I'm still waiting for availability in Australia...
A few questions for SyntheseLabRat:
You mentioned a while ago that FGF-5 inhibition would eventually make its way into the topical. I'm not too fond of the idea of a shampoo (that is likely to come into contact with my skin outside my scalp) containing triamonidil, and I have more faith in a product that's left on than one I'm going to wash off pretty quickly, so this sounds like it would be great. Do you know when that's going to happen?
You've also said that the concentration of triamonidil in the topical is very low, currently 0.5%. But on the ingredient list, it's actually fairly early on, which I would think implies that most of the other ingredients listed are at concentrations below 0.5%, and not much of them is actually in the product. I know that there's research demonstrating the benefits of most of these ingredients for hair loss, but how can you guarantee that the
amounts of these ingredients are high enough to have any effect? Personally, I'd rather see a few really effective ingredients at beneficial concentrations than tiny amounts of ingredients that don't reach their full potential for benefiting hair.
One last thing that's not really related, but since you seem to know a lot about the potential of plant extracts and the like in hair loss, I thought you'd be a good person to ask. I was wondering if you were familiar with Eclipta Alba:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18478241
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19481595
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17524127
Seems really promising, but it's been a few years and nobody has tested it on humans or even made a topical. Any thoughts on whether it would be useful?