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All I’ve done is to say the following.

1. There is scant real evidence that it works. Lots of anecdotes (your own included) but minimal scientific studies.

2. If the product does work as claimed, it is a DRUG. It would be ILLEGAL to sell as a cosmetic. It would be sold only by prescription by doctors.

Nothing you’ve said disputes these two facts.

Feel free to check the rest of the blog for articles about JM. Particularly the one where JM admits the product “…is not intended to stop, prevent, cure, relieve, reverse or reduce eyelash loss or to promote the growth of eyelashes”

“Not intended to promote the growth of eyelashes.” These are the company’s words, not mine.

One of the thing people need to realize is that it requires constant application. It does not permanently change the lash growth.

Lastly, as my expertise is on not only efficacy but cost-effectiveness, if someone is spending $30 or more on a mascara (say a dept. store brand) that is used every day and need to be tossed for hygiene reasons once every three months, then the cost per use on JM products may actually be much less as a tube lasts when used correctly at least six months.

The product doesn’t claim to regrow lashes that have fallen out and due to age, trauma, etc., not longer have a bulb in the eyelid. However, it does indicate that the lashes that are in the lid will grow longer, and that is for two reasons: one, the forumlation encourages growth, but also the eyelash is in the growth stage longer than normal. (Normally, an eyelash has x life expectancy before it falls out. Much like when woman are pregnant and their hair does not fall out and grows longer, the eyelash in in a longer growth phase before fallout.)

Due to stringent FDA guidelines, the company’s wording must be carefully constructed.

I can tell you that while testing a number of women, myself included, significant growth was noticed after three weeks. The growth was reflected in an overall longer length as opposed to a rapid “growth” spurt. The lashes grow to a longer length because they are in a longer growth phase, therefore overall women had longer lashes. For aging women, whose growth cycles becomes sluggish, this is a god send.

Additionally, Patricia Wexler, a reknowned dermatologist highly recommends the product, and being a doctor, would not make such claims liberally.

Has anyone from Beauty Brains bothered to contact Mark Marinovich of JM to obtain the clinical evidence. Additionally the same analog technology is being used by other companies as well (such technology administered via swabs).

The product worked so well that I contacted staff at the Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles to discuss the application of the product to children to speed eyelash growth, as this is one of the reasons children feel abnormal is the alopecia that occurs. In fact, JM product is considered potentially SO EFFECTIVE that it must be applied after any treatments, post-radiation/chemo, (as cancer is rapid irregular cell growth) .

Get the facts straight. You’re not going to have overnight rapid “Growth.” what you will have is that when lashes fall out, a lessened refractory period for the hair to start growing and lash that will be longer before fall out.