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Hair Loss Products Vary In Strength And Use
By Wendy Simons

With all the loose hair showing up in sinks around the world there is a wild market for hair loss products and none are specifically exclusive for men or women. Since both genders can suffer hair loss for a variety of reasons, hair loss products are sought after by all.

Until the Food and Drug Administration approved certain hair loss products every snake oil salesman in the country was touting what their bottle of special potions could do. Today, there are several approved products on the market that attack hair loss on three fronts. Some are to stop future loss, others will help grow new hair and others are used to conceal the fact that your hair is being lost.

Propecia and Rogaine are the only two products on the market allowed to advertise themselves as legal hair loss products. Other products have gone through a portion of clinical trials and are considered concealers used to mask the difference between the thinning hair and the bald scalp. There are many other products that paint and darken the hair, but their use is subject to question.

Maintenance And Re-Growth Is Goal Of Products

Propecia is known to stop hair loss and maintain the current hair count and over 60 percent of users have experienced re-growth in about two years after beginning use. It is not recommended for use by women. Rogaine has shown hair re-growth in as little as four months in about 60 percent of its users and may work as a maintenance product as well. It is also recommended for both men and women as working hair loss products.

Products such as Tricomin, Toppik and Couvre are currently used as concealers, but Tricomin has shown promise in stimulating hair follicles for new growth in clinical trials. As promising as the research has been, it is still awaiting final approval from the FDA to advertise as hair loss products.

Dutasteride is one of the newest hair loss products on the market that is showing signs of offering excellent maintenance properties while offering higher re-growth rates than some other products. However, due to a current lack of statistics on side effects, it remains on the FDA list of things to come.

Most hair loss products for men and women will work for natural baldness conditions but hair loss caused by damaged scalp will not be affected by these new products. Hair loss caused by drugs or disease will typically reverse once the cause is eliminated and use of hair loss products is not advised.

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Wendy Simons, copywriter for various websites including, Laser Hair Removal Info 4U and The A to Z of

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