Essential oils are very potent and thereby they are super effective in terms of their benefits to the hair. Even though you need to only use a few drops, it will definitely take you a long way!
Using an essential oil hair spray overnight is one of the best practices to follow for your hair, as it can boost the health of your hair like never before.
Leaving the spray in overnight, can help it penetrate better into the hair shaft, scalp and hair follicles on the scalp, maximizing its benefits.
Check out this super simple DIY hair spray recipe, that you can leave on your hair overnight.
Overnight Rosemary Essential Oil Hair Spray benefits for the hair:
This recipe has just three simple ingredients, but super beneficial to the hair – aloe vera juice, castor oil and rosemary essential oil.
Here are their benefits:
Aloe vera juice:
Aloe vera is rich in vitamins and can promote healthy hair growth as it helps cleanse and nourish the scalp and can help reduce hair breakage and stimulate the hair follicles. It can calm and ease itchiness on the scalp, especially for people with dandruff.
It can promote the hair shine and give your hair a natural glow. Aloe vera juice helps control greasy hair, as it has enzymes and properties that can break down fats and strip away the extra oil (sebum) from the hair.
Using aloe vera juice for the hair can also protect the hair from ultra-violet (UV) damage and retain the natural hair colour.
Castor oil:
Castor oil contains ricinoleic acid that can help lock moisture in the hair and can promote healthier hair and a cleaner scalp, in turn promoting better hair growth right from the hair follicles.
It can help strengthen the hair strands and promote hair and scalp nourishment. Therefore, with a healthy scalp, it promotes a better environment for the hair follicles to grow out from.
It can also help increase circulation in the scalp and promote better absorption of other hair care products.
Rosemary essential oil:
Rosemary helps promote hair growth by healing the damaged hair follicles (by helping heal damaged nerve endings and tissues) as it contains ‘carnosic acid’. This property of rosemary essential oil can heal nerve endings and could possibly stimulate rejuvenation of hair follicles, in turn restoring hair growth.
The properties of anti-inflammation in rosemary essential oil can also help prevent and treat scalp conditions and reduce hair fall.
Here is a simple recipe of the three ingredient overnight essential oil hair spray for you to try out:
Ingredients:
Aloe Vera Juice
Castor Oil
Rosemary Essential Oil
Method:
Into a mixing bowl, add in the aloe vera juice, castor oil and a few drops of rosemary essential oil and mix it well. Then pour this into a spray bottle.
To use:
Before you go to bed at night, spray this essential oil hair spray randomly all over your scalp and hair and leave it on overnight. You can rinse it off the next morning or whenever you wash your hair next.