Have you ever woken up in the morning and found dozens of strands of hair on your pillow? Everywhere you look - your sweaters, your hairbrushes, your shower drain - everything is clogged with hair. And it's yours, what's worse. If this is what you go through everyday, you are certainly likely to be caught up in the anxiety that women come to experience with hair loss. When your hair begins to fall, there is more you leave behind than just your hair - it's your pride and your self-esteem. Most women would pretty much put themselves to any kind of trouble needed to find a way to get their hair back. To women struggling to find a way to help their thinning hair, treatments come in one of two possible ways - Rogaine and Foltene. There are many others of course; but these two are proven to be the two most effective ones. But which of these two is likely to work best for you?
If you wish to trust nothing less than scientific evidence for your thinning hair, treatment with Rogaine could be your only choice. It's the only drug out there that's approved by the FDA for hair loss. Rogaine for women comes in just one version- the 2% strength kind (men have their choice of three different strengths - they go all the way up to 10%). Why does minoxidil help with hair loss? It seems to be pretty simple (though as they make clear the package inserts, no one really understands exactly how it works). Rogaine helps improve blood circulation right on your scalp. The blood flow nourishes the follicles and helps your hair grow. So what kind of results can you expect using Rogaine? Published research studies claim that 40% of all women who use Rogaine report really encouraging improvement with their hair. There's just one little problem with Rogaine - you have to really be committed to using it. It has to go on twice a day, every day, to the end of time. And it costs about $50 a month to use.
And then we come to the other wonder drug, Foltene. The first thing you need to know about Foltene is that it isn't on the FDA's list of approved thinning hair treatments. It's a drug manufactured in Italy; for this reason, all we have to go on with this drug is what its Italian manufacturer publishes in the package insert. What Foltene is supposed to do is, to stimulate your hair roots and your follicles enough that it begins to grow hair. The great thing about this product is that they don't say that you have use it your whole life. You just use a package once every six months or so. If your hair loss problem isn't far advanced, you should definitely go with Foltene. The product is much lower maintenance and it works out to be far less expensive.
