Get healthy hair with herbs

Apr 21, 2010 1:43 AM by Kori Ellis

Posted in Beauty & Style / Hairstyles & Hair Care / Hair tips

Treat Hair With
Natural Ingredients

You might have noticed that many shampoos and conditioners use herbal additives. Herbs are a natural remedy that can help revive dry, damaged hair and stimulate hair growth. You can apply herb solutions to your hair and scalp directly or ingest them to get healthy, shiny hair. Herbs are unique ingredients for natural hair treatments that can work to give you strong, healthy hair, treat dandruff, restore shine and help grow your luscious locks.

Herbs

Are herbs safe?

Though herbs are all natural, it doesn't mean that they are all completely safe for everyone. You can have an allergic reaction to some herbs so it's best to test a small amount of the herb on the inside of your wrist before treating your whole head or ingesting the herbs. Wait a day or two after applying to your wrist and check for any adverse reaction. Also check with your doctor, especially if you're pregnant, to make sure they wont conflict with your body.

Which herbs will help my hair?

Rosemary

Some experts say that rosemary will help stimulate hair growth, fight dandruff and restore luster to your hair. To get healthy hair from the benefits this herb, you can cook rosemary in food or make rosemary water to use it as a rinse.

Do it yourself homemade hair treatments

Try this easy hair rinse recipe with any of these natural herbs.

Bring a pot of water to boil and add rosemary leaves. Reduce heat and allow leaves to simmer for 10-15 minutes. Remove the leaves and allow the water to cool. You can even refrigerate it, if you prefer to speed up the process. Pour the cool rosemary water, using a small bottle, over freshly shampooed hair and rinse with tepid water.

Horsetail

The horsetail herb is a great source of silica. Silica will strengthen your hair at its core and restore shine. To get healthy hair this way, you can make your own horsetail shampoo at home. Steep 2-3 tablespoons of horsetail in 1/2 cup hot water. Add the mixture to a baby shampoo and shampoo your hair as usual.

Other herbs for healthy hair

Many other herbs may help hair loss, restore shine and combat dandruff problems. Here are some herbs that you can use in food, boil for a hair rinse or add to your normal shampoo.

Aloe: stimulates new hair growth, works against frizz, works as a natural conditioner

Birch: works against a sry scalp

Burdock: promotes hair growth, increased shine and healthy body, comabts hair loss, dandruff and itching. Overall, it makes for a healthy scalp.

Chamomile: Works great as a natural conditioner and for cosmetic purposes, it will will lighten blone hair over time.

Licorice: Largely associated with preventing hair loss

Marigold: Acts as moisturizer and can help you lighten your color to increase the shine.

Mulberries: Helps treat premature gray hair

Parsley: Its doses or Iron and Vitamin C help keep hair healthy and strong

Sage: Works well a a natural coloing agent and also fights grays.

You can purchase any of these herbs from your local health food shop, from a naturopath or herbalist, or from many online herb companies, such as Frontier Natural Products.

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At such an early age of 18 I surprisingly lost all my hair and went bald. You can imagine yourself how much of a social embarrassment it was. was avoiding and I got completely cut-off with my friendâ€™s circle because everybody was making fun of me. Then one of my friends came up with this wonderful hair loss treatment and advised me to use it or be forever depressed. I preferred giving it a try and now I am more then glad to have my hair back and in a better state now.