If you have long hair, you know with long hair, come work and care. Working on the farm, it can be a challenge to keep your hair healthy. With all the things that must be done in a day, hair can often be an afterthought. Between the heat, sun, sweat, dirt, animal slobber, and general wear and tear, your hair can come up with some major damage after a while. For this, you need a good hair routine and that includes a good conditioner. A good hair growth tonic is a great addition to a healthy hair routine.
Of course, we like our own natural DIY conditioner. We have a simple recipe for flaxseed hair “tonic” or conditioner. This is a simple, few ingredient recipe but it does take a day or two to complete.
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You will need:
2 cups water
1/2 cup flax seed
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 teaspoon honey
essential oil: lavender, or rosemary your choice
To make:
Put your flaxseed into a jar.
Glass is best when working with oils. We keep and reuse all glass jars, so we always have some kind of jar on hand.
Add the water to the flaxseed. Put the top on and let it sit overnight. If you can not get back to it quickly, you can let this sit a day or 2. Do not let it sit too long or it will get gross.
The flaxseed and water mix will make a thin but viscous material, not as thick as a gel.
Strain off the mix and keep the liquid.
Side note: You can discard the flaxseeds or you can plant them as they have been soaked and are ready to plant.
We planted our flaxseed leftover to see if we could be flax started on the farm.
Add your oil, honey, and essential oils and mix to blend.
As always, we recommend StarWest essential oil as our personal go-to for hight quality oils and herbal needs.
Add the oils mix to your flaxseed liquid.
Mix well and store it until you are ready to use. Be sure to label your now hair tonic.
When you are ready to use it, tighten the lid and give it a good shake to mix the ingredients.
You can keep this at hand for a couple of weeks or put it in the fridge to keep it longer. As we have long hair, it does not stay around long enough to go bad at our house.
To use: In our research, we found there are different ways indicated to use this mix. We are not sure which one was the first way, which one is right, or even if it matters much which way you use it.
#1. Apply a small amount to your dry hair and let it sit for 30 minutes or so. Then wash as usual.
#2. Apply a small amount to your dry hair and let it rest overnight. Then wash in the morning as usual.
#3. Wash your hair as usual. Then apply a small amount to your hair, let it sit for 15 to 30 minutes. Then rise as usual.
This recipe mix does result in a thick, liquid that must be massaged into your scalp and hair. It is a bit gooey. We find it best to massage the gel into dry hair, wrap it for 30 minutes and then wash as we normally would. I personally can not deal with sticky goo, so I can not apply it at night and sleep on it.
Again, not sure which way is best but no one way is right for everyone. So try and see which way works best for you.
Flaxseed is great for hair, gives it the nourishment hair need,s and helps prevent and repair the damage.
Honey is known for its anti-bacterial properties as well as conditioning.
Olive oil is a great conditioner as well as hydrates.
Lavender and Rosemary are both know to help stop hair loss and strengthen hair.
This recipe should leave you with soft, shiny hair that can withstand daily wear. Also with regular use, it will help stop breakage and hair fall. As with most things, it may not work for everyone but we have had good results with it.
As always, we try to get all the “goody” we can out of things. We kept our flax seeds after we soaked them for this hair tonic. The next day we planted our now soaked flax seeds in an unused flower bed near the porch. We had already been considering growing flax on the farm so this was a good time to try it out.
As you can see from this series of pics, the flax seeds took hold and started growing quickly. So we now know, it is very easy to grow flax seeds and we will make a larger patch next time.
We were excited about our baby flax and hopeful that we could grow then up to a first if small harvest. However, one of the old cats took a liking to the soft patch and used it as her new favorite bed. It seems young flax is soft and fluffy. The cat using the baby flax as a bed, crushed and killed the tender little plants. That was bad but we still learned something, make sure to protect your baby flax plants from lazy cats in the future. We will try flax again but without the cat’s help next time.
We hope you have enjoyed this talk and please try it out. See for yourself, if it works for you.
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