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Essential Oils for Hair Care
Adapted from Rosemary Gladstar's Family Herbal, by Rosemary Gladstar.
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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add your comment »I think with hair growth it is important to cut out any white sugar or honey from the diet if in excess & to eat quality protein, eggs - organic, lean meats, fish etc & soaked almonds & to not stress. Also meditation & yoga & massaging the scalp too as well as eating a seaweed supplement such as kelp powder. I notice when I eat fish oil supplements & flax seed oil as well as seaweed, my hair grows faster & thicker & shinier ! Also brushing it, caring for it & washing it with quality natural shampoos & oils as mentioned. I think it might also be good to take a multi vitamin/mineral supplement too.
I have read that horsetail herb tea is good too. As well as taking b vitamins.
Thankyou for this article. It has inspired me to use rosemary oil etc on my hair to promote hair growth again too of which I had sort of not been doing lately....:)
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Essential oils have been used for centuries for their plethora of healing properties. Essential oils work especially well on hair follicles.
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very good information about the hair care. I like it. Hope this information will helpful for others like me.
thank you very much
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I have a wonderful shampoo bar made from a base of herbs that help the hair in so many ways.
There is an interview posted on my blog about it.
Look for the wild mane label
http://herbwyfe.blogspot.com
and my site is www.dreamseedsorganics.com
My goal in creating this shampoo bar was the terrible winter hair and scalp issues I deal with.
It has helped so many people. Just thought I would share that to the person asking about herbal hair care.
I am an herbalist so the plants are near and dear to me.
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Thanks for the information. The product might be good. For my hair i use mild shampoo and use hair straightening tool.
You can check here http://www.hairstraightenercare.com
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Jennifer M,
Try this: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/basic-herbal-shampoo-conditioner.html
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does anyone know where I can find a true herbal shampoo? or how can I make one at home? is it economical - meaning is it cheaper to buy all the ingredients or to just buy store brand? I have recently had my hair ruined by a 'natural' product. It has sls in it, among other things. It ruined my skin & hair, not to mention I was unwittingly polluting the environment & poisoning myself w/ it. I am trying to get away from commercial products, but am on a tight budget. Can afford s&h - especially when s&h costs twice the price of what I ordered! Am looking for SLS/chemical free dental care, too. yep - finally got away from triclosan & ran right into it's evil cousins. Help!
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my hair is just a mess.its ma first time am loking at this website for help.i no longer comb it because it falls out from the scalp and has split ends too,with a very dry and scaly scalp.peaole help please.asiamuslima2yahoo.com
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