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Soft & Shiny Herbal Hair Rinse
- Description
- Ingredients
Hibiscus contains mucilage and plant proteins and can add warm highlights, provides excellent slip and helps detangle your hair.
Horsetail is nourishing and hydrating, stimulating blood vessels in the scalp and has been used for centuries as a hair growth herb. The silica in horsetail helps to keep hair strong and adds shine and luster to hair.
Nettle stimulates the scalp, improves circulation, and helps promote fuller, more radiant hair. Nettles have a long-standing reputation for making the hair soft and shiny. Nettle, an excellent hair conditioner, is rich in minerals and plant hormones, is tonic and astringent, and gives a healthy gloss to hair.
How to Use
Directions for a Simple Detangler Hair Tea Rinse:
- Fill muslin bag or infuser with 2 tablespoons to 1/4 cup of herbs.
- Pour 1 1/4 cups or more of boiling water over herbal bag.
- Steep for at least 30 minutes covered.
- Remove herbs from the tea and make sure it’s not too hot.
- Use a Whole Head Rinse:
- As you slowly pour the tea over your wet head, massage the infusion into your hair and scalp.
- Keep a large bowl under your head to catch the liquid and reapply several times.
- Gently rinse it out with cool water or, for extra conditioning benefits, just leave it in and towel dry hair.
- Comb from the bottom up using a large-toothed comb.
- Spray:
- Pour the tea into a spray bottle.
- Spray tea on freshly washed hair and comb through.
- Do not rinse out, just style as usual.
Always make and store herbal hair preparations in nonreactive containers. Refrigerate leftover hair tea for 7 -10 days in a clean airtight container. Do not refrigerate tea in an aluminum container.
Ingredients: Hibiscus (Hibiscus sabdariffa) Flower, Horsetail (Shavegrass) (Equisetum arvense) Aerials, Nettle Leaf (Urtica dioica)
The 100g bag would be enough herbs for 25+ rinses, 40g should give you around 10 rinses, and the tea bags - well, you'll use one each rinse. Remember to compost your discarded herbs and tea bags!
This tisane rinse is not meant to be drunk as a tea - it's not been balanced for flavour, and horsetail especially has not been approved for ingestion by pregnant or lactating women or those who take antiviral drugs. As with all herbal concoctions, seek medical advice if you are unsure about using herbs.