Repost of a review which was taken down on reddit (not my review)
My honest review of Folligenz 10% Liposomal Minoxidil Sulfate
I bought a few bottles of the 10% and kind of regret it. I’m not sure if they fixed the bottles so I may be giving outdated information but it’s basically unusable and there are tons of crystals in the solution which they claim is not the minoxidil itself but rather the shea butter or something they used to make it less irritating for the scalp. No amount of shaking reduces the crystals or makes the problem better. Given how minoxidil above 5% likes to crash out of solution I’m not entirely convinced their statement about what the crystals actually are is truthful and I’ll get to why I don’t trust their word as the post goes on.
The dispenser sucks quite frankly. It might be the crystals clogging things up but I can barely get any of the product out… or, randomly, it’ll shoot out like 0.5mL all at once and start running down my face and stuff. I had to cut the tip of the dispenser off to get anything out after I’d used a bit of the product (the solution to crystal ratio got high enough that nothing was dispensing). That sort of helped, but it was still hard to get product to come out. The top isn’t removable btw and they don’t recommend cutting the tip off like I did but there was no other way.
After the hassles I experienced with it I gave up after only using like 1/3 of my first bottle (I bought 3…). It just wasn’t worth the hassle. Went back to using my homemade mix of minoxidil, dutasteride, melatonin, and tretinoin.
I would really recommend avoiding. The guy behind it all has amassed a following from covering hair loss stuff and sharing his theories and now he’s selling products all of a sudden. That should’ve been a red flag to me. The people who follow him kinda just blindly follow everything he says (he’s a huge reason why there’s so many PP405 haters now) and it’s kind of reminding me of what happened with jumpman/pegasus2 if anyone knows who that is. The guy doesn’t have any more hidden knowledge or secrets than we do and it’s not wise to put people on a pedestal in this area of research.
His discord is very quick to shoot down things like PP405 while also hyping things like stemoxydine which has been on the market for like 10+ years at this point and we know does next to nothing. Conveniently, he plans to sell stemoxydine soon. I tried talking about my experience with PP405 from anageninc and everychem and my messages kept getting filtered by a bot in the server. I tried rephrasing my messages to exclude mentions of competitors and instead focus on the molecules themselves - still censored. If he can’t market it he doesn’t want you talking about it (because he’s afraid of infringing patent law, which is probably the only admirable thing about the whole practice). The guy is almost surely a grifter.
I will probably get downvoted by his followers for posting this but it’s my honest experience with the product and observations of past patterns from other people in this space as well as in his YouTube and Folligenz discords. I did a little digging after writing most of the body of this post and found that they supposedly fixed the dispenser/crystallization issues but I don’t have a ton of faith at this point. My bottles of the original design arrived basically DOA. And the stuff isn’t exactly cheap either, $255 for a 3 month supply is insane for a product that literally isn’t usable. There’s no possible way he spent any significant time with his own product and didn’t run into this issue himself. So either he didn’t bother to use his own product, or he knowingly sent out a defective product. In either case it does not fill me with hope that the claimed fix is actually a fix.