michael barry
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Egad, Its been over 20 days. Here goes:
I got nosy about a month and a half ago to test some of the classic essential oils to see if they could inhibit sebum production on my forehead. I have some sebutape strops from Cu-derm left over.
I mixed about 2 mls of each with roughly 60 mls of purified water. No alcohol.
I applied this stuff to my lower right forehead, above the right eyebrow for a roughly two weeks and then tested it. I washed (de-fatted is the correct term) the forehead and dried it off and put four sebutape strips on the forehead: two above each eybrow and two up high below the hairline. Where the little mix was applied, after 35 minutes the sebum spots on the tape would have correlated with a 3 (out of 5). Above the other eye looked more oily, but not a 5 (perhaps it spreads under the skin a bit, who knows?). Underneath the hairline, the readings would have been solid 5's and were quite oily at 35 minutes.
I then wanted to see if I could make the upper forehead have less sebum. I started putting the little oil mix under the left (opposite) hairline. Ive been doing it for 3 weeks or so. I'd have to say yes. The result at 35 minutes compared to the card would be judged roughly a 3. However the rest of the forehead's results would be about 4's in my opinion. Perhaps the stuff spreads under the skin somehow or whatnot, but thats my assessment looking at the card.
Im going to keep on doing this for a while (a couple of more weeks anyway) and see what Ive got then. So far I'd have to conclude either the lavender or cedarwood (probably both) seems to be inhibiting sebacous gland production up there somewhat. Whats good about this is that we know both of these oils were used in the Scottish Alopecia Areata study and hair was regrown using them, so they aren't "bad" for hair in any way.
Ive used sebutape to test topical green tea extract mixed with alcohol, and Ive also tested fluridil . I can wholeheartedly assert that this mixture is more effective than either of them, espeically over the green tea extract.
I got nosy about a month and a half ago to test some of the classic essential oils to see if they could inhibit sebum production on my forehead. I have some sebutape strops from Cu-derm left over.
I mixed about 2 mls of each with roughly 60 mls of purified water. No alcohol.
I applied this stuff to my lower right forehead, above the right eyebrow for a roughly two weeks and then tested it. I washed (de-fatted is the correct term) the forehead and dried it off and put four sebutape strips on the forehead: two above each eybrow and two up high below the hairline. Where the little mix was applied, after 35 minutes the sebum spots on the tape would have correlated with a 3 (out of 5). Above the other eye looked more oily, but not a 5 (perhaps it spreads under the skin a bit, who knows?). Underneath the hairline, the readings would have been solid 5's and were quite oily at 35 minutes.
I then wanted to see if I could make the upper forehead have less sebum. I started putting the little oil mix under the left (opposite) hairline. Ive been doing it for 3 weeks or so. I'd have to say yes. The result at 35 minutes compared to the card would be judged roughly a 3. However the rest of the forehead's results would be about 4's in my opinion. Perhaps the stuff spreads under the skin somehow or whatnot, but thats my assessment looking at the card.
Im going to keep on doing this for a while (a couple of more weeks anyway) and see what Ive got then. So far I'd have to conclude either the lavender or cedarwood (probably both) seems to be inhibiting sebacous gland production up there somewhat. Whats good about this is that we know both of these oils were used in the Scottish Alopecia Areata study and hair was regrown using them, so they aren't "bad" for hair in any way.
Ive used sebutape to test topical green tea extract mixed with alcohol, and Ive also tested fluridil . I can wholeheartedly assert that this mixture is more effective than either of them, espeically over the green tea extract.
