Efficacy and Safety of 3% Minoxidil Lotion for Beard Enhancement

Mae Fah Luang University Hospital

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Beard Enhancement

Treatments: Drug: Placebo; Drug: 3 % Minoxidil lotion

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02275832

REH-57077

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine efficacy and safety of 3% minoxidil lotion for beard enhancement.

Enrollment: 48 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy male

Exclusion criteria

• serious underlying diseases.
• history of beard/ hair treatment before 6 months
• history of surgery or trauma on beard area.
• history of minoxidil allergy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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48 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Minoxidil

Experimental group

Description:

3% Minoxidil lotion is applied twice daily to the beard.

Treatment:

Drug: 3 % Minoxidil lotion

Placebo

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Placebo is applied twice daily to beard.

Treatment:

Drug: Placebo