My scalp is as dry as my humor...

It's wintertime.  For me, that means dry, itchy skin and scalp. My scalp was TERRIBLE. Terrible, to the point that I KNOW people were looking at me thinking, "This girl's dandruff is disgusting." SO, as soon as I could, I got in with my hair stylist for an emergency pick-me-up. My stylist and I have been very close friends for YEARS. She, of course, acted like my scalp issue wasn't THAT bad. (We all know she was just trying to keep from hurting my feelings.) She worked her magic and I was flake free........... 

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for a few days.

So, me being me, I headed straight to Pinterest and the internet. I knew that there had to be something I could do. I have naturally dry coarse hair, anyway. I came across something about Coconut Oil and had heard of it before. I figured, what the heck. It's not like things can get any worse. So, off to Walmart, I went. 

I came home with a 14 oz jar of Coconut Oil and a package of three shower caps (three, just in case I decided to do this again). I got a bowl and a spoon out of the kitchen and headed for the bathroom.

I put a couple of spoon-fulls of coconut oil in the bowl and added just a few drops of water (LITERALLY, a few drops) to make the oil a little more manageable. Coconut oil nearly has the consistency of Crisco, so without the water it would've been a little difficult to work with. After mixing it in good, I got down to business. 

I parted my hair in sections and smeared the oil into my scalp. My itchy, burning scalp INSTANTLY had some relief. I have shoulder-length relatively thick hair and used about half of the 14 oz jar. I paid extra special attention to my hair line and my crown where the itching was the worst. After I had my whole scalp covered, I pinned all of my hair up and put a shower cap on. 

At first, I guess, from the heat that was trapped under the cap, my head starting leaking. Yes, I said leaking. I dripped oil. It got pretty messy (and gross) so I wrapped toilet paper around the elastic on my shower cap and a put plastic sack over my cap. It pretty much controlled the dripping and running. I left my cap on for about three hours. When my three hours was over, I shampooed and conditioned my hair one time. Most of the internet research I did, said to shampoo twice. My hair is naturally extremely dry. If you have normal hair, I would DEFINITELY shampoo twice. 

Because my hair is so dry, I don't wash it every day. I wash it two or three times a week. It is NOT manageable. I ALWAYS have frizz and flyaways. I can honestly say, after this treatment, I was FLAKE AND ITCH FREE and my hair was more manageable.

Now, I know what you're thinking, "Of course, she was flake and frizzy free immediately after, she put grease on her head!"

 I am two weeks into this experiment (with still only having done the ONE, ORIGINAL treatment) and still have ZERO flakes and my hair is STILL actually soft and manageable. 

Do I find this treatment effective? : Absolutely

Will I do this again? : Absolutely

Try this and let me know what YOU think!

The picture below is TWO WEEKS after my original treatment.