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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