even in those cases, it’s unclear whether saw palmetto alone caused the improvement. One study also compared saw palmetto to finasteride, a well-known hair loss medication, and found that saw palmetto was much less effective.

Notably, in both studies, it took 1 to 2 years of consistent use before any benefits were observed. The saw palmetto dose in Haircoming Queen is too low to deliver these results.

Other ingredients

Haircoming Queen also includes PABA, Fo-Ti, Bamboo, Stinging Nettle, Chinese Peony, Plant Sterols, Alfalfa, and Barley Grass. Unfortunately, none of these ingredients have any reliable evidence supporting their ability to promote hair growth in humans. Some, like plant sterols, are researched for other health benefits, such as lowering cholesterol. However, the doses required to see such benefits are significantly higher—often hundreds or thousands of milligrams per day. The amounts of these ingredients in Haircoming Queen are far too low to provide any noticeable health benefits, let alone impact hair loss.

Is Haircoming Queen Effective?

So, how effective is Baby Mama’s Haircoming Queen for hair growth? Based on human research, only three ingredients—biotin, iron, and saw palmetto—show any potential for promoting hair growth. However, out of these, only biotin and iron are present in doses that might actually be useful. This means that if you have a significant deficiency in iron or biotin, or suffer from brittle nail syndrome, you might see some benefit. But if you’re not deficient, it’s unlikely this supplement will help with hair growth at all.

The gummy version of this supplement is probably even less effective. While it contains many of the same vitamins and minerals, it leaves out the proprietary herbal blend and replaces iron with iodine. Like iron, iodine deficiency can lead to hair thinning, but taking more than your body needs won’t improve hair loss. Iodine deficiency is also quite rare in North America because it’s commonly added to table salt. So, this gummy version is even less likely to help with hair growth.

Is Grow Girl Effective?

Baby Mama also offers another gummy called Grow Girl, which is marketed as a hair loss solution. Unfortunately, it’s probably the least effective of the three. It contains only a few vitamins and minerals and swaps them out for collagen peptides. There’s no evidence that generic collagen peptides support hair growth.

Collagen is mostly used for skin health, and while some studies show it can benefit the skin, they typically use doses between 2.5 and 10 grams of collagen per day. Grow Girl contains just 100 mg of collagen per gummy. To reach a dose that could potentially help your skin, you’d need to take at least 25 gummies daily—that’s nearly half a bottle. Consuming that many gummies would add up to around 300 calories, which is roughly the same as eating four chocolate cookies just to get enough collagen.

Hair Loss After Pregnancy

Hair loss after pregnancy is a common issue, but it isn’t fully understood, and there are no standard medical treatments available. This has paved the way for products like Baby Mama Haircoming Queen to claim they can address the problem. Typically, postpartum hair loss starts around 2–4 months after giving birth and can last anywhere from six months to a year. For most women, their hair grows back, although some might not regain all the hair they had before pregnancy.

It’s important to know that this type of hair loss isn’t caused by vitamin or mineral deficiencies. So, taking supplements likely won’t make much of a difference and may only lead to frustration. Instead, the main culprit is hormonal changes that happen during and after pregnancy.

Many studies suggest that estrogen plays a key role in hair growth, and the drop in estrogen levels after childbirth is likely what triggers postpartum hair loss. Once your menstrual cycle resumes and ovulation starts again, your estrogen and progesterone levels should return to what they were before pregnancy, which often helps with hair regrowth. However, in some cases, estrogen levels don’t fully bounce back, which can lead to thinner hair or reduced hair density.

Breastfeeding can also have an impact on postpartum hair loss. Since breastfeeding can delay the return of your period, it can keep estrogen levels lower for longer. One small study found that women who breastfed for longer periods experienced more prolonged hair loss. This suggests that stopping breastfeeding earlier could help speed up hair regrowth for some women.

Another factor to consider is the stress that comes with caring for a newborn. It’s no secret that having a baby brings major lifestyle changes, and high stress levels are known to contribute to temporary hair loss. But since the stress of caring for a child isn’t temporary, this type of hair loss may continue well beyond the postpartum period.

Overall rating

Rating Haircoming Queen by effectiveness for improving hair loss, I’m giving it a D. Unless you suffer from significant nutritional deficiencies, it is unlikely to be effective for hair growth.

Rating it by cost, I’m giving it an D. It can be easily replicated at a far cheaper cost.

Rating it for safety, I’m giving it a B. The ingredients and doses used are unlikely to be of much cause for concern.

Overall rating, I’m giving a D. I would not recommend it at all.

Top alternatives to Haircoming Queen

• Biotin – 1 cap / day
• Multivitamin (women) – 1 cap / day

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