Home Remedies

Certain herbs and natural substances have been found useful in giving shine and lustre to the hair. One such method is to add a few teal leaves to a glass of water and to then heat it. The juice of a lime should be squeezed in the sieved mixture and the mixture should applied to the hair before shampooing.

The juice of celery leaves (ajwain ka patta) helps to grow long and lustrous hair. Two or three handfuls of celery leaves should be boiled in water. It should then be cooled and strained. The juice of lime should be added to it. This mixture should be used to rinse the hair after washing.

Dry peels of lemons and oranges can also be used beneficially to give lustre and shine to the hair. These peels should be used with soap-nut (reetha) or shikakai, while shampooing the hair. This will maintain soft and silky hair also remove dandruff from the scalp.

Rinsing the hair with the juice of a lemon or vinegar also gives lustre to the hair. Add lemon-juice or vinegar to half a bucket of water. After washing the hair, rinse it with this water.

Castor oil, being unsaturated, can be used to rejuvenate the hair.It can be used externally by rubbing it into the scalp at bedtime, and the hair should be washed the next morning. Alternatively, the oil may be rubbed into the scalp and a large towel which has been dipped in hot water and wrung out, may be tied around the head for a white. This allows greater penetration of the oil deep into the surface of the scalp.