Latisse can grow lashes, what about hair on the head?

[sk8charlie]

So Ive recently been seeing lots of commercials about lattise, an FDA approved drug that is proven to grow eyelashes thicker darker and more in number... So I did some research on this lattise, it turns out that it was a drug used for glaucoma and patients noticed that it grew hair on the corners of their eyes. So are there current research studies with using latisse on the head to encourage hair growth? I read somewhere that it is a prostaglandin, which interestingly minoxidils mechanism of action is to increase prostaglandin and thus promote hair growth. So if we can already isolate the prostaglandin, wouldn't be more effective to place the prostaglandin directly onto the scalp instead of have minoxidil thru pathways I don't know increase the prostaglandin? They demonstrate it already with latisse, lets seriously hope that they come out with a drug soon (since this drug has been used for many many years and doesn't have to go thru all the vigours the FDA demands) that is even more powerful than minoxidil at regorwing hairs. I mean just look at the before and after pictures regarding the eyelashes, pretty damn crazy... fingers crossed...

 

[monitoradiation]

I think I read about that just today... Lemme find that link.

http://www.fiercepharma.com/story/aller ... 2009-08-12

I hope it works, and works well :3

 

[abovedagame]

Even if it proves to grow hair, from what I've heard the bottles are so small (made for eyelashes...) that it would not be feasible to use it on the head. It's quite expensive too when compared to something like kirkland minoxidil

 

[monitoradiation]

Or perhaps the concentration necessary to stimulate hair growth on the scalp is less than that for eyelashes; either way, I suspect that the primary reason why it's so pricey for a small bottle (Latisse) is its target audience.

The cosmetics industry already charge an arm and a leg for everything they can get away with, so with a product that ACTUALLY thickens your eyelashes instead of just faking it for a day, they probably figured that they can jack up the prices like crazy. If this works for scalp hair, they'll find a price-point where they think is attractive for a larger user base.

 

[chore boy]

For some reason (probably because math isn't really my strong point), I'm having issues figuring out if Latisse/Lumigan is worth a shot. Here's what I know:

- Latisse and Lumigan contain 0.03% bimatoprost.

- In the macaque study, 50 mcg/ml of Latanoprost produced minimal hair growth, whereas 500 mcg/ml produced moderate to marked hair growth

(http://dermatology.cdlib.org/93/comment ... /wolf.html)

- Dr. Lee says that his Xandrox Plus is 0.1% Finasteride or 1 mg/ml

- 1000 mcg = 1 mg

Actually... I think I just figured it out (helps putting things down on paper sometimes)...

500 mcg/ml is equal to 0.5 mg/ml. If 1000 mcg/ml is 0.1%, then 500 mcg/ml would be 0.05%, right? If I'm correct, then lumigan/latisse would be a weaker concentration than what was used in the macaque study by 0.02%. I guess we'd be shy by 200 mcg/ml.

 

[Gurv]

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