Who pays us, and who we refuse

How this site makes money, in one paragraph

Some outbound links are partner links. If you follow one and buy something, the seller may pay this site a commission. That is the entire model: no advertising, no sponsored posts, no paid placements, no clinic referral fees, no sold mentions and no newsletter to monetise. Nothing you read here was commissioned or approved by a company mentioned in it.

What a partner link looks like

Every one of them is a link to /go/ followed by the company's name — /go/nutrafol, for example — rather than a tracking URL pasted into a sentence. Each carries rel="sponsored nofollow" in the HTML, so search engines and screen readers can see what it is, and our robots file tells crawlers not to index those redirect addresses.

Any page that contains one carries a note near the top saying so, before you have read the recommendation rather than after.

The five programmes we use

• Nutrafol — supplements sold to women. Reviewed, graded 6 out of 10 on our published scale, and the grade was written before the link existed.
• Theradome — a laser device, named as FDA-cleared rather than FDA-approved, because that is what it is.
• Vegamour — drug-free cosmetic serums, graded on the consumer perception studies they actually cite.
• Scandinavian Biolabs — drug-free topicals, graded the same way.
• Hers — a telehealth service, reviewed from its parent company's SEC filings because the site itself blocked every attempt we made to read it.

None of these programmes has approved this domain. Every /go/ link currently points at the company's plain homepage, which means that today, all five of them pay this site exactly nothing. When one is approved, the link target changes and this page changes with it; the writing does not, because the grades were fixed first.

The programmes we refuse

Refusing things is part of the product, so they are listed rather than quietly avoided:

• ClickBank and Digistore24 hair-loss offers — aggressive-claim information products in a health category. No.
• HealthTrader — pharmacy-style offers whose legality varies by country, on a site read internationally.
• Luviacure — a referral scheme marketed to recruits with income promises. A reputational red flag on the recruiting side is a red flag on the patient side.
• Capillus — no link here, in any form.
• HT.clinic, and every clinic-side booking facilitator — Bookimed, Qunomedical, WhatClinic, Flymedi, Medigance — because they are paid by clinics, and a site that tells you how to vet a clinic cannot also be paid by one.
• Bosley — its publisher programme is discontinued; we would not run a clinic-brand link regardless.
• Ro — no key exists on this site for it, and none will until its programme terms are confirmed at their source.
• Hims — a men-facing service, and a sibling-brand question that does not belong on a women's site.
• Any clinic or surgeon referral fee. We rank no clinics, name no surgeons and take no per-patient payments, which is why every surgical page here tells you what to ask instead of where to go.

A published refusal is a commitment, not a mood. Reversing one means rewriting this page first.

What we recommend that pays us nothing

This is the part that matters most, and it is deliberately first in the articles themselves:

• Seeing a GP or a dermatologist, and having the cause of your hair loss established. Pays us nothing.
• Any blood test a clinician decides is worth doing. Pays us nothing.
• Generic topical minoxidil from a pharmacy shelf. On 24 September 2026 there were 560 current minoxidil listings from 228 different companies on DailyMed; the cheapest box contains the same molecule as the advertised one. Pays us nothing.
• A prescription filled at a pharmacy of your choice, rather than bundled into a subscription. Pays us nothing.
• Waiting, when the diagnosis is a shedding phase that resolves on its own. Pays us nothing, and is right more often than the internet admits.

If those five were followed by every reader, this site would earn almost nothing, and the advice would still be correct. That is the test we would rather be judged on.

What money cannot buy here

A grade, a placement, a mention, a link, a softer sentence, or the removal of a hard one. Companies are welcome to send corrections, and we welcome them — the contact page explains what makes a useful one — but a correction is a matter of fact, not of tone.

Why this page exists at all

Because a health site that takes commissions and does not say so plainly is asking you to trust it twice. This page, and the note at the top of every commercial page, are how the arrangement stays visible while you are deciding — which is the only time it matters.