Blending Your Own Hair Growth Stimulating Formula From The Finest Botanical Extracts

Essential oils are fast becoming recognized as important natural therapeutic ingredients to personal care products. Extracts of many plants, including Rosemary and Sage (now popular hair care essential oils) have long been used to stimulate hair growth, and promote truly healthy and beautiful hair. Here's a look at creating a personal formula specifically for stimulating hair growth for both men and women. The recipes are easy to make at home, with readily available ingredients.

Building a Super-Effective Hair Growth Stimulating Recipe

The oils used for hair growth are also those used for skin care in general -- the health of the follicles is of course closely related to the health of the scalp and skin. Essential oils for your most effective, custom recipe can be selected from one of three general categories. These are: stimulating (may signal new hair to grow), nutritive (offers important nutrients), and balancing (helps over-oily or over-dry conditions become normal). The most deeply therapeutic means of using essential oils for hair growth is to make an oil treatment formula -- a blend of essential oils and carrier oils that is massaged into the scalp and left for some period of time (rather than simply just adding to your conditioner or shampoo).

Choosing Essential Oils for Scalp Stimulation

Rosemary and Sage essential oils, as well as "low-tech" infusions from these herbs, have a VERY long history in hair care. Women have been using these herbs for centuries to promote full, lustrous heads of hair. Though their use by women does not preclude their use by men. The are certainly "gender neutral". Each of these essential oils contains unique molecules that are considered "regenerative", stimulating the growth of new cells. In terms of growing hair, this activity is thought to activate the follicles to work a little faster at their job. Note that the oils of choice here are "common" Sage, and a special kind of Rosemary called "verbenone". The "cineol" type will not have the same effect, so be careful in your choices. Use these at a maximum of 2% of your blend (that's total, not each!).

Getting Some Vitamins to the Hair Follicles

There are certain vitamins and vitamin-like compounds known to stimulate hair growth. Like the pharmaceutical preparation "Retin A" contains something similar to vitamin A (and does stimulate hair growth for some men), Carrot and Sea Buckthorn essential oils contain similar compounds. These are actually found as CO2 extracts, found in the same category as essential oils in stores. These oils are often used between 1 and 2 percent concentrations.

A Few Oils for Maximum Overall Health

Many folks have certain skin conditions which can exacerbate hair loss. Sometimes it's inflammation or irritation due to a mild infection. Sometimes it's an over-production of skin oils that can clog pores and result in thinning hair. Older women may be in need of balancing estrogen on a cellular level. So choose one or more of these "balancing" oils to round out your formula: Lavender is the best all-around balancing oil where no particular skin condition is apparent. Sometimes called "medicine chest in a bottle", it can really bring an overall synergy to your recipe. For over-oily skin types, Myrtle is an excellent choice. Often used in acne formulas, it is thought to return the scalp's oil production back to normal. Finally, Clary Sage is THE choice for mature women with thinning hair, as it may reduce the effects of changes in estrogen levels that have affected hair growth.

How Are These Oils Applied? In Come the Carrier Oils!

Once you're essential oils are selected, you can create your own oil treatment formula by adding them to one or more carrier oils. The most popular carrier oils for hair care are: Jojoba, primarily used for moisturizing and giving hair a wonderful luster. Virgin coconut, while needing to be gently melted first to blend with other carriers, is fast becoming one of the most highly-praised therapeutic carrier oils. It is thought to have a very positive effect on hair loss all by itself, and like jojoba, will also result in wonderful hair texture. Evening Primrose is a very important carrier, offering essential fatty acids that we may easily be deficient in. This is best used by mature women, and also where the scalp is generally irritated. Hemp may also be used here. Finally, another very therapeutic carrier oil is Rosehip seed. It, like the nutritive essential oils, has vitamin-like compounds in it that have been shown in studies to promote youthful skin development. While it has not been as extensively researched for hair growth, there's no reason to think it shouldn't have as profound an effect on the scalp and follicles.

Getting Down To Business: Mixing Your Hair Growth Elixir!

Sometimes people are a little intimidated by mixing their own essential oil formula, but it's really much easier than even baking cookies. Let's describe how to make 1 ounce of hair stimulating blend, and then you can easily multiply the values to make larger amounts. This is best done in a 1 ounce empty dropper bottle, but again, you can start with a larger one if you like. To make the base, fill the bottle most of the way with your carriers. If you're using using more than one carrier, estimating equal parts of each is fine. Make sure you leave a little room at the top for the essential oils! So, for each 1% of an essential oil, just add 8 drops of that oil to your bottle. Using 1% Rosemary? Add 8 drops. 2% Lavender, 16 drops. 1/2% Sage? 4 drops. To Make 2 ounces of final blend, just double these numbers -- to make 4 ounces, multiply them by 4, and so on.

Great Recipes to Get You Started

Each recipe will make four (4) ounces total formula, which should last 2-4 months with regular use. For women, use equal parts of all four carriers -- that's 1 ounce each Coconut, Rosehip, Evening Primrose and Jojoba (of course you're free to modify this !). Add the following essential oils: 16 drops Sage, 16 drops Rosemary, 64 drops Sea Buckthorn, 32 drops Lavender and 16 drops Clary Sage. This will be an absolutely amazing formula. For men, use 2 ounces each Coconut and Rosehip Seed (if you are prone to acne, use Hemp instead of Rosehip). Add the following essential oils: 32 drops Rosemary, 16 drops Sage, 64 drops Carrot Root, 32 drops Lavender. Again, a truly excellent formula!

Gently invert or "spin" the mixture until you feel it's blended. The best absorption occurs right after the scalp has been immersed in warm water and lightly dried. One dropper-full distributed evenly over the scalp is often enough for complete coverage. Massage in, and leave as long as you like. Overnight is great, just make sure to cover your pillows! And there you have it, your very own, custom, high-end botanical extract formula for stimulating the growth of bountiful, healthy hair.

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Essential oils have a very broad range of uses, from just making a room smell nice, to combating the most challenging bacterial infections. The term 'aromatherapy' includes all these uses. To learn more, visit The Ananda Apothecary online.

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