Essential oils are aromatic, concentrated plant extracts that have a wide range of uses, from creating the scents that emerge from aromatherapy diffusers to adding fragrance to lotions, soaps, and other beauty products.
These are the best essential oils for hair care:
Ylang Ylang
Ylang Ylang is made from the flowers of the herb Cananga odorata. Cananga odorata, known as the Cananga tree, is a tropical tree that is native from India, through parts of Indochina, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia, to Queensland, Australia. The fragrance of ylang-ylang is a sweet floral aroma with hints of jasmine and neroli. Ylang Ylang has a rich, sweet, and floral aroma. This essential oil works by stimulating hair growth to treat thinning hair and stimulates the production of our scalp’s natural sebum to nourish dry, damaged hair.
Lavender
Lavender oil is an essential oil obtained by distillation from the flower spikes of certain species of lavender. Lavender oil has antimicrobial properties, and it can be used to combat bacterial and fungal disorders. Some other lavender oil benefits are its ability to soothe the scalp and heal dry skin and hair. Plus, because emotional stress is a factor that can contribute to thinning hair, lavender oil can be used to create a tranquil and stress-free environment.
Rosemary
Rosemary oil is one of the top essential oils for hair thickness and growth. It is used to increase cellular metabolism, which stimulates hair growth and promotes healing. Research even shows that rosemary oil appears to work as well as minoxidil, a conventional topical hair loss treatment. When it comes to boosting your hair health, the benefits of rosemary oil also include preventing baldness, slowing the graying process, and treating dandruff and dry scalp.
Lemongrass
Lemongrass Essential Oil (Cymbopogon flexuosus) is also commonly known as Oil Grass. Lemongrass Essential Oil has an extremely strong fresh, lemony, grassy, and earthy aroma presenting a top-middle fragrance note. Lemongrass essential oil has healing properties, and it works as an effective cleanser and deodorizer. It can strengthen your hair follicles and soothe an itchy and irritated scalp.
Cedarwood
Cedarwood Essential Oil (Cedrus atlantica) has a strong warm, camphoraceous, sweet, woody, and balsamic aroma presenting base and middle fragrance notes. Cedarwood is used to help stimulate the hair follicles by increasing circulation to the scalp. It can promote hair growth and slow hair loss; it can also treat thinning hair and various types of alopecia.
Peppermint
Peppermint oil is extracted from the concentrated oil found in the peppermint plant. Peppermint oil helps to stimulate the scalp, and it can treat dandruff and even lice due to its powerful antiseptic properties. Peppermint has a pleasant sensation when applied topically, and it helps calming effects help to reduce skin inflammation. Also, it also works to energize your mind, boost your mood, and relieve tension or headaches.
Extracted through careful steam distillation, resin tapping, and cold pressing, the richest essential oils are far more powerful than the botanicals from which they come. Essential oils have enhanced lives for thousands of years offering a variety of benefits.