Share a Cuppa With Your Hair

Tea is rich in antioxidants that fight free radicals and keep our bodies healthy, but it also can be therapeutic for your hair and scalp. Break out the tea pot, and brew these tried and true do-it-yourself hair treatments:

• Fight dandruff and add shine with 1/4 cup of dried lavender simmered in two cups of water. After cooling, saturate hair and scalp and leave on fifteen minutes before rinsing.
• Help stimulate hair growth by steeping 1/4 cup of dried rosemary in two cups of water until it reaches room temperature. Massage onto scalp, cover hair with a shower cap, and leave on as long as you’d like, even overnight, to tone and clarify.
• Add subtle, natural looking highlights to blonde hair with a rinse made from 1/3 cup dried chamomile flowers steeped in one quart of hot water until cool. Strain well, and pour over hair, repeating if desired. Leave in hair for fifteen minutes, then rinse.

Rich Moisture At An Affordable Price

You don’t have to pay exorbitant prices for a rich, luxurious at home hair treatment. The Body Shop Brazil Nut Moisture Mask ($14.00) uses simple, natural ingredients to restore hydration to dry hair effectively. In addition to brazil nut, lanolin and sesame oil moisturize your hair while organic olive oil lends it’s protective properties to your scalp. The addition of organic honey in this product, another of nature’s fabulous moisturizers, provides income for beekeepers- a role that is increasingly being filled by women! Before you shampoo, scoop out a generous helping and apply to hair, leaving in fifteen minutes, or overnight if you choose. Rinse hair, then shampoo and condition as usual.