Research into the different kinds of products you can use for your hair can always be tough. Sometimes, it may just be best to look to what Mother Nature has to offer. A lot of the natural remedies like essential oils and herbal teas can be beneficial in the overall health of your scalp and hair. For this blog, we’ll be going over an essential oil, castor oil, and see if it really can help you grow new hair.
So, let’s answer the big question: can castor oil help grow hair? Sort of. Castor oil doesn’t by itself grow hair. It’s not to be treated as a replacement to medication like minoxidil that has been proven to grow hair. Instead, castor oil has properties that can aid processes in your body that have a direct access to your hair follicles. From there, your hair follicles will absorb the nutrients, energy and proteins it needs to grow new healthier hair.
Castor oil has been found to increase blood flow on the area of the skin where the oil is rubbed into. This can be good for your scalp and hair follicles, as an increase in blood flow means that there are more nutrients going to your hair follicles to help promote growth.
Castor oil also has the added benefit of being an excellent moisturizer for the scalp. Having a dry scalp can lead to that skin causing irritations and may fall off - taking some hair with it. Having moisturized hair can also help with protecting your hair from substances that can impede growth or damage hair follicles.
Paired with moisturizing the skin, castor oil also contains antifungal properties that can help reduce dandruff. There's an ingredient in castor oils, undecylenic acid, that helps with treating fungal viruses and buildup - especially in the hair.
Following all the instructions that are on the label when applying the castor oil would reduce your chances of misusing the oil. However, the oil is safe for use. Leaving the oil in your hair for too long without washing it (about 2 hours or so), you scalp can dry out.
Either by applying it right onto you skin or by consuming it directly, using too much castor oil can lead to adverse effects, some of them listed below. If unsure how to move forward with how much castor oil to use, we recommend seeking a doctor or a professional that can provide proper guidance on how to use castor oil for your hair. Some of the negative effects of using too much castor oil are:
Either by applying it right onto you skin or by consuming it directly, using too much castor oil can lead to adverse effects, some of them listed below. If unsure how to move forward with how much castor oil to use, we recommend seeking a doctor or a professional that can provide proper guidance on how to use castor oil for your hair. Some of the negative effects of using too much castor oil are:
To help provide proper care for your hair using castor oil, we recommend applying it to your scalp by dropping some castor oil into your hair (or the recommended amount from your doctor). Just a few drops will do, and then lightly massage it into your scalp - especially the regions where you see that your hair is thinning. Castor oil will then get to work on improving the blood flow of your scalp, be an excellent anti-fungal agent and moisturizer for the skin. In consumed directly, it can lead to some promotion of hair growth, but this will be through obtaining better health that will eventually lead to more efficient hair growth.
Castor oil can be found either online or in stores. There are plenty of websites and physical locations that offer castor oil with different potencies and methods of extraction. You may see that some castor oils are “cold pressed,” meaning that in the creation of the oil, no heat was applied. This could be seen as better, as the nutrients and properties of the oil haven’t been tampered by heat in anyway. If going in-person to purchase castor oil, you can find it in the aisles that pertain to health and supplements.
If we haven’t made it clear this far, castor oil won’t be able to stimulate any form of hair growth on its own. Castor oil is beneficial to the overall health of your hair which will lead to more efficient hair growth. Using essential oils in your daily hair care routine can prove to be beneficial to your overall hair health. Use it in conjunction with other products and treatments, and you may start to see healthier hair and maybe even more of it too.
There are plenty of solutions and treatments for hair loss. Capillus Laser Caps compliment essential oils quite nicely in the way they both work to help you regrow your hair. You can use them both at the same time, or spread apart. Our laser caps use low-level light therapy to promote hair growth - without any heat and for only 6 minutes a day. Get back to what you enjoy most with a fuller head of hair with Capillus.
