It's fortunate that you do not suppose that, for it is not.  I have a highly-trained friend who might be able to offer their services though:

I have no idea about head-shaving.

You *could* give Neutrogena T Gel Anti-Dandruff shampoo a go; it is "dermatological" apparently, so might ease the itching a bit.  It doesn't have any web-presence though, so I don't know for sure.  Or you could go to boots and ask what they'd have that might help you.

These products are good:

http://theneemteam.co.uk/acatalog/index.html

Relieves most of my itching (until I look at the Which Periodicals do you Read thread...  )

These are questions of the kind of gravity, profundity and significance that makes it abundantly clear that they are amenable to proper answers only from follicularist musicologists. There's an article about Walton's Scalpino by one of this fraternity but I can't just remember now who it was or who published it, but it's an impressive piece of scholarship that stand head and sholders above most others of its kind. Ravel was not especially well known for his musicological scholarship, but even he once contributed a most remarkably prescient piece on this in the second chapter of his four-chapter treatise called (in the customary English translation) Piano Trio - it's called Pantène, as you doubtless know. Ravel, however, was not one of the savon-garde, so I know that he would not have used soap had he decided (which he never did) to shave his head as you apparently once considered doing (and the nearest that Ravel ever came to writing a soap opera was his 'l'Heure Espagnole' which, utterly delightful as it undoubtedly is, has but a small pH value). Havergal Brian, however, knew of the speculation about head-shaving of which you write and, oddly enough, expressed this cognisance in the context of a review of a piece by someone whose head of hair would at the time have made Irvine Arditti's look not so much modest as plain mean (I refer here, of course, to Ian's self-confessed favourite composer of all time); the review concerned was of the publication of that rather hairy composition Opus Clavicembalisticum, which Brian described as a "regrowth of music" (well, almost).

Perhaps somepone might now like to digress briefly by discussing the side issue here of the symphonies of Sebaceous...

Best,

Alistair

Thank you all for your kind and helpful suggestions. What foxes me is that I was getting along perfectly well with that shampoo, being in what for me is the blissful situation of not having to ponder over the bizarrely extensive contents of the supermarket shelf in question but cutting straight to the chase without having to think about it, and then it turned on me.

But enough of that. Here's a painting of how Bach might have looked without the wig.

I hate conditioner. It doesn't suit my heavy-duty hair at all.

Isn't Timotei the shampoo whose bottles open themselves when carried around in bags?

This thread is absurd - just like all the "threads" I spent 20 minutes dragging out of my shower plughole this morning! What is it all with shampoo? - an alternative to shaving perhaps?

Baz

I'll have to give this some thought - it has shades of the "Smoking" thread, but may be more tricky (I'd have to scour the image files for pickies of scalp cancer!)...
I assume you chose the former - far less problems I think, especially when dealing with killer shampoos (not to mention choosey girlfriends)...
Well stop having it cut then HH! Just think of the 60s and 70s when barbers were going out of business (all because of the Beatles!). We all "managed" didn't we?! And honesly, the very last thing any of us would ever want is for YOU to have an "itchy scalp".

Honi soit qui mal y pense!

Baz !