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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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- Jo M. says
- May 2, 2008 5:43 PM
I have the combination kind of hair, oily & dry, so I'm trying the Clary/Lavender combo with a dash of Rosemary for shine. I'm putting drops into jojoba oil, warming and treating each week for an hour then washing out twice with organic shampoo from the healthfood store. Can't say it's done much for my oily scalp but it (and the ends) looks healthier.
- Jenny Koch says
- Apr 15, 2008 5:17 PM
Goodness gracious!!! All these wonderful people have left wonderful questions but nobody is answering!! Is anybody out there in oil land? I have similar questions too but it looks like you guys are alone on this one!
- Sadi Imr says
- Jan 28, 2008 8:37 PM
please tell me which oil should i use for rebonded and hi-lighed hair, and I have split ends too.
- Sadi Imr says
- Jan 28, 2008 8:36 PM
please tell me which oil should i use for rebonded and hi-lighed hair, and I have split ends too.
- Frazier Fluffy says
- Jan 13, 2008 9:49 PM
My hair is so fine, it splits. My relatives also have fine heair, but how do I strengthen it and liven it up so it doesn't appear pasted to my head? Also I get this itch on the sides of my forehead and top of my head. No dandruff, wonder if it is a yeast type thing?
- Cyndi Hess says
- Jan 4, 2008 6:30 PM
Thanks Stephanie!
I know what you mean about the oily/dry combo hair...It's wonderful isn't it??? :)
- Stephanie Thompson says
- Dec 28, 2007 11:24 AM
Cyndi Hess...if you're still looking here, I think it means what oil to use in what type of hair...not that it will Give you that type of hair.
For the TTO...you can use it In Oily hair to Treat Dry Scalp. That combination is possible. I have a VERY dry Scalp, but oily roots (and then dry ends...go figure!). So for a person like me...with oily roots, I could use TTO to treat my dry scalp.
Hope my explination came across right :)
- Derevaun P. says
- Dec 20, 2007 7:47 PM
Kathy, have your Doctor check your thyroid. It is a big cause of hair loss. Good luck.
- Derevaun P. says
- Dec 20, 2007 7:46 PM
charlene: over processed hair can look very frizzy. I am a hairstylist and my suggestion is...if your not having it done professionally, start. The color we use is very different from the kind you buy at the store. They can also suggest the best shampoo and conditioner for you. Next, make sure you have a trim every 6 weeks at least. When your hair is dry and split it will continue to split up to the scalp. If you don't trim the split ends off, they keep going and that is why you get so fuzzy. I hope it helps.
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