Dandruff - It’s Not a Winter Wonderland
Dandruff is common, but that doesn’t mean you should be walking around with snow on your shoulders. But don’t panic. Dandruff is nothing more than skin being shed from your scalp. While a small amount of shedding is normal, if you find yourself covered in white powder all the time you can take some natural measures in treating it.
What causes dandruff?
When people have a higher, more frequent skin cell turnover rate, this can cause dandruff. As your skin cells continue their never-ending cycle of replacement, the old skin is pushed outward and eventually flakes off. Most of the time skin shedding isn’t noticeable. However, in people with dandruff, skin cells mature and replace themselves faster than normal which results in large, oily flakes of skin being sloughed off.
Another form of dandruff is cause by a fungus called Malassezia yeast. This fungus is found naturally on the skin, but when it’s fed fat (or oil from the sebaceous glands in your scalp) it can get out of control. The result is a lot of clumpy, itchy dandruff.
Other factors that can attribute to dandruff:
Use of shampoos with high alkaline content
Poor diet and nutrition
Overuse of styling products
Home remedies for dandruff
After shampooing take a couple teaspoons of lime or lemon juice and rinse it into your hair. It helps exfoliate your scalp, eliminate existing dandruff and leaves your hair shiny. It smells good too!
Take a bit of beet juice, mix it into some vinegar and massage into your scalp. Let sit for about 5 minutes and then rinse.
Rinse your hair with apple cider vinegar after rinsing out your shampoo. This will help eliminate as well as prevent dandruff from reforming.
Use a shampoo infused with tea tree oil. Tea oil has natural antiseptic and antifungal properties which can help reduce and even eliminate dandruff.
Mix an egg with a teaspoon of lime juice and apply to your scalp. Let it sit for up to 5 minutes and then rinse. Egg is also used to keep your hair shiny and healthy.
–Magdalena
Do you have a home remedy or cure for dandruff? Comment and tell us about it!
Your blog is great! There are lots of things you can to do to deal with dandruff including using home remedies like using a tea tree rinse with lavender oil in water sprayed onto your itchy scalp. These are good for short term relief - for a permanent solution you need to understand how your scalp got to be out of balance resulting in dandruff. Once you know whats causing the problem you can follow a few simple but important steps to eliminate the cause for good. You can use natural remedies to do this as well as avoiding certain products as well see http://www.dryitchyscalpremedies.com