– Honey Heals Chronic Dandruff, Scaly, Itchy Scalp (Seborrheic Dermatitis):
Amazingly, something as simple as crude honey has been found to alleviate an embarrassing scalp condition that most body care products and drugs can’t even make a dent in.
Honey’s strange power to resolve chronic dandruff and seborrheic dermatitis, while common knowledge within traditional ‘folk medicine’ systems of healing and countless personal anecdotes, has only recently been ‘clinically confirmed’ to the point where a peer-reviewed study was published on the phenomenon in the European Journal of Medical Journal, over a decade ago.
Titled, “Therapeutic and prophylactic effects of crude honey on chronic seborrheic dermatitis and dandruff,”[i] researchers investigated the use of crude honey applied topically to thirty patients with chronic seborrheic dermatitis of the scalp, face and front of the chest. Seborrheic dermatitis is a common skin disorder that mainly affects the scalp, usually causing itchy, scaly, red skin and stubborn dandruff, and is often resistant to conventional, chemical-based treatment and a significant source of embarrassment.
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