Chamomile is an herb that soothes, calms, lightens hair, adds shine to hair, and just smells amazing!
It’s one of my favorite herbs to use in my natural hair regimen. One of my favorite recipes using chamomile is:
- Chamomile flowers or tea. Bowl and steep about 3-4 bags, or 1-1.5 cups (25 grams-40 grams) of dried chamomile flowers. Allow to steep for about 10-15 minutes.
- Cassia Obovata. The quantity you use depends on your hair length, and thickness. For this recipe we’ll use this recipe based on 100 grams of powder
- Honey. About 3-4 tbsp
I mix all of this together. I use the liquid as needed, because the honey also adds liquid into this recipe, and I don’t want it to be runny. I let the whole recipe sit for about an 1 hour. If you want more of the golden tones (or lightening) to come out for your light hair, blonde tones, or gray hair then let it sit out for at least 3-4 hours. Then I applied this recipe starting from the front, working in sections and moving towards the back. Then I covered with my favorite Burt’s Bee shower cap. I left it in my hair for about 2-3 hours. For achieving hair lightening, and golden tones please let it sit in your hair for at least 3-4 hours.
I used this recipe personally on my dark hair, because the indian henna powder I had been using was getting too dark for me. It can push up to burgundy tones, and I wasn’t feeling it anymore. This recipe bounced by hair back up, and took off some of that darkness I didn’t want. It was perfect! I love this recipe. This was also at the point I transitioned to yemeni henna powder, which is my current favorite henna powder.
You can purchase our egyptian chamomile flowers at Henna Sooq.
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Hi… Can you safely add some Amla to this Chamomile, Honey, Cassia recipe treatment? Thank you.
SCW, yes absolutely, but of course I’d strain some of it depending on how you are putting this recipe together. Amla might not let as much of the golden come out though. But it wouldn’t do harm.
Hi .. I’m Asian with black hair. I have about 10 gray hairs on top of my head that I used to pluck. After reading about henna, I used your Yemeni, and it turned the grays into to beautiful reddish highlights. Two weeks later, I henna’ed my hair again with Fresh Jamila two days in a row in the hope of getting a more reddish tint on my black hair, but nada, no effect. If I use your honey recipe, will it have any lightening effect on my black hair? Will it change the color of my now reddish gray hairs?
Thank you for your post Eliz. The honey would also take out some of the henna if you use it to lighten. More deep red tones would be achieved if you continued to use yemeni henna as it’s usually much stronger in dye then Jamila and then add some hibiscus petal powder which we carry and a red tea as your liquid. That will boost the color but this does take at least a few applications to build up with henna. I hope this helps.
How often can I henna to build up the red tones on my black hair? My Asian co-worker has black hair like mine and has been using Jamila (with egg, lemon and coffee liquid) every 3 weeks for 4 years. She has lovely very visible red highlights which she says are NOT gray hair that has been colored by the henna, but that her black hair turned reddish from regular henna’ing. Do you think it is possible I can achieve the same results if I henna every week?
Hello Eliz. I’d recommend you do what your friend has been doing but for redder tones omit the coffee and use a red tea. Or hibiscus powder and such. Yes you can achieve that as well with regular henna’ing. It takes some time but it builds up and deepens over time. That is what I was recommending before for you to allow the henna to build up with several applications. Every week might dry out your hair especially if you plan on using lemon juice. At most every 3-4 weeks is recommended normally.
Do i add hibiscus to the Yemeni when I first mix it with the red tea liquid and let it sit 2-4 hrs waiting for dye release? Or do I add hibiscus to the Yemeni paste after the dye release has been achieved (just before I apply the paste on my hair)?
Eliz, No you add all the herbs together at once and then let it sit 2-4 hours
I have dark brown hair (never henna’d) that I want to lighten in order to allow my henna to show more colour. I used the chamomile water on my hair (mixed with conditioner) and left it in for about an hour and a half. I think it lightened my hair a bit in some areas. I’m wondering if I could steep chamomile and cassia in olive oil (instead of water) and apply it to my hair as an overnight pre-poo. Would that work to lighten my hair?
Thank you for your post Mel.
Chamomile with honey would work much better as honey is a natural hydrogen peroxide.
Have you had a chance to try out any new methods since last posting your question here?
Nope I haven”t tried anything. I was just wondering if there was a leave in method so that I can have the chamomile in my hair longer thatn 4 hrs. I didn’t know honey had a bleaching effect. I normally mix honey into my conditioner.
I just came across this recipe. I might try this and include chamomile in the mixture.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1220564/lighten_your_hair_with_honey.html?cat=69
Hi Mel.
Yes try to use honey and add that to the recipe for lightening affects.