Head & Shoulders Intensive Treatment Review

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Its Active Ingredient -- Selenium Sulfide -- is entirely different from the bestselling Head and Shoulders Classic Clean's Pyrithione Zinc.  There's even more verbiage on the bottle about preventing "itching, scaling, irritation and redness associated with dandruff and seborrheic dermatitis".  This moderate to severe discomfort is the stuff of nightmares.

Head and Shoulders Intensive Treatment is PH balanced for use everyday.  Procter and Gamble recommends its use at least twice a week for effectiveness.  The shampoo itself smells more industrial than Classic Clean and slowly pours out in a serious orange color.

Intensive Treatment sudses well, feels good on the scalp, and doesn't alter hair texture.  IF, however, you have bleached, tinted, grey or permed hair, you are cautioned to do a five-minute rinse.

Dr. James R. Schwartz, PhD at Scalp School (www.headand shoulder.com) tries to bust the "myth" that changing dandruff shampoos periodically can make each shampoo more effective.  My dermatologist, Dr. David Denenholz, MD, advised me that "some people are helped by changing shampoos" if symptoms return.

In my experience Dr. Denenholz is right.  Head and Shoulders Intensive Treatment works well for several shampoos before my itching resumes, and I need to go to another product for a while.

I am, I admit, a hard case.  I've recently found a dandruff shampoo that seems to work for the long haul -- Walgreens-Therapeutic-T-PLUS-Shampoo-review-ba042.  If it fails me, Intensive Treatment is waiting in the wings as my first-choice alternative.