Anti Dandruff Remedies At Home

My other half has been complaining lately that he feels stressed out and a bit tired all the time. I guess me telling him to stop whining didn’t help his stress levels either....

But lately though he has been suffering from dandruff which I suppose is an embarrassing enough problem that gets a lot worse when you’re stressed out, tired or if your’re not eating right.

It really is quite an embarrassing thing to deal with and having an itchy scalp and being forced to wear light clothing all the time isn’t any fun either. I asked a friend of mine who had studied homeopathic and natural treatments to help me help my partner out.

She gave me a huge list and I picked out a few that sounded the most pleasant and tried to see what would work for him. Here are the treatments and how I found them to work out for me:

 

·         Olive Oil: Apparently this was something that was used as a dandruff treatment since ancient times. I have to admit he wasn’t all that enthusiastic about rubbing pure oil all over his hair and scalp but he had enough of dealing with an itchy, flaky scalp. My directions were to rub extra virgin olive oil directly onto the scalp and then to leave it overnight. He slept on a towel as not to ruin my good sheets. It actually worked quite well, after doing the treatment for a few days I noticed a lot less dandruff, but as soon as he went back to his normal routine the flakes returned to their normal level and I wasn’t too big of a fan of oiling his scalp every night.

 

·         The Vinegar Rinse: If you think the olive oil soak sounds a bit unpleasant then this one definitely isn’t for you. Do your normal routine in the shower, shampooing and conditioner or whatever, and right at the end rinse your hair and scalp with a mixture of half vinegar and half water. Be careful not to get any of the vinegar in your eyes as this will be very uncomfortable. This actually worked quite well, but I just couldn’t take the smell, the whole apartment reminded me of a chipper!! I read online that people worked around this by shampooing in the morning to get the vinegar out, but I found this dried out his scalp really badly and made the dandruff and itchy scalp worse.

·         The Beer Rinse: So according to my homeopath friend beer is high in vitamin B because of the yeast that’s in it. I figure the smell can’t be as bad as vinegar or as uncomfortable as olive oil soakings so I sneak a bottle of his favourite brew from the fridge and get him to rinse his hair at the end of his shower just like the vinegar treatment. Out of all the treatments this one definitely worked the best in getting rid of dandruff and making his scalp feel fairly normal and not oversensitive, and it was pleasant enough that we could stick through it for a couple of weeks. The smell was gone by morning and a pleasant side effect was that his hair seemed to be a little shinier that usual.

 

He says he is happy to give the beer rinse a few more tries to see if it actually works, I’m sure he is, it is the best excuse I’ve heard yet to go to the bottle shop. “Just going to pick up a case of beer – eh sorry anti dandruff shampoo!!!”

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Till next time

 

Becky

 

 

 

 

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Do Blondes Have More Fun.....

Well now that the warmer weather is on the way I am deciding whether to lighten my locks or not, just a couple of shades lighter nothing to drastic.

Looks like I am not the only one to dye my hair though as much as my other half complains about me hogging the bathroom when I am colouring my hair at home. It looks like I might be in good company lots of celebrities use hair colour to improve their image, even Fiona Bruce the glamourous BBC newsreader dyes her hair to cover up the grey.

Sometimes I feel I would love to go really crazy with my hair colour like a bright pink or something – but I know that I would soon get sick of it and would want to change it back again.

Just need to get my driving licence photos out of the way then might go a little crazy....

Anyone else out there ever regretted doing something too drastic with their hair???

 

 

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Sofa Shopping...

Well what a job I had this weekend. Trying to get my boyfriend to go visit a furniture store is like asking him would he mind if I stick pins in his eyes!! But he finally relented so off we trekked to our local Moore Park Freedom Furniture store this weekend. Having received their email last weekend notifying me of their buy one sofa get one half price promotion I just couldn’t help myself.

As is usual on a weekend Moore Park Supacentre was thronged and I was just beginning to think that this was a bad idea myself when we found a parking spot. Before battling the other furniture shoppers we armed ourselves with a good strong coffee and were then ready to fight the crowds.

First stop was Freedom Furniture to check out their range of sofas, they have a great range of good quality sofas at an affordable price. After much discussion and hopping up and down from one sofa to the next we finally decided on the Frenchie 2.5 seater sofa in a sort of greeny colour.

Delivery is booked for during the week and we look forward to many happy hours watching TV on our new sofa..we also bought a nice red spindle side table while we were there as we felt we needed something to bring home that day to show for all our efforts.

Photo above of our new table taken with my new Instagram app which I'm loving...
Till next time

Becky

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Get Rid of Frizzy Hair...

Do you ever find that your hair gets to frizzy? I know I certainly do and I find it quite annoying. Maybe it’s your hair texture — super fine, naturally curly, or kinky. Whatever the cause, you've got a case of the frizzies. And I think it happens to all of us girls at some stage....

Do not fear though. Thanks to products made for naturally curly hair, fighting frizz is easier than ever. You can make it even easier by considering these frizz-related factors.

You might be more likely to deal with daily frizz in the warmer weather.  Specially with a hot Australian summer on the way it’s the season for head-to-toe beauty dilemmas, but frizz can happen any time of year. If you're lucky, your hair will have a favourite season when it magically falls into the perfect style.

But harsh, forced air in the winter, dew and rain in the spring, or the onset of dry autumn cold can lead to frazzled ends and poufy hair. If it’s cold and dry, consider using shea-butter-based styling products to seal in moisture. If it's hot and humid, light, oil-based products just might do the trick.

If you walk into your hair salon with a head full of frizz, your hair stylist’s most likely reaction will be to crank up the dryer or hair straightener. If you want to maintain the healthy appearance of your hair, cease and desist the high heat. Make sure you use a heat-protecting spray, and ask your stylist to use an ionic blow-dryer, which compresses the hair cuticles and helps reduce frizz.

Some frizz-prone women ditch shampoo altogether and switch to just using conditioner to wash their hair on a weekly basis. Adding a regular deep conditioning treatment to your product stash is crucial. If you have fine hair, hot oil could be your best friend. Thicker, coarser hair tends to respond well to creamy, dense conditioning treatments. 

If you've been using a regular supermarket shampoo, try switching to something gentler, like a cleansing cream or one-step cleansing conditioners. Or you could try something like Pantene Always Smooth Hair moisturiser, which is great for protecting curly and wavy hair while controlling the dreaded frizz.

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