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HOW MINOXIDIL WORKS?

REGAINE® contains the active ingredient minoxidil, which is scientifically proven to help stop and reverse hereditary hair loss.

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How Minoxidil Works

Minoxidil also works by increasing the supply of blood and nutrients to your hair follicles helping to strengthen the existing hairs and encouraging them to grow

Minoxidil helps to promote hair regrowth in 4 ways:

Minaturised hair follicles

Reverses the miniaturisation of follicles.

increased blood flow around follicles

Increases blood flow around follicles.

stimulate follicle movement to growth phase

Stimulates follicle movement to growth phase.

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Extends each follicles growth phase.

Science behind minoxidil

The mechanism by which minoxidil stimulates hair growth is not fully understood, but minoxidil can help reverse the hair loss process of androgenetic alopecia by the following means:

  • Reverses the miniaturisation of follicles

  • Increases blood flow around follicles

  • Stimulates follicle movement to growth phase

  • Extends each follicle growth phase

How does minoxidil help?

Minoxidil is the only over- the-counter active ingredient clinically proven to help stop and even reverse hereditary hair loss, by reactivating your inactive hair follicles.

WHAT CAUSES HAIR LOSS?

There are quite a few causes of hair loss. The main cause in both men and women is hereditary hair loss which Regaine is scientifically proven to help stop and even reverse. We have identified the most common causes of hair loss for you.

The hair growth cycle

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Hair grows in cycles and each growth cycle includes a growth phase, a transitional phase and a resting phase. In hereditary hair loss, owing to a change in hormones, the hair follicle shrinks and the growth cycle is shortened.

How does hair loss happen?

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Each hair growth cycle produces a shorter, finer, much less visible hair. In time, a few follicles will even be destroyed and fail to grow hair. The most common cause of hair loss in men and women is androgenic alopecia (AGA). Genetics, hormones and age all play a part in this condition. In AGA, the hair follicle shrinks.

SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN RESULTS

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FOR MEN

90% of men said that they kept or regrew hair after 16 weeks with Regaine® for Men Extra Strength Scalp Foam twice a day.

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FOR WOMEN

More than 80% of women studied experienced hair regrowth with Regaine® for Women Once A Day Scalp Foam.

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