| Homemade Hair Dyes Wash your hair with one of the following rinses. Pour the selected rinse through your hair 15 times, re-rinsing with the same liquid. On the final rinse, wring hair, and leave for 15 minutes before rinsing with clear water. Blonde: 1.Mix 1 tablespoon lemon juice in 1 gallon warm water. 2. Marigold gives golden highlights to light hair and brings out red and gold highlights in light brown and red hair. Saffron, tumeric, calendula, mullein, privet and yellow broom in addition to any yellow blossomed herb or flower also add color and highlights for blondes. 3.Rinse hair with a solution of 1 tablespoon of lemon juice to one gallon of water after shampooing. 4.To restore hair that was once blonde, mix 10 grams of licorice root with 10 grams of oat straw, add a pinch of saffron. Cover with water and boil to make an infusion. Strain and use a s a rinse after shampooing. It should be allowed to soak into the hair and NOT rinsed out. 5.To bring out highlights and lighten blonde hair, steep 1/2 cup of camomile tea in one quart of boiling water . Strain and cool slighyly. Shampoo hair until oil free, then rinse with the tea infusion. 6.Add 4 tablespoons of chopped rhubarb to 3 cups of hot water, simmer for 15 minutes. Strain, cool, then use as a rinse after shampooing. Blonde Highlights Ingredients: 1 cup lemon juice 3 cups chamomile tea (brewed, & cooled) Directions: Mix ingredients, pour over damp hair then let sit for an hour while you sit in the sun, wash out. Follow with a good conditioner. NOTE: This process must be repeated daily for a few weeks before you notice any changes. Brunette: 1.Rinse hair with a strong black tea, or black coffee. 2. Cook an unpeeled potato in boiling water. Cool slighly. Dip a pastry brush or cotton ball in the cooking water, cover and saturate hair, being careful not to get any on skin. Leave on hair for 20 minutes then rinse out. 3.Make an strong infusion of any of the following herbs and teas then use as a rinse: Rosemary Sage Raspberry leaves Parsley Ivy Berries Catnip Black coffee Black Tea (for chestnut highlights). Red: 1. Make a strong tea of cloves 2. Use strong black coffee as a final rinse 3. Use a strong rosehips tea 4. Make a decotion of red hibiscus tea, use as a rinse 5. Make a rinse from calendula 6. Use an infusion of saffron for a rinse. Enhance Red Hair Ingredients: 1/2 cup beet juice 1/2 cup carrot juice Directions: Mix ingredients together, pour over damp hair. Let it sit for 1 hour while you sit in the sun. Wash out. Covering Gray: 1.Simmer 1/2 cup dried sage in 2 cups water for 30 minutes, then steep for several hours. Apply to hair and leave on until dried. Then rinse and dry. Repeat weekly, until desired shade, then monthly to maintain color 2. Potatoes: Boil potato peels in water, strain, and cool. Use the strained water as an after-shampoo rinse to darken grey hair 3.Mix 1 oz. sage, 1oz. rosemary and 1 pint of water. Simmer for 30 minutes and strain. Massage into the scalp and grey hair. 4. Mix 1 tablespoon of apple-cidar vinegar with one gallon of warm water, use as final rinse. 5.Use an infusion of hollyhock (blue-purple flowers) to remove the yellow cast from grey hair. 6. Use betony as a rinse to cover yellow in grey hair. |