Re: Which should I use Liquid or Foam minoxidil ?

[BodyDysmorphic]

use both and get the best of both worlds

(for the record i did not post this question"
Irishpride did

 

[JWM]

Prozac

 

[haunted-ballroom]

This has gone beyond madness. :shock:

 

[Nashville Hairline]

Should I use foam or liquid ?
- Foam, in my opinion. its less greasy and less liable to leave flakes in your hair

Which cause bigger sheds ?
- neither, its all minoxidil

Which has better results?
- foam, according to Rogaine

What is PPG and is it even needed or is PPG better to have in minoxidil ?
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propylene_glycol its just a carrier for the liquid minoxidil and wont make any difference to your hair. it can irritate the scalp in some people.

 

[Nashville Hairline]

nashville thanks man for your kind replies... reallyhelps me out.. thanks for also telling me about PPG .. i thought i may have had a postitive effect but I guess it's nothing really... so thats good to hear that i'm not missing out..

BTW Nashville, how is your hair doing on foam ? Do you apply it all over your scalp ?

Thanks much !

No worries man. I think the PPG is a scalp irritant for some people so thats why its an issue for guys in choosing which liquid minoxidil to go for.

I just apply the foam to my crown and have done the last 5 months. I have a little regrowth but its just vellus-y hair at the moment so still need to wait longer for best results, I think.

(no, I dont have any pics )

 

[Nashville Hairline]

Yeah, just at the beginning..lots of strands of hair in my hands as I was applying it. It reminded me of the days when I began losing it and I was seeing it everytime I applied hair gel.

Its scary and you should prepare yourself for it..I think the only guys who dont shed are guys applying it to slick bald areas i.e. areas where there is no hair to shed.

 

[Hair Potion #9]

When I first started using Rogaine Foam, because of its cost, I bought some Kirkland liquid minoxidil at Costco (4 bottles for $20). I would use the foam in the morning and the liquid at night, because the foam was less greasy and dried quicker. With so many recent sales on Rogaine Foam at the major retailers and online sites, and internet coupon codes, you can usually get the foam for less than $12 a can and with free shipping.

Since I'm also taking Finasteride (about .8 mg per day, there are days where I'll just use the foam or the liquid once. I'm in my fifties now, and have been using Minoxidil since the mid eighties. Accordingly, since I may have built up a tolerance to it, I feel that one should try a "round the clock" DHT reducing schedule at my age. This is fine as long as your health is excellent and there are no other medications prescribed by your physician that can interact with any vitamins or potions you're mixing.

For me, it's Minoxidil, Finasteride, a host of shampoos like Ketaconozole and Nano by Dr. Proctor, and occasional supplements like Vitamin B complex.

 

[rcom440]

When I first started using Rogaine Foam, because of its cost, I bought some Kirkland liquid minoxidil at Costco (4 bottles for $20). I would use the foam in the morning and the liquid at night, because the foam was less greasy and dried quicker. With so many recent sales on Rogaine Foam at the major retailers and online sites, and internet coupon codes, you can usually get the foam for less than $12 a can and with free shipping.

Since I'm also taking Finasteride (about .8 mg per day, there are days where I'll just use the foam or the liquid once. I'm in my fifties now, and have been using Minoxidil since the mid eighties. Accordingly, since I may have built up a tolerance to it, I feel that one should try a "round the clock" DHT reducing schedule at my age. This is fine as long as your health is excellent and there are no other medications prescribed by your physician that can interact with any vitamins or potions you're mixing.

For me, it's Minoxidil, Finasteride, a host of shampoos like Ketaconozole and Nano by Dr. Proctor, and occasional supplements like Vitamin B complex.

wow, you've been using minoxidil for around 25 years? How it is going for you? Were you able to keep some of the hair that you regrew with minoxidil over the years?

 

[Hair Potion #9]

wow, you've been using minoxidil for around 25 years? How it is going for you? Were you able to keep some of the hair that you regrew with minoxidil over the years?

I'm not sure if it's a question of how much hair I regrew or whether I have the same genetic pattern of hairloss that my father had. My dad's hairline started receding in his thirties and he still had a beautiful head of gray hair well into his seventies. My hairline started receding in my mid twenties, but because my hair was pretty thick, straight and long, it wasn't noticeable until a few years later.

It's receded slowly and thinned a bit in the last twenty years, and the bald spot on my crown may have gotten a big larger, but I can still wear it long and style it quite nicely (and even nicer when I use Topppik!). As you start to age, the goal is to keep as much as you can so that you can avoid a hair transplant, or
if you decide to have one, need less follicular grafts.

However, I've found that as you get older, hair, what women think about your follicles and how you look to others take a backseat to other matters. Personal finance and health, global politics, vocational choices, and time to enjoy one's hobbies tend to seem more important than the state of my hair (although I still like to keep up with the latest treatments and good shampoos that are within my means).

I guess I just got more comfortable with my excess DHT production and its effects. That's not to say I don't look at some male celebrities who have amazingly full heads of hair (without wearing toupes) and try to figure out whether they produce any DHT at all!