Dry, itchy face (beard-care)

Nocren

Ok, so I've been sporting a goatee for the past 3 years but I recently (yesterday) had to get rid of it since it was getting so dry and itchy and leading to what I call chin-druff. Massive ammounts. Like a tiny snowstorm from my face every time I scratched. I've shaved it off for now but I've noticed that I've still got the flakiness and redness/irritation where it used to grow. Specifically the upper lip area, though there is some irritation on the chin area.

Is there anything I can do/use to help this out? Can I (should I?) use stuff like Head & Shoulders, Sellson Blue on it?

Robos A Go Go

Now that it's gone, you can use a normal, non-comedogenic moisturizer on the affected area. I'd also recommend gently washing your face with a washcloth in order to get the dead skin off.

As for what to do when you grow your goatee back, there's no reason Head & Shoulders shouldn't work once it becomes too thick to hit with moisturizer. Continuing to use the washcloth would be a good idea as well, I imagine.

RUNN1NGMAN

You can use regular hair conditioner on it too--it'll moisturize the skin underneath.

Movitz

Robos A Go Go wrote: »

Now that it's gone, you can use a normal, non-comedogenic moisturizer on the affected area. I'd also recommend gently washing your face with a washcloth in order to get the dead skin off.

As for what to do when you grow your goatee back, there's no reason Head & Shoulders shouldn't work once it becomes too thick to hit with moisturizer. Continuing to use the washcloth would be a good idea as well, I imagine.

Head n Shoulders helps killing off the fungus that cause excessive dandruff. There's however lots of other reasons for dandruff than fungal infections. If your dandruff is the sort caused by dryness I would absolutely not recommend dandruff shampoo as it drys the hell outta your scalp, or in this case chin

Chanus

Movitz wrote: »

Robos A Go Go wrote: »

Now that it's gone, you can use a normal, non-comedogenic moisturizer on the affected area. I'd also recommend gently washing your face with a washcloth in order to get the dead skin off.

As for what to do when you grow your goatee back, there's no reason Head & Shoulders shouldn't work once it becomes too thick to hit with moisturizer. Continuing to use the washcloth would be a good idea as well, I imagine.

Head n Shoulders helps killing off the fungus that cause excessive dandruff. There's however lots of other reasons for dandruff than fungal infections. If your dandruff is the sort caused by dryness I would absolutely not recommend dandruff shampoo as it drys the hell outta your scalp, or in this case chin

Head and Shoulders makes shampoo for just dry scalp as well.

Movitz

Ha, the more you know. I haven't seen it but I haven't really looked into it. My dry scalp problem went away when I stopped using shampoo every day. According to my hair dresser you're only supposed to shampoo every three days but that feels a bit icky tbh. I settled for every other day and that have worked like a charm for years now. Showering all the time is ok, just not using shampoo.

This might be something to consider beard-wise as well.

TankHammer

What I would recommend (being a former goatee-sporter) is to get some aloe-based aftershave lotion. Use that for awhile until your skin heals and softens-up.

It worked for me. I got (and sometimes still get) really bad irritation on my neck from my stubble. So long as you condition the skin, it shouldn't get dry and flaky.


As for taking care of an existing beard, I agree with the other posters. You should shampoo and condition the facial hair the same way you do it for the hair on your head. At very least it'll soften it up a lot and feel better.