Stop the loss. Start the regrowth.
From £19.00 / month
Based on Finasteride. Minoxidil is priced at assessment, once a clinician has reviewed your details.
- Two routes — a daily tablet or a scalp treatment
- Kept or regrew hair for 90% of men over five years1
- Only prescribed for pattern hair loss, because that is what it works on
Takes 4 minutes · If a clinician doesn’t prescribe, you’re refunded in full
All content on this page has been medically reviewed by Naeem Teni, Clinical Lead. GPhC 2215591.
Medication options
More than one route.
Finasteride
From £19.00 / month
Once daily · oral
A prescription tablet that works on the hormonal side of pattern hair loss, so it goes at the cause rather than the surface.
- Works on the hormonal cause, not the surface
- One tablet a day, taken at any time
- Reviewed by a registered clinician
Minoxidil
Price confirmed at assessment
Applied to the scalp
Applied to the scalp rather than taken as a tablet, and it works on the follicle end of the problem instead of the hormonal one.
- Works at the follicle, not the hormone
- Applied to the scalp, not swallowed
- Reviewed by a registered clinician
There isn’t a single “best” treatment, the right one depends on you. Here’s what a clinician may consider, though the final choice, and whether treatment is suitable at all, is always theirs to make with you.
The whole programme
Your hair-loss journey
Your assessment
- A four-minute online assessment
- A few photos, so they see the pattern
- Only prescribed for pattern hair loss, because that is what it works on
The quiet bit
- Early shedding can be part of it
- Support if anything doesn't feel right
- Free delivery, in plain packaging
Where you find out
- Your plan reviewed around your progress
- Month-one photos, not memory
- Refills arrive automatically
Keeping it
- It holds the line while you take it
- Cancel anytime, month to month
- A care team a message away
The people behind your care
Clinicians, not chatbots.
Medical Director
Clinical Lead
Head of Clinical Operations
The bit that isn't marketing.
Placeholder text. A short review sits here, about two lines, so you can see how the card looks at its smallest.
Placeholder text. This card carries a medium-length review, roughly four lines of body copy, which shows how the card grows and where the name settles underneath it.
Placeholder text. A longer review runs to about six lines, which is roughly the most this layout carries comfortably before the row starts to look unbalanced against the two cards beside it.
FAQs
Hair loss, honestly answered.
Does it work on a receding hairline, or just the crown?
Both, but not equally. The evidence for finasteride is strongest at the crown and mid-scalp, where it was studied first and where results are most consistent. It works at the frontal hairline too, but more modestly — and a hairline that has receded to bare scalp is the least likely area to respond.
The pattern behind all of this: treatment is far better at holding ground than at retaking it. Which is really an argument for starting sooner rather than waiting to see how bad it gets.
How long before I see anything?
Longer than you would like. Hair grows slowly, and the first change is usually that shedding slows rather than that new hair appears. Expect three to six months before anything is visible in the mirror, and judge it properly at twelve.
With minoxidil specifically, some people shed more in the first few weeks. It is unnerving and it is normal — old hair being pushed out by new growth underneath.
Take a photo now, in the same light, and another every three months. Memory is a terrible instrument for this.
Will it grow my hair back?
What happens if I stop?
What are the side effects of finasteride, honestly?
The ones people want to ask about are sexual, and the product information puts numbers on them. Over the first twelve months of the clinical trials:
- Decreased libido — 1.8% against 1.3% on placebo
- Erectile dysfunction — 1.3% against 0.7% on placebo
- Decreased ejaculate volume — 0.8% against 0.4% on placebo
So the great majority of men get none of this, and placebo accounts for a fair share of what is reported. The product information also records that these effects resolved in men who stopped treatment and in many who continued it.
It separately records reports, since the medicine went on the market, of sexual dysfunction persisting after stopping. That is in the official documentation, so you should hear it from us rather than find it elsewhere.
If it concerns you, say so in your assessment. Topical minoxidil on its own is a reasonable route and carries none of this.
Will a real clinician actually review me?
What if it's not right for me?
Guides
More on hair loss.
Shaving your head: a practical guide to doing it well
Not a white flag. For a lot of men it is the point at which they stop thinking about their hair several times a day, which is worth something on its o…
Read →
Hair care and styling damage: telling breakage apart from hair loss
Hair found on the floor with a small white bulb on the end came out of the follicle. Hair without one snapped. Almost everything useful follows from t…
Read →
Hair loss and anabolic steroids: what they accelerate and what may not come back
Steroids do not give you a hair loss gene you did not have. They compress a process that might have taken fifteen years into two or three.…
Read →References
- Propecia 1mg (finasteride) Summary of Product Characteristics, sections 4.2 and 5.1, electronic Medicines Compendium. Five-year global photographic assessment in men aged 18–41 with mild to moderate vertex hair loss. Results are from a clinical trial population; individual results will vary.
- Regaine for Men Extra Strength Scalp Solution 5% Summary of Product Characteristics, section 5.1, electronic Medicines Compendium; Olsen EA, Dunlap FE, Funicella T, et al. A randomized clinical trial of 5% topical minoxidil versus 2% topical minoxidil and placebo in the treatment of androgenetic alopecia in men. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 2002;47(3):377–385 — DOI: 10.1067/mjd.2002.124088.