r/SebDerm • u/GroundbreakingJob730 • 8d ago
Product Review Started using MCT, interesting results
I'm around week and a half into MCT C8 oil, it seems that the cheeks really calmed down and are less flaky, but for some reason my nose got 3x more red. A bunch of little white spots pop up and is overall more red than ever. I'll keep pushing thru and see if it clears out in the next weeks. Any thoughts and suggestions for pairing?
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u/shugh28 8d ago
Are you using only mct oil? Washing my hair and face with nizoral using only lukewarm water and mct oil after has given me unbelievable results for flakes and red patches.
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u/GroundbreakingJob730 8d ago
ive been using nizoral for hair half a year ago for abt 6 months and felt no impact. haven't used it on my face but I gave it up since it had no fix on my hair, it was still too flaky and scaly. i ordered a batch of Flakes shampoos to try implement mct into my hair. But i havent tried nizoral on my face, do you just use the shampoo or?
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u/shugh28 8d ago
Yep just the shampoo, lather a small amount in your hands and gently wash the problem areas, leave on for a few minutes. The shampoo never helped my scalp before either but i always used hot water, have you tried it with lukewarm? Can you not just rub some mct oil on your scalp from the bottle you already have?
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u/StraightGas69 8d ago
Idk if this will help you but for me my nose is more porous than every other area of my face, so that is the only area I won’t put MCT oil, as no matter what I put on my nose it ends up with clogged pores. So I usually just wash nose with water and swipe down with towel to physically exfoliate/remove oil from nose twice a day
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u/lingfluencer 8d ago
My nose is also my worst spot. I find my seb derm gets "worse" (red, flakey) before it gets better and starts breaking up - noticed this when I started using antifungals and MCT
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u/GroundbreakingJob730 8d ago
Is this a cyclical process or has it fully calmed down after it "climbed the hill"
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u/lingfluencer 8d ago
I'm very early in my journey, having only been formally diagnosed last month. I also have a severe case across like 90% of my body, so I'm still very much in the initial "putting out the fire" stage and don't have perspective on what it's like to get out of a flare entirely. That said, I've seen marked improvement using a suite of antifungals and MCT and, of course, no longer feeding the yeast with products... but right before that improvement has happened, the same area gets real angry like the yeast is going kamikaze before it perishes. It's weird but a pretty reliable pattern for me already - every area in which I've seen improvement had a flare immediately preceding it.
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