The appearance of dandruff on the scalp is perceived hostile, regardless of gender and age. Needless to say, an enviable little: the hair is covered with small white particles, which at the slightest movement showered on clothing. What kind of attack, where it comes from, and how to determine for yourself the most effective remedy for dandruff, let's try to find out.
Dandruff is not difficult to defeat, the main thing after treatment is to take good care of the hair and scalp
Causes of dandruff
The ratio of men and women suffering from seborrhea is approximately the same, but the age differences are evident. In children, dandruff appears only with the onset of puberty, which is associated with the restructuring of the body. After 50, and signs of dandruff are reduced (plus old age!). The main causes of this unpleasant disease are divided into internal and external.
Doctors dermatologists focus on the fact that the main culprits of seborrhea are failures in the work of the organs as a whole, and to treat, first of all, you need hidden symptoms, and dandruff preparations should be used as a health measure.
A pathogenic microscopic fungus, which is the main cause of this trouble, lives and stays idle on the body of almost all people. It is activated when the occurrence of favorable factors:
- Violations of the gastrointestinal tract.
- Constant stress.
- Inadequate nutrition.
- Overwork.
- Metabolic disease.
Tip: before choosing an effective dandruff shampoo, it is advisable to consult a doctor and improve your body as much as possible.
It is important to pay attention to the external causes of dandruff:
- Improper care of hair and scalp.
- Frequent exposure to hot air or hypothermia.
- Using someone else's combs or hats.
- Incorrectly selected shampoos.
How to treat dandruff for men, women, children and adolescents
The best remedies for dandruff caused by problems in the body's malfunction are healthy sleep, an active lifestyle, a full and healthy diet, and resistance to stressful situations. Dandruff remedies are three main groups: cosmetics with the addition of drugs that reduce the amount of fatty flakes, medicated dandruff shampoos and popular, not less effective, means.
Cosmetics for itching on the head
Ordinary shampoos, balms, hair care masks with the inscription "dandruff" contain medicinal ingredients and herbal extracts designed to reduce discomfort. The main function of these products is care, not treatment. If the problem has not gone far, properly selected, even inexpensive dandruff shampoo will restore hair volume and shine, and the scalp calm. These shampoos are selected according to the type of hair and the degree of oiliness or dryness.
Special medicated shampoos from the pharmacy - quick disposal of seborrhea
Pharmaceutical anti-dandruff drugs are classified as drugs. They must be used in accordance with the attached instructions. Pharmacies offer a large selection of medical products, but do not think that the most expensive and the most advertised will help everyone in a row. Before buying it is important to determine exactly your hair type and type of dandruff, and directly in the pharmacy do not be lazy to read the instructions and annotation. What you need to know when choosing a drug for the treatment of dandruff?
- Dandruff is the result of a cycle failure necessary for the renewal of skin cells on the head. Such components as ichthyol and tar are able to restore this cycle.
- The same tar paired with salicylic acid helps exfoliate dead cells.
- Struggling with microbes: climbazole, ketoconazole, selenium disulfate, zinc pyrithione.
- For dry and oily hair, completely different remedies are needed.
- Permanent use of special equipment is not recommended. They, like other medications, are designed to heal, so they are consumed for a certain time, until symptoms are eliminated.
Folk recipes: cooking at home
Specialists of domestic and foreign pharmacology have created many preparations for healthy hair on the basis of chemical components, without neglecting the gifts of nature. Many drugs for dandruff include extracts and plant extracts, natural ingredients. Popular experience in the treatment of skin fungal diseases, including dandruff, is based on the use of the most familiar elements that are at hand.
Therapeutic oils
Oil extracts of various plants can be purchased at the pharmacy, in specialized cosmetic stores or departments. The most common use is a mask, but 5-6 drops added to a portion of the usual shampoo will have a smaller effect.
- Essential oils with particles of cedar, peppermint, eucalyptus, rosemary, ylang-ylang accelerate the process of metabolism, produce a refreshing and soothing effect.
- Burdock and castor oils are indispensable in the treatment of dandruff, as they contain insulin, which eliminates seborrheic plaques.
- Nourishing and moisturizing oils from peach pits, wheat germ and olive.
On the basis of olive oil is easy to prepare at home a medical composition for masks. This is a very simple action: 2-3 tablespoons of herbs chosen by you, pour a glass of oil on it, put it in a dark place for a few days. Everything! Oil mask is ready. Home recipe!
Mix one tablespoon of peach oil and calendula tincture, add 3 drops of ylang oil - ylang and 5 drops of rosemary. Put this mixture in a jar, preferably dark glass and store in the refrigerator. Every morning, rub a few drops of this compound with massaging movements into the scalp.
Herbs for oily seborrhea and head itching
Wise nature rewarded us with effective medicines that grow right under our feet. Herbal decoctions and infusions are a worthy competition to industrial shampoos. Yes, and many shampoos contain extracts of herbs and flowers.
- Nettle is an unsurpassed doctor of many skin diseases, including dandruff.
- Chamomile, calendula, lavender, mint - soothe irritated skin, reduce itching.
- Burdock, birch buds and leaves, rosemary, sage - fight against fat, and therefore are especially effective for oily seborrhea.
- Mother and stepmother - helps strengthen and grow hair.
Herbal dandruff shampoo of its own production. For its manufacture 8 tbsp. Chamomile, 1 tbsp. Mint, 2 tablespoons of rosemary, pour 600 ml of water. Bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes. Strain, add 5 tablespoons to the decoction. grated baby soap, stir until dissolved. It remains to add 2 tbsp. vodka and 3 drops of eucalyptus oil. Pour into any bottle with dispenser, store in a dark place, use as usual shampoo.
Spoon of tar against dandruff and hair loss
Birch tar is an antibacterial and antifungal agent known since antiquity. With it, healers healed the most severe forms of eczema, boils and boils. Modern tar soap has many useful properties. In the treatment of dandruff soap as tar and economic use in cases of oily skin.
- Soap perfectly degreases and dries hair and scalp.
- Effectively washes away dirt.
- Tar and laundry soap - a strong antimicrobial agent.
- Useful substances of birch tar strengthen hair and promote rapid growth. This is important in cases where seborrhea is accompanied by hair loss.
The effect of the use of soap does not come immediately. The procedure must be repeated during the month - two. An obstacle to the use of soap for many is its unpleasant pungent smell. The second negative characteristic is that hair loses shine and volume. To avoid this, use a few simple rules:
- Soak the soap in a small amount of water and create a foam. Wash your head with this foam, not a whole piece.
- Water should be only slightly warm.
- For rinsing, use conditioner or water with vinegar.
Sea salt is an effective remedy
Iodine, zinc, phosphorus, selenium, potassium - these and other trace elements, so necessary for the good condition of the hair, completely contain sea salt. Salt is part of many cosmetics. To combat dandruff, it can be used in its pure form and as part of a mask, after reading some precautions:
- You can not use a mask of salt, if the head is even the slightest scratch.
- Salt is applied on washed wet hair.
- Abuse of this useful tool will have a sharply opposite effect. Use a salt mask no more than once a week with dry skin and two - with oily. Stop the procedure after a month.
Soak two small pieces of rye bread, mix with 1 tsp. sea salt and two yolks. This mask should be rubbed into the scalp and left for 40 minutes. Head at this time to wrap. After the time the mask is washed off with shampoo.
Dandruff onions
Bow is in any home. It is difficult to imagine a kitchen without this useful vegetable in every respect. The antimicrobial action of its phytoncides is also used in the fight against dandruff. At the same time, onion masks help strengthen the hair, make it soft and silky.
The easiest way to use is to rinse the hair with broth of onion peel. Blondes this tool does not fit! Husk is able to give redhead hair.
Another option: squeeze out the juice of grated onion grated on a fine grater and rub into the scalp half an hour before washing.
Lemon - the best means of traditional medicine
Very useful and affordable fruit has an effect on the scalp, similar to special dandruff shampoos. Lemon juice eliminates itching, normalizes PH-balance, removes fat. For rinsing just one teaspoon of squeezed juice, diluted with a glass of water. Also effective exposure to lemon in the composition of the mask.
Mix lemon juice with beaten egg or medicated oil (suitable olive, castor, coconut, burdock). The mask is applied for 15 minutes before washing.
To get rid of dandruff drug acetylsalicylic acid do not need to be taken orally. For cosmetic purposes, aspirin is used only externally. The principle of aspirin in our case is based on the ability to suspend the reproduction of the fungus Pityrosporum ovale - the main causative agent of seborrhea.
For treatment, it is enough to add two tablets of aspirin to a single portion of shampoo, or to herbal decoction to rinse.
An obstacle to using this method of treatment may be:
- individual intolerance to the drug,
- very dry hair.
Apple vinegar
Known culinary product is at the same time equally well-known drug. Apple cider vinegar is used to treat dandruff under the guise of a rinse aid, and as a component of therapeutic home masks. For rinsing, add 3-4 tablespoons of vinegar to a glass of boiled water.
A mask based on vinegar looks like this: dilute two tablespoons of vinegar in 0.5 cups of warm boiled water. Add any medicinal oil or decoction of herbs. Apply this composition on the head, put on a plastic cap and wrap with a towel. To sustain a mask from 30 to 60 minutes, several times warming up the hair dryer.
Masks with aloe: 2 simple options
Mask 1. For dry hair. Mix one tablespoon of aloe juice, castor oil and kefir. Add one capsule of the oil solution of vitamin E and one beaten egg yolk. Apply to hair before washing for 30 minutes.
Mask 2. For greasy hair. Equal parts of aloe juice, honey, castor oil, lemon juice mixed and applied to the scalp. Hold for 30 to 60 minutes.
Effective folk recipes
Today, various folk remedies are used to eliminate this defect. Homemade masks are used before washing the head, about 2-3 times weekly. Before use, any of the selected products must be tested for allergies. To do this, apply the mixture to the wrist or behind the ear. If after a couple of hours does not appear itching, burning, rash and other allergic symptoms, then the composition is suitable for use.
Excellent results in the fight against this problem at home show kefir rinses. Flush need not immediately, but after 30 minutes. For the next recipe, you need half a glass of olive or linseed oil, mixed well with freshly squeezed lemon juice (2 tablespoons). The composition prepared in this way is applied for 20-30 minutes. After that, wrap your head with cellophane and warm with a scarf or towel. After half an hour, wash your hair with shampoo.
No less effective recipes based on medicinal herbs. For these purposes, suitable nettle, burdock root, calendula and others. To prepare, take one tablespoon of one of the above products and fill with 200 grams of boiling water, after cooling, strain. Next, add the finished decoction in a container with clean water (1 liter) and rinse the hair after washing.
Folk dandruff treatment offers many recipes based on essential oils (lavender, eucalyptus, rosemary, tea tree, cedar). It is enough to add 2-3 drops of any of them to your shampoo and wash your head with it, carefully rubbing it into the skin. Another budget solution to the problem is regular baking soda, a fine structure that hooks and removes flakes stuck in the hair. In a single serving of shampoo, you need to add a little soda and wash your hair in the traditional way. In addition, this tool removes dead skin cells, which ultimately restores fat balance.
Now you know how to get rid of dandruff using popular recipes. In order for the treatment to give a good result, use them regularly to achieve the desired effect.
We treat dandruff at home
With the appearance of dandruff, do not rush to buy expensive drugs, because at home you can prepare from the "improvised" components not less effective means that have been tested by more than one generation of our grandparents. In addition, their natural products and medicinal herbs will help not only to cope with dandruff, but also strengthen the hair, give it softness, silkiness and healthy shine.
Soap and dandruff shampoos
The advertisements of the TV and glossy magazines are full of beautiful pictures of expensive imported shampoos promising to get rid of the “snow” falling from hair to shoulders almost in one step. But do not rush to grab the coveted bottle and run to the checkout. From an ordinary domestic shampoo (better on a natural basis), you can make the product no worse (or maybe even better). And for this it is enough to add a little essential oil of tea tree, eucalyptus, lavender, geranium, patchouli or rosemary to the shampoo - at the rate of 2-3 drops per 1 teaspoon of the main product. Apply this enriched shampoo no more than 3 times a week.
Instead of shampoo, you can use a simple soap or tar soap. The procedure, of course, is not pleasant, but the result is worth it, and the specific smell can be eliminated with the help of rinsing hair. However, do not abuse the soap, becauseit contains a lot of soda that is not harmless to the scalp.
Our grandmothers with success instead of shampoo and soap for washing of a head applied the egg whipped in a small amount of water. It was applied on the head, and after a while washed with lukewarm water. This tool is not only good hair soap, but also reliably protected from dandruff.
Dandruff hair rinses
The simplest way to rinse hair is water with the addition of 6% apple cider vinegar or lemon juice (at the rate of 1 tablespoon per 1 l of water).
Lemon rinse can also be prepared from 4 lemon peel: it is crushed, 1 l of water is added, brought to a boil, and boiled for 15 minutes. Rinse the hair with decoction after washing with soap or shampoo.
Similar broths rinsing can be prepared from other ingredients, for example:
- Thyme (it is known for its antiseptic properties): 4 tbsp. The herbs are boiled in 2 cups of water for 10 minutes, then the broth is filtered, allowed to cool down and lightly applied to the hair with a massaging motion, trying to moisten them completely - from root to tip. This decoction is used several times in a row after each shampooing.
- From flowers of calendula and burdock root: take 2 tbsp. ingredients, mix them, 1 tbsp. Mix the mixture with a glass of boiling water and cook for 20 minutes. Use the decoction for rinsing and rubbing into the scalp 2 times a week.
- Nettle: 2 tbsp. dry grass, pour a glass of boiling water, bring to a boil, remove from heat and let stand for 20 minutes, strain, add water (to a volume of 1 l) and rinse the hair with infusion.
- Onion peel: 50 g of husk brew in 1 liter of boiling water and set to a temperature acceptable for rinsing your hair, strain before use. This tool will help not only to cope with dandruff, but will give your hair a beautiful golden glow.
Dandruff Masks
Masks are considered the most effective remedy for dandruff, and for their preparation there are ingredients in every home:
- Acetic (do at night): 2 tsp vinegar + 6 tsp water - mix, brush hair, cover with food film or wear a shower cap, wrap. Wash your hair in the morning.
- Onion: rub a few bulbs into a mush (count on the length of the hair) and apply it on partings with light massaging movements, rubbing into the scalp, wrap the head with polyethylene, warm and leave for 1.5-2 hours. After the time has elapsed, rinse off the mask in the usual way using a mild shampoo. From the smell will help get rid of a decoction of herbs with a drop of essential oils.
- Onions with honey: peel and mince 1 onion, squeeze the juice and add it to the mixture of 2 egg yolks, 1 tbsp. honey, 2 tsp broth nettle, 2 tsp vegetable oil - mix everything well. Put a mask on your head and hold for 1 hour (or for the whole night - so the effect will be better). Wash off with warm water. It is better to make a mask on a day off or apply a rinse that will kill the smell of onions.
- Tincture of calendula can be used as an anti-dandruff mask. For this, it is rubbed into the scalp and left for 30 minutes.
Medicinal herbs
Herbal decoctions also help for dandruff too:
- Burdock root: Pour 500 g of burdock root with 3 liters of water, put on the fire and bring to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer on low heat for 5-6 hours. Strain the broth, cool and rub into the scalp every day, then washing it after 30 minutes with warm water without shampoo and soap. This broth will not only help get rid of dandruff, but also strengthen the hair, and at the same time and regulate the work of the sebaceous glands.
- Aloe juice: it is rubbed into the hair roots, and after 40-50 minutes it is washed off.
- Nettle decoction: 3-4 tablespoons crushed leaves pour a glass of boiling water and simmer in a water bath for 7-10 minutes, remove from heat, strain. The cooled broth is rubbed into the scalp and clean, wet hair after each wash.
- Broth blackheads ordinary: 3 tbsp. Pour 1 liter of water and boil for 10 minutes, remove from heat and leave for another 4 hours. Rub the infusion after shampooing the hair roots. To keep the medicine from drying out so quickly, put a shower cap on your head for 30-40 minutes. Repeat the procedure 2-3 times a week.
Dandruff oil
Various oils also do well with dandruff:
- Make a mixture: take 5 drops of essential oils of tea tree, rosemary and add to 10 ml of jojoba oil - mix and rub into the scalp after washing.
- Another mixture for rubbing into the scalp: 1 teaspoon of castor oil, mix with 2-3 drops of rose oil, add ½ cup of wine spirit and 2 tsp. cinchona peel. This composition is rubbed into the scalp every day.
- 1 tbsp. burdock or castor oil mix with 10 tbsp. pharmacy alcohol tincture of calendula - mix and rub into the scalp 2 times a day.
- Oils used not only externally, but also drink. 1 tbsp to help fight dandruff flax seed oil, which should be drunk every day.
Funds from the refrigerator or kitchen cabinet
Even in the kitchen there are ingredients that can overcome dandruff:
- Finely ground ordinary kitchen salt (not to be used on sensitive or damaged scalp) is also able to cope with dandruff if rubbed before washing into the scalp. Thus, you will provide skin disinfection, as well as perform high-quality peeling, eliminating dead skin scales, activate blood circulation, which has a beneficial effect on hair growth.
- If the cause of dandruff is a fungus, then the following remedy will help: 1 tbsp. Dissolve sea salt in 500 ml of water and apply this solution to washed hair. Leave on for 5-10 minutes, then rinse thoroughly and rinse with a solution of 500 ml of water with 1 tbsp. lemon juice.
Drugs from the first-aid kit will help against dandruff
An aspirin tablet will not only relieve a headache caused by persistent dandruff, but also help to cope with it. One has only to crush a couple of tablets of this medicine into a powder, pour it into shampoo, mix it, apply it to damp hair and leave it for a couple of minutes. Then you can thoroughly wash your hair.
In order to get rid of dandruff, you need to pay attention not only to the external manifestation of this problem, but also to pay attention to the diet of your food. It must be correct and rational. Without this, all your efforts may be in vain or have not a long-term result.
Symptoms and types of dandruff
Statistics depressing: every fifth inhabitant of the earth suffers from dandruff. Everybody has dandruff in different forms, but for some people it becomes a lot. Itching, deterioration of hair, marks on clothes, all this spoils a person’s life.
To begin with, you should deal with the true symptoms of dandruff and seborrhea, since these two different concepts are usually combined into one, but this is wrong. For example, dandruff is a consequence of seborrhea, but it can also exist on its own, as a result of an improperly selected shampoo, after use of which the scalp becomes dry and begins to peel off.
Seborrhea is a more serious disease and requires long-term treatment, and unfortunately, there are cases when it is possible, only to ease its symptoms.
Important! There are some diseases that are similar in symptoms to seborrhea, for example, psoriasis, so before taking any action, you should consult with a dermatologist.
Seborrhea is divided into dry, oily and mixed types, and each has its own symptom.
The following signs are characteristic of fat seborrhea:
- itch
- oily scalp
- affected areas of head, off-gray tint.
Symptoms of dry seborrhea are somewhat different:
- thin, splitting hair,
- itch
- dry scalp covered with white scales.
Mixed type, respectively, has both categories of symptoms.
In addition to the fact that dandruff is aesthetically unpleasant, it is also a great danger to human hair. If seborrhea is not cured in time, it will cause damage to the hair follicles, as a result of which the hair will begin to fall out in significant tufts, in advanced cases causing baldness.
Causes of seborrhea
Dandruff is the result of many reasons, when it occurs, you need to consistently eliminate each of them. Below are the main reasons:
- Malasseziya Furfur-Pitirosporum Oval - a fungus with such a beautiful name is an unpleasant cause of dandruff,
- violation of the rate of metabolic processes in the body,
- hormonal disorders
- diseases of the digestive system, respiratory system, nervous system,
- the reason that is not amenable to adjustment is heredity,
- oily scalp, excessive sebaceous glands,
- poor nutrition,
- sharp temperature drops from heat to cold and vice versa.
Therefore you should not forget about a headdress in the winter and in the summer. In winter, in order to protect his head from hypothermia, in summer from the scorching sun. People suffer from “snow” for the following reasons:
- aggressive actions on the scalp, such as frequent blow-drying or curling curls with curling,
- rare or frequent shampooing,
- adolescence, as in the pubertal period there is a reconfiguration of the hormonal balance, a frequent companion of young men and women are acne and seborrhea,
- nerve strain.
There are many reasons, but all but one (hereditary factor) are solvable. In some cases, it is enough to balance the diet, in others, to consult with your doctor about hormonal disruptions in the body.
Fact! In any case, this problem cannot be started, since seborrhea in the latter stages can lead to complete baldness.
Metabolic disease
Errors in nutrition lead to a malfunction of all the internal organs of a person, the metabolism slows down, that is, all metabolic processes in the body work incorrectly. If you regularly eat foods from the banned list, you can soon expect to visit and dandruff, in particular, the appearance of dandruff is facilitated by the following foods:
In order for the hair to remain beautiful and well-groomed, sometimes it is enough just to adjust the diet and include some products in it:
All these products will promote the growth of beautiful and healthy hair without dandruff, as well as a nice bonus from including them in the diet will be beautiful, glowing skin.
Prolonged stress and seborrhea
Being a person in stress adversely affects his health, one of such negative manifestations is seborrhea. And if the stress state persists for a long time, then hormones are released in the body, the excess of which causes an increased secretion of sebum, including on the scalp.
It turns out a vicious circle, stress is manifested by seborrhea, seborrhea causes even more stress, since its main manifestation is itching that interferes with sleep and normal existence. As a result, the person falls into even greater stress, causing an increase in seborrhea symptoms.
Fact! Studies have shown that in 54% of cases of seborrhea, the trigger for development was exactly stress.
Thus, to get rid of dandruff caused by nervous tension, you must first solve the problem that caused the stress, and then proceed to the treatment of dandruff.
External factors causing dandruff
Frequent staining with poor-quality paints, constant blow-drying and curling with a curling hair, poor-quality hair care can cause dry dandruff.
In such cases, it is obvious that in order to put your hair in order you need to properly care for them, namely, periodically dry them in a natural way, scrupulously choose cosmetics for hair, and find a good hairdresser who will select high-quality hair dye.
Alternative medicine in the treatment of dandruff
There are a lot of ways to treat seborrhea with folk remedies, the main thing here is not to overdo it, but to choose your own way of dealing with this scourge. Sometimes it may take a whole range of measures.
Important! There is no quick way to cure dandruff. Therefore, advertising, promising to get rid of dandruff in one day, just one injection or several expensive procedures, you should not believe.
All types of seborrhea are well treatable at home with medicinal herbs and improvised products.
How to get rid of dandruff - 10 recipes
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Most of us, sooner or later, face a very unpleasant problem - out of nowhere appears dandruff . The causes of its occurrence are very diverse and often lie in any violations in the life of the human body. Accordingly, eliminating the cause, the disease itself is quite easy to defeat.
Anti dandruff lotion recipes
When treating dandruff, herbal-based lotions have a good effect, they are easy to prepare, which is important for a working woman:
- Equal amount of castorca, olive oil and lemon juice, mix, apply the composition to the hair roots, then wash the hair with shampoo.
- Oil burdock, vodka, onion juice mixed in equal quantities and rub into the hair roots, and then wash the hair in the usual way.
- A handful of walnuts, 500 ml of alcohol, diluted with water. Chop a walnut shell, pour in a spirit infusion and keep for a couple of weeks in a closed jar. This composition also massage the roots.
- 1 part of carrot greens, 1 liter of pure water, lemon juice 30 g, 1 part of mint. Cut the greens, mix it with mint leaves, pour boiling water, leave for 1 hour, then filter, add lemon juice, rub into the hair roots.
- Carpathian tea, brew with mint and rinse hair with this composition.
Such lotions will not only help get rid of dandruff, but also significantly improve the condition of the hair. They should also be used for preventive purposes.
Recipe 1. Use olive oil
Olive oil is valued by its fatty acids, which are very effective on dry scalp, increase its moisture and prevent flaking. At the same time, the oil acts as an adhesive, connecting the smallest particles of dandruff, which does not allow them to get enough sleep.
You can get rid of dandruff at home by applying this method regularly. In the evening, rub slightly warmed olive oil into the scalp, after which it needs to be wrapped around something so as not to leave greasy spots on the bedding. In the morning, rinse with an emollient shampoo. 
Anti Dandruff Masks
For the treatment of dandruff, it is best to apply a whole range of measures, therefore, in addition to lotions, dandruff and masks should be treated. Masks work more effectively if, after applying them to the hair, cover the head with a bag and wrap it with a towel. Below are some recipes for masks:
- 50 g of vegetable oil, raw yolk of one egg, 100 g of nettle decoction. Mix vegetable oil with yolk, then add nettle, put a mask on your hair and hold for 1 hour, then rinse it off thoroughly.
- Mask based on castor oil: twice a week should be applied to the roots of the hair a tablespoon of warm castor oil mixed with olive or burdock, hold overnight and rinse. Castor oil is a strong fortified moisturizer that combats itching and dandruff flakes. Typically, after 3-4 masks, the condition of the scalp improves significantly, after 5-7 dandruff completely disappears.
- Anti-dandruff preventive mask. In equal quantities, mix the tincture of calendula and castor oil. Apply to the hair roots and leave for an hour.
Apparently, oils are a part of almost all masks. Because essential oils are effective agents in the fight against fungus and have disinfecting properties.
How to wash off the oil from the hair, a proven tool:
- For medium-length hair, you need to take 2-3 tablespoons of flour, dilute it with a glass of warm water.
- Whip the mixture with a whisk, moisten the hair and wash the resulting "shampoo" hair.
- Hold it on the hair for 5 minutes, in some cases 10 minutes. And rinse hair thoroughly with water.
It is believed that the oil dries hair and makes it brittle and bitten. This is unreliable information, which is worth making sure on your own experience.
The reasons may be, firstly, poor-quality oil, and secondly, the oil may well wash off the remnants of silicones from the hair, which are part of hair care products. Hence the conclusion - the oils are not to blame, competent hair care will fix everything, and oil masks will greatly help in this.
Recipe 2. A little vinegar
Vinegar contains a large amount of acid, which has a detrimental effect on the fungus and various harmful bacteria located on human skin, due to the activity of which the conditions for the occurrence of dandruff are formed. Vinegar not only kills these bacteria, but also helps to reduce itching and slow the process of skin peeling.
Vinegar is used to solve the problem, how to get rid of dandruff, as follows. Massage it into the scalp, wrap the head for 30-40 minutes with a dry towel, wash it off and then wash the hair with shampoo. This method of getting rid of dandruff is very economical due to the low cost of vinegar.
Essential Additives
For example, you can drop a couple of drops of essential oil to 30 ml. basis, can be the basis of peach oil or any vegetable and massage the hair roots for 5 minutes. You should also add 5 drops of oil to the shampoo, for example, laurel oil has a cleansing, deodorizing and tonic properties. Essential oils with the same properties, a large number, they can all be purchased at the pharmacy:
- lavender oil,
- patchouli oil,
- cedar oil
- eucalyptus
- tea tree,
- geraniums
- mint,
- rosemary,
- Mandarin,
- basilica
You can, of course, buy shampoo, which already includes these oils. But the best option would be to prepare the compositions of these oils yourself.
Anti-dandruff conditioners
Easy to prepare infusions and decoctions may become additional helpers in the treatment of seborrhea, and it will be good if their use becomes a habit. And healthy hair needs extra care:
- Zest of four lemons, pour it with water (1 liter) and hold on low heat for 20 minutes. Rinse this broth hair after washing.
- The same amount of chamomile and sage, 15 ml of lemon juice, 500 ml. water. Combine chamomile and sage, pour boiling water, leave for 20 minutes, then add lemon juice, rinse the hair with this infusion after the main wash.
- Birch leaves, pour water, insist and rinse hair.
It should be remembered that rinsing alone does not cure dandruff, but they work very well in combination with anti-dandruff masks.
To see the result of treatment with folk remedies, you must be patient, because the treatment has a cumulative effect and recovery will take about a month.
If you combine the procedure with a diet and a healthy lifestyle, the result will appear faster.
Interesting! Dry seborrhea is faster to treat than oily, as it is often the result of illiterate hair care. Fatty seborrhea will require more patience and effort.
What not to do when treating seborrhea
There are components whose use can cause great harm, for example, mixtures with salt and vinegar.
Important! In the preparation of therapeutic compositions for hair using vinegar, table vinegar should not be used, as it will burn the skin, you can only apple.
The fact is that massaging the irritated scalp with salt will cause even more desquamation. Massage with salt, of course, will contribute to cleansing, after such a procedure, blood circulation will improve.
But when the release of fat on the scalp fails, any mechanical effect will make the problem even worse. The same can be said about vinegar. It is very good to use when excessive glands work. But dry skin at the same time becomes drier, and this is unacceptable.
Also from the same considerations, you can not comb the scalp, yes, itching for seborrhea is unbearable, but if you injure the already irritated skin, you can only exacerbate the problem.
Anyone who has ever encountered seborrhea at least once in their lives should remember that it has a tendency to relapse. Therefore, you should always monitor the condition of the hair, they should not be too oily or dry, it is important to choose the right shampoo.
To do this, you can contact a specialist (trichologist), and at the first suspicion of dandruff, immediately begin preventive actions. Taking into account all the recommendations, you can not only get rid of dandruff without serious consequences, but also never allow its occurrence.
Special medicated shampoos from the pharmacy - quick disposal of seborrhea
Pharmaceutical anti-dandruff drugs are classified as drugs. They must be used in accordance with the attached instructions. Pharmacies offer a large selection of medical products, but do not think that the most expensive and the most advertised will help everyone in a row. Before buying it is important to determine exactly your hair type and type of dandruff, and directly in the pharmacy do not be lazy to read the instructions and annotation. What you need to know when choosing a drug for the treatment of dandruff?
- Dandruff is the result of a cycle failure necessary for the renewal of skin cells on the head. Such components as ichthyol and tar are able to restore this cycle.
- The same tar paired with salicylic acid helps exfoliate dead cells.
- Struggling with microbes: climbazole, ketoconazole, selenium disulfate, zinc pyrithione.
- For dry and oily hair, completely different remedies are needed.
- Permanent use of special equipment is not recommended. They, like other medications, are designed to heal, so they are consumed for a certain time, until symptoms are eliminated.
Sea salt is an effective remedy
Iodine, zinc, phosphorus, selenium, potassium - these and other trace elements, so necessary for the good condition of the hair, completely contain sea salt. Salt is part of many cosmetics. To combat dandruff, it can be used in its pure form and as part of a mask, after reading some precautions:
- You can not use a mask of salt, if the head is even the slightest scratch.
- Salt is applied on washed wet hair.
- Abuse of this useful tool will have a sharply opposite effect. Use a salt mask no more than once a week with dry skin and two - with oily. Stop the procedure after a month.
Soak two small pieces of rye bread, mix with 1 tsp. sea salt and two yolks. This mask should be rubbed into the scalp and left for 40 minutes. Head at this time to wrap. After the time the mask is washed off with shampoo.
Prevention
Simple preventive measures can also help to cure seborrhea or prevent its occurrence:
- A balanced diet - reducing the consumption of harmful food: sweets, fatty, salty, smoked and fried foods, carbonated and alcoholic beverages.
- Refusal of bad habits, in particular smoking.
- Sufficient fluid volume. Drink as much clean water as possible to help cleanse the body and normalize metabolic processes.
- Good hygiene. Do not use other people's hygiene products, combs and hats.
- Proper care. Choose the appropriate care for you, give up the styling products or use them as rarely as possible, not forgetting to wash off before bedtime.
- Avoid stressful situations, provide yourself with a good sleep, spend more time outdoors, practice meditation and yoga.
- Take vitamin complexes twice a year. These tablets, containing in their composition minerals and useful components, will help fill the lack of necessary substances in the body.
In addition, do not be lazy to perform a massage of the scalp. It improves blood flow, optimizes metabolism, thereby saturating the hair roots with oxygen. Every day, before going to bed or at any other convenient time, massage the skin of the head with circular movements with your fingertips. About 10-15 minutes of the procedure is enough to achieve a positive result. Massage is performed on dry hair or in combination with cleansing peels.
Recipe 3. An interesting combination: yogurt with pepper
Basically, the cause of dandruff lies in the activity of yeast and bacteria that live in the body of any of us. In the normal state, their activity does not harm us in any way, but here any malfunction caused by, for example, metabolic disorders, lack of vitamins, etc., immediately causes the activation of these microparticles, and the appearance of dandruff.
To avoid this reaction, you can resort to the use of the most ordinary yogurt containing bacteria, which have a positive effect on those living in our body. At the same time, with an increase in the number of beneficial bacteria, the activity of the digestive tract is normalized and, as a result, dandruff disappears.
The recipe is very simple. To get rid of dandruff just drink daily a small amount of natural yogurt, thereby helping your body to avoid the development of fungal infections, and, accordingly, dandruff. Yogurt can also be used for rubbing into the scalp, and by adding pepper to it, you get a very effective moisturizer that also helps fight dandruff. This mixture is prepared from 2 tablespoons of vinegar and 150 grams of yogurt, rubbed into the scalp and left for an hour, after which the mixture is washed off using shampoo. 
Recipe 4. Baking soda
Among the inexpensive and highly effective antifungal agents is baking soda, with which the flakes of dandruff stuck in the hair are easily washed out and the fat balance in the skin is restored. You can get rid of dandruff at home simply by adding soda in a volume of 1 tablespoon to the amount of shampoo used at a time.
Recipe 5. Ginger root will help
Ginger root has not only anti-inflammatory properties, but at the same time stimulates hair growth, thanks to the essential oils contained in it, which have a positive effect on blood circulation. When rubbed into the skin, it helps to enhance blood flow and, consequently, improve the nutrition of the hair.
To prepare the mixture for rubbing, you need to clean the ginger root, finely chop, squeeze the juice, add about 100 ml of sesame oil. This tool is applied to the scalp for half an hour, then washed off with shampoo. Sesame oil is added to reduce dryness of the skin and hair.
Recipe 6. Lemon Juice
One of the causes of dandruff is a malfunction in the acid balance of the scalp. To restore the normal acidity effectively use lemon juice with the addition of coconut oil. As a result, it is possible not only to get rid of dandruff, but also to soften the skin. For the preparation of cosmetics mixed citric acid and oil in the ratio of 1: 5, put the tool for half an hour, then wash the head.
Recipe 7. Henna
Henna is very effective in the fight against dandruff in the early stages of its manifestation. Its action is similar to the action of the air conditioner. For the preparation of the therapeutic composition, a teaspoon of henna is mixed with the same amount of tea powder, then lemon juice and cosmetic hair oil are added. The resulting mixture is applied to the scalp and subsequently wash off with shampoo. To avoid hair coloring, it is recommended to use colorless henna. 
Recipe 8. Leaves neem
It refers to the number of plants with diverse medicinal properties. Such properties as antifungal, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory action help him in the fight against dandruff. Him helps to get rid of pruritus, does not allow the spread of disease-causing bacteria. To use prepare the infusion of leaves, pouring boiling water over them and leaving for half an hour. Next, the leaves are wiped and the resulting paste is rubbed into the scalp for 0.5-1 hours, then washed off with water.
Recipe 9. Tea Tree Oil
The effectiveness of tea tree oil in the fight against dandruff has been proven by various scientific experiments. So in the course of one of them, one group of participants applied tea tree oil along with ordinary shampoo for 4 weeks while washing their heads, while the other group used only shampoo. As a result, members of the first group managed to get rid of dandruff by 41%, the second - only by 11%. Tea oil has a special antifungal effect, and is also an excellent antiseptic. But most importantly - it is a real natural remedy against dandruff, which does not need to be prepared in advance.
To use mix a few drops of oil with a single dose of shampoo, leave on the hair for 10-15 minutes, and then wash off with water. 
Recipe 10. Basil
Basil has been used throughout the world as a medicinal plant since ancient times. He has a lot of all sorts of medicinal properties, including preventing the occurrence of dandruff. Basil is attractive because it is easy to find on the shelves of stores and at the same time it has antibacterial and antifungal properties.
So, as mentioned earlier, dandruff is a problem, but it is a solvable problem. And with the help of simple ingredients that are in every home, you can prepare an effective tool to combat this cosmetic ailment.
Mix the basil leaves and amalaki powder, explain this mixture to the consistency of the paste, apply the product to the skin of the upper part of the head and leave for half an hour, rinse under running water.
These are the simplest recipes that will help you in deciding how to get rid of dandruff. But most importantly, watch your health, your inner state, so as not to create conditions for its reappearance.
