How Does Topical Spironolactone Work? Oral spironolactone has been used as a potassium-sparing diuretic since 1960s, marketed under a variety of brand names, including Aldactone, Novo-Spiroton, Aldactazide, Spiractin, Spirotone, Verospiron and Berlactone. It is often shortened as spiro. It was serendipitously discovered to reduce hair in female who had too much hair (hirsutism) in 1990s. … Read more
Provillus as a Hair Loss Treatment Provillus is one of heavy marketed hair loss products online today. It is available for both men and women, making promises to “re-grow beautiful healthy hair”, this product consists of a topical and oral solution with an FDA approved hair regrowth ingredient and a number of conjectured “all-natural” … Read more
Polaris NR-11 was launched in 2014 by Polaris Research Laboratories. It has two key ingredients minoxidil sulfate (12%) and finasteride 0.1%). The list of ingredients of this product seems long (see below). But the main effective ingredients are minoxidil and finasteride. Ingredients like Water, Propylene Glycol, Ethanol, Glycerin, Pantothenyl ethyl ether, Phospholipids, Polysorbate 80 are solvent, which helps … Read more
What is Hairomega? Hairomega is a hair loss treatment herbal supplement. It has two products: Hairomega 3-in-1 DHT Blocker and Hairomega DHT Blocker (See the ingredient comparison of these two products below). Hairomega 3-in-1 DHT Blocker has more comprehnsive ingredients than Hairomega DHT blocker. It is intended to address 3 main causes for hair loss: … Read more
This is the highest concentration of minoxidil product offered by Polaris Research Laboratory. It has 16% minoxidil. Not sure why Polaris Laboratory offers a 16% minoxidil product instead of a more popupar 15% minoxidil product. Apparently 1% difference in minoxidil concentration won’t make much, if any, difference in effectiveness. As a matter of fact, any … Read more