Mens vs Womens grooming being different is a scam. 
  
 There's veritably no difference in the products, except fragrances.  Use either liberally.

This. Don’t know when will people realise.

Software Engineer

Sales Manager

I use Korean brands for serum and moisturiser. Specify what eggactly are you looking for.

Hair growth ke liye I don't use anything. Aise hairfall hote hai. Baki for skin Kannauj Rose water for toner, klairs vitamin c, then nicitamide from suganda, Cosrx's advance snail 92 and Dr Seth's suncream. You can also use kumkumadi oil before bed for face instead of moisturiser. Baki face pack and all dekh lena I keep changing. 
 I gave you my secret for glowing skin. Make sure to religiously follow Karo. Further details ke liye appointment lelo 🤪

Ustra, 
 Mans company, 
 Urban Gabru 
 Gillette

Ustraa and Man Company are sh*t. No idea about third one.

Software Developer

Hi ,  Please suggest me, good man grooming brand , mostly for hair and skin. Current I am using The man company.

Hi , 
Please suggest me, good man grooming brand , mostly for hair and skin. Current I am using The man company.

Any man grooming brand suggestion?

Any man grooming brand suggestion?- Grapevine

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

I believe men are becoming increasingly conscious of their appearance and it’s quite evident on GV as well. Working out, getting in shape is only L1 problem, personal care goes beyond working out. But there are two problems when men want to start personal care (skin,hair, body)

1. Lack of knowledge. Where to start? How to start? Which products to use? What is Vitamin C? WTF is a hyaluronic acid?

2. If #1 is sorted, then the second problem is laziness. I spoke to 220+ men and 70% spend only spend or want to spend 10-20 mins/day on personal care.

I plan to solve this by,

1. Content. Becoming an education first brand. Best example is Ditto Insurance, they’re more of an advisor than a Insurance selling company. A good example in D2C space is The Whole Truth. I want to educate men about personal care. I want to build a brand that men turn to when starting their personal care journey. 

2. Innovative products & Functionality. Men would benefit a lot from serum but they don’t use it primarily because the hassle of using a dropper, rubbing it on your face is too much. We’ll innovate how these products are made. Easy to use. 


I’ve dropped a full-time job offer to build this right out of college. Borrowed 10L from F&F. Registered the company and on-boarded a few kickass people to create content. Hope all goes well. I’ll keep sharing the progress here :)

Starting a Men’s focused D2C Brand

Best of luck. I don't care about the market or the product you might sell, but love the energy. People buy from people who are 'realistic' and passionate about what they sell.

Product Manager

Systems Analyst

1.how to improve patchy beard
Any oils you recommend
Which actually work
I head minoxidil works but want to know about some other names too

2.How to DeTan your skin
Any Soap?
Multani mitti?

For The Men

Update to this — https://share.gvine.app/uhA3u5ZEizgE6vMD7

TLDR — Dropped job offers and started a D2C personal-care brand for men right out of college. Spent 6 months on R&D, onboarded a dermatologist, scaled Instagram to 14K. A lot of unplanned stuff happened – Incredibly tough, yet worth it! :)

——————

Almost a few months ago, I shared a post about not taking up job offers right out of college and starting a D2C personal-care brand for men. While I was initially hesitant, my post sort of blew up here, and I received both encouraging and not-so-encouraging comments from many of you.

Honestly, the ride has been nothing short of thrilling. Although I was aware of the challenges, nothing prepares you as much as doing it yourself.

Convincing manufacturers on MOQ was the hardest part. We flew to Chandigarh, stayed in the cheapest hotels, and met over ten manufacturers before we finally found one who met our criteria. With no experience in personal care, we reached out to dermatologists, some a decade or more our senior, hoping they would help us with product development. After weeks of trials and many errors, we finally cracked the code.

We also focused a lot on creating organic content because relying on FB Ads would have made it an unprofitable business. This approach worked; we scaled our Instagram to 14,000 followers and over 5 million views in just 1.5 months. Our followers were getting behind our brand messaging & positioning, it was an exciting time tbh.

But one morning, a month before our planned launch, we found that our Instagram was permanently disabled due to being linked with "suspicious accounts." Despite this, we continued working on content, product, packaging. And I’m excited to share that we are launching four products designed to tackle common skin problems that men experience.

I didn’t want to drag this on because I know long posts can be boring, but it felt necessary to give you all a proper update since many of you have asked. To make up for the lengthy read, dropping a discount code (in comments) exclusively for Grapevine members. :) 

Thanks a lot for reading and I’d love to answer any questions you all might have!

Update – Finally launched the D2C men's personal care brand. It's been one hell of a journey!

Which trimmers do you use for beard trimming and which one are the best for body hairs.

Review for body hair trimmers look super mixed.

Men’s of GP: Give trimmer recommendation

Management Consultant

What soap do you use for bathing?
Posting from middle, out of soap, gotta z/b it.

Suggest soaps for bathing

Growth Manager

Which shampoo and hair oil do you use? and if you were suffering from hair loss, did these stop hair fall?

Shampoo and Hair oil recommendations

I've (28 M) been having hair fall since about 8 years now. 
While in college I was actually a bit crazy about this and tried a lot of treatments, eggs etc. Nothing gave much satisfactory results
Current state is like receding hairline showing a decent U shape. I try to cover it by having a bit long hairs in the front. But tbh I've never been able to figure out the perfect hairstyle suiting this predicament.
I've been applying minoxidil since last few years. I've not been that much regular and there are brief periods when I'm not able to apply it. A doctor prescribed me dutasteride which I took for a while but that also didn't have any lasting change (maybe it works while you take it and not afterwards or it could just be a placebo effect)
With time there has been awareness and acceptance that there is not much you can do about it.
Recently I've been hearing a lot about traya on the internet but usually I try to ignore anything that can inspire any hope on the subject due to past experiences but a close friend showed me his before and after pictures for traya and those results looked good.
So should I give it a try ? Bear the burden of hope one more time ??
Have any of you tried it ? Please share your reviews.
Also are the medications like a lifetime thing ??
Will the hair start falling back once I stop the treatment ?

Has anyone tried traya ?

Welcome to Gadgets & Apps's Private Community

PLEASE give recommendations for a good head shaver (e.g. Skull Shaver) that is easy to use and has good durability.

Was thinking of buying the BSC one, but somehow their website is soooo tacky, I'm not sure if their products are worth getting into.

Bald brotherhood, please help one of your own out!

Need to buy a head-shaver

Marketing Creative

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Hey Grapevine Peeps!

Sorry for this out of context question, but I wonder how do you guys fight hairfall? 
I am experiencing hair thinning and hairfall.

Any good Dermatologist you guys can suggest?

Hairfall issue in Bangalore || Dermatologist Recommendations?

I've never had a skincare routine, but recently have been hearing a lot about products like retanol.

Curious to know about the most effective products you have used (or is all of it just a scam)?

Men of grapevine, do you have a skincare routine?

Founder

Seeing the current state of affairs, I mostly would go bald before I turn 30. Please do the world a favour and let me know which haircare product actually works for Bangalore water/other factors. 

Thanks!

Any man grooming brand suggestion?

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