Does Alpecin Actually Work? My Personal Review of Caffeine Shampoo
One of the more recent products on the male hair loss market is Alpecin C1, a shampoo containing...caffeine! Strange, you might think, but does it work? My own experience has produced some encouraging results.
About five years ago, a small bald patch started forming on the crown of my head. Soon afterwards the hair at the front of my scalp started thinning too although thankfully with less enthusiasm than the bald patch. Oh well, I thought, goodbye hair. You've been unruly and impossible but I've loved you all the same.
I wasn't overly concerned at first but the mischievous nature of my hair loss started to suggest that I was heading for a Friar Tuck inspired disaster. This clearly wasn't acceptable.The Friar Tuck look has no place in post-15th century, non-Sherwood Forest society.
The alternatives weren't appealing either. No way was I going to shave all my remaining hair off. That seemed too drastic and foolhardy. And I'm not the kind of person to take hair loss pills or consult a witch doctor either.
My gently receding hairline was a tolerable part of the aging process but the widening bald patch was simply too unsettling to ignore. Looking like the portly drunk member of Robin Hood's Merry Men was not how I'd envisioned myself in middle age. Faced with this looming problem, I turned to the ageold solution to male crisis; I buried my head in the sand and prayed for a miracle.
In the meantime, my girlfriend began talking about this wonder shampoo that her cousins were using in Germany. It contained caffeine, she said, and apparently her cousins all had thick bushy Afros thanks to this magic elixir. I laughed and thought about Germans tipping jugs of black coffee over their hair. Skeptical, I vowed to forget about such folly.
Four months ago, while shopping for toiletries, I came across this caffeine shampoo in the hair section. It caught my attention because it looked like a bottle of bicycle oil had been accidentally placed amongst the hair products. But the words 'caffeine shampoo', 'hair energizer', 'reduces hair loss', 'stimulates hair roots' were all clearly printed across the bottle, which distinctly affirmed that it was not bicycle oil. This was Alpecin C1, the legendary caffeine shampoo. What the heck, I thought, why not?! So I bought the shampoo and felt like a dupe.
Alpecin C1 Shampoo: Looks like a bottle of bicycle oil.
Source: Doc Wordinger
