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Solving Dandruff
It may sound super cliché, but this really is the secret dandruff shampoo manufacturers don’t want you to know.
My troubles with a flaking scalp started in my teenage years. At first I tried the various dandruff shampoos and even a prescription ketoconazole shampoo. Each shampoo would mostly work at first, but with a diminishing effect over time. So I continued to struggle with fresh crops of flakes. Red, flaking patches even made their way onto my forehead where I tried to control them with cortizone creams, but really I worried about the long term risks of using cortizone.
Because of my concerns about side effects, I started investigating other ways to control the flaky red patches. After years of experimentation, a regime of dietary improvements and applying a simple blend of oils completely stopped the problem on my face, but I still couldn’t figure out what to do for my scalp. Finding the answer to scalp flakes requires a better understanding of the problem.
What is dandruff?
All scalp flakes aren’t totally the same. It is possible to just have flakes due to scalp dryness or even scalp sunburn. Dry scalp flakes will tend to be smaller. While my scalp can be too dried out, the main problem were red patches that produce larger flakes. Those are caused…
