Do different types of kava dry you out?

[Ed!]

Recently I've been having massive dry skin issues. I'm practically molting. If you took a brush to anywhere on my torso it would look like it's snowing. I couldn't really figure it out though. I wasn't drinking tons of kava, and my hands didn't even get very dry. Most of the time when I experience dryness it's after drinking more regularly than usual and it starts with my hands.
Have any of you experienced this? Different dryness effects from different kavas?... if so, which ones do what?
I think I may have pinned this particular issue down, the snowman dryness. It's happened twice and the first time was with Paradise's Fijian (which I loved). This second time (and much worse) was with Kava Kauai's Vanuatu kava, which I was drinking a fair amount of. I believe that both are wakas, all lateral roots. So that is my suspicion, that wakas in particular will make you dry up like a slug crossing a parking lot.

 

[Vekta]

I haven't had anything anywhere near that bad.


I mostly just "feel" dry not actually get dry skin. I go through something like three 16 oz. frozen bottles of water a day sometimes. As long as I do that it doesn't really bother me.

 

[The Kap'n]

I've been frosty the skinman for around 4 years. Ever since I switched from unstrained raw sawdust powder kava to squeezing and straining my powder I've had less of the flaky effect but never zero effect. I find that the really really fine ground powders dry me out like day old spaghetti still in the pot.

 

[kl.Lente]

I drink at least a gallon of water a day, more if I am working out.


Always have.


My skin does still feel drier on the root than I recall it being before.

 

[krunkedout]

I am a nightly kava drinker and I usually am not very good at keeping hydrated, especially when drinking aka (although I try). But I don't really have any issues with dermopathy whatsoever, even if I'm drinking a high DHM kava nightly. The dry skin that I do have is attributed to the hard water in my area.

 

[Ed!]

I've continued to drink kava. Switched to Koniak instead of the Kava Kauai Vanuatu I was drinking... flaking dry skin went away. So I think I've answered my own question, for me at least. It can absolutely depend on the kava, and being that the one that dried me out was a heady one, I don't think it's the DHM ones that do it (or maybe not all of them?).