What Actually Causes Dandruff?

This fungus lives on your scalp and may affect the genes you express. Check out Head & Shoulders research on getting rid of dandruff: Animation by Pindex: When I started this project, I wasn’t sure what caused dandruff and I also didn’t think much science would go into making a shampoo like Head & Shoulders. So what I learned really surprised me: There are hundreds of scientists working on this shampoo. They run crazy-sounding experiments like hanging hair near Tokyo highways to understand how real-world environments deposit dirt on hair. They use sophisticated scientific techniques like electron microscopes, nuclear magnetic resonance and gene sequencing to study dandruff on the molecular level. In fact they sequenced the entire genome of Malassezia globosa in 2002, one year after the human genome project. Their findings are published in international refereed journals. What they have found is that the Malassezia fungi create free fatty acids as byproducts of the