HOW DOES MINOXIDIL WORK?

This vasodilating effect causes more nutrients and oxygen to flow through your blood to your hair follicles, potentially promoting growth.

Technically, minoxidil doesn’t stop hair loss. Instead, it actively promotes the growth of hair by causing hairs in a resting state (known as the telogen phase) to shed and replacing them with new hairs in the growing (or anagen) phase.

Because of this, one of the most common side effects of minoxidil use is rapid hair loss. This is a temporary effect that happens as your resting hairs shed. Once they’re replaced with hairs in the anagen phase, minoxidil can produce a noticeably thicker head of hair.