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Lenniemi
February 25th, 2011, 05:01 AM
for those wanting to darken their hair without the use of dyes or other color products, I might have found something interesting.

people have been referring to forskolin increasing melanin. I might have found an interesting article on that:
It looks like an eyelash serum formula increases the pigmentation of the follicles:
http://www.beautydebutante.com/2010/09/talika-lipocils-expert-eyelash-enhancer-growth-serum-review/


I think this could be promising to see what ingredients help to penetrate. Of course a small eyelash tool is not big enough ( and I read as forskolin is only one of the many ingredients, the effect will be even greater with a higher dose) for those wanting to darken their hair/skin ( or maybe liposomes)



But it would be interesting to look into the ingredients to help formulating our own melanin lotion ( many of those ingredients have nothing to do with penetration, so we can skip them)
PS: here’s a pubmed article the lady is probably referring to:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19054056

rosek
February 25th, 2011, 10:15 PM
I'm not sure I'd want to put high concentrations of forskolin anywhere near my body. Forskolin raises cAMP, a cellular signalling molecule. High cAMP can activate other cellular process which may cause damage. I don't think influencing cellular signalling like this for cosmetic reasons is a very good idea.

Lenniemi
February 26th, 2011, 04:36 AM
That's why I'm looking for the right concentration