Attention NANO Shampoo users! (with pictures of it's effect)

[Felk]

I've been harping on about this for a while, but I'll say it again

- NANO -
the best hair thickening shampoo I've ever used. It's expensive but it lasts forever. It also can have some beneficial growth stimulating action (it's advertised for this with no mention of it's excellent cosmetic effect) and Bryan encourages using it.

However there's been a recent formula change, the new formula doesn't leave my hair looking as thick and shiny as it once did. I have longish curly hair, and I never thought my hair looked bad when I was shampooing with this stuff, but now the effect isn't really there so much.

I emailed dr proctor asking about it and he talked about the formula change, and added he'll probably change it back because so many people have emailed him about it. I don't know what his current thinking is, but if you're a fellow NANO user who believes in the old faithful version which thickens hair so very well, please drop him an email and let him know. Proctor tinkers with his products, he responds to emails personally and appreciates feedback.

The original stuff was the absolute cornerstone of my hair care regimen, so if you feel the same way we'll be helping each other out!

 

[Felk]

Figured I may as well post some pictures to show the thickening effect... wet to dry.

The first one is wet hair after swimming. The last is the effect of NANO, after my hair has dried (on a different day however).
Don't tell me i'm not going bald either please, hehe, as the photos don't show the temples
(though you can sort of see where it would be in the wet hair photo)
I caught it early, that's for sure, but as you can see NANO really made the difference in appearance here.

Wet hair, long





Nano's effect on my hair, medium length

 

[CCS]

I don't trust this, but I guess it is aimed at NANO users, not non-NANO users.

Cassin and others told me that Aveda Pure abundance and other shampoos were fantastic, and that they use them before going out, and that they thicken like no other. Then I bought them, and not of them did anything. That is when they told me I have to use it every day and that it takes a while to build up in the hair. I prefer to use therapudic shampoos and not have build up day after day that could maybe interfer with topical absorption. Glad it works for you, though.

 

[Felk]

What don't you trust? My experience with NANO?

Well it's good to be skeptical I guess, but i've been posting a significant while and I asked a lot of questions and discussed NANO with many different people before and whilst using it. If you really wanted to you could go through my posts searching for NANO, and you would see the long development of my opinion regarding. I didn't just one day start spouting "NANO shampoo everyone!!!"

And if you're skeptical about photos I have plenty more of them.

 

[bubka]

1st pick the hair is whet and has some oil or hair product in it

2nd pick the hair is dry and almost all oil removed

it looks as if it is dry and has no oil, no bid freaking deal, plus shorter hair looks thicker anyways than weighted down long hair

 

[CCS]

What don't you trust? My experience with NANO?

Well it's good to be skeptical I guess, but i've been posting a significant while and I asked a lot of questions and discussed NANO with many different people before and whilst using it. If you really wanted to you could go through my posts searching for NANO, and you would see the long development of my opinion regarding. I didn't just one day start spouting "NANO shampoo everyone!!!"

And if you're skeptical about photos I have plenty more of them.

I'm just saying other mult-thousand post guys said their cosmetic shampoo worked good for them, and when I bought it, they then told me I have to use it a lot. Not doubting it thickens. The left.org stuff does not seem to though.

 

[beaner]

Why should anyone care if it cosmetically thickens hair anyway since it is marketed as a growth stimulator. I would consider any immediate cosmetic benefit to be a bonus.

 

[BH 90 NWtwo 10]

my 2 cents.

i could careless about giving the illusion of thicker hair.. DOES NANO GROW HAIR OR NOT?

 

[Felk]

Well perhaps I should change the thread title to "cosmetic effect"

I think people should care if it provides a cosmetic thickening, because the thickening is just so marked. It doesn't just look thick either, it feels thick, springy and strong. For the me the difference is - when I don't use nano, i have thin, fine, limp wispy hair. When i do use it I have a full head of thick, curly, shiny hair.

The only time I think of my hair is when people comment on how nice it is, so I sometimes don't bother taking my finasteride or dutasteride for long periods because I forget how I was losing my hair. I haven't lost much more hair (i haven't really checked recently) doing this, so the nizoral, NANO and proctor's topical I use most days must be maintaining it.

For me it's a very important issue, since it basically determines how many years of good hair I have left. For diffusers, it would be a god send.

 

[RaginDemon]

where is the hair loss?

 

[BH 90 NWtwo 10]

Why should anyone care if it cosmetically thickens hair anyway since it is marketed as a growth stimulator. I would consider any immediate cosmetic benefit to be a bonus.

EXACTLY. NANO is not marketed as "this will make ur hair LOOK thicker" its marketed as a growth shampoo that will grow new hairs.. not JUST make existing ones thicker... DOES IT really grow hairs?

 

[jas000]

ya man i see absolutely NO balding, what r u worried about man? btw where do u get the nano

 

[Felk]

I know it's marketed as a hair growth shampoo, but since I use a number of things I'm not prepared to attribute my success to the NANO alone.

Face it, who's brave enough to risk their hair on a shampoo? Not many people will be coming in with results for NANO for this very reason.

So i thought i'd at least show something it's not marketed for - it's excellent thickening effect. It completely changes my hair from thin to thick. Though i must admit the second pick is one when my hair is looking especially thick. I have thinning and receding temples at this stage, that's all. NANO hides them pretty much completely

I got it from http://www.drproctor.com - that site really needs a revamp, he's terrible at advertising/sales

 

[Goingat20]

Thanks for the update Doctor, you are certainly a trusted member of this forum and any feedback is highly regarded. Im thinking of getting nano back, my tempes have been hard recently

 

[MPBthoroughbred]

This is what I wrote to Dr. Proctor few months ago, and his reply.



I've heared on some of the internet forums that, the NANO shampoo's formula has been changed and, is much watery and doesn't lather well with hair compared to before.
I got a little bit concerned because few people seems to prefer the old formula. Is it true that the formula has been changeg? Thanks...


The formula is always changing. Most especially, the shampoo is optimized as a delivery vehicle and not as a shampoo. People have the same complaints about Nizoral and other medicated shampoos and for the same reason. One problem is that active ingredients tend to supress lathering. The more we add, the less lathering. We used to make up for this by adding a high-lathering ingredient (laurel sulfate). But then we got too many complaints about this because of the urban legend that it is toxic. So we took it out. My suggestion is to use another shampoo before using ours. Then it will lather fully.

Also, the thickness of a shampoo is essentially set by how much salt you add. The last few lots, I have elected to decrease this. Evidently this was a mistake, for purely marketing reasons.

Dr Proctor



I feel sorry for him. Can't make every one happy...

 

[Felk]

Thanks for posting that.

I do use another shampoo first regardless, nizoral usually, the new formula still doesn't have quite the same effect. Maybe I'll put some salt in the bottle?

 

[Goingat20]

Hey mate
Are you still using proxiphen? im thinking of adding it to my regime along with finasteride and dropping dutasteride. What do you reckon? Cheers

 

[abcdefg]

How is anything like your picture attributable to the nano shampoo? what exactly did it do? You obviously dont have a lot of visible hairloss so whos to say the shampoo did anything besides make you more poor?

 

[Felk]

Re:

Hey mate
Are you still using proxiphen? im thinking of adding it to my regime along with finasteride and dropping dutasteride. What do you reckon? Cheers

I think finasteride is a good idea over dutasteride, if you're worried about the brain. If you're worried about sides in general it's a better idea since it's approved for this purpose and has a longer track record.

As for the proxiphen - I like the stuff, but it's very expensive. Though you can make it last a lot longer (for me 3x as long), it's still quite steep.

I don't know what results i have to attribute to the proxiphen, but i feel it's helped me maintain my hair (i use it a little infrequently actually... missing days, that is). The problem is i use it alongside finasteride. Though I have been going off and on finasteride and changing doses, and my hair hasn't really changed, so that's probably the proxiphen working.

I like it because it's an easy, once a day topical, which should be working from many different angles to save my hair. Bryan is also behind it, which is a bit of a bonus I guess.
To find fault - I don't like it because of the price, and in the end it is unproven, so unfortunately it's kinda a tough call mate.

 

[Felk]

How is anything like your picture attributable to the nano shampoo? what exactly did it do? You obviously dont have a lot of visible hairloss so whos to say the shampoo did anything besides make you more poor?

Read the whole thread, it's documenting the thickening effect, not the hair growth. Though some people here see it as irrelevant due to how it's marketed, the difference between having a nice thick head of hair and thin, wispy hair certainly isn't irrelevant to me. Regardless of how I found about such a method of achieving the good hair.

It's expensive, but a bottle lasts me about a year. I've only ever bought 2.