The present specification discloses a composition for preventing hair loss or promoting hair growth comprising, as an active ingredient, extracellular follicles derived from lactic acid bacteria, and a method for preparing the extracellular follicles derived from lactic acid bacteria. The composition has an effect of preventing and prohibiting hair from falling off from the scalp or becoming thin or tapered. In addition, the composition has an effect of implementing a hair growth function for generating new hair, or a function for promoting the hair growth, as well as a function of promoting a delay from an anagen to a catagen phase of a hair cycle and a function of growing the existing hair healthy.