Four shops, no grade for sale, and the programmes we refused

The whole arrangement, in one paragraph

Four sellers on this site are partner links. Follow one, buy something, and that seller may pay us a commission. That is the entire business model: no advertising, no sponsored posts, no paid placements, no fees for a mention, and no newsletter to monetise. Nothing on this site was commissioned, reviewed or approved by any company named in it.

The four

• DS Laboratories — the Revita shampoo line and the Spectral serums, through ShareASale.
• Scandinavian Biolabs — a leave-on serum, a hairline product and a shampoo routine, through Webgains in Europe and the UK and FlexOffers in the US.
• Vegamour — the GRO serums, shampoos and conditioners, through CJ Affiliate.
• Amazon Associates — for generic over-the-counter products only, never for a branded hair-loss formula.

Until a programme approves this domain, every /go/ link points at the seller's own home page and earns nothing. No real tracking URL is ever pasted into an article.

No grade is for sale, and no brand here holds one

Grades on this site belong to ingredients, never to brands. That distinction is not decoration: not one of the three brands above sells a formula that holds a grade here, because we could not find an independent controlled trial of any of them — and Amazon is on the list precisely because it stocks the generic versions of the two actives that do. One partner's house active, Nanoxidil, returned no records at all in a PubMed search on 24 September 2026 and is published on this site with no grade beside it.

Meanwhile the two best-graded actives we know of are generic medicated shampoos sold for a few pounds by supermarkets that pay us nothing, and every relevant page says so before it says anything else. A commission has never moved a score and never will, because the score is arithmetic on a published scale rather than an opinion.

Where a shop button may and may not appear

This is enforced in the site's code rather than left to whoever is writing. A partner button may only follow a section that names one seller, so you always know whose door it opens. It may never follow a section about grading, evidence, the free route, what to do first, or seeing a doctor — putting a shop at the end of one of those would be selling you the thing the section just told you that you probably do not need.

Every partner link is marked sponsored and nofollow, routed through /go/, and disclosed in plain sight beside the button rather than in a footer. Robots are told not to crawl /go/.

The programmes we turned down

Refusals are part of the product, so they are published rather than quietly maintained. This site takes no link from any of the following.

• ClickBank and Digistore24 hair-loss offers — information products built on claims no evidence supports, in a category where an exaggerated promise costs a reader money and time they cannot get back.
• HealthTrader — pharmacy-style offers whose legality varies by country, on a site read in many.
• Luviacure — an ambassador programme sold on income promises, which is a reputational red flag whatever the product is.
• Flymedi and Medigance — facilitators we could not verify.
• Clinic facilitators generally, including Bookimed, Qunomedical and WhatClinic. They are paid by clinics, not by publishers, and this site does not send people to surgery.
• Bosley — its programme is closed; it is not linked and is not a subject here.
• Capillus and HT.clinic — no link, by fleet policy.
• Lipogaine, Scalpmed and Regenepure — claim-heavy over-the-counter products we have not verified, and no grade to justify a link.

A published refusal cannot be quietly reversed. If any of these ever appears on this site, this page will have been rewritten first, and it will say what changed and when.

What pays us nothing

• Seeing a GP or a board-certified dermatologist to find out why your hair is thinning — the first thing we recommend on every commercial page.
• Generic pyrithione zinc and ketoconazole shampoos from a supermarket, which are the two best-graded actives on this site.
• Deciding, after reading a grade, that nothing in this aisle is worth your money. That is a legitimate conclusion and several of these pages point straight at it.

The grading method, and what it refuses to publish, is set out on how the grading works.