Why Sesame Oil Helps With Hair Growth and Hair Loss: Benefits, Uses & DIYs!

Sharing is caring!

Is sesame oil good for hair? This is one of the most queries that lingers in our minds. Sesame oil is an amazing hair booster, lubricator, and nourisher. Do you want your hair to look naturally beautiful and shiny? Well, consider using sesame oil to make your hair outstanding.

While you would love to spend your time in salons and think the solution to any hair problem is found there, you would be happy you discovered this home remedy. Sesame oil, a natural ingredient that’s a lifesaver and is useful in more ways than one.

Also known as Gingelly oil in the West, this oil can be used alone or mixed with other oils for best results. A rich source of Vitamin E and B complex, it is readily available and can also be made at home. It is also enriched in minerals such as magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, and protein, which help in strengthening the hair from the roots and provide deep nourishment.

Benefits Of Sesame Oil For Hair

Sesame oil has a variety of uses at home. Other than using it for cooking purposes, sesame oil is also used to treat hair. Many benefits have been reported with the use of sesame oil for hair. Let’s get into the nitty-gritty of these benefits.

Nourishing, Healing & Lubricating

Sesame oil is very rich in minerals and vitamins. A massage with this helps in nourishing hair shafts and follicles. It heals all the damaged parts of the hair and lubricates all the dry zones.

To use it as moisturizing ingredient, mix it with almond oil. Incorporating sesame oil with almond oil follows a certain procedure. Mix the two oils.  Take small quantities of the mixture and massage well into the scalp and along the hair strands.  Wrap it with a thermal steam cap and leave it for about 30-40 minutes.  Rinse your hair with warm water and shampoo. Do this once every week.

Enhances Hair Growth & Helps In Maintaining Scalp Health

Sesame oil if used generously, penetrates through your scalp and improves blood circulation. This, in turn, helps in healing chemical damage and improving hair growth. It provides nutrients to the hair follicles, thus providing hair with proper nourishment.

To use it for hair growth and scalp health, mix a few spoons of sesame oil alone or mix little ginger juice and massage the entire scalp, using your fingertips. Follow it up with hot towel massage and keep it for over an hour. This is a great natural hair growth mask.

• My Hair Growth Journey With Hair Care Regime,Before & After Pictures and  Hair Care Tips!

Don’t Fret The Growth Of Grey Hair

If you’re still young and charming, and your grey hair is the only sign of aging then you can cure it before the world notices. A massage done on your scalp using sesame oil can help in retaining the natural color of your hair for longer and prevent premature graying. It can also help in darkening your hair, keeping your hair looking healthier and shinier.

Taking small quantities of sesame oil and massaging carefully in your scalp will retain the color of your hair. Sesame oil contains darkening properties that ensure your hair remains purely black. It also gives your hair a healthy look for long. For best results, ensure that you use this oil on a regular basis.

• You can also try this diy hair oil using sesame oil to cover grey hair naturally.

Works As A Natural Sunblock

 

While we add up layers on our face, to keep away from the sun and prevent our skin from tanning and damage we forget that we need to do it to our hair too. Exposure to UV rays is very harmful to the hair and can cause irreparable damage.

Applying sesame oil creates a layer around the hair shaft, protecting it from the damaging effects of the sun and even pollution.Sesame application to the hair forms a coat that protects hair from the scorching sun. It is a natural protection from harmful UV rays that could damage your hair. Consequently, it also acts as a protector from harmful effects caused by pollution.

Here is a quick #HairCareTipByHCS

• How to protect hair from pollution and prevent hair fall
• How to protect hair from sun this summer
• Hair products with SPF for hair: Protect your hair this summer from harmful UV Rays

Effective Lice Treatment

Sesame oil has antibacterial properties that protect your hair from any fungal or bacterial infection, including lice. Regular use of sesame oil helps to treat lice from your head. This is done by incorporating sesame oil with other home oils such as coconut oils and avocado oils. Before you shampoo your hair, apply small quantities of this oil to eliminate lice. Furthermore, it keeps bacterial and fungal microorganism away from your hair. If you do not like to keep oil on your hair overnight, you can simply apply sesame oil a few hours before shampoo. It is very effective, and even a few hours can have a magical effect on your hair.

Acts As A Tranquilizer

Its almost summer, and if you are fretting your hair being one of the biggest victims of the heat. Fret not, as you’ve got a natural solution to keeping you’re hair healthy as well keeping that stress away. A massage with sesame oil during a hot day will give you a soothing feeling along with repairing all the damaged follicles. It also acts as a coolant while nourishing the scalp thoroughly. Sesame oil helps in retaining the moisture of the hair preventing any chances of further damage.

Extreme heat can be harmful to your hair follicles. Application of sesame oil soothes your hair by cooling it and nourishing the scalp. The moisture in your scalp is maintained by this oil thus sustaining the healthy look.

Let The Dandruff Escape

The markets are flooded with dandruff solutions for hair including oils, masks, and shampoos but most of them fail to eradicate the problem. They may still help in decreasing dandruff, but unfortunately, prove to be a big failure in the removal of dandruff.

Massage all over the scalp, and sleep off with the oil in your hair. Make this a regular routine, and you will notice dandruff disappear.Mix a few teaspoons of turmeric, yogurt and sesame oil until you get a thick consistency. Keep this on for a few hours, and follow up with shampoo. This protects the hair from dandruff and nourishes the hair, protecting it from the damaging effects of chemicals.

• How I Got Rid off My Dandruff In 30 Days

Another #HairCareTipByHCS

A Quick Hair Spa

If you’re traveling or intending to attend a wedding, you need your hair to be in the best condition to be able to survive those heat treatments and also the dust, pollution, and dryness caused by a change in environment.

Make a mix of lemon juice and sesame oil and massage it on your scalp. Keep it overnight and wash it with shampoo the next morning. You can also repeat this for consecutive days, or follow it up with a hot water towel wrap before shampooing. Works as a quick hair spa remedy at home.

• 5 Step Hair Spa At Home For HAir Fall Control Using Ingredients In Your Kitchen

Prevents Hair Loss

Whether its stress, change of water, change of shampoo or any other medical condition leading to hair loss sesame oil can prevent hair loss owing to its nutrient value and magical properties. It can work as a cooling agent and relieve stress, and a happy head is a healthy one.

Add a few curry leaves, to a few teaspoons of sesame oil in a pan. Once you see black residue around the leaves, wait for the oil to cool down. Use a generous amount and massage the oil on the scalp, and wrap your entire length in a hot towel. Keep it on for a few hours and follow up with shampoo. Use it every alternate day, for best results and you will see the hair fall reduce.

• 15 Things I Did To Control My Hair Fall & Regrow My Lost Hair

Another Quick Hair Care Tip

Overall Maintenance Of Hair

It can be used as a conditioner if mixed with any regular conditioner. It can either be mixed at room temperature or by warming it up. Depending on how much time you have, you can leave it for hours or overnight and follow it up with a regular shampoo regime.

Sesame oil can be mixed with many ingredients depending on what result you are seeking. It is versatile and its texture is such that its outcome is good no matter what the other substances are. It can be used in any season and on any kind of hair.  Some of the common substances that it can be mixed with are Aloe vera, Avocado, Egg and fenugreek among others.

Maintaining the healthy look of your hair requires special care which is a little bit tough for most of us. With lots of chemicals that come along with most hair products, I urge you to try this natural oil to treat your hair.

~Co-Authored by Geogy Willis & Tanvi Gupta. If you wish to write for HCS too, click here for more details.