Hair Care -- Home Remedies for Dandruff

The expression dandruff usually refers to the state of the skin in which shiny, silvery scales disconnect from the scalp and gather amidst the hair. The situation can become worrying when the skin gets infected.

Dandruff Symptoms

The scales from the scalp fall

When the hair is combed or brushed, or when the scalp is scratched, the scales from the scalp drop like snowflakes and settle on the eye brows, shoulders, and clothes. These scales occasionally appear as lumps or crusts on the scalp.

Itching is there and scalp may turn into red

Often there is itching as well and the scalp may turn into red from scratching.

Dandruff Causes

Impairment of common health, wrong food intake, constipation

The main causes of dandruff are impairment of general health, development of a toxic condition mostly due to taking of wrong foods, constipation, and a low energy due to infectious diseases.

Emotional tension, harsh shampoos, general tiredness

Other causes contributing to this disorder are emotional tension, harsh shampoos, exposure to cold and general exhaustion.

Home Remedies for Dandruff :

·        Massage the Scalp with pure coconut oil. This will also help growth of hair.

·        Apply coconut oil which has been boiled with small onions for about 20 minutes. Wash it off with a mixture of green gram powder and water drained from cooked (boiled) rice.

·        Apply a mixture of almond oil and gooseberry juice with finger tips on the scalp.

·        Apply the warm mixture of olive oil, lemon juice and coconut oil. Do a steam -towel- wrap for 15 minutes and wash the hair with a mild .

·        Apply a paste of fenugreek and mustard to the scalp.

·        Mix Shikakai powder with the water drained from the cooked rice and wash the hair with it.

·        Crush  the leaves of five petal hibiscus flower and take the juice. Wash the hair with this juice.

·         Heat oil with a little camphor. Apply the oil in the scalp and massage for 10 minutes. After 30 minutes wash the hair with a herbal shampoo. Do the steam -towel- wrap for 15 minutes.

·         It is better to apply castor oil for a healthy growth of hair.

·         Wash hair with tea once in a week.

·         Apply besan in the hair and wash it with water drained from the cooked rice.

·         Soak a handful of gooseberries in a cup of milk for two hours. Make a paste and apply on the hair.

·         Apply the mixture of an egg white, 2 spoons 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 after an hour or so. 

·         Boil a few hibiscus flowers in coconut oil. Filter and use this  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.

·         Soak 1 teaspoon fenugreek in curd and keep it for a night. Apply 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.

·         Take a cup each coconut and mustard oil. 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.

Natural Conditioners 

·         Egg white is a good . 

·         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.