Dry skin/scalp/hair

[morningdozer]

 Hi everyone.  I've been doing CG for about a year or so.  I haven't changed products recently, but in the last couple of weeks I have had a horribly dry, itchy, flaky scalp.  I suspect it has something to do with the weather, my eyebrows and nose are a bit flaky right now too, and my poor elbows are dry and cracked and bleeding.  I can put

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dry, dry, dry

[anonymous]

Please consider getting some excellent high-epa/dha fish oil capsules and take two every day, one with breakfast and one with supper. I think you'll see a difference. If not, add one capsule per day over a period of several weeks until your skin feels better. deficiency of omega3 fats can induce some nasty problems.

http://www.swansonvitamins.com/SWE026/ItemDetail?n=0
One good brand, small wild fish not farmed or large fish
molecularly distilled for purity
certified
good price

If that doesn't help pretty quickly, perhaps you should see a dermatologist.

Good luck.

[whimaway]

Make sure to scrub your scalp well with conditioner when you CO wash. Also if you add a bit of brown sugar to some conditioner and scrub with that it will do some really nice exfoliating.

I've been CG for a long time, have this problem, and find that I just have to scrub my scalp every day or it gets pretty bad. yuck!

[morningdozer]

I'll give the brown sugar thing a try! My husband bakes so we always have some around ;-)