For those of you who wish to try topical dutasteride

[Thinning]

Here is a place that sells it in liquid suspension.

http://www.ag-guys.com/store/product.ph ... 62&cat=248

For research purposes of course...

Its red, dont know if it dyes scalp or blond hair.

Im considering trying it on my frontal hairline.

 

[CCS]

it is 0.5mg/mL at 30mL. That is like buying 30 capsules for $50 and squirting all of them in your rogaine. I bought 30 avodart for $56, and I think dutas is $45 for 30. The inactive ingredients of that solution are not stated, and i'd trust it at most as much as i'd trust dutas to be real.

save $5 if you want, but this is no bargain. maybe the makers know how to make a solution dutasteride is stable in, and maybe it is a better delivery vehicle than my suggestions. but we don't know the inactive ingredients, and I can see in the picture that they are not on the lable, and i don't know if there is dutasteride in there.

 

[CCS]

companies can make dutasteride suspentions much more cheaply than capsules because it is easier to fill 30 mL than 30 small capsules, so production costs come down. if a company can get dutasteride in bulk, it would be almost as cheap for them to make the real stuff as fake stuff.

the issues here are:
1. how hard is it for companies to get dutasteride in bulk?
2. how beneficial are return customers compared to many new customers?
3. would a company get in more trouble for selling a product that claims to have a prescription active ingredient but does not, or would they get in more trouble by selling a product that does have a prescription active ingredient?

Since they don't have a physical address, they are safe. The research purposes in a small bottle are just to cover their butt if they are caught.

do a google search on "research purposes" and i'm sure you will find many such companies.

 

[wangho75]

youre saying you dont thing Dr Reddys Dutas to be real? what?

 

[Thinning]

Eh, whatever dumbass, the point was that you can easily apply 1ml or 0.5mg to your scalp because its liquid a lot easier than rubbing some gell cap on your head like you do.

The point wasnt the price, genius, lol. Some wizard you are.

 

[CCS]

i don't rub a pill on my head. you obviously have not read my posts.

as for dr reddy, i did not say dutas was not real. i just said this new product from a site i've never hear of is at best as reliable as dutas from another site i've not bought from. i've also read posts from poeple who are marginally intoleratant to oral 5ar inhibitors that avodart is noticably more potent than generics. I don't know if that is true, i'm just saying there is room to doubt the potency of some drugs.

 

[powersam]

for the record collegechemistrystudent, what would you say would be the best way to apply dutasteride topically?

i am on finasteride but have some spare genuine avodart so i might give it a try. preferrably something oil based rather than alcohol though.

 

[jakeb]

This "research chemical" stuff is hilarious. I can't believe this slips through the cracks of FDA enforcement.

 

[CCS]

i don't think the research stuff is missed by fda site enforcers if they see the site. i think the site's main defense is it's lack of location. it would be interesting to mail a question to the po box and see if you get a response. the fact that they use research as defense when it would not protect them from fda makes me wonder if they just want us to think it is their defense.

 

[Felk]

for the record collegechemistrystudent, what would you say would be the best way to apply dutasteride topically?

I second this, id like to know as well. I seem to not be tolerating finasteride, and other options are scanty.

I had always closed my mind to topical finasteride/dutasteride, as if they work topically it is probably only through systematic absorption anyway, no?

 

[CCS]

for the record, i don't now what the best drug delivory is. I know some of the properties it has, but i don't know what oils have those properites.

i've been telling people to squirt 4 dutasteride pills in a 1 month supply of minoxidil, preferably 1 week at a time. i've also adviced people to add 1-2 mL of borage seed oil to their minoxidil.

since you don't want an alcohol base, emu oil may work too. i don't know which oils would cause acne and which would not, though i read that emu oil does not, and costs much more than corn oil.

4 dutasteride pills in rogaine means that even if 100% of the dutasteride is absorbed, your body would get the same effects as less than 0.1/mg day orallly would give. and if only 2% is absorbed, your scalp would get the same effects that 0.5 mg/day orally would bring.

i don't know how much will be absorbed, and am sure it varies with what oil you use or if you use rogaine. I think you can safely use much more than 4 per month without your body getting a substancial dose. I highly doubt you will get more than 10% absorption, and highly doubt you will absorb less than 1% of the dutasteride in your solution. perhaps 8-12 capsules per month would be a good guess.