The Scalp Cleaner · for men

Someone brushed your shoulder without looking up.

You showered that morning. Black tee back in the rotation. A hand in your hair that stays there. Nobody looking at your shoulder. It starts the first time your scalp, not your hair, gets washed, inside the shower you already take.

Before and after, his own mirror: flakes across the black t-shirt shoulders on the left, the same shirt clean on the right The black KAMIYU Scalp Cleaner on a clean black t-shirt Before and after, same bathroom: flakes and grease along the crown on the left, the same crown clean on the right Loved by 1,213 men: four before and after pairs from their own mirrors The Scalp Cleaner kneading a lathered scalp in the shower What is in the box: Dome, Scalp Wash, applicator, comb
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$417 of gear and Wash. $139 today. $0 if the black shirt isn't back in 60 nights.

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The KAMIYU Dome · black, 84 nodes, warmth, red lightYOURS
Tea Tree Scalp Wash × 3INCLUDED
The Scalp Applicator · puts the wash on skinFREE $19
The Scalp Comb · opens a path before the waterFREE $15
The Scalp Reading Guide · digital, after checkoutFREE $29
1-Year Dome Warranty · breaks, we replace itINCLUDED

No hidden subscription. The Dome is yours. Only the Wash renews, only if you ask for it.

What it actually costs

Nobody buys this for the flakes. You buy back the couch, the chair and the black shirt.

Someone brushes his shoulder without looking up from their phone
The shoulderSomeone brushed it off without looking up. A partner, a friend, the person next to you at the table.
Her hand out of his hair, looking at her fingers
The handIn your hair for a second, then a look at the fingertips. Nobody reaches for it twice.
Awake on his side of the bed, she is turned away on the far edge
The pillowWhat is on it in the morning was on your scalp all night. Whoever wakes up next to you sees it too.
A friend points at the flakes on his shoulder at a barbecue
"Do you wash your hair?"Asked out loud, in front of everyone. You had showered that morning.
Flakes on the barber cape
The barberCape down, flakes on the bib. He said "buildup" and moved on.
A first date, her eyes on his shoulder, arms folded
The dateHer eyes went to your shoulder before your face. There was no second date.

None of it is your hair. It is the scalp under it, and people read it as how clean you are. That scalp has never once been washed: 3,900 washes on the hair, zero on the skin. Wash the cause, every wash, and the rest goes with it.

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What comes off

This is what a hand in your hair finds. Off a scalp you shampoo every day.

You are not dirty. You were never given the tool. Dermatologists have a name for what sits at the openings under your hair: yellow dots, follicle openings plugged with oil and dead skin. Shampoo has never reached them.

Scalp under a dermoscope before: plugged follicle openings and flakes
Night 0 · what their fingers foundMagnified, on the crown, before the first wash.
Scalp under a dermoscope after: clean open follicles, same hair density
Night 30 · same spotSame hair. Nothing to find.
Grey rinse water in a white basin after the first session
The first nightThe rinse water runs grey. That is the buildup leaving, not the shampoo.
Drain catch, week 0 versus week 4
The drain · week 0 / week 4Customer photo as submitted. Phone camera, bathroom light.
Why they keep finding them

Shampoo washes hair. Nothing has ever washed your scalp.

3,900 : 0

Count your washes.

Three a week since you were fifteen. Every one cleaned the hair. Your fingers slide over the top, the lather sits on the strands for thirty seconds and goes down the drain. The skin underneath was never touched.

The plug

Oil comes out of thousands of openings all day.

A yeast every man carries eats that oil and leaves behind an acid that irritates the skin. Irritated skin panics and sheds in sheets. Those sheets are your flakes. They are made at the opening, under the hair, where nothing you own has ever cleaned.

Skin

On the skin, not the hair.

84 soft nodes knead the scalp itself, at every opening, under water, with the wash sitting on the skin the whole time. Not on the hair. On the skin. In Tokyo, washing hair and washing the scalp are two different appointments. This is the second one.

Cross-section: fingers glide over hair; the nodes reach the scalp and the plug at each follicle
LEFT: fingers on hair. RIGHT: nodes on skin, at the opening.
Why it always came back

Medicated shampoo works for three days. Here is why.

Everything in your drawer treated the smoke. Nothing removed the fuel.

Medicated shampooPoisons the yeast for a few days, dries the skin, and the oil comes back double. Markers rise three days after you stop. Flakes are back in three weeks. You were not imagining it.
Growth serums and oilsGood drops, wrong landing zone. On a plugged scalp they sit on top of the plug and feed the yeast that lives on oil.
Fingernails and plastic scratchersThey scrape the surface and inflame it. A barber's hands never scratch. They knead, at the root, under water.
The barberHe sees it every three weeks under bright light, says "buildup," and moves on. He cuts hair. The problem is skin. It was never his job.
Inside the dome

Three things your hands can't do.

Exploded view of the black Dome: shell, vermilion ring, light board, four kneading heads
KneadSoft heads, not bristlesPressure and rotation at the root, the way a barber's hands work at the basin. Replaceable heads.
WarmthBath-warm, never hotSoftens hardened oil so it lifts and rinses instead of clinging through another wash.
LightRed light at the rootThe band the hair-density trials used, sitting against the skin while the heads work.
Built for a fadeLives in the showerCut for short thick hair on a wet head. Buzz cut, fade, long: keep it moving and it never pulls.
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The Black Shirt Guarantee
60

Sixty nights. The black shirt, or your money back.

Wear the black shirt again inside sixty nights, or every cent back and we pay the return shipping. Keep the Wash. No forms, no photos, one email.

NIGHT 1The rinse water runs grey. That is years of buildup leaving, not the shampoo.
WEEK 2Nothing on the collar. A hand goes through your hair and stays there.
WEEK 4The barber gets to the top of the fade and asks what changed.
NIGHT 60The black shirt is back in the rotation, or you email us and pay nothing.
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The questions men actually ask

Will it pull my hair? No.

Soft silicone nodes, not bristles. Part the hair, keep the Dome moving, and it glides. Longer hair: keep it moving and it never tangles.

Does it work on a buzz cut? Better.

Short hair is the easiest scalp to reach. A fade, a crew cut, a shaved side: the nodes sit straight on skin.

Do I still need my medicated shampoo? Your call.

The Wash goes on the scalp; your shampoo goes on the lengths. Most men retire the medicated bottle inside a month. If a dermatologist put you on one, keep it and use the Dome underneath it: it works better on a clean scalp.

Is it safe wet? It lives in the shower.

Waterproof. Rinse it under the tap. Bath-warm, never hot. Charges like a toothbrush between washes.

Same scalp

A clean scalp is where the hair you still have lives.

Your flakes and your thinning are not two problems. They are the same scalp. The oil and yeast that make you flake irritate the roots, and irritated roots let go early. In a six-month study of 150 men with thinning and flaking, simply clearing the scalp cut shedding by up to 17%. Nobody has shown it regrows anything. It keeps what you've got.

Part line week 0 and week 3: same density, no flakes
Same part, same light, same hair. Only the plug changes. Customer photo as submitted.
The only comparison

$150 a session in the chair. $1.54 a day in your shower.

Salon head spa The Scalp Cleaner Keep doing nothing
What it does Lifts the buildup, once a month Lifts the buildup, every wash Flakes back in 3 weeks
Cost $150 a session, $3,900 a year $139 once, then $19 a month of Wash A drawer of $12 bottles
Per day $10.68 $1.54 The shoulder check
Where Across town The shower you already take Your black shirts, in the closet
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Men who stopped getting caught

"She put her hand in my hair and left it there."

4.9 · 1,213 VERIFIED REVIEWS · PHOTOS AS SUBMITTED

Terrence W.
VERIFIED BUYER · NIGHT 27
★★★★★
Same barber. Eleven years. First compliment.

Someone at work asked if I switched barbers. Same barber. It was a Tuesday. I wrote it in my notes app.

In the barber chair, clean cape
WEEK 4
Dan K.
VERIFIED BUYER · NIGHT 19
★★★★★
Bought my first black tee in twelve years.

I only bought grey t-shirts so it wouldn't show. That was my whole system since college. Last week I bought a black one. My wife stopped brushing my shoulder and I noticed the not-noticing.

The black t-shirt, week 0 and week 3, his own mirror
WEEK 0WEEK 3
Marcus T.
VERIFIED BUYER · NIGHT 21
★★★★★
My barber said "buildup" and wouldn't say more.

So I looked it up and ended up here. Three weeks, same part, same bathroom light. He got to the top of the fade and asked what changed.

Part line, week 0 and week 3
Andre S.
VERIFIED BUYER · NIGHT 14
★★★★★
She put her hand in my hair and left it there.

Third date. She did the thing where she runs her fingers through the back, and I did not flinch, because there was nothing to find. Night 14 I caught myself looking at my hairline in the gym mirror. Not checking. Just looking.

Gym locker room, towel, clean hairline
WEEK 2
Daniel K.
VERIFIED BUYER · NIGHT 32
★★★★★
Hands on the desk the whole call.

Week three: a long video call and I never once reached for my head. Then I realized I had stopped counting the drain weeks ago. Booked a haircut because I wanted one, not to hide anything.

The black polo, week 0 and week 4, his hallway mirror
WEEK 0WEEK 4
Kyle D.
VERIFIED BUYER · NIGHT 22
★★★★☆
Annoyingly good. Wish the cord were longer.

Four stars because the charging cable is shorter than I'd like. The itch stopped in week one and my hair stays put a full day longer. Longer cord and it's five.

Their own mirrors. Their own phones.

Same man. Same shirt. Weeks apart.

The black t-shirt, week 0 and week 3
WEEK 0WEEK 3
Dan · the black tee
The crown from above, week 0 and week 4
WEEK 0WEEK 4
Chris · the crown
The black polo, week 0 and week 4
WEEK 0WEEK 4
Rob · the polo
The fade from above, week 0 and week 3
WEEK 0WEEK 3
Tyler · the fade
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The Tokyo method
Nao Kurihara, KAMIYU founder

In Tokyo the scalp wash comes with the cut.

Comb, cleanser on the skin, kneading under warm water. No man asks for it and no man skips it. America renamed it the head spa and priced it at $150 a session. The steps were never the secret. The access was. I took the finish apart and rebuilt it for a shower.

NAO KURIHARA · FOUNDER, KAMIYU

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Questions
How long does one Scalp Wash last?

About eight weeks at three washes a week, because the applicator puts it on the scalp only. Your normal shampoo still does the lengths.

How do I use it?

Lather. Put it on your head. Rinse. The comb opens a path through longer hair first and the applicator puts the wash on the skin instead of the strands. Both are in the box.

How fast does it ship?

From our US warehouse, tracked. Free on the 90 and 180-day boxes. $5.95 on the Dome alone.

Charge time, weight, noise?

About 2 hours to full, roughly a week of washes per charge. Lighter than a phone. Quieter than an electric toothbrush.

Beard?

Yes, on the lowest setting with the wash. Same skin, same plug.

What is "buildup"?

Oil, dead skin, product and hard-water minerals that harden around each follicle opening. Trichologists call it scale or follicular plugs. We call it the thing your shampoo never reached.

What if it doesn't work on me?

Sixty nights. Email us, we refund every cent and pay the return shipping. Keep the Wash.

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