How to cope with Oily Hair

How to Cope with Oily Hair

Do you have oily hair? If so, there are many ways that you can cope with your oily hair.  In fact, there are other methods besides washing your hair with shampoos and conditioners designed for your oily hair.

Oily hair is a condition that everyone has to deal with at some point.  The causes are numerous, but the main ones include: a hereditary condition (someone in your family has it too); hormone changes (puberty, menstruation, birth control pills, menopause, etc.); using body mass increasing drugs (androgenic hormones); and more oil glands on the scalp than hair (fine hair is usually more oily than thick hair).

You can manage and treat your oily hair at home.   Your first step is to find a good shampoo that has a pH level of 6.7 or above.  You must rinse your hair very well after shampooing as shampoo residue helps collect oil and dirt very quickly.  You must avoid hair conditioners as these are designed to moisturize your hair and will just add to your problem.  However, if your hair has dry ends, get your hair trimmed every four weeks and apply a gentle conditioner at the hair ends only.

You may have been told by your mother, if you are a female, to brush your hair at least one hundred times.  However, if you have oily hair, the oil is dragged from your scalp and throughout your hair, just moving more oil into your already oily hair.

Home remedies can sometimes work as well as, if not better than shampoos for oily hair.  The old-fashioned treatments for oily hair do work very well.  You can try these:

• Acid Rinse – You can cheaply apply lemon juice (1 cup water to juice of 1 lemon) or watered down white or cider vinegar (1 cup water to 2 tablespoons vinegar) to your hair.  Let it sit for a few minutes and use warm, clean water to rinse well.
• Black Tea Astringent – You can use your regular black tea, steeped in hot water, allowed to cool and then massaged into your hair.  Rinse well with warm, clean water.
• Beer Rinse – If you have old beer lying around, massaging beer into your hair and scalp, leaving it for a few minutes and then rinsing with warm, clean water is highly effective.  In fact, the beer will not only get rid of the excess oil, but leave your hair shiny and healthy. Beer can have a drying effect, and it cleans right down to your scalp, leaving your hair with a healthy shine.

Oily hair is never pleasant and it is not due to the food that you eat.  In many cases, it is either something that you inherited or because of hormonal issues.  However, you can treat your oily hair at home with or without store bought hair products.  In fact, home remedies for oil hair have been successfully treating oily hair for thousands of years, well before shampoos and conditioners were invented.

If you have no time to wash your hair a dry shampoo could be the answer. They can be sprayed into the hair where they absorb the oil and then brushing the hair removes any trace of the shampoo. Great for a quick fix.

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Cystic Acne – What is it?

Cystic Acne is an often painful and embarrassing condition.

Essentially the oil glands over produce sebum to such a degree that the gland itself becomes engorged and swollen and feels hard when you touch it.

Normally the skin is able to push any excess oil through the hair follicle and out through the pores to the skin’s surface. The inability to push the excess oil out cause the gland to swell and eventually to burst. The resulting inflammation during and after this process can turn the skin an angry res and be just as sore as it looks.

The effect of the gland bursting this far below the surface often results in the typically sunken pitted scarring.

Usually the outbreaks are caused by a surge of hormones during adolescence and we typically see teenagers suffering from cystic acne. It  can also be related to surges during the menstrual cycle in women when there is a surge of hormones. Here we would typically see an outbreak at this time which clears and then another outbreak occurs at the next cycle.

Adult acne can also occur, typically in the thirties where acne may have not been a problem in the teenage years.

Treatment options include drugs such as hormone modulating drugs, accutane and some types of antibiotic. These treatment regimes should be carefully discussed with your doctor or dermatologist and the side effects clearly understood.  In some instances the upside of clear skin must be weighed against the downside of some unpleasant side effects.

Gentle cleansing with a cleanser that cleans effectively but doesn’t leave a greasy residue and rinses away cleanly is important. Use lukewarm water and pat dry gently. A fine clay mask such as Skinsaviour rejuvenator will help draw impurities from the skin and keep the pores clear. Above all treat the skin gently – over cleansing will irritate and inflame the skin making the condition look worse. Cleansers or toners that strip the natural oils from the skin will only encourage the skin to produce more oil.

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Ten Signs of Oily Skin

People who have an oily skin type may have several or all of the following
skin characteristics.
See how many you have to determine whether you have oily skin.

1. Pores of the skin are larger in size than normal skin and clearly visible.

2. The skin appears to be thicker and firmer than normal skin.

3. Skin, especially on the forehead, nose and chin has a shiny, oily sheen to it.

4. Blemishes including blackheads, whiteheads and acne occur frequently.

5. If you cleanse the skin and leave it bare for an hour then blot the skin with a tissue you will seee an oily residue left on the tissue.

6. Skin becomes oily only hours after it has been thoroughly cleansed.

7. Oil on the face after waking in the morning.

8. Can be olive in colour rather than fair and tan easily.

9. Makeup tends to ’slide’  hours after it has been applied.

10. Fine lines and wrinkles are slow to show on the face.

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