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Green tea may be delicious, but did you know it also has some incredible benefits for the hair? Learn why I make and use a simple green tea hair rinse to support strong hair and faster growth.
Hair rinses are nothing new for me, but I have to admit, I have only recently started using green tea for my hair, and after seeing some of the results, I am completely in love and can’t believe how long it took me to try it!
Seriously, it takes practically no extra time out of your daily routine, and for me, it leaves my hair feeling extra smooth and clean!
This DIY came straight from your requests after I shared my popular homemade rosemary water for hair, and after doing some research, I’m finally ready to bring you my homemade green tea hair rinse!
Why You’ll Love this DIY
- This recipe is made with just 4 simple ingredients! It’s one of my easiest hair care recipes for anyone needing a quick boost for their hair.
- With all-natural ingredients like rosemary oil and green tea, this recipe is eco-friendly and sustainable.
- Making your own hair rinse will help you avoid costly store-bought products! Maintaining hair health at home is wonderfully affordable when you DIY instead of opting for commercial products.
- This hair rinse smells incredible, and so will your hair! Green tea and rosemary make a refreshing and soothing fragrance that’s a fun added bonus to healthy hair!
Ingredients
Making your own green tea hair rinse is as easy as brewing a cup of tea! All you need is green tea and water. You can add a couple of additional hair-boosting ingredients, and a spray bottle will be helpful for easier application, but it is not required.
- Green tea: You can use tea bags or loose leaf tea for this.
- Water
- Vitamin E oil: A nourishing oil, vitamin E oil helps prevent hair loss, increase shine, and provides antioxidants to the hair.
- Rosemary essential oil: Rosemary smells amazing, and it can help with hair growth! Feel free to swap it out with one of my other top 10 essential oils for hair.
- Saucepan: For brewing the tea. You can also pour boiling water from a kettle and steep the tea in a jar or mug.
- Spray bottle: This makes for really easy application. It’s optional, though; you can simply pour the rinse into your hair.
How to Make Green Tea Hair Rinse
Step 1: Bring water to a boil in the saucepan, then add the tea bags. Cover and let steep for 5 minutes.
Step 2: Discard the tea bags and let the tea cool for about 30 minutes. Once cool, stir in the vitamin E oil and rosemary essential oil. Pour into a spray bottle.
How to Use Green Tea Hair Rinse
Wash hair with homemade natural shampoo, then spray the green tea into the hair and onto the scalp. Work the tea into the hair and leave it in for 10 minutes.
Rinse with warm water and follow up with a homemade conditioner.
Green Tea for Hair
It might surprise you that you can make a hair rinse, like my rose water for hair, out of regular old tea, but trust me, you are going to love this one.
Green tea has been enjoyed as a calming drink for centuries (try my favorite iced green tea recipe). And more lately, it has been making its way into the cosmetic and beauty world.
Green tea is known for being rich in antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals.
Being so rich in vitamins and minerals, it is no wonder that green tea would benefit our hair and even our skin. That’s why I make so many wonderful hair care and skincare products with it, like green tea body scrub and homemade green tea hair toner.
Using a green tea-infused shampoo or doing a simple green tea rinse is the perfect way to benefit your hair with the nutrients found in the tea.
Is Green Tea Good for The Hair?
It is by no accident that green tea is making its way into the beauty world. You’ve probably noticed that you can find several hair care products on the shelves infused with green tea. But is green tea good for hair? Yes, it may help increase hair volume and growth, as well as protect the hair and prevent hair loss.
Green Tea Benefits for Hair
- Promote healthy hair and scalp
- Help with hair loss
- Promote hair growth
- It may help thicken hair
- Protects against free radicals because of its high levels of antioxidants
- Encourages softer, smoother hair
- Promotes shine
- May help with dandruff and greasy hair
Black Tea for Hair
Comparable to green tea, black tea is quite beneficial for the hair as well. However, it isn’t recommended to use a black tea rinse on lighter hair.
This is because the black tea can stain blonde, light brown, red, or white hair.
While black tea can stain and should not be used on lighter hair tones, it is actually quite beneficial for dark brown or black hair.
Black tea in the hair can create a beautiful shine and can even be used as a natural hair dye for gray hair; however, don’t get too excited about the temporary hair dye, that fix won’t last for long, but the shine will!
Amazingly, black tea can intensify hair color, promote hair growth, and leave your hair smooth and shiny.
Black Tea Hair Rinse for Dark Hair
Black tea strengthens strands and nourishes the scalp for dark brown or black hair.
Ingredients
- 5 black tea bags (or 5 tbsp of loose leaf black tea)
- 2 cups of water
- 1-2 drops vitamin E oil (optional)
- 1-2 drops lavender essential oil (optional)
- Saucepan
- Spray bottle
Instructions
- Bring water to a boil in the saucepan.
- Add tea bags, cover, and steep for 5 minutes.
- Discard tea bags, then let the tea cool for about 30 minutes.
- Once the tea has cooled off, stir in the vitamin E oil and the rosemary essential oil.
- Pour the tea rinse into the spray bottle.
- Wash hair with shampoo, such as these homemade shampoo bars, then spray the green tea into the hair and onto the scalp. Work the tea into the hair and leave it in for 10 minutes.
- Rinse with warm water. There is no need to shampoo again, but feel free to follow up with a homemade conditioner bar.
Recipe FAQs
I recommend using this hair rinse once a week for best results.
Drinking green tea has numerous benefits to your overall health, which has an effect on the hair. Multiple studies have also suggested that drinking green tea can increase hair growth. So it’s certainly not a bad idea to drink green tea for your hair; however, topical application is the best way to benefit hair with green tea. Using this green tea hair rinse allows it to have direct contact with your scalp and strands, so it can work most effectively. Green tea-based shampoos, conditioners, masks, and hair rinses are easy and effective ways to deliver green tea goodness straight to your head.
Green tea hair rinse can be saved in the fridge for a few days. Don’t keep it at room temperature for very long; brewed tea is perishable, so it will start to smell unpleasant and grow mold.
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Green Tea Hair Rinse
Equipment
- saucepan
Ingredients
- 3 green tea bags, or about 3 tbsp of loose leaf green tea
- 2 cups of water
- 2 drops vitamin E oil, optional
- 2 drops rosemary essential oil, optional
Instructions
- Bring water to boil in the saucepan
- Add tea, cover, and steep for 5 minutes.
- Discard tea, then let the tea cool for about 30 minutes.
- Once the tea has cooled off, stir in the vitamin E oil and rosemary essential oil.
- Pour the tea rinse into the spray bottle or small jar.
- Wash hair with shampoo, then spray the green tea into the hair and onto the scalp. Work the tea into the hair and leave it in for 10 minutes.
- Rinse with warm water. There is no need to shampoo again, but feel free to follow up with a conditioner.
Notes
- Use once a week for best results.
- See the post above for a black tea hair rinse for dark colored hair!
- Feel free to swap out the rosemary essential oil with another of my top 10 essential oils for hair.
Would it be ok to leave it on your hair overnight and rinse it the following morning??
Hi laura, can i ask you how often can i use this? would there be any side effects to daily use?
Its recommended to only use a green tea rinse once a week for best results.
Hi there! I wanted to ask if it’d be a bad idea to use the tea spray as a leave-in? I’d use it daily (but only shampoo once a week), would it start smelling weird or?
I think that would be fine!
Hi there Laura! I was wondering, would it be bad to combine the two (green and black) for a spray? Or even combine the two with the rosemary spray recipe? I also wanted to know if you every used tea as a substitute in your shampoo or conditioner recipes? Thank you so much!
You can definitely experiment with combining the two!