Game: Best topical to replace finasteride/dutasteride....

[Life_sucks]

Here is the game, obviously I'm not equating any topical to finasteride/dutasteride.

But if you had to pick only one topical to replace finasteride/dutasteride what would it be and why?


Ranking

1) RU (4 votes)
2) CB-03-01 (1 vote)

 

[Life_sucks]

Damn no one wants to play. I wanted to rank topicals based on response because everybody has too many things in their regimen.

 

[Agahi]

RU for effectiveness (forum members say it is better, I've not tried),

spironolactone for price/work required to obtain/use (just buy and apply spironolactone, while you have to like buy in bulk and do chemistry to use RU)

 

[Life_sucks]

^^

I always hear about RU, but I guess it's home made. Seems weird that the best topical treatment is being made at home and no company copies it and sells it.

Some things just don't make sense.

 

[hairhoper]

It's highly doubtful any company could get away with selling something like RU that could be actually as effective as finasteride, without going through all the full FDA approvals which would be crazy expensive and as the company that originally researched it decided may not be profitable.

So you either have to make it yourself or settle for a lot of weak stuff like saw palmetto/azelaic acid/topical spironolactone/low percentage copper peptides that don't really do a lot, if anything.

 

[Life_sucks]

It's highly doubtful any company could get away with selling something like RU that could be actually as effective as finasteride, without going through all the full FDA approvals which would be crazy expensive and as the company that originally researched it decided may not be profitable.

But I don't understand why there are so many topical products without fda approval on amazon and other places. (xandrox, perfect image, revivegen etc)

Howcome they don't need fda approval?

 

[Medium]

RU

 

[Life_sucks]

CB-03-01

But this isn't available yet right??

Thought it's going to be few years before it hits the market.

Are you using this???

 

[abcdefg]

The problem with asking this question is that neither of these treatments is really proven to do anything. Its all just hypothetical and guess work that these work like stories or small studies claim. Neither one is actually out for commercial use so depending on how a person actually mixes and delivers it the results could be different and no one knows the optimal dosing amounts. I would say neither one until the company actually starts selling it. I wish one of these was out then we have a risk free way to prevent or slow male pattern baldness.

1) RU
2) CB-03-01

 

[Life_sucks]

CB-03-01

But this isn't available yet right??

Thought it's going to be few years before it hits the market.

Are you using this???

Lets just say it's not commercially available yet...... :whistle:

C'mon man...don't leave us hanging :sobbing:

I know many make RU at home. Are you getting an order or planing to replicate it at home or something?

Please share.....

 

[abcdefg]

Well maybe your right on that, but I would prefer to wait for actual large human studies to prove something and not what is done on a rat or some other animal. Honestly if I could go to the store and buy RU or CB at a reasonable price and the work as well as claimed I have a risk free possibly life long cure to hair loss. We know castration stops hair loss for 20 years or longer. We just need a way to stop androgens and RU assuming it is not ridiculously overpriced sounds like the answer. Hopefully its not 10 years by the time it happens. I do not experiment with unknown substances that are not time tested so I will wait until it comes out commercially.

 

[waynakyo]

This is an important thread since these are currently the only viable methods to fight hair loss (finasteride,RU,CB,Fluridil, ...) , I am not talking about regrowth.

However, I have to say although I find that RU and CB have a good potential, :whistle: , I have yet to see some of the mircales that finasteride do with these topicals, none so far...

Not that I am encouragnig you on taking finasteride, but there must be other antiandrogen (there are bunch we know) that we could use topical.

can anyone help me with that list ? They are likely to be absorbed systemically but I just would like for us to compile a list of the available anti-androgens,.. or someone have done it already ?

 

[tomcatt]

what about flutamide ?
topical finasteride 0.05% ?