Natural hair care
January 18, 2010 by Den
Filed under Natural hair care
Natural hair care is gaining popularity across the globe. Natural hair care is all about using natural products as shampoo or medicines for the healthy growth of hair. You can use these products for any problem of your hair. It can resolve your dandruff problem, resolve lice issue, and also contain graying of hair.
Let’s check the ingredients that can be used as the panacea for hair ailments. The juice obtained from grinded neem leaves, and also from the crushed leaves and petals of the hibiscus flower besides those of garlic cloves, gooseberry and lemon; the white of eggs, green gram, beet, lemon peel; shaving cream; mixtures of amla and shikakai powder; Instant coffee powder, sugar, curd, beer, camphor; the drained water from boiled rice and boiled onions; almond oil, olive oil, castor oil, mustard oil, coconut oil; glycerin, vinegar; and the paste of mustard and fenugreek.
Here are a few of the commonly practiced natural hair care homemade strategies to curb lice and dandruff.
CHECKING LICE
Grind 20 cloves of ginger and 10 tender leaves of the neem tree. You can use a little bit of water to temper the heat of the ginger cloves.
Rub the paste into the scalp. Keep it on the scalp for the night. You can use a muslin or cotton cloth to keep the paste in position. In the morning the dead lice should stick to the muslin.
To double ensure that there are no lice left on the scalp, use a comb having dense teeth. Prior to combing the hair, cover the shoulder with a muslin cloth. The remaining lice will fall on it.
Now wash the hair with lukewarm water and herbal shampoo. Don’t use hair oil.
Use this method for a week to totally rid the scalp of lice.
DOMINATING DANDRUFF
Pick up five fresh hibiscus flowers. Separate the petals and grind them lightly to extract the juice. Now, massage the hibiscus petal sap into the scalp. At the same time, ensure that the paste is rubbed into the hair. The best results are obtained when you use the paste for seven nights.
This is important, that is the time when the body actually relaxes after a hectic normal day. That is also the time when the body expands and the cells reforms. All this happens when you are in a sound sleep in the correct posture.
Prepare a paste from the drained water from cooked rice mixed with Shikakai powder. Apply it on the hair and massage the concoction into the scalp. Keep it overnight. Wash the hair with herbal shampoo or green gram powder mixed in the drained water from boiled rice.
Mix five teaspoonful of gooseberry juice with six drops of almond oil. Massage the mixture on the scalp with your fingertips. Keep it for the night. Early in the morning wash the air with herbal shampoo and lukewarm water.
Grind three teaspoon of mustard. Mix it with three teaspoon of fenugreek. Apply the sticky paste on the hair and take special care to massage the blend into the scalp; Tie a cotton or muslin fabric over the head so that the pillow does not get soiled with the paste. Keep it overnight. Before you take bath, brush your hair with a comb with dense teeth. Use lukewarm fresh water to rinse the scalp. Practice this natural hair care method for a week.
Pure-coconut oil massage for a week will control dandruff. Notably, pure coconut hair oil aids lustrous growth of hair.
Grind 10 teaspoon of mustard with three teaspoon of fenugreek; add some water to make a paste. Apply it to the scalp. Keep it overnight. Use the method for a week. Wash off the hair with either herbal shampoo or the drained water of boiled rice mixed with green gram powder.