RU-58841 scalp irritation, anyone else get this?

Posted by experiment_ryan in Safety & Side Effects - 3 points, 0 comments.

I’ve been reading up on RU-58841 and I keep seeing people call it a clean topical, but my own experience has not been that neat, my scalp got dry and itchy pretty quickly after a week or so, and it was worse on the days I used more of the vehicle, which makes me think it might have been the carrier as much as the actual compound.

I stopped short of making any big conclusions from it, because it could just be my skin being annoying, but it did make me think about contact dermatitis and whether people are actually patch testing this stuff properly before slathering it on the whole scalp. The profile says local irritation and dryness are known side effects, and that matches what I felt, no drama, just enough to be a pain.

Has anyone here found a way to run it more safely without trashing the scalp, like changing the vehicle or spacing applications out a bit more? I’m not asking for a miracle fix, just trying to avoid turning my head into a rash 🙂

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