Essential Oils for Hair Care

Have you ever noticed how few people over 50 have shiny, healthy hair hair you’d die for? There aren’t very many of them.

Though it may be part of the natural aging process to lose some of your crowning glory, it’s not a natural process for it to lose its gleam and glow. This lack of life is almost always due not to aging but to the unhealthy practices of overwashing, blow drying, and using chemical products such as sprays, perms and gels.

Health, natural hair care is basically a very simple undertaking. Here are some tips of how essential oils can help!

Basil: Oily hair. Promotes growth

Chamomile: Fine to normal hair. Gives golden highlights

Clary sage: All types of hair. Dandruff treatment

Lavender: Normal hair. Scalp treatment for itchiness, dandruff, and even lice!

Lemon: Oily hair. Gives golden highlights; treatment for dry scalp, dandruff, lice, and underactive sebaceous glands

Myrrh: Dry hair. Treatment for dry scalp, dandruff, lice, and underactive sebaceous glands

Patchouli: Oily hair. Dandruff treatment

Peppermint: Dry hair. Promotes hair growth

Rose: Fine hair. Soothes scalp

Rosemary: Oily hair. Dandruff treatment; promotes hair growth

Tea tree: Oily hair. Treatment for dry scalp, dandruff, lice, and underactive sebaceous glands

Ylang-ylang: Oily hair. Dandruff treatment

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Adapted from Rosemary Gladstar's Family Herbal, by Rosemary Gladstar. Copyright (c) 2001 by Rosemary Gladstar. Reprinted by permission of Storey Books.
Adapted from Rosemary Gladstar's Family Herbal, by Rosemary Gladstar.

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Past Member .

5:12AM PDT on Apr 19, 2013

interesting

April 19
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Olivia S.

4:12PM PDT on Mar 24, 2013

Thanks.

March 24
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Debbi R.

2:02PM PDT on Mar 24, 2013

wow!

Lindsay K.

9:45AM PDT on Mar 24, 2013

Thanks for this info.

Bryna P.

3:10PM PDT on Mar 23, 2013

Thank you!

March 23
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Tanya W.

6:26AM PDT on Mar 23, 2013

Also watch your heat appliances as they can harm your hair if used too often. Protexct with a serum first.

Jennifer T.

10:29PM PDT on Mar 22, 2013

I've been trying the baking soda as a shampoo & an Avalon Organics (non Sodium Laurel Sulfate) since the beginning of the year. I can see the texture in my hair changing as I age. But I found that too much baking soda can be a bit harsh with the mid-west winter climate. I laid off of the apple-cider vinegar (as I felt it was way too acidic to be typed as a conditioner). But the natural oil release and rebalancing of going without SLS based hair cleaning products has proven tricky. But I will give the ylang-ylang oil a try to deter sebum build up. Thanks!

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Yvette T.

6:24PM PDT on Mar 22, 2013

Using a smashed up overly ripe avocado and setting it up with an old towel for an hour before rinsing (with a hose outdoors as it will clog the drain) does amazing things for hair! If I still lived in warm CA, I would be doing this once a month or every two months.

Mariana O.

9:51AM PDT on Mar 22, 2013

Thanks

Teresa W.

6:32AM PDT on Mar 22, 2013

thank you