2 Holistically Healthy Hair Color Treatments

If you’d like to change your hair color or restore your hair’s natural color, try these natural, healthy color treatments.

Did you know that between about 66 to 74 percent of women use hair-coloring products? Men use them as well! Chances are good that you’ve either already colored your hair once in your life or are planning to.

But researchers found that many hair-coloring products can cause cancer and other diseases because they contain toxic chemicals. (Think about it, if it’s not safe to ingest something you’re putting in your hair – then it’s probably dangerous.) These dangerous chemicals seep into your body when they get absorbed through your skin. In fact, Grecian Formula’s hair-coloring products containing lead acetate have been found to cause nerve problems and are highly suspected of causing cancer.

Don’t worry – you can still color your hair safely! Thankfully, there are holistically healthy ways to color your hair that may also heal your body (instead of damage it like what most commercial hair-coloring products often do). Here are two holistic hair-coloring treatments you can try:

Here’s a useful tip: Homemade hair-coloring treatments are less precise and need more experimentation before you can get the color you want. Before trying a new hair-coloring treatment, cut a lock of hair and apply the treatment to it first.

1. Lighten or Darken Your Hair With Tea

Tea is made from antioxidant-rich plants. These same antioxidants that protect your hair from damage and your body from cancer and free radicals also have strong coloring properties.

Seep three to five teabags (loose-leaf tea is healthier) into two cups of water. Apply the brew to your hair and let sit for an hour or longer. After rinsing your hair, you might find you need to repeat the process to get the exact color intensity you desire.

If you’d like to darken your hair, use black tea. If you’re naturally blonde and would like to lighten your hair, use chamomile tea. Unlike toxin-containing commercial hair-coloring products, it’s great if chamomile tea is absorbed into your skin. It’s rich in healing compounds that have been found to lower inflammation, help treat insomnia, help protect your heart, and help protect you from cancer.

2. Add a Passionate Red Color or Highlight to Your Hair With Herbs and Juices

If you’re looking to color your hair red or give it a stylish flare with red highlights, try simmering calendula, hibiscus, marigold, or rosehips flower petals in water for half an hour. Strain out the flowers and let the dyed water cool. Apply the dyed water to your hair with a spray bottle or directly pouring it.

These wonderful flowers will diligently redden your hair the more you apply their dye. If the first treatment doesn’t give you the crimson you’re looking for, apply it again the next day and the day after. Your hair will continue to get redder and redder with each daily application.

If marigold’s natural compounds get absorbed through your skin, they’ll help soothe any inflammation and help prevent cancer and tumor growth. Hibiscus has been found to lower your blood pressure and protect your heart. Rosehips has been found to soothe pain, especially from arthritis.

You can also change your hair color to beautiful shades of strawberry blonde, auburn, or deeper red by playing with mixtures of beet and carrot juice. Add more or less of each juice for your final mixture to create your desired dye. Apply the mixture to your hair directly and leave it on for at least an hour. You can repeat the process if the color intensity is too light.

Carrot juice and beet juice are both rich in vitamins, minerals, and other wonderful nutrients that your body needs. It’s a huge bonus if these nutrients get absorbed through your skin. Plus, their vitamin A and antioxidant content heal and protect both your hair and skin!

Another useful tip: Your new holistic color treatment will last longer if you wash your hair soon after with a solution of a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar and a cup of water. You can use a spray bottle.

Quit using commercial hair-coloring products that scientists are worried can cause cancer and other diseases. You should only put on your hair what’s safe enough to eat – why apply something dangerous to your body? Try these two holistically healthy natural hair-coloring treatments that can color and revitalize your hair the same way commercial products do. As a bonus, they’ll also heal your whole body!