Best Ways to Use Hibiscus for Healthy Hair

When you pick up your regular hair care product like shampoos, conditioners, hair packs, or hair oil; do you look into the ingredients list before adding it into your cart? Well, most of us have this practice, unless it is a long tried and tested product.

Many hair care products from well known brands claim to have included hibiscus flowers/leaves in them for complete care of our hair.

Well, what more can be better if you can include the raw materials or key ingredients of your favorite hair products right from your garden plants.

Hibiscus is an easily grown plant in your garden. It does not need vast space, A tiny balcony space is good enough. A wide pot that fits in your balcony garden will also let the hibiscus plant to grow well. Just little watering every day is all you need to do in the name of caring for the plant.

The properties that hibiscus flower and leaves hold makes it the best bet to use it in its original form for all hair and scalp related problems.

How to use hibiscus flower for hair care?

1. Dry and store the petals

Collect few hibiscus flower from your very own garden grown plant, discard the pollens and any leafy green parts if attached to the flower, wash them clean and sundry for 5-6 days.  

Store these dried petals in an airtight jar and use as required.

2. Crush or blend fresh petals

Use the traditional method of crushing the flower petals in a mortar and pestle - the ancient Indian Ayurvedic form of creating the most effective and beneficial paste. 

Blending into a smooth paste in a mixer jar is the convenient method of recent times.

The freshly made hibiscus paste can be mixed with other ingredients to enhance the healing power of the mask.

3. The infusion method

This is yet again the most common method of reaping the essential properties and extracting the flavors of herbal material. Here, hibiscus flower petals.

Add petals to one cup of boiling water and continue till water reduces to half. Strain and use the decoction in various homemade hair masks recipes.

Infusing the floral extracts in hot oil is also the most commonly practiced method of using hibiscus flowers for hair care.

Homemade Hibiscus Hair Treatments 

Here are few easy recipes of homemade hair mask, hair oil, hair rinse using hibiscus flower

Hibiscus for treating dandruff

Dandruff can be a real problem to deal for a long time. Blend a fist full of hibiscus flower petals along with fresh juicy gooseberries pieces and make a smooth paste.

Apply on scalp and rinse with warm water. 

Hibiscus for soft shiny tresses

Make a fine powder using the dried hibiscus flower petals. Mix about 2 spoon full of hibiscus powder in half cup thick Greek yogurt. Beginning from the roots, apply all along the length of the tresses.

Leave for 30 minutes and shampoo. Enjoy softness and bouncy hair instantly. 

Hibiscus for treating split ends

Heat 4-5 hibiscus flower petals in about 50 ml of water. Bring to boil, switch off, and close with a lid.

Leave it over night so that all the essentials are infused in the water. Next morning, remove the petals before using the infused water.

To this, add aloevera gel and mix well. Cover your scalp with this mixture to provide great moisturization. Also cover the length of your hair.

Just rinse off with warm water. Avoid shampooing for the next 2 days.

Hibiscus in regular massage oil 

Follow the infusing method using coconut oil. Slightly warm 100 ml of coconut oil. Drop the dried petals of the hibiscus flower into the oil and allow it to settle. Store in clean air tight glass jar and allow the petals in the oil until you finish the oil.

Another best method is to place the petals in a clean bowl. Pour cold pressed coconut oil to the bowl and expose it to sunlight for about a week. Store in an airtight bottle.

This hibiscus infused coconut oil is very beneficial when used as hair massage oil.

Hibiscus, thus can be used in its natural form to prepare many homemade hair products. There are several bollywood celebrities who swear by hibiscus for natural hair car.

After all, there is nothing better than preparing your own homemade hair care products using natural herbal ingredients.