Hair Care - Remedies for Dandruff

Hello Everyone, hope you all are doing fine. Today I will be informing you about how to tackle hair dandruff during summers. After a long interval summers are back and you have taken out your spring summery dresses and lovely tops to flaunt and look like a diva BUT alas, summers also brought dandruff and lifeless hair !!

All your dreams seems shattered and you feel like its a nightmare to tackle sticky sweaty hair and that too if you have dandruff. Dandruff is a common problem for all kinds of hair whether you have, oily or normal or dry/frizzy hair type. Relax!! Read on to this article and I am sure any one of these tips will be helpful to you all.

Summer Hair Care for Dandruff Prone Scalp

Wash Your Hair Often

When I say wash often, that doesn’t mean that you wash it every day or every second day. Washing your hair too often can deprive your hair of the natural shine and hydration. Maximum 2 to 3 washes in a week is good enough, depending on the frequency of your hair being exposed to sun, pollution and heat. Use a mild shampoo, it needn’t be a anti-dandruff shampoo as that at times dries our hair way too much leaving it frizzy. Hydration to hair is very important, if you are frequently washing. If you are using a conditioner, then always use the conditioner on the hair tips. Applying of conditioner on scalp is a big No. Rinse your hair thoroughly after applying conditioner.

During summers our scalp tends to sweat too much and thus leaving our hair sticky, hard and this favors dandruff growth on our scalp. The days you don’t want to shampoo, you can just rinse your hair in cold water.

Eat Healthy

What we eat, reflects on our skin. So always eat light and healthy irrespective of the season. Try to avoid junk food like fried food and aerated drinks and drinks with artificial colors and sweetness. They affect our skin and hair and leads to aging and greying of your skin and hair.

Throughout summer, try to eat watermelon, musk melon, cucumbers, mangoes and all the juicy fruits available during the season. Seasonal fruits are very rich in Vitamins and helps us to get that natural lustrous hair and glowing skin to flaunt. Instead of drinking aerated drinks and packaged juices (which are loaded with health harming preservatives), try drinking more home made lemonades without soda and freshly prepared juices and light smoothies made of curd and fruits. You will see the difference on your skin within days.

 

Use Vinegar or Apple Cider Vinegar

Vinegar is very helpful in curbing dandruff. But we have to be very careful while using this. Never use raw vinegar on your hair. If you are using normal vinegar then take 1 table spoon of it and mix it with 3 tablespoon of water to dilute it. If you are using Apple Cider Vinegar, then take 1 tablespoon of Apple Cider vinegar and dilute it with 2 tablespoon of water. Dab the solution on to your scalp and hair roots with help of a cotton ball and leave it for 3-4 hours and then wash off with mild shampoo.It restores the pH balance of the scalp, thereby inhibiting the growth of yeast. It also works as a natural hair clarifier and helps clean clogged pores and hair follicles.

Yogurt Pack Good to curb Dandruff and a very good Conditioner

Plain Yogurt is an age old solution to dandruff as it has anti-bacterial properties and also a very good natural conditioner for all type of hairs. Take adequate amount of curd and hang it for sometime in a muslin cloth so that the excess water drains out. Apply the hung curd from root to tip of your hair and leave it for 2 hours. You can also add few drops of Eucalyptus oil or Tea tree oil to the yogurt and apply it. Rinse off nicely and then apply shampoo suitable for your hair type.

Use of Essential Oils

Eucalyptus oil and Tea Tree Oil has been natural oil in treating variety of hair and skin problems. Essential oils always have to be used along with carrier oils. Means, add few drops of essential oil along with the regular hair oil you use and then apply all over your hair root and scalp. Eucalyptus oil and Tea Tree Oil can be one of the best alternatives for dandruff treatment. Regular use of this oil can act as a wonder. It acts as an antiseptic on the scalp which helps in treating fungal and anti-bacterial growth on the scalp. Eucalyptus oil and Tea Tree Oil , mixed together and can be massaged along with regular Coconut oil or Almond oil on the scalp before shampooing the hair twice a week to get rid of dandruff.

Another ready to use Essential Oil tried and tested by me is Aroma Magic Flaky Hair Essential Oil. Main ingredients of this oil is Eucalyptus Globulus Essential Oil, Melaleuca Alternifolia Leaf Essential Oil, Citrus Medica Limonum Essential Oil, Cedrus Atlantica Bark Essential Oil, Simmondsia Chinensis Oil and Pogostemon Cablin Essential Oil.

To cut the long story short, this Aroma Magic Flaky Essential oil is a mixture of Lemon Oil, Eucalyptus Oil, Cedar Wood Oil, Patchouli Oil ( bushy herb of the mint family), Tea Tree Oil and Jojoba Seed Oil. So using this oil is a one stop solution if you want to apply a essential oil for your dandruff issue.

This oil is irritation free and doesn’t have any side effects. But some sensitive scalps may react to this. So always do a patch test on your elbow to see if its irritating your skin in any way.

As I informed above, that always use any kind of essential oil along with some carrier oil. If you are using coconut or almond or olive oil for your hair, then take 2-3 tablespoons of your regular oil and add 6-7 drops of Aroma Magic Flaky Hair oil and apply the same on your hair. Keep it overnight if you wish to or you can keep it for about 2-3 hours and then rinse off with your regular shampoo.

Using this oil regularly will help to curb irritating sculp and dandruff problems.

Alternatively you can also take 4 table spoon of water and add 6-7 drops of Aroma Magic Flaky Hair oil and dab this solution with a cotton ball on your scalp and leave it overnight. Rinse and Shampoo the next day. However the before said technique works better as per my experience.

Lot of brands have such essential oils. Blossom Kochhar products are very natural and paraben free. You can purchase this from http://shop.aromamagic.com/Hair-Oil/Flaky-id-1062414.html . Its priced at INR 350/ - and they ship within India. Its also available at leading e-commerce sites like Nykaa.

I hope these simple remedies will help you to enjoy healthy and bouncy hair. Stay Happy....Eat Right and Smile Always 😃😗