My hairline started receding in my earlier 20s, and by my late 20s, it was joined by thinning hair on my crown, both of which I vigorously denied for many years. It wasn't extreme hair loss, just a patch of thin hair at my crown and a high hairline. I tried my best to cover it up, keeping my hair of a reasonable length and style to hide the thinness without being accused of having a comb-over. Fast forward to my early 30s and you can imagine my shock when my partner brought home a box of "Regaine for Men" for me to try. After many minutes of using every expletive known to man accusing my partner of calling me bald, I sneaked off to the toilet, the ...  Read the complete review

Regaine has been in the market for quite some time. I bought it more than 10 years ago, I was losing my hair fast! Having studied science at university, I was aware of the important chemical in Regaine, known as Minoxidil. Originally, minoxidil was developed as a treatment for high blood pressure. Researchers had found it caused regrowth of hair as a side effect. The precise mechanism by which minoxidil works is unknown. The most common theory is its vasodilating effect. This means it relaxes the blood vessels. It may be the case that the hair follicles are stimulated in this way, causing growth of new hair. For male pattern baldness, minoxidil promotes ...  Read the complete review

Regaine Extra Strength For Men Noticing I was getting a bit thin on top last year, I started looking on the net to see if there was anythingh I could do. I didn't like losing my hair it wasn't good for my self confidence. I found out that I had something called male patternbaldness that is caused by a typeof testosterone in my hair follicles known as DHT. The only known treatment for male pattern baldness is minoxidil. Minoxidil is a drug used for things like heart problems but scientists discovered that it also caused hair to grow on people trialing the drug. There are a few companies who sell minoxidil, and you don't need a ...  Read the complete review

Around 2 years ago I became aware not only in my mind but by the comments of others that infact my hairline was in the process of re-ceeding. I was aware that baldness was something that ran through one side of my family with my 35 year old uncle bald around the front and on top of his head, my grandad and great grandad suffering from the same thing and my dad having a fairly thin hairline at a relatively young age. Of corse I hadn't really noticed, but literally from the second someone made a comment mentioning the fact that my hair was thinning out and in the process of re-ceeding it instantly became an issue. Throughout my life so far, ive always hated the ...  Read the complete review

I wasted a small fortune in the mid 1990s on a series of baldness treatments which used Minoxidil as a main ingredient (now packaged as Regain). Not that I was bald then, but had an horrific experience in Lillywhites (the sports shop in Picadilly Circus, London). As a young man one is slightly hurt by ones friends joking about receding hairlines etc. but usually manage to ignore it as playful banter. This changed when I had a summer holiday job in the Ocean Leisure department of Lillywhites in the then newly refurbished "ball-room" - a hang back to when Lillywhites had been a hotel which held balls and dances. The entrance to the ...  Read the complete review