Dandruff and Dry scalp

Dandruff is the shedding of loose, dead flakes from the scalp skin. It is a skin condition which affects nearly half the adult human population. Our scalp unlike any parts of skin, is more prone to infections, irritation or dryness. Inflammations and itchy scalp is a result of excessive use shampoos, heat styling, blow drying, coal tar chemistry based dyes etc. People tend to shed more hair than biologically normal, due to dandruff.

People usually use excessive quantities or frequency of shampoo for cleaning as they believe it would reduce dandruff. But these surfactants actually dry the scalp skin resulting in more dandruff and a vicious circle of cleaning - flaking. Other causes for dandruff can be exposure to sun, fungus (microbial infection) and use of chemicals/dyes on scalp/hair.