Tea Rinse for your Natural Hair

I am doing this post in response to aloted and coyintrovert’s question.

Tea Rinse is washing your hair with tea bag extracts. The caffeine penetrates the hair follicles to take their effect. Doing the tea rinse also adds shine to the hair. It strengthens the hair thereby reducing breakage

Chamomile Tea
from Science Daily

Nettle Tea
from Buzzle

Green Tea
from Walax Green Tea

Sage Tea
from Planet Green

Black Tea
from Healthy Living

How to use

You can put a concentrated tea bag extract in a spray bottle and spray it all over your hair. keep it in the hair for 10 to 30 minutes and rinse out later

The second way is to soak the tea bag in a kettle. This method requires more water than the previous. Make the water lukewarm and slowly pour over your hair after washing with shampoo and conditioner

I use the later method and believe me, as I am pouring the extract, I feel the difference immediately.

As we know, different Tea extract have different function on the hair. it is advisable that you know effect you want the rinse to have on your hair before you choose what to use.

Black Tea

The caffeine in most Teas will help stimulate hair growth. The more the caffeine, the higher possibility it has to stain/colour your hair. This is more applicable to black tea so you have to be very careful as too much caffeine can stunt hair growth. The best guide is to diliute as much as possible if you want to use Black Tea

It adds shine to the hair

They strengthen the hair thereby reducing breakage

Green Tea- Helps in combating hair loss and soothes the scalp and helps with scalp irritation

Nettle – This prevents and treats dandruff and helps blood circulation in the scalp so it can therefore be used during the winter period

Rosemary – This helps stimulate the scalp, prevent hair loss and grow hair

Chamomile – It accentuates the natural highlights of the hair

Sage – Helps reduce oil build on the scalp

From research, I realized that most people use Black Tea, which is what I use also, so I guess it is not that bad

I hope this has been useful for you

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