Discover Green Tea therapies for healthy hair. ~ Whitney Naturals Blog

The holidays are here again! 😃😃😃😊😊 I hope you are having great time with the ones you loves. I am sure having a Wow time with family 😄 So I decided to put up a post now that have some free time.

Have you ever used tea on your hair? Some might think l mean using tea made of bournvita and milk. No. l mean tea made from infused harvested tea leaves or bagged tea. lt is common here to find tea in the bagged form (eg Lipton tea) than in leaves or powder in the grocery shops. There are different kinds of tea but our focus in this post will be on green tea and how you can use it on your hair.

Green tea is effective in reducing hair loss and promoting hair growth. How?

Green tea is rich in vitamins (A,C, E) and minerals that strengthen hair follicles.

Green tea contains antioxidants in form of catechins and its derivatives with epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) constituting a greater part.EGCG relaxes the arteries (blood vessels), improving blood circulation in the micro cappillaries to hair folicles and acts as protection from harmful UV rays

Green tea contains 5-alpha-reductase that blocks DHT (dihydrotestosterone), that is responsible for causing baldness 😀 thereby fighting baldness.

Green tea proves to be an excellent scalp cleanser thereby preventing scalp infections like dandruff.

So the question now is, how can you incorporate green tea in your hair care regime?

Hair rinse
Simply brew about 2 -3 tea bags in a cup of boiled water for about 5 minutes. Take out the tea bags, allow to cool. lf you are using green tea leaves, you might have to leave it in the boiled water a longer time to infuse.
Next, gradually pour it over your hair and massage your scalp as you do. Cover your hair and rest for about 20 minutes. Then rinse it out with cool water and then style on damp hair.

Hair protein treatment.
Beat an egg into 2tbsp of well grounded green tea powder. Apply it over and leave it on for about an hour. Then rinse it out well with cool water. this hair treatment might leave particles of the green tea in your hair. But they do come off from hair with time. So you do not need to worry about trying this hair treatment.

Mix with oils
Mix green tea powder with a carrier oil like coconut oil, olive oil or jojoba oil to a desired consistency. Leave it in for at least 24 hours to infuse well into the oil. Next sieve on a clean light cloth. A cotton hankerchief will do. This is a bit messy. You do not need to bother washing the oils of your hands. Just rub it off on your hair. Apply the infused oil over your hair from hair tips to scalp. Gently massaging your scalp. Cover your hair and rest for about 1hour. Then rinse it off. This can serve as rinse out conditioner.

For maximum benefits, you need to use pure green tea. Over processed green tea with additives might have lost some of its nutrients. I found out that pure green tea does not taste all that great. So that might be the reason some people prefer drinking brewed green tea bags that have additives.

You can get green tea brands at grocery shops/supermarket in and around town/cities here in nigeria. To isolate a pure green tea brand, examine the content on the ingredient list before you buy. Some green tea brands contain ginseng, honey, lemon, ginger and more. You can shop varieties here

l isolated some good green tea brands you can shop online.

Julestherapy -Green tea extract
Puritan's Pride - Green tea leaves
Eco Essence Organics Green tea extract

lf you are not the DIY kind of person 😆, you can get good hair products that contain green tea. Here are some of them