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Thumbs up for shea butter as a scalp moisturizer

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In my ongoing search for a scalp moisturizer, I have a new favorite: shea butter.

I had heard about shea butter about for years. I hadn’t tried it because it cost a lot and seemed a kooky natural product of dubious merit and uncertain quality control. But dry skin and eczema on my scalp is now my primary problem. For several months I have been coating my head with Aveeno Daily Moisturizing lotion and feeling like I’m wearing a rubber bathing cap all day. It works OK but leaves something to be desired as a hair product. So I was up for trying new things.

Then, I found a jar of shea butter just sitting around on my four-year-old daughter’s dresser. She has eczema and my wife must have bought the shea butter and tried it out without me knowing. (Cue the eye-rolling on my wife’s part.) Anyway, the stuff was no longer in use, she informed me, so, having already paid for it, I was free to try it out.

The brand was True Blue Spa Too Shea, if you’re interested. $ 17.50 for 3.5 oz.

It goes on like actual butter–it’s hard at first, but you take a bit in your fingers and it warms up and melts a bit. Then you rub it on your scalp and once it’s on, it stays melted.

It works for me because I buzz my head with a 1/2 inch clipper attachment. So I am not wasting too much of it on my actual hair.

The feeling is a little greasy but not terrible. Plus shea butter is actually used as a hair product. Would you believe I had a compliment on my hair earlier this week? The first in a very long time.

I looked into shea butter. It comes from the nuts of the shea tree in west and central Africa. It’s a complex fat and apparently there is a wide range in quality. Someone named Samuel Hunter recently created the American Shea Butter Institute, which could well be a one-man operation for all I could determine, to certify various grades of shea butter depending on their oil content, melting profile, impurities and “rancidity values.” Shea butter is edible, and therefore goes bad like real butter. (But no mention is made of refrigeration.)

I can’t recommend one type or brand of shea butter to use, because it’s not clear what would make one better than another. You just wouldn’t want it to be rancid, evidently.

I don’t search out natural products, because I don’t think they’re necessarily any better than manufactured moisturizers and so on, but shea butter is the best solution I’ve found so far for moisturizing my scalp.
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How to Treat Your Greasy Scalp: Is Baking Soda Helpful or Hurtful?

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By Allan Mak (see bio below) If you’re reading this, then you must be asking yourself: Why is my hair always greasy? OR What causes oily hair all of a sudden? Today, I want to talk to you about everything HAIR — about the chemistry of hair and how you can minimize dermatitis that takes […]
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Find Remedies For Eczema Scalp

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Eczema is a form of rash, occurring in any part of the body covered by skin. But it most commonly occurs in the hands, legs and scalp. There are a lot of sebaceous glands secreting sebum which grease the scalp. And along with that many folks apply oil to the hair and the hair follicles themselves secrete liquids. All these factors make scalp eczema one of the most common skin sicknesses. The scalp is also the most susceptible part due to its real exposure to direct daylight, rain, damp temperature for example.

The scalp eczema belongs to a type called Seborrhoeic rash and is closely related to dandruff. It is characterized by high degrees of irritation and itching and ill-defined dry pink coloured patches with yellowish or white bran like scalp. It spreads over the entire scalp and also causes a flaking of the scalp and a peeling of the eyebrows, forehead and sides of the nose as well. These regions which are susceptible to eczema are together known as the T-zone of the face. There is another serious sort of eczema occurring as a yellow crust in the scalp of newborn children called cradle cap. This is down to a deficiency of Vitamin H and is simply treatable. Though scalp eczema happens in both men and women, it is more common in males than females.

Scalp eczema is divided into environmental eczema and internal eczema. Irritant and allergic contact eczema, herpericum eczema are types of environmental eczema while atopic, seborrhoeic, nummular, asteototic are sorts of internal eczema. Hormonal imbalance is the Office of Fair Trading quoted reason for eczema. That is the reason why kids suffer from a lot from eczema. But, a few individuals feel that it’s due to a fungus, which is in contrast to what researches suggest.

Common medical drugs which are prescribed by medics for curing eczema in the scalp are anthralin, pyrithione, adrenal cortico steroids and salicylic acids. While getting treatment for eczema, it is very important to restrict oneself to a stern diet by avoiding irritant and allergic food stuffs. Intake of big amounts of water along with natural, raw foodstuff like raw- plant salads and fruits prove a smattering in curing eczema. Green vegetables, sprouts and fruits contain lots of fiber and generate antioxidants which dump the dangerous germs that magnify irritation. You can continuously feel the subsidence of the irritation on making the switch to natural food.

The omega-3 trans acids present in fish oil help in disintegrating the enzymes that cause eczema and thus included in all prescriptions for curing eczema. Fish oil can be consumed by directly consuming fish or thru tablets. While cooking fish, it is essential to cut out the spices and use scanty amounts of oil. Because fish oil pills are inexpensive, it is an ordinarily recommended treatment for scalp eczema.

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