The Green Beauty Guide: Your Essential Resource to Organic and Natural Skin Care, Hair Care, Makeup, and Fragrances

Neutral henna is an excellent toner for oily scalps that are prone to dandruff. Prepare a quick hair
mask with neutral (uncolored) henna, aloe vera juice, and lemon juice, blended in equal proportions,
and then massage it into your hair and scalp. Leave it on for a few minutes. This mask can lighten your
hair color a little bit, so you may want to replace lemon juice with organic apple cider vinegar.

Sweet and Sour Oily Hair Conditioner

1 cup jojoba oil

½ cup lemon juice

2 teaspoons brown sugar

5 drops rosemary essential oil

5 drops sage essential oil

5 drops tea tree essential oil

Yield:

4 ounces

Brown sugar works as a mild soothing agent. For dark hair, you may substitute apple cider
vinegar for the lemon juice because it can be mildly bleaching. But if you do want to lighten your
hair a little bit, go ahead and use lemon juice!

1. Combine all ingredients in a glass container and shake well to dissolve the sugar.


2. Apply the blend to dry, unwashed hair, starting at the roots and massaging the oil into the
   scalp. Rub the oil into the hair in a downward motion away from the scalp to seal the hair
   cuticle. Scalp massage encourages the penetration of active essential oils and helps prevent
   pore clogging with dry sebum and dead skin cells.


3. Comb the hair through. Follow with a mild shampoo. Massage the shampoo into hair, slowly
   adding water as the oil dissolves. Lather as usual and rinse.

Green Solutions for Dry, Damaged Hair

Coloring, highlighting, perming, straightening, air-conditioning in the summer, heating during the
winter, too little sleep, too many chemicals in your shampoo—all of these can dry out hair and make
the scalp itchy and flaky. This should not be mistaken for dandruff, which is usually accompanied by a
greasy scalp.

While conventional conditioners simply coat the hair and scalp in silicones and mineral oil,
providing instant results that are gone before the end of the day, natural solutions work slowly but the
effect remains longer.

Shampoo your hair with plain egg. It may sound ridiculous and feels even worse, but the effect is
completely worth it. Eggs won’t lather and will try to sneak through your fingers. Be prepared to
waste a few eggs down the drain until you master the technique. The trick is to carefully separate the
yolk and use it on your hair; save the egg white for a tightening, nourishing mask or a quick salt scrub
for your face. If you prefer your shampoo to lather, make a simple egg shampoo by blending one egg