Thursday, July 16, 2009

Here are some natural methods to color your hair:

Here are some natural methods to color your hair:

Ingredients needed

* Henna (natural)- 1 cup
* Dried Gooseberry powder- 1 tbsp
* Coconut oil or olive oil - 2 tsp
* Tea decoration

Boil 1 heaped tsp of tea powder in 200 ml of water until it reduces to half the quantity. Strain the decoction.

Mix henna powder, gooseberry powder, oil and tea decoction together and leave it overnight in an iron vessel.

Apply it to the scalp in the morning .Remain for 1-2 hours and wash it off.

For dark brown shade, mix half a teaspoon cloves powder (or powder 3-4 cloves) in the morning to the henna mixture.

For rich copper color, add a few drops of eucalyptus oil to the henna mixture in the morning.

For silky hair, beat an egg and add to the henna paste in the morning.


2.Soak a cup of red henna powder (natural) in half a cup of hot water in an iron vessel and leave it overnight.

The next morning add 1 tbsp of coffee powder (pure) to it for a deeper color.

Apply to the scalp in the morning, remain for 1-2 hours and wash it off.

For silky hair, beat an egg and add to the henna paste in the morning.


* Henna Mahogany produces a golden brown shade.

3.Do not go for chemical hair dyes as they might cause allergies. Mix sikkakai with juice of 1 beetroot and wash your hair with this mixture. Do this regularly once in a week.

4.For healthy hair


Mix 50 grams of dried amla (gooseberry) in 500 ml gingerly oil or coconut oil and boil it. Cool it, filter it and use that oil for healthy hair.

Mix 50 grams of dried amla in 500 ml coconut oil. Keep it in a glass bottle or glass jar with a tight lid. Keep the glass jar containing the mixture in the sun for 15 days .The oil turns black in color. Strain the oil and use it .This oil not only gives a black color to your hair, but also stops hair fall.

Boil
coconut oil and add a handful of curry leaves to it .Then switch off the gas. After it cools, filter it and use that oil to massage your hair.This prevents hair fall and also delays graying.
Make your own herbal shampoo:

Ingredients needed

Sikkakai -1 kg

Dried Lemon peels

Curry leaves (dried)

Hibiscus flowers (ordinary red flower alone)

Fenugreek -250 grams

Green gram - 250 grams

Soap nuts (deseed it ,dry it )-100 grams (optional)

Dry everything in the sun and give it for grinding to the flour mill or you can buy all these powder (pure) and mix it and use it.

Herbal shampoo of Bengal gram or green gram flour :

Mix green gram flour or Bengal gram flour with water and use it to wash your hair.The hair becomes soft, clean and shining.