This article will show you how to make 0.025% topical finasteride with and without any minoxidil.
How to make 0.025% topical finasteride without any minoxidil.
There are 3 methods to make a finasteride 0.025% solution:
Method 1. Dissolve pure finasteride powder to an appropriate vehicle.
Method 2. Dissolve finasteride pills such as Propecia or Proscar into an appropriate vehicle.
Method 3. Dilute Essengen-F to make a 0.025% solution.
For method 1, you will need to buy pure finasteride powder and a scale that is accurate to milligram level. Finding a reliable source for pure finasteride powder is probably the biggest challenge for this method.
For method 2, you can add 15 Propecia pills (1 mg /pill) or 3 Proscar (5mg /pill) to 60 ml PG Solvent or PG Free Solvent (if you are allergic to PG). There are several challenges with this method: (1). Finding the reliable source to obtain Propecia or Proscar pills; (2) Dissolve finasteride out of the pills into the solution. Please be advised the pills are mostly consisted of filler which will not dissolve. So at the end, you will always end up with a cloudy solution, and you are not really sure if all the fin is completely dissolved or not.
Please be advised that you can't use pure alcohol as the solvent, because alcohol evaporates too fast and it does not give fin sufficient time to be absorbed before it is evaporated.
Method 3 is the easiest and error-proofing way. All you need to do is to add 8.5 ml of Essengen-F to 60 ml of PG Solvent or PG Free Solvent (if you are allergic to PG) and shake it for 10 seconds. Then you have 68.5 ml of 0.025% finasteride solution. One unit of Essengen-F (60ml) is sufficient to make 480 ml of 0.025 percent topical fin, which is enough for 16 months if you use 1 ml of the diluted solution a day. The cost of doing this is very low. You just need to buy one unit of Essengen-F ($98) and 7 units of PG Solvent or PG Free solvent (7 x $9.99 =$69.93). The estimated cost is less than $10.5 per month.
How to make 0.025% topical finasteride with 5% minoxidil?
Method 1: Mix one whole bottle of Essengen-6 Plus (6% minoxidil with 0.05% finasteride) with one whole bottle of Essengen-5 NO PG Fast Dry, and you get 120 ml of 5.5% minoxidil with 0.025% finasteride, which is close to what you need. The mixture is a fast drying, non-greasy solution.
Method 2: 8.5 ml of Essengen-F to 60 ml of Essengen-5 NO PG Fast Dry and mix it. You get 68.5 ml of 4.4% minoxidil with 0.025% finasteride solution, that is close to your target concentrations. The mixture is a fast drying, non-greasy PG Free 0.025% finasteride with 4.4% minoxidil solution.
Premade topical solutions with different strength from 0.05% to 0.3%.
We have several premade topical solutions with different finasteride strength, including Essengen-6 Plus (6% minoxidil with 0.05% finasteride), Maxogen-X (7% minoxidil, 0.15% finasteride, 0.025% retinoic acid, 1.5% azelaic acid) , Dualgen-10 Plus (10% minoxidil, 0.1% finasteride), and Essengen-6 Extra (6% minoxidil, 0.3% finasteride), and many more.
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Codonnell185_50015
June 4, 2023Hello! thank you For all of this useful information. For method 2 without minoxidil. when crushing 15 tablets of fin into the solution of 60 ml. What would be the recommended dose of ml topicaly? 1 ml a day?
thank you! :)
Bryant
June 6, 2023 Author1 ml contains 0.25 mg finasteride assuming all the fin in the tablets is dissoved. Thus, if you want to use 0.25 mg a day, use 1 ml a day.
Codonnell185_50015
June 8, 2023Thank you for the quick response. You said 15 tablet's will get you to .25 per ml. How many crushed tablets would you need to dissolve to get to .025% topically Per 1 ml.
thank you!
Bryant
June 9, 2023 AuthorYou need fifteen pills (1mg/pill )
Charles
October 24, 2022Adding 12 ml of Essengen-6 Plus to 60 ml of PG solvent will also get a 0.01% finasteride solution correct? Thanks.
Bryant
November 11, 2022 AuthorIt is a 5 times dilution. Thus you need to add 15 ml of Essengen-6 Plus to 60 ml of PG Solvent to get a solution with 0.01% finasteride and 1.25% minoxidil.
Matthew D
August 25, 2022Can you please let me know how to make 0.01% topical finasteride?
Bryant
August 25, 2022 AuthorAdd 3 ml of Essengen-F to 60 ml of PG Solvent and mix it, you get a 0.01% finasteride solution.
Charles
October 22, 2022If I want to make 0.01% topical finasteride with 5% minoxidil, can I use one whole bottle of Essengen-6 Plus with TWO whole bottles of Essengen-5? Thank you
Bryant
June 6, 2023 AuthorIf you do that, you end up with a solution containing 2% minoxidil and 0.017% finasteride.
In order to get a solution with 5% minoxidil and 0.01% finasteride, you need to add 3 ml of Essengen-F to 60 ml of Essengen-5 NO PG Fast Dry and mix it.