Eyelash Growth Treatment
Short, sparse or thinning eyelashes can be assessed by a UK prescriber without a face-to-face appointment. Tell us about your eyes and your general health, and a prescriber will decide whether treatment is appropriate for you.
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Why eyelashes thin
Eyelashes grow, rest and shed on their own cycle, and each lash lives only a few months. Lashes become shorter or sparser for a number of reasons: ageing, rubbing your eyes, the repeated use of extensions or heavy mascara, a reaction to eye make-up, or an underlying condition such as blepharitis, thyroid disease or alopecia areata.
Because some of those causes need treating in their own right, and because anything applied near the eye needs care, this is not something to self-prescribe. The questionnaire asks about your eye health specifically, including whether you have glaucoma or raised eye pressure, whether you wear contact lenses, and whether you use any eye drops.
What to expect
Treatment for eyelash growth is applied at home, once daily, along the base of the upper lash line. It works with the natural growth cycle rather than against it, so nothing happens quickly: most people see no change for the first few weeks, and a fair assessment takes a couple of months. Lashes gradually return to how they were once treatment stops.
It is not suitable for everyone. Anyone with glaucoma, raised eye pressure, an eye infection or inflammation, or who is pregnant or breastfeeding, needs specific advice before using anything of this kind. Possible effects include eye redness, itching, and darkening of the eyelid skin or of the coloured part of the eye, which may be permanent.
Your prescriber will discuss what is appropriate for you. Treatment will not be prescribed if it is not suitable, and a prescription is not guaranteed.
How it works
Answer the questionnaire
A few minutes online, covering your eyes, your general health and any medicines you already use.
A UK prescriber reviews it
They decide whether treatment is appropriate for you, and will explain what to expect if it is.
Dispensed and delivered
If approved, a GPhC registered UK partner pharmacy dispenses your order and sends it in plain packaging.