As a former scientist and not just one ordinarily of the system, but one who researched chemicals heavily when as a kid to be among the most knowledgeable in the world. With unparalleled creativity and intelligence, invented as a research scientist and have done so in many fields yet you may never get to see the fruits of my contributions to society as it takes luck and relationships with those in power to help you along. The titanium nitride cooking pans you see now was my idea over a decade earlier yet couldn't get others to partner with me; I thought quirky.com might by my opportunity but even they turned down despite my insistence of making the pans back in 2013.

At this moment, I am testing an anti-grey hair formulation I developed. I wish money were not an issue but it is and inventors such as myself lose and that means society also loses. Had the Federal Reserve not killed me, I'd have plenty of resources to develop so much for society. See http://classactionfed.blogspot.com/. At least I have my 2010 site I have been pushing onto our overpaid failed leaders the solutions actually addressing the underlying problems to effect economic prosperity, http://proposedsoltions.blogspot.com/ It would be up to the populace to assist since while I am a nobody, one person with the solutions means nothing politically. I urge the public to help make this a better world. I did the hard work - now just help out by pushing the solutions onto your leaders!

On this page, I hope to go through many products and assess based on the ingredients whether there is some basis for the claimed benefits.

I am one heavily believing in VALUE. for me and many others, it's almost pointless buying a product that costs say, $80 to fix a malady when you know the raw ingredients really could be put together for $10. I abhor the greed in life. I could have many dozens of inventions had I could afford the patents or if I luckily had a helpful partner, but that still wouldn't mean I'd feel I am worth 10,000 times another human. I'd be wanting to stick somewhere in the middle of the wealth distribution. Just as I mention on my other instructive site, http://fairwagedetermination.blogspot.com I feel being an inventor is a wonderful occupation and the trade-off for such a nice occupation would be to suppress earnings and offer the world LOW-PRICED products. Imagine if all the wealthy persons in the world chose wealth moderation (a concept I introduced in the book "Thoughtful Living"), we could all be having better lives, a lower cost of living, and greater happiness. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem!

To start off, I wish to discuss various hair dyes and other products addressing the loss of hair color.

The underlying problem may very well be based in lack of nutrition. Copper and nickel are among those nutrients linked to hair coloration. Stress may be part of the underlying problem. If it were simple to address regaining hair color by nutrients, it would be the best solution. Molasses has been offered as a solution but my cursory analysis points to insufficiency - not that it wouldn't work, but you may have to ingest far more molasses than you'd want OR the cost of the molasses may be more than you can afford. I express dismay in how molasses costs so much. It's unrefined sugar. If sugar can be produced so cheaply, molasses should be even cheaper than sugar! So why isn't it cheaper? We need an active populace demanding the price to be sensible.

Apart from nutrients, one may address the oxidative process involved and look to such chemicals as catalase and reductase. I tried catalase pills and noticed no change. Reductase is in the product "Reparex" and apparently does work, but at what price?

Fo-ti sounds promising and will research more extensively on it. I did buy some, will state the product at a later time. There are other natural sources of catalase and soon, I may present a formulation involving a very common food item.

Beyond treating the underlying problem, there can still be a dye used. A dye is not necessarily bad and may be a simpler solution.

MORE TO COME..

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Separately, one may be interested in maintaining healthy looking hair or for promoting hair growth. A variety of products are on the market for this. Apart from minoxidil products, focusing on natural products (or simple commonly available products), polysorbate 80, castor oil, coconut oil, rosemary oil, all appeaar to work to one degree or another.
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SKIN PRODUCTS - focusing on anti-wrinkle (anti-aging).

I propose a formulation entitled "ACE" containing vitamins A,C,and E. One can readily find the individual vitamins in a great many commonly available creams, sometimes a "serum" of a higher potency, and less often two of the above vitamins will be found in creams, perhaps a couple only may have two of the above plus vitamin D but so far have not seen the above three all in one. It should be so simple and obvious.

The formulation I propose would be in a base of:
50 mL aloe vera gel
30 mL coconut oil
20 mL castor oil

would contain:
10 g vitamin C
50 mg retinyl palmitate (an equivalent to Vit A)
4 ml tocopherol acetate (an equivalent to Vit E)

I do realize it would be mixing water and oil but that's what makes a cream. With sufficient thickening agents and/or components aiding the ability to hold the rest of the components together, it can be accomplished.

For the proposed formulation, the vitamin A (equivalent) concentration would be about (with help of the conversion 3.33 IU =1.83 ug retinyl palmitate) 50 mg * 3.33 IU/1.83 ug*1000ug/1mg *1/100mL = 900 IU per mL or about 27,000 IU per ounce. Note the RDA for vitamin A is about 3000 IU (varying for age and gender). Per ounce there is about 9X the RDA (not to confuse with internal use, this is to give an idea of how much there is in the cream relative to something we can assess better over just raw weight or international units which really doesn't help out much unless you are in a field seeing the numbers all the time).

For the proposed formulation, the vitamin E (equivalent) concentration would be about 1,500 IU per ounce. This comes from the conversion of 1 mg vitamin E ~ 1.5 IU. There is vitamin E in castor oil, and a negligible amount in coconut oil. Coconut oil may have around 0.2 mg tocopherol in 100g and 4.3 g in 100g for castor oil. Although it is cited that castor oil is rich in vitamin E, it's more in relative terms. About 400g of castor oil contains about the RDA for vitamin E. Note the RDA for vitamin E is about 22.4 IU (varying for age and gender). Per ounce there is ~67 times the RDA (see the note in above paragraph).

The thing is, consumers have been more use to buying vitamin C powder, it's relatively cheap compared to vitamin A and Vitamin E. Buying in larger quantities the Vitamins A and E, the price becomes more reasonable but the problem is in storage space, proper storage temperature, and decomposition otherwise if using on order of 1/20 of the bought quantities per year. I still may purchase the individual chemicals and make on my own, though an alternative would be to find something containing at least vitamins A and E and then needing only to add vitamin C.

I did find one such product, still pricey considering what's in it, though to the usual consumer who is not so price conscious and in light of some extremely high priced products on the market that many have no problem in purchasing, this would be not a bad price for them. It is DERMA E Anti-Wrinkle Renewal Cream with Vitamin A Retinyl Palmitate 4oz. the product states the amount of Vitamin A but does not for the vitamin E content. The same company has a similar cream of the same size with a fairly high concentration of vitamin E without vitamin A, priced similarly as well. The total IU for vitamin E is 12,000 IU which is 3,000 IU per ounce. If only this were about $-5 instead of $10-11, I'd be buying. The company should still be making a healthy gain as they are able to get the ingredients at a far better price than the consumer, on the order of 1/10 to 1/4 the price. It's pretty much standard that as you buy 4X the quantity you pay just 2X the price. Not everyone wants to buy 50 kg of a single chemical, however. Even if it were something like food, only perhaps rice might be purchased in such a large quantity and not by the ordinary non-Asian American.

One product, Beauty Drops Vitamin E Facial Moisturizer Cream 2oz (2 Pack) is a 2oz jar but you get 2 jars for a total of around $7 (at the time of this writing). The stated vitamin E content you have to discover elsewhere is 2,800 IU which means it's 1,400 IU per ounce, which is not bad. The same company offers something similar for sensitive skin.

I still contend vitamins A, C, and E could be in a cream, say a 4 oz jar and be sold at $6. I asked one company to help society in making this available. Keep your fingers crossed. If only these health care preparations were made much less expensive, we could add perhaps one or two extra ingredients per our desire and not have to be loaded up with a bunch of things, occupying space, concerned about storage/spoilage, and not having to fork out so much money all at once - though the cost savings would be realized in due time. It's still more efficient for a few factories to make the preparations as ingredients to them are far less expensive, and even the jar to them would be far less expensive. You try buying a jar or plastic bottle and you'll see they may cost nearly the same as the same container actually containing something! It's mostly about transportation and handling. Putting some contents in the container may be only 30% of the overall cost!
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