The alcohol in revivogen made my head itch a hell of a lot more and made it more greasy. Saw palmetto actually helped me go figure its supposed to be bull. I just decided to stop since it made my frontal hairline itch a lot more but the itch went away everywhere else. I just said to hell with it why not take propecia and know it works? Ive been on nothing though for the past year and glad. My hair is still pretty good not even a Norwood 2 really.