What's going on guys.
Welcome back to Arccway new direction of modern man.
And you guys can see off the title of this video.
You guys really know what we'll be talking about.
You guys seen it.
I seen it.
There's many videos out there talking about using minoxidil to grow your beard.
I personally have experienced using this before, and I'm going to give you guys my story and
the reasons why I don't use it.
So, everything I say is from my experience and just using it from the past, I really
seen the benefits of it.
At the same time I seen the repercussions, the side effects of using minoxidil, and I
personally won't even recommend it, but I'm gonna give you guys my story.
So you guys can understand where I come from from using it before and why I don't use it
now.
All right, let's go.
What's going on guys.
Welcome back to Arkray a new direction of modern man.
My name is and today's video.
I'm gonna be talking about minoxidil.
Let's go.
So about 10 years ago, I had no beard and I was really into getting a beard for my first
time.
I was super excited about it.
The hair naturally, I had no facial hair until about I was 20, but when I was 17, I was so
adamant about doing this.
And as I got older, I learned about minoxidil and I actually got off.
Amazon at the time I came in a box value set.
So the buttocks six or eight different components.
So you basically will apply it into your beard.
It was actually meant for hair loss, but throughout the time it started transitioning into beards.
So it's quite interesting to see where it's came from, because back then it was just more
or less for older men losing hair.
So I started applying this about 10 years ago onto my facial hair are basically my skin
at the time.
And it was good.
I got to say it was good for the point of a did this job, but at the same time for me,
I personally saw side effects from it.
So for me, I just saw a lot of side effects when it did come to dryness of my skin, um,
irritation, sensitivity, um, my skin actually started getting damaged.
You started this collaborating.
It started having different tonality on my skin.
And my, I noticed that every time I touch my beard, it was just highly, highly sensitive.
And I just, I just noticed it was super, super sensitive, personally hated it.
Even when it came down to seasons, even when it came into.
Fall or into winter.
And when it was cold out, my skin was literally affected by the atmosphere of the weather.
I noticed many things when it did come down to the side effects of minoxidil.
At the end of the day, it was something that you had to do consistently.
And I did like it for the reason of its results.
The day to day routine and the maintenance event was quite irritating over time.
So you, what you typically would do is you get the minoxidil put into your skin and then
you just kind of leave it there.
So it's highly concentrated in the alcohol base.
So it does dry your skin out as well.
Well, not only that it has a high component of alcohol, but also a lot of components that
aren't natural.
That was pretty much my biggest case as I kind of weeded away from it.
As I got my results, it wasn't anything immediate or dramatic.
It was just over time.
I saw the connectivity of my beard.
I started feeling into places that I basically didn't have my beard hair.
Where I kind of wanted to connect.
So that was pretty much my point.
It wasn't where I was like bare skin.
I was like, I'm focused on to get a full beard.
It was just more or less filling in the dark spots or filling into light spots that weren't
connecting for me.
There was a transition point where I realized.
Okay.
I don't want to be using this for too long because it was damaging my skin on a consistent
basis.
And I wanted to go for a route that was more natural.
And for me, that's personally, the reason why I started dabbling into like teacher oils,
arguing oil, coconut oil, avocado oil, and I have a bunch of those types of beard videos
that you guys can see on this channel.
But I started experimenting into that realm in that region.
And I started seeing the benefits.
Tenfold.
And it was one for the natural benefits of it, the ingredients.
And I just liked something that I know that is natural.
I don't like anything that comes from like a chemical basis.
I just don't feel comfortable with it over time.
And it doesn't really satisfy me and it doesn't satisfy like my values and stuff.
So for me, minoxidil was, um, good at the time, but it wasn't no go going forward.
I'm giving you my experience.
And if you want to try it, go for it.
But something people gotta understand is that there's so many other natural ways.
You guys can actually maintain your skin and improve your health and your facial hair and
your fruit taking Nashville remedies.
For example, vitamins and supplements.
Take bio tin and whenever a vitamin B of be breaking down all the vitamins I do take for
like my natural health.
Do you due diligence, do your research into it and see if it's right for you.
But yet again, I'm just a guy on YouTube and this gives me, you guys are my personal advice
and.
That being said, from my experience of having a beard, I just want to share that knowledge.
So yet again, guys, thank you guys for watching Arccway a new direction of modern man.
My name Tolu.
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