hair growth products

abbadoodles

Found a couple of interesting products in catalogs today.  The first is from the Vermont Country Store; it's called Renew Eyebrow Revitalizer, $29.95 for 0.33 oz.  The caption reads something to the effect that it is made with "100% natural plant actives" and it cleans and unclogs hair follicles to encourage growth.  Use 4-6 weeks to see your natural brows (as in youthfully full).

The second is from the Soft Surroundings catalog and is called Talika Lipocils.  There is one product for brows and another for lashes.  $38.00 each for 0.35 oz.  Contains soy lecithin liposomes.  Use twice a day for 28 days for results.

Hey, I have no clue if these work, but thought I'd pass this along.  Even without chemo, brows and lashes tend to get thinner with age.  Well, more hope in a bottle........Ya never know.  Maybe like that Nioxin stuff for hair?

Tina

Harley44

Tina,

If you use it, let me know if it works!  I have almost NO eyelashes, and now even my eyebrows are getting really thin, and they started out REALLY THICK before bc! 

sigh...   

the famous SLUGGO

aka   Harley

JoanofArdmore

Tina, I have never had my eyebrows or eyelashes grow in WELL, from chemo.

I get both those catalogues and have mulled over the Soft Surroundings one.

But naaaah! I believe in fairies, but I dont believe something you put on your skin will grow eye hair.

And if I were going to toss that kind of $ around, I'd probably go to Whole Foods and buy a suppliment.I believe in fairies and suppliments.

My hair began to thin very badly, from Femara.I'm talking little bald spots?So the girls at CAM told me about Biotin.

I got a bottle, my bald spot filled in ,my brush is no longer full of hair, nor is the bathtub drain.So, to me, THAT's entertainment!

abbadoodles

Joan, I am a skeptic, too.  Just thought I would pass the info along, though.

I have been using the Biotin since I finished chemo in mid-May.  My hair has been growing like gangbusters; thick and curly.  HoHo Try Harpo Marx. 

My eyebrows and eyelashes fell out around 6 weeks post chemo and now my eyelashed ONLY have fallen out again.  I have heard this would happen. Well, this time the brows are staying put and the lashes didn't really look like they were falling out as they didn't do it all at the same time.  The new ones were growing in as more of the old ones were falling out.  Thank heaven for small favors.........

My eyebrows, though, have gotten thinner with age.  Maybe I overplucked them in my "yut."  It would be wonderful if I could have thick brows again, but don't imagine anything would help short of a miracle. 

Tina

miamimama

Joan,

How much Biotin do you take daily? 

iodine

I bounced for Revitalash last Mother's day, used it for a couple of months and didn't think it was was working, 2 weeks later, I noticed I had LASHES.  Began using it again.  I could actually curl my lashes and had something to put mascara on.  I thought I'd been had and my money wasted, but the stuff is made from a medicine for glacoma which has the side effect of growing lashes.  It actually did work for me.  It Does take a long time to work, and you have to use it daily.

I just ordered the Talika from ebay and will get it soon to give it a try, too.  It was pretty cheap, so I can only hope I'm not getting a rip off of saline in a Talika container.  Ya never know.

Wish me luck.

Harley44

Dotti

I guess you have to have lashes to use Revitalash, huh??  I have NO lashes!  They were sparse BEFORE chemo!! 

sigh...

Harley

Traci-----TripNeg

Isn't Biotin the stuff we used to prevent mouth sores....???

What is it?

Traci

abbadoodles

Traci, no no.  You are thinking of Biotene.  Biotin is a vitamin, one of the B's.  Water soluble, not fat soluble, so much harder to overdose.

Tina