Full hair in 8 weeks...Will there be a new hope for hair loss people?
Oct 14, 2025
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Recently, a Taiwanese bio company announced that it has developed a new treatment that is effective in just eight weeks, drawing attention.
Taiwanese Schweitzer Biotech researchers claimed to have developed a hair loss treatment serum that combines two cell growth-promoting proteins, caffeine, and vitamin B5 with a tropical plant extract called 'Centella asiatica' through a pre-disclosure site for medical papers.
Centella Asiatica is a green perennial herb whose stems grow as if they were crawling on the ground. It grows well mainly on moist soil in moist land, pond edges, wetlands, and mountain valleys, and its distribution areas are Asia, parts of Africa, and Oceania.
Centella Asiatica contains a variety of physiologically active substances, and the typical ones are the triterphenoid family (e.g., asiaticoside, madeasoside, asiaticic acid, madeacic acid, and madeacic acid), and is also known to contain flavonoids, plant sterols (phytosterols), and other phenolic substances. These ingredients act as antioxidants, anti-inflammatory, and wound healing,
The serum made by the researchers was applied to the scalp by 1 ml every day, and clinical trials showed a noticeable effect in just 56 days.
The researchers conducted an experiment on 60 adults between the ages of 18 and 60. Participants were divided into five groups and used different combinations of serums, with one group using 'placebo' with no active ingredients at all. As a result, there was a certain level of improvement in all groups, but the greatest effect was seen in the group using a serum containing all ingredients, the researchers said.
In particular, their hair thickness increased by an average of 27.9 micrometers over 8 weeks, more than twice the 13.9 micrometers of the placebo group. In addition, hair density increased by 23.9%, almost doubling compared to the placebo group.
Existing representative hair loss treatments have been proven effective to some extent, but several side effects have been reported.
On the other hand, the plant-based serum developed in this study is attracting attention as an alternative that can suppress hair loss and promote hair growth without side effects.
However, the researchers emphasized that this experiment was an early study conducted on a small scale in a short period of time, and said that long-term research is needed in the future.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
