Bioactive Phytoconstituents for Hair Growth: Signaling Pathways and Emerging Delivery Systems

This review summarizes recent advances in alopecia management, focusing on combining synthetic and herbal therapies with innovative drug delivery systems like nanocarriers to enhance effectiveness and reduce side effects, while noting challenges with skin penetration and bioavailability.

This review highlights various plant-based and herbal treatments that reportedly help prevent hair loss and encourage hair growth. It also explores the molecular mechanisms, identified plant compounds, recent technologies such as nanoarchitectonics, and patents related to hair growth promotion.

This review discusses various phytochemicals with potential antialopecia properties and their modes of action, reporting no new experimental results.

Two new compounds were found that could promote hair growth as well or better than minoxidil.

This review discusses factors affecting hair health, types of alopecia, and the potential of phytochemicals in managing hair loss but reports no new clinical results; it highlights the need for further studies.