abnerdoubleday
Member
- Joined
- Jun 24, 2021
- Messages
- 20
With respect to your questions. Yes, I do think options other than finasteride can halt hair loss. Coal tar and pine tar have a number of mechanisms of action. Which it why they are disliked by modern medicine. They are old school “dirty” treatments, not “clean” single molecule drugs like has been in fashion for nearly a hundred years now. They are loaded with different aromatic and carbon compounds. Off the top of my head ha! I can’t tell you why tar based shampoos work, just that they work well for me and seems to work for many others. I believe minoxidil works by keeping the hair follicles in a growth phase. I think it also has some effect on blood flow in small vessels. But whatever their mechanisms of action they seem to work.
What kind of help has coal tar provided your hair? New growth? Thickening existing hair?