Hair Loss - I dont know if I'd use licorice for my hair-----study.....

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I dont know if I'd use licorice for my hair-----study..... (Hair Loss Supplements)

posted by benji, 30.05.2008, 17:44

ť I use it in my homemade shampoo together with rosemary, thyme, nettle,
ť polygium multiflorum and licorice root

Epilatory Effect of Glycyrrhizic Acid
Zaper, Julijana;1 Kakadjanova, Aina;1 Pfeffer, Jeannette;1
Kippenberger, Stefan;1 Bereiter-Hahn, Juergen;2 Kaufmann,
Roland;1 Bernd, August;1
1. J.W. Goethe University, Dept. of Dermatology, Frankfurt/
M., Germany; 2. J.W. Goethe University, Dept. of Zoology,
Frankfurt/M., Germany
Hypertrichosis, hirsutism and giant hairy nevus are well
known examples of abnormal hair growth with some
risk of a significant negative impact on the psychosocial
development of affected people. So far, all known methods
for hair removal are more or less effective and show
partly considerable side effects like pain, skin irritation,
contact eczema, folliculitis, and hyper-pigmentation. In
co-operation with a study group of Turkmenistan we found
a new principle of painless and rapid hair removal based on
liquorice, a commonly used herbal extract of the traditional
Asian medicine. In the meantime we defined the liquorice
compound glycyrrhizic acid to be responsible for the
epilatory effect. We dissolved 15% glycyrrhizic acid in an
aqueous solution containing 10% urea and 20% ethanol
and treated wistar rats in the neck region twice a day.
After 3 days first indications for hair loss became visible.
After 6-12 days the treated skin was nearly free of hairs
without any sign of skin irritation. Even after a periodically
long term treatment over one year no abnormality of the
skin surface was visible, but a permanent reduction in
re-growing hair quantity by more than 50%. Based on
these findings Glycyrrhizic acid is a candidate molecule
for the development of a powerful agent for painless and
permanent hair removal.

Licorice apparently done something rather permanent to these rats hair long after treatment had ceased..........................the hair should have rown back, not a good sign.

I fear that peppermint oil might also do something long-term harmful to hair (I hope Im wrong about that), but so many Revita users (has two menthol extracts in it) were so dissapointed, that it makes me wonder. When I experimented with peppermint oil/water on my beard hair, it reduced the beard on the right side of my chin at three months profoundly as compared with my left......................and it has taken a long time to rebound and still hasn't completely rebounded a year later. Makes me wonder.

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