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Remedies for hair problems | Hair treatment | Basic hair care tips
NATURAL TIPS FOR HEALTHY HAIR​
For Dandruff
For Healthy and Shiny hair
  • It is better to apply castor oil for a healthy growth of hair.
  • Wash hair with [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]tea[/COLOR][/COLOR] once in a week.
  • Apply besan in the hair and wash it with water drained from the cooked rice.
  • Soak a handful of gooseberry in a cup of milk for two hours. Make it as a paste and apply in the hair.
  • Apply the mixture of an egg white, 2 spoon of castor oil, 1 spoon glycerin, in the scalp and hair. Wash it after some time.
  • Massage hair with warm coconut oil an hour before washing. Let it soak. Cover your head with a hot towel and wash your hair after an hour or so.
  • Boil a few hibiscus flowers in coconut oil. Filter and use this hair oil to control hair loss and thinning.
  • Do a 'steam-towel-wrap' once in a while, if your cuticles are damaged, as this steaming opens out the pores and absorbs the oil.
  • Deep condition with curd, beer and egg.
  • Mix a little vinegar in warm water and rinse your hair with this solution. This will add bounce to dull and lifeless hair.
  • Soak 1 teaspoon fenugreek in curd and keep it for a night. Have it in the next morning.
  • Boil coconut oil with the juices of curry leaves, basil, hibiscus flower and gooseberry. Apply on hair, keep it for sometime and rinse.
  • Egg white and curd is a good conditioner for hair.
  • Take a cup of coconut and mustard oils. Soak half a cup of curry leaves in the oil mixture and keep it for a night. Next morning, heat on a slow fire till the curry leaves turn crisp. Remove from heat and add two to three camphor balls. Allow oil to cool and then strain. Apply oil to hair roots using cotton wool along the parting and massage in circular movements. Leave the oil overnight and shampoo the next morning. Repeat twice a week.
  • Add a lemon peel to a 'shikakai' and 'amla' mixture while washing your hair.
For Graying
  • Take a little Mehandi , an egg, juice of half a lemon, one table spoon of instant coffee powder. Mix it together and apply on the hair. Wash it after 45 minutes.
  • Boil one cup of dried gooseberry with 4 cups of water. Add a pinch of sugar in it. Keep boiling till the quantity of the liquid reduces to one cup. Mix 2 cups of Mehendi, an egg, juice of a lemon and the gooseberry solution and apply on hair. Wash the hair after two hours.
 
ellennicole said:
My grandmother, who was also a beauitician, used to travel to India alot. (It's a long story) Anyway, she would always bring back some powdery stuff to rinse our hair out with. I'm not sure what it was, but was reddish in color, and smelled really good. It our hair really soft. I can't for the life of me remember what it was.
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Does any of these sound familiar? This was found on a site as well...

In India, aritha and shikakai powder are used to wash hair and as they do not have any chemicals, there are no side effects. A paste of urad dal and fenugreek powder is very good for the hair.
 
All I know is that indian hair products are GREAT. Ayurveda is where it's at. They understand that oil is important to hair health.. I can't tell you how many barely-walking indian kids I've seen in the markets with heads SOAKED in oil. It also makes their hair darker from a very young age. My boyfriend's mother is east indian and she doesn't henna but she uses a lot of coconut oil.
 
FlowerHair said:
I know I had a "most-beautiful-hair-I've-ever-seen-shock" every day when I visited India! Every woman had the most pretty, gleaming, shiny, super thick and healthy hair. It was amazing! I had to turn my head in every direction just to catch those super long braids, thick as my arm...:eek:

Not to mention that some of them stepped out of shacks in the ghettos and looked as if they just had a shower at the Hilton! I admire all women who struggle and still come out beautiful like that.
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I know what you mean. I live in an indian community. Their hair is so gorgeous. I asked this indian how did she grow her hair so long. She says she never cut it. Her hair or ends didnt look unhealthy at all. It was shiney and almost to the floor and super thick.

We have tons of indian markets around here. And I'll ask what oils to use. Im going to start asking them more questions about their hair regimens.
 
keluric said:
All I know is that indian hair products are GREAT. Ayurveda is where it's at. They understand that oil is important to hair health.. I can't tell you how many barely-walking indian kids I've seen in the markets with heads SOAKED in oil. It also makes their hair darker from a very young age. My boyfriend's mother is east indian and she doesn't henna but she uses a lot of coconut oil.
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Tell me about it. I love their Ayurveda oils. And I can get a big bottle for 4 bucks at the indian market. And a little goes along way.
 
All I can say is WOWWWWWWWWWOWOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!! I want my hair to bun up like that. It looks so strong and healthy like someone can swing on it. One of these days ladies one of these days!!!
 
sweetcashew said:
I'm not an expert or anything but what I know of Indians is that their hair regimen is pretty simple. I grew up among them and I still live in a predominantly Indian neighborhood and I see that kind of hair everyday.
They usually wash and condition with basic drugstore shampoo and conditioner (the cheaper the better cause a $20 bottle of conditioner will last one wash :lol: )
Air dry and coat the hair with coconut oil, put it in a braid or bun and go. The more modern Indians get their hair blow dried and flat ironed once a week at the salon and trimmed about once a month and their hair is still pretty long.
Indians are blessed. If you take a strand of their hair and hold it between your hands and try to burst it it's like trying to burst wire. You're more likely to succeed in cutting your hands than bursting that strand.
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What an easy regimen.

I worked with an indian girl who did this. ^^^

We should just steal their hair regimen and call it a day.
 
Great thread. Their hair...so thick and shiny! I stare at this Indian girl's hair at work. I can't wait until my bun looks like that
 
amr501 said:
OMG!! That's beautiful yet scary looking at the same time!
Just goes to show we're all into hair...it spans across every nationality!
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My sentiments exactly
 
O.K. so I wonder which one of these ladies hair I will be getting on my indian remy lace front in a couple of months LOL!
 
This is what started me to thinking about Ayurveda. I realized I never saw Indian women with booty hair! I've always felt like you should go with the winners. :yep:

I know a lot of it is genetic, but I'll capitalize on their hair care and see what I can see!
 
I love these two! :love:

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Great thread OP. I love admiring all the pics but I'm waaaayyy too lazy to maintain that much hair. I'd have birds nesting up in my head 'cause I can't imagine what h3ll wash day must be.

Wow!!! Simply beautiful!
 
Genetics aside...
...I think their regimens must be EXTREMELY simple, otherwise, why would so many women bother to grow their hair to suc great lengths.

I too am drooling of the thickness and the length. Very nice indeed!
 
Essensual said:
Genetics aside...
...I think their regimens must be EXTREMELY simple, otherwise, why would so many women bother to grow their hair to suc great lengths.

I too am drooling of the thickness and the length. Very nice indeed!
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...just thought I'd add...
I recently saw a documentary on PBS regarding India (here's the link: http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=3414391&clickid=body_bestsellers_txt) that implied that the first inhabitants of the southernmost part of India migrated along the shorelines from Africa. There's hope for my 4a/b napptural afterall! :lachen:
 
I think it has less to do with genetics than it does healthy eating and living; low maintenance regimen and using natural products on the hair. Keep in mind that Henna both strengthens and straightens the hair.
 
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