Nizoral Shampoo is the #1 recommended dandruff product by Canadian Dermatologists and Pharmacists. In fact, until recently, the only way you could experience the effective dandruff fighting power of Nizoral Shampoo was with a doctor's prescription. The active ingredient in NIZORAL - ketoconazole - has been clinically proven to kill the fungus that can cause dandruff. So your hair actually feels as great as it looks. You'll be pleasantly surprised with the fresh, clean fragrance and delicate pH balanced formula. And you'll absolutely love knowing that your hair is shiny, manageable and finally dandruff free. You don't have to stop using your favourite shampoo, conditioner, or any other hair-care product for that matter. In fact, keep using them and simply include Nizoral Shampoo as part of your healthy hair regime. You'll find Nizoral Shampoo is gentle enough to work on most colour-treated, chemically processed and gray hair. And, unlike tar-based shampoos, Nizoral Shampoo has a fresh, clean scent that won't clash with your favourite perfume or fragrance. Since NIZORAL Shampoo works by killing the fungus that can cause dandruff, commonly called Pityrosporum ovale (P. ovale), the first step is to reduce the amount of P. ovale on your scalp to normal levels. Use Nizoral Shampoo twice a week for the first two to four weeks. On non NIZORAL days, simply use your regular shampoo and conditioner. Simply apply a small amount (1 - 2 tsp.) to wet hair and work it into a lather, like you would any shampoo. For best results, leave Nizoral Shampoo in contact with your scalp for three to five minutes. Then, rinse thoroughly. Now that you've effectively cured your dandruff problem, use Nizoral Shampoo just once every week to keep dandruff away...for good. Just follow the same instructions as above and keep using your regular shampoo and conditioner between uses. Dandruff is characterized by unsightly white flakes that accumulate on your hair, shoulders and clothing, usually accompanied by an itchy scalp. And even though we all recognize dandruff, most people don't know that dandruff is usually the result of a fungus called Pityrosporum ovale (P. ovale). And that it's quite common to virtually everyone. It all begins with our most abundant renewable resource - our skin. Normally, over the course of our lives, old skin cells are constantly dying, drying up and falling away, only to be replaced by new skin cells. This process takes place so gradually that it is usually undetectable. Dandruff appears when the rate at which dead skin cells are shed and replaced begins to speed up. While, in most people, all of the skin over the scalp is generally replaced at a rate of once per month, this rate is accelerated to once every 10 to 15 days for people with dandruff, and even further for people with severe dandruff known as seborrheic dermatitis (seborrhea). Dandruff first starts to appear during the onset of puberty, but usually hits with greater frequency and severity when most people reach their early to mid-twenty's. While regular dandruff will appear on the scalp as white or gray flakes, severe dandruff, or seborrhea, will often include oily flakes that are yellow in colour along with red, scaly and moist patches on the scalp and in other areas around the eyebrows, cheeks, ears and chest. The most obvious sign of dandruff, and perhaps the most embarrassing, is flaking. It's a key signal that the skin cells on your scalp are shedding and being replaced at an accelerated rate. You can spot the white translucent flakes, in various shapes and sizes, on your scalp, in your hair, on your shoulders and especially over your favourite black sweater. Scalp cells usually aren't visible to the human eye. However, the accelerated cell renewal rate caused by dandruff forces dead cells to be shed in much larger groups. So, each individual flake you see is actually made up of a large number of dead cells, making it quite noticeable. Another sign of dandruff at work on your scalp is itching. Most people regard the itching to be a result of the actual flakes, but that's really not the case. The itching is a result of minor inflammation of your scalp caused by the Pityrosporum ovale (P. ovale) fungus. This is the fungus that actually causes dandruff by irritating the scalp and accelerating the rate at which old skin cells are shed and replaced. To soothe the irritation, our natural instinct is to scratch. The third telltale sign occurs in more severe cases of dandruff commonly known as seborrhea. In this case, redness is a visible signal of inflammation of the scalp. While the inflammation and redness is generally found on the scalp, it can also appear in the area around the eyebrows, cheeks, behind the ears or on the chest. Although rare, dry hair or discolouration of gray, tinted or permed hair has occasionally been reported.
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