Hair product containing L-Cysteine

[kamisama]

Recently there is this rave about black garlic in asia, which in TCM view is beneficial for hair growth. I came across this TCM article which suggest using black garlic as a topical would help in growing hair. As we know some have been trying out garlic topical but this is supposedly more potent as it contains much more SOD and several other stuff than the normal garlic. The article also state that the key ingredient would be the cystine in the black garlic.

So i googled and found out that people are taking this amino acid as a supplement and there are several articles that indicates its benefits for hairloss. Ok this may be old news to you all, but i did not know about this amino acid till now. L-cysteine and L-cystine, i dont know if its the same stuff. So does anyone know of any topicals that contains this stuff please kindly share. I did a google search but came out with nothing.

[Jacob]

Osmotics FNS contains it. http://www.osmotics.com/catalog/Hair/hair-products.html

Here's another: http://www.hlcconline.com/007HLCOEN2.html

Internally..besides taking L-Cysteine itself...there's Whey(which I take)..and other products like Swanson's Cysteine Peptide: http://www.swansonvitamins.com/SWU312/ItemDetail which I took for some time and still have a bunch of(they had a 2 for 1 deal)..so thanks for bringing this up. Time to unpack some supplements

[kamisama]

Thanks jacob. Would have tried out FNS if its not alcohol based, and it seems to be of a high content. I was hoping that some of those known and popular topicals would contain them.

For internal im taking brewer's yeast. Went through the list of stuff it contains and found cysteine in there. wow now i know brewer's yeast is really good stuff.

[Swimmy]

Brewers yeast is good stuff and a better alternative to B complex vitamins.

Not to mention it should be a must in any hair loss fight.

[Jacob]

But brewers yeast contains no B12..which is very important. Plenty of supplements some of us are already taking contain the B-vits anyway. From greens/fruit shakes to multi's.

You could take brewers yeast or nutritional yeast that is fortified with b12...but then you're taking a b supplement..ha.

[worldwar]

Cysteine is a building block of food protein, so every food containing protein, contains cysteine. Different proteins contain different amounts of cysteine. Most cysteine-rich is egg protein, followed by whey, ca 3.5% and 2.2%, respectively. Although, cysteine is not an essential amino acid in most cases, that is, the body can build it from other amino acids. Now amino acids exert a specific (or different) action when taken on their own and not with other amino acids, like in food protein.