International Journal of Chemical and Biochemical Sciences (ISSN 2226-9614)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

VOLUME 29(23) (2026)

Dandruff Disease: Causes and Appropriate Remedies

Alaa H. Al-Darraji

Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department, College of Science, university of Misan University, Misan, Iraq.

Abstract

                Every year more than ten billion dollars are spent to treat dandruff, which affects more than half of the world’s population. According to this study’s established laboratory testing, dandruff is a mixture of dust, different creature fungi or yeast, dead cells, and saturated fatty acids. The duration of this study is 2019-2025, and two groups of people were included: 50 in 2019 and 100 in 2025. The first group, fifteen youngsters (ages 22 to 25) were selected at random to look into some crucial dandruff-related facts. These youngsters also indicated that dandruff emerges in the winter and goes away in the summer, and they reported using numerous treatments last year without seeing positive outcomes. While the second group of 100 people was taken randomly, about 72 of them had dandruff. There is significantly between the two groups. Furthermore, the two groups experience embarrassment when they see that they have dandruff, occasionally they have rough or scratchy hair that hurts and causes strange behavior. The painful itch of the last group. This study found that Candida spp. eliminated Malasezzia spp. And they cause dandruff nowadays also this study introduces appropriate treatment for this improbable illness.

Keywords: Dundruff, Candida, Malasezzia, Human

Full length article    *Corresponding Author, e-mail: alaa.hussein@uomisan.edu.iq, Doi # https://doi.org/10.62877/4-IJCBS-26-29-23-4,

Submitted: 13-01-2026; Accepted: 09-03-2026; Published: 15-03-2026