Tricomin Ingredients - PPG?

[bombscience]

Can a Tricomin user tell me if Propylene Glycol is an ingredient in the solution?

Couldn't find the answer on the web.

edit... it's in the shampoos, but not the spray. YES! Good news for PPG allergics.

Follicle Therapy Spray: Purified Water, SD Alcohol 40B, Amodimethicone, Nonoxynol-10, Panthenol, Polyquaternium-11, Polysorbate 60, Tallowtrimonium Chloride, Citric Acid, Dimethyl Lauramine Isotearate, Linoleamidopropyl Ethyl Diamonium Sulfate, Triamino Copper Nutritional ComplexTM (Alanine/Histidine/Lysine Polypeptide Copper HCl), Methylparaben, Benzethonium Chloride, Menthol, FD&C Blue #1.


Also, just so that other people affected by PPG know:

Folligen Solution Therapy Spray uses small amounts of polysorbate 20 and propylene glycol to enhance the uptake of copper-peptide around the hair follicle.

 

[Cassin]

The stuff has allot of menthol in it so you feel like you put some cold water on your scalp sometimes. That stuff feel sfantastic. Ever used T/GEL intensive itch? It sorta feels like that. Plus your going to be able to leave it on all day with the coloring.

 

[bombscience]

Cassin. You have a PPG allergy right? Do you still use folligen or have you switched to tricomin?

ps. my first veteran double post. ouch i'm stupid.

 

[Cassin]

Cassin. You have a PPG allergy right? Do you still use folligen or have you switched to tricomin?

ps. my first veteran double post. ouch i'm stupid.

Yes Except if I remember right you had it a bit worse than me, but not by much. Folligen was way to harsh for me. It's too concentrated.

I have switched full time to Procyte brands. I went through a bottle of American Crew first and now I am using Tricomin. They are a huge difference in feeling and color compared to Skinbiology brands. When my bottle of Tricomin runs out I am switching back to American Crew since it is so much cheaper. $12 a bottle compared to $50 for Tricomin. But if you still have irritation issues give Tricomin a run.....that menthol helps allot. I keep an old minoxidil bottle (filled with Tricomin) in my desk at work and apply it during the day if I get the itch.

 

[bombscience]

Cassin. Just so you know since I've started avodart my scalp itches about 75% less of the time than it used to.

 

[Cassin]

Cassin. Just so you know since I've started avodart my scalp itches about 75% less of the time than it used to.

Interesting.....My scalp never itched before minoxidil so I wonder how that would effect me.

Regardless I am terrified of Avodart to be honest. Plus I will probably be working on a kid within the next year or two and I wouldn't touch that stuff right now.

 

[viperfish]

What is the percentage of cu peptides in tricomin?? Probably less than 1% I'm assuming. In their testings I believed they used 2.5%. Why the switch?? They have fairly good results during their testings and then go and switch the formula. :-x Kinda like FNS who removed ingredients from the formula (insulin, etc) before marketing it. Then Osmotics starts marketing FNS based on the testings, that used a completely different formula. Does this piss anyone else off???

 

[Cassin]

Those figures are off Viperfish. Thats from my posts with my email discussion with Dr Pickart right? He completely contradicted himself later about the percentages.

Anyway, they had decent results with whatever % they used. Plus they had irritation issues and the CP's were in a cream form.

All fo the CP's out now are a different generation than the types use in the mid-80's during the 2 FDA trials.

 

[Bryan]

What is the percentage of cu peptides in tricomin?? Probably less than 1% I'm assuming. In their testings I believed they used 2.5%.

Someone on alt.baldspot called their office once a few years ago, and tried to get them to divulge the exact percentage of copper-peptide in Tricomin. They wouldn't give the exact amount, but they did say that the percentage was somewhere BETWEEN the two percentages used in the trial (1.25% and 2.5%), but "closer to the larger figure".

Why the switch??

They feel they have an improved vehicle over what was used in the trial, so they can use a little less of the copper-peptide.

Bryan

 

[Cassin]

Someone on alt.baldspot called their office once a few years ago, and tried to get them to divulge the exact percentage of copper-peptide in Tricomin. They wouldn't give the exact amount, but they did say that the percentage was somewhere BETWEEN the two percentages used in the trial (1.25% and 2.5%), but "closer to the larger figure".

Bryan

Granted Dr Pickart did indeed contradict himself in the email he and I had, but I have issues with this phone call. Who exactly were they talking to?

 

[Bryan]

He didn't give the name of the person, he just said it was somebody at the ProCyte office that he talked to.

Bryan

 

[viperfish]

Cassin,
I read that info some place else not from your post. However, that does clear up some of the issues. thanks

 

[Temples]

Another thing that worries me about Tricomin/Folligen/AC:

DR. LOREN PICKART IS BALD!!!

 

[misterium]

Yeah but he's just interested in his line of work and research, probably not in his own grooming concerns, at his age & money/status level, I doubt he's concerned with re-growing his slick bean. 8)