If your having troubles getting the permethrin to work , try taking a hot bath for 1 hour before treatment. Make sure you dry yourself completely before applying it. Sometimes scabies gives you thick skin, the bathing will help open up your pores so that the permethrin can penetrate your skins layers and kill your scabies. And sometimes scabies also needs a second treatment 5-7 days later to break the scabies cycle. After this you should be in post scabies, remember you will itch just as much as active scabies in post scabies for 3-4 weeks as your skin heals.

So if your skin is really thick you need to open the pores more for the permethrin to work? I kind of figured this as I was always getting reinfected as my skin seemed to thick for it to kill the scabies. It is either this or the scabies are resistant to the scabies.