Lightening your hair color at home is always tricky. Most often lightening attempts can turn into hair color disasters and can quite costly to fix. Use natural ingredients wisely. As most can be drying to your hair. And please don't attempt to go more than a half shade to a full shade lighter than your natural color. This is when orange hair comes into play!
The below natural ingredients have been known to lighten hair. You will not get a bleached effect, more so a subtle highlight change. Several applications may have to be done to notice results in your hair color.
Rhubarb
Rhubarb, added with citrus extracts lemon, grapefruit or pineapple, creates the perfect natural highlighting effect on blondes and brunettes. Time and heat from the sun will lighten and add shine to the hair. Several application might apply.
How to Lighten Hair naturally with Rhubarb:
You'll need 3/4 oz. powdered rhubarb root and 4 cups water.
Directions: Simmer rhubarb root in 4 cups of water in a pot for 1 hour. Let the mixture cool, and then strain it through a sieve.
To Use: Use the strained liquid as a final rinse after washing and conditioning your hair. Pour the rinse through your hair over and over again. Catch the liquid in a bowl. Results will be a slight, warm or bright highlights in your blond or light-brown hair.
Honey
Honey contains natural Hydrogen peroxide. Iron in honey oxidizes the oxygen free radicals released by the hydrogen peroxide.
Method for lightening hair color with Honey:
Mix 3/4 cup honey with 1/12 cups regular hair conditioner
Apply to damped hair. Wrap hair in saran wrap or a plastic shower cap.
Let sit for up to 8 hours, then rinse.
Henna
Henna, the colorless kind can create an herbal hair bleach by mixing with orange, lemon and cucumber juice and apply to hair.
Chamomile
Chamomile is a great way to brighten dull blonde hair color. Using a chamomile rinse several times over a week or so will brighten those locks in no time! Also check out our Chamomile shampoo recipe here
Method for lightening hair color with Chamomile:
Steep 1/2 cup of the chamomile flowers in a 6 cups of boiling water for 30 minutes
Strain the tea, and allow to cool
Shampoo and condition hair as normal.
Tip head over bathtub or sink. Use a bowl underneath to catch the liquid. Pour the tea through towel-dried hair a few times.
Leave on hair for 30 minutes; then rinse with clean water
Lemon
Lemon. Who hasn't tried lemons to lighten their hair! This method works great to lighten hair color. You can use the juice from fresh lemons or an easier way is to buy the lemon juice concentrate from the store.
With lemons, you need heat. Best to sit in the sun or wrap hair with saran wrap then apply heat with a blowdryer. But the sun does work the best
Dilute the lemon juice with 3 parts juice, 1 part water. Mix in a spray bottle and apply to hair before sunning.
You can also add 1 tbs of Olive oil to the mixture to combat the drying effects of the lemon juice on the hair
Always condition after using lemon juice to lighten the hair! Lemon juice is very drying on the hair.
Natural Herbs For Hair Color Shopping List
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Marigold flowers also known as Calendula , chamomile flowers, nettle, rhubarb root, safflower, mullein flowers, Catnip, rosehips, lemon
paprika, rosehips, cloves, Cherry Bark, Beet Juice, Henna, Madder Root, Alder Bark, Hibiscus, Saffron, Rosehips
sage, rosemary , Oak bark, Potato, black tea, Walnut, Cloves
Barberry, ginger, Goldenrod Powder, Lichen, Rhubarb, Bloodroot
Bay leaves, black walnut hulls, burdock root, nettle, quassia bark, cloves, cinnamon, Coffee, Sage, Potato, Molasses, Oak bark, Red Sandalwood
Alder Bark (black), Juniper, Lavender, Nettle, Black Tea, Blackberry Shoots (black), Coffee, Dock Root (black) Indigo Powder ( Deep blue black), Elder Bark (black), Rosemary, Sage
Black, Red, Sherry, Mahogany, Burgundy, Dark Brown, Light Brown, Medium Brown, Copper, Strawberry, Marigold Blonde, Neutral
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