
It irritated Max Homa for nearly 20 years.
As a teenager, he would wake up in the morning with a dry, flaky scalp, thinking it was dandruff. As Homa got older, though, redness, blotchiness and scaling skin began to appear on his face, too, creeping into his beard. And it didn’t just make him self-conscious about his appearance—it was painful, sometimes to the extent that he could barely move his face.