Comments on: Newbie with a few questions/rampage…help! http://www.seborrhoeic-dermatitis.ev-by.org/2007/06/10/newbie-with-a-few-questions-rampage-help/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:32:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Paul George http://www.seborrhoeic-dermatitis.ev-by.org/2007/06/10/newbie-with-a-few-questions-rampage-help/#comment-2274 Paul George Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:01:54 +0000 http://www.seborrhoeic-dermatitis.ev-by.org/2007/06/10/newbie-with-a-few-questions-rampage-help/#comment-2274 One of the things I think everyone on this board would agree with is that you try different things and you stick to the things that work. Different things work for different people, depending on their skin type and exactly what is causing their sebderm (which isn't always easy to determine). If a home remedy works better than what the doctor suggested, tell your doctor and work with him to find a treatment that works for you. Many of us with sebderm find greasiness is a factor we need to control, not encourage. My skin is very fair... so I was amazed to talk to an African-American friend to learn her hair & skin regimen. She doesn't wash her hair every day because its too drying (which to me is gross because my hair/scalp would get greasy) and actually adds grease as you mentioned to prevent her scalp/hair from drying out. This is difficult for me to imagine... if I did that I'd probably be <!--more--> covered in pimples from grease clogging my pores, my hair, skin and scalp would be disgustingly greasy and my sebderm would be out of control! As a Latina, it may be that your skin is somewhere in the middle... so as I said, you have to do what works for you! Good luck! Jon One of the things I think everyone on this board would agree with is
that you try different things and you stick to the things that work.
Different things work for different people, depending on their skin
type and exactly what is causing their sebderm (which isn’t always
easy to determine). If a home remedy works better than what the
doctor suggested, tell your doctor and work with him to find a
treatment that works for you.

Many of us with sebderm find greasiness is a factor we need to
control, not encourage. My skin is very fair… so I was amazed to
talk to an African-American friend to learn her hair & skin regimen.
She doesn’t wash her hair every day because its too drying (which to
me is gross because my hair/scalp would get greasy) and actually adds
grease as you mentioned to prevent her scalp/hair from drying out.
This is difficult for me to imagine… if I did that I’d probably be

covered in pimples from grease clogging my pores, my hair, skin and
scalp would be disgustingly greasy and my sebderm would be out of
control!

As a Latina, it may be that your skin is somewhere in the middle…
so as I said, you have to do what works for you!

Good luck!

Jon

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