If you think your kitchen ingredients just exist for food, you couldn’t be more wrong. Since time immemorial queens and princesses and women known for their beauty have been swearing on natural remedies. And what could be more precious to a woman than having luxuriant hair. Here are a few tips that could help you have the hair of your dreams.
- Add 6-8 drops of lemon juice to an egg. Beat well and apply on your hair followed by washing with a herbal shampoo.
- Amla (gooseberry), shikakai (acacia concinna) powder mixed with curd is a good hair conditioner.
- Mix curd, lemon and mustard oil, apply gently on hair and wash your head after about half an hour.
- Add few leaves Hibiscus (China rose) to a glass of water and heat it. The juice of a lime should be squeezed in the sieved mixture and it should be applied to the hair before shampooing.
- The oil from the amla (gooseberry), prepared by boiling dry pieces of amla in coconut oil, is a hair tonic for enriching hair growth and prevent hair loss.
- Use lavender or lemon shampoo if your hair is oily and rosemary oil/ shampoo if your hair is dry.
- Rinse hair with lemon juice or vinegar
- Dry peels of lemon and oranges should be used. This will maintain soft and silky hair and also removes dandruff from the scalp.
- Drink 10-12 glasses of water daily and have a high protein diet with plenty of fruits, vegetables and dairy products.
- Two tablespoons of fenugreek (methi) seeds soaked overnight in water. The softened seeds should be grounded into a fine paste in the morning and applied over the scalp & left for half an hour and then washed thoroughly. This is highly affective to remove dandruff.
- Mustard oil boiled with henna (mehndi) leaves is useful for the healthy growth of hair.
- Massage the hair often with almond or olive oil to make it soft and healthy.