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unscented products (Hair & Scalp Odor Problem)

posted by SBayGirl, 04.11.2007, 13:31

Yeah, this site times you out if you write a long reply. That has happened to me a couple times, so now I select the whole text and copy it before posting. That way, if I'm timed out, I just paste the whole post back in. Or you could write it first on a word processing program.

I was never really convinced that it's the SLS to begin with. Although SLS is drying, that itself wouldn't necessarily cause the odor. Hopefully, it's the digestive problem that you mentioned. As my doctor told me, diet is the most important factor in the way you smell. Perhaps your digestive problems have to do with your cycle? I know that during that period when I was smelling bad, I had constant diarrhea for more than a month. Now that I'm off the NuvaRing, my stool is normal.

I also noticed that when I'm stressed out, I feel like everyone is talking about how I smell since that's how it all started. I just rub my nose, take a deep breath, tell myself it's all imagined, and the smell is gone. At this point, it's paranoia for me. The real smell disappeared after my normal cycle started, after I finished the NuvaRing hormones.

This weekend I experimented to see what would happen if I tried the Jason shampoo. Smelled a little like sulfur, although not as bad as the first time I tried it. I just couldn't take the smell of the shampoo on my head. For whatever reason, my natural scent combined with the shampoo fragrance was horrible for me. Even though I used an unscented shampoo the following day, there is still a bit of the medicinal Jason shampoo smell, so I am beginning to suspect that I react horribly to certain fragrances. I'll try another experiment next weekend to see what happens with other shampoos and fragrances.

I also realized that when this weird smell started, I began washing my scalp thoroughly twice in the shower. My hair was already fried from swimming, and then I was drying out my scalp. My skin was drier from the birth control hormones--I have very oily skin--and to top it off, everything I did was drying out the skin. I think my skin needed moisture. The yeast probably proliferated due to the dryness of the skin since normally it's more oily. After I went off the NuvaRing, the texture of my skin and hair changed. My skin became extremely oily--like an oil slick--until it regulated back to a somewhat normal oiliness, the way it was before the NuvaRing. My hair became thinner and softer, rather than the thick and coarse texture while I was on birth control. Also my scalp became oiler, but I had lots of new hair growth to replace the hair that I lose. I now recall that I did not lose much hair while I was on the NuvaRing. Now I am losing hair, although it's a normal amount. (Average hair loss is about 100 strands per day.)

The point I'm trying to make is that perhaps the smell is coming from the dryness of the skin. Since my skin is normally oily, drying it out makes the skin work harder to replace the natural oils. Maybe moisturizing the scalp keeps the skin from oiling up. Someone said that coconut oil worked for someone. I'm just wondering if we have naturally oily skin, and things were OK for a long time, and then all of a sudden we had this weird smell event, was it because we dried out our skin, and as a result, the yeast took over our scalp? Who knows? I am just trying to search for an answer, and I know that my situation was caused by the birth control. The NuvaRing affected my skin by drying it out, and it also affected my metabolism, so the smells seem to have something in common with either oily skin going dry or metabolism.

Anyone out there have any other comments on how the smell seemed to have started?


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