Should You Use Glaucoma Drug to Lengthen Your Lashes?
Derivatives of the active ingredient in Lumigan, a glaucoma drug that has a beautiful side effect - lengthening of your lashes - have been showing up over the last couple of years in the beauty trade, most notably in Jan Marini’s Age Intervention Eyelash. The FDA became concerned about the non-prescription use of this prescription drug and embargoed the supply last year, and seized more of the old supply this week. Also there are several products with a derivative of Lumigan in some relatively expensive products, that have been among those named in a lawsuit earlier this month from Allergan, the makers of Lumigan:
Jan Marini’s Age Intervention Eyelash Conditioner ($160) (a new product made in response to the embargo of the Age Intervention Eyelash last year)
Athena Cosmetics RevitaLash ($150)
PhotoMedex’s MD Lash Factor ($140)
This is the eyelash product that I use on occasion, and the company claims that it is not made from the same product, but the closest I can get to the ingredient is “Eyelash Growth Promoter Complex”:
DermaLash from DermaQuest ($90)
These types of products will most likely not cause permanent change, meaning that you will have to keep using them to keep reaping the benefits, and you should be able to use them on your eyebrows if yours are sparse. I have honestly been too willy-nilly, and too skeptical to keep using them for a long period of time, so I don’t have a great testimony to offer you, but I think I will give my DermaLash a better try now and see what happens.
Now, should you want to try Lumigan itself on your lashes, there is no law barring your doctor from prescribing it to you, as once a prescription drug is approved by the FDA, it can be prescribed for anything. The trick is finding a doctor who will do it. I would love to hear from any of you who are doing this. Is it easy to get doctors to prescribe this for you? Have you found one who won’t? What are their concerns with using Lumigan without glaucoma?
Source: Wall Street Journal
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2 opinions for Should You Use Glaucoma Drug to Lengthen Your Lashes?
browneyedgirl81
Jan 10, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Another great product is Keracyte (www.keracyte.com). My friend spent a few years teaching English in Asia and I heard that is what a lot of the women there use for lengthening and thickening their eyelashes. This product is less expensive and you get more of the product than Jan Marino’s, plus it’s very safe. The ingredients are similar and even milder than an eye serum product the company makes for wrinkle reduction.
Anya
May 31, 2008 at 1:35 am
Hi, I found your site through Google. I would like to say that my mom and I purchased Revitalash. While i saw results within 3 weeks…she didn’t experience any effects for months until she began to use Lumigan. This is when several of her friends came and said how much shedding they experience after discontinuing use of the product. There would literally be entire gaps in the eyelashes. They would wake up with over eight eyelashes on their face. I called Revitalash and they said that the eyelashes only go back to their OLd state… (which now doesnt make sense)… So we ignored it at first… Hers finally started growing with Lumigan when she noticed that her vision was starting to get worse. I mean, the product does leave some discoloration around the eye, which sort of goes away. Mine actually gave me a smokey eyeshadowy look.. but this stuff could be bad for you.. I hope they grow up. i havent stopped usign mine yet.. I use mine about twice a week.. but my mom says to discontinue. I hope they conduct more research on these products. It’s too good to be true…
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