What is tea tree oil and will it work...

[Lachesis00]

for dandruff??

HOW do you treat drandruff. Since moving from Alaska to AZ mine's gotten bad

 

[amid chaos]

Get some tea tree oil and add abit to your shampoo bottle..used regularly, your dandruff should get better.

 

[caitycaity]

if the tea tree oil doesn't work, see a dermatologist. i had really bad dandruff in middle school (talk about a horrible time to have that!) and i was able to get a perscription.

 

[darkcircles]

You can buy Tea Tree Oil shampoo at Walmart.

 

[Lachesis00]

Is Tea Tree the prefered method... what about something like TGel?? I know head and shoulders does not work for me...

 

[powellrj]

Isn't tea tree shampoo also suppose to help prevent head lice??

 

[Christine]

It depends. Tea tree oil is a natural anti-fungal agent. It works for athlete's foot and sometimes toe nail fungus. If you have dandruff that is caused by a fungus, it may work on that. If you have dandruff caused for other reasons (dry skin, dermatitis, etc), it probably will not work.

Probably the best thing to do is to buy some over the counter Nizoral (used to be prescription). When my son was a baby he had horrible, horrible cradle cap. He was 2 years old and it still wouldn't go away. Tried Head and Shoulders, T-Gel. Then the doctor told me to try Sebulex (over the counter). I used it a few times, it cleared up and never came back.