You are showing a lot of confidence right now and feeling on the top of the world. Nobody can beat you. This is until you suddenly take a look at your shoulders and spot what looks like snow. But wait a minute. It’s not snowing out there. Your confidence just melted down as you realize that you may have dandruff. So what just happened with your hair and how to prevent dandruff?

What is Dandruff?

Dandruff is small pieces of dead skin in a person's hair that can make your scalp itchy and may produce some redness as well as scalp irritations. Scientific studies haven’t determined the exact reason of dandruff yet, but yeast infections are often pointed out as one of the dandruff causes by researchers.

How Does Dandruff happen?

 The first question that may come to mind is: "Why do I have dandruff?". In a nutshell, the yeast infection responsible for dandruff, which irritates the skin, produces new skin cells at a higher pace than your skin normally should be. This is because the skin is irritated, so the scalp needs more skin cells as a protection.

How To Stop Dandruff? 

Before entering into details about using effective dandruff treatment shampoo, there are a couple of tips you may need to know in order to prevent dandruff. Let's review some ways to treat those small dead pieces of dead skin in your head, sort of Natural Remedies for Dandruff if you will, that you can do at home as a first hand treatment without using any special products. First, you may want to wash your hair every day to make sure your scalp is clean and get rid of the extra sebum that may trigger dandruff. The second tip is to use a conditioner and rinse your hair thoroughly. Good conditioners not only get hair smooth, but they also keep your scalp and hair hydrated. Another tip is to brush your hair more often because it stimulates and promotes healthy scalp. Finally, we already talked about how overusing styling products can damage you scalp (read full article here), but the last tip is to go easy with styling products.

Having reviewed these easy tips, the most effective way to get rid of dandruff is to wash your hair with shampoos that treat the roots of dandruff. To do so, many physicians suggest to wash hair with Ketoconazole Shampoos. Ketoconazole is the active ingredient, which has been clinically tested, that will treat the yeast fungus we mentioned early (the one that causes dandruff, itchy and redness conditions one may experience).

P.S : Extra tip – Stress can trigger dandruff, so chill out!

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