I am aware of the user "Pilos" and he is no more reputable than my left testicle, just another poster on another message board who seems to enjoy the "sound of his own voice" or whatever the messageboard equivalent may be.
I can't say one way or the other as far as the alcohol degrading the Cetirizine, however, regardless of whether or not the effectiveness of Cet is a short term thing, it cannot be denied that a lot of the users who were trying to put together some sort of alcohol-based vehicle were reporting far less impressive results than those on Cet and water...even worse, in some cases they were reporting sheds and no visible improvement at all. Granted, some users on Cet and water also reported no results either, but it seemed that more people on Cet and water noted some level of improvement.
All I know from personal experience was that when I applied Cet and then minoxidil closely thereafter, the minoxidil seemed to dry out the Cet and leave a white powdery look on the scalp, which was completely unacceptable and looked awful. For that reason, I prefer to leave a gap inbetween applications. This isn't an exact science, obviously...the more people we have trying it out in different ways, the better chance we have of putting together a bigger picture and perhaps discovering the most effective methods of application.
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don't get me wrong, I respect you guys for being brave enough to give this a shot, but there's a lot of hostility directed toward critics of the treatment, and eventually you're gonna have to come up with something better than "it takes time you idiots."
Zero hostility from me, bro. I realise this isn't going to work for everyone and if someone posts here saying it doesn't work for them, then we've got to take them at their word that they've seen no improvement, which is unfortunate. Only time it concerns me is when people post that they've tried it for 10 minutes and it clearly doesn't work, insinuating that everyone else should give up and move on to something else. If they'd dropped some serious coin on some other treatment, they'd give it a little bit more of a chance, I think.
I think we can at least agree on the fact that this treatment has SOME level of effect on SOME people...right? I mean, we've seen the pictures. It does SOMETHING. It is at least a part of the jigsaw, we'd have to say. How important a piece is yet to be seen.
