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Hair Grower
Hello,
what are the must have of a hair grower aside from the active ingredient - hair grower? do i need to add raw material that cleanse or moisturize scalp?
thanks in advance.
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9 Replies
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If you can actually formulate something that grows hair, you’re going to become rich. I’ve been trying for years and the closest I got was using glycrrhizic acid.
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What @Belassi said. Minoxidil is the only topical ingredient that has been demonstrated to grow hair (and this only works in a small amount of people). It’s also a drug so you’ll have to follow the OTC rules when making it for sale in the US.
Otherwise, nothing has been proven to grow hair when topically applied.
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Also, if you do find something that actually works? It’s going to need to be a prescription-only drug in most of the world.
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Orally finasteride works well to combat MPB but as BobZ indicated it is a drug.
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even if i used natural ingredients? or maybe something that does not grows hair but thickens it.
do u know what raw material to use? -
The origin of the molecule has no determination on classification, only the action. You can make it look thicker that would be a cosmetic.
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If there were a natural ingredient that could grow hair then everyone who has thinning hair would buy it. It just hasn’t been discovered.
Actually thickening hair is another difficult challenge. You would need to plump up the hair fiber (which can be done with water to some extent) then you would need a way to keep it plumped up. Unfortunately, keeping water in hair also weighs hair down so hair may be thicker but it will look flatter.
The strategy that is most often used to “thicken” hair is just to make it look thicker. This is done using styling polymers that can hold the hair in a more voluminous configuration. The hair fibers are not actually thicker, it’s just that the hair style makes it look thicker. A “naturally derived” ingredient might be something like this. https://sc.akzonobel.com/en/personalcare/Pages/product-detail.aspx?prodID=10421
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Of course, there are a great many crooked people selling “miracle goo” that claims to grow hair but actually does nothing. That’s probably a safer thing to do, even if it’s morally wrong (and illegal in some places).
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Thanks for all the comments and tips.
Good Day!
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