HintOfMint
July 31st, 2011, 02:53 PM
Hey all, sorry I haven't been on in quite some time. Work has taken over my life, but now I have some room to breathe.
Anyhow, sorry if this is a bit gross, but I should explain. My sebum has always been thick and a bit gunky, like the kind that sticks under your fingernails if you scratch your scalp. Also there was a sebum smell that would happen every other day if I didn't wash. So of course, I washed every other day, which dried out my hair pretty badly.
At the beginning of summer, I started to get serious flakes in addition to the gunk. I tried oiling before hand and washing with a clarifying shampoo, changed back to a cone-free and protein free conditioner in case it was product buildup, and even used my acne face wash to dissolve the dead skin. I did all sorts of ridiculous things before I tried the most obvious solution.
I tried Head and Shoulders shampoo, and my scalp cleared up immediately. No flakes, and no thick gunky sebum! Moreover, my scalp doesn't get greasy until my fourth day without washing and even then the sebum smell hasn't returned and my scalp doesn't have the thick sebum anymore. I'll still wash on the fifth day because it looks greasy, but there's no smell at all! I've even asked my mother to smell it (she's such a sport) and she said there's no smell at all except for maybe a bit of perfume from my conditioner.
I don't know if I had dandruff or whatever all this time, but my scalp is finally happy, and I can stretch washes so my ends don't dry out as much (even CWC didn't help).
Anyhow, thought I'd share something that worked for me!
Anyhow, sorry if this is a bit gross, but I should explain. My sebum has always been thick and a bit gunky, like the kind that sticks under your fingernails if you scratch your scalp. Also there was a sebum smell that would happen every other day if I didn't wash. So of course, I washed every other day, which dried out my hair pretty badly.
At the beginning of summer, I started to get serious flakes in addition to the gunk. I tried oiling before hand and washing with a clarifying shampoo, changed back to a cone-free and protein free conditioner in case it was product buildup, and even used my acne face wash to dissolve the dead skin. I did all sorts of ridiculous things before I tried the most obvious solution.
I tried Head and Shoulders shampoo, and my scalp cleared up immediately. No flakes, and no thick gunky sebum! Moreover, my scalp doesn't get greasy until my fourth day without washing and even then the sebum smell hasn't returned and my scalp doesn't have the thick sebum anymore. I'll still wash on the fifth day because it looks greasy, but there's no smell at all! I've even asked my mother to smell it (she's such a sport) and she said there's no smell at all except for maybe a bit of perfume from my conditioner.
I don't know if I had dandruff or whatever all this time, but my scalp is finally happy, and I can stretch washes so my ends don't dry out as much (even CWC didn't help).
Anyhow, thought I'd share something that worked for me!