Home Remedies For Dandruff

Try one of these natural ways to cure dandruff and prevent your hair from damages.

• About 10-15 minutes before you wash your hair, rub a lot of aloe vera gel into your scalp and leave it on for 10 minutes. Shampoo your hair with a mild shampoo and use it everyday. It is an effective home remedy for dandruff.
• Olive oil left on the hair and scalp for 8-9 hours can smother dandruff.
• Soak two tablespoonfuls of Fenugreek seeds overnight in water. In the morning the softened seeds are ground into fine paste and applied on the scalp, left on for 1/2 hr. It is also a good dandruff cure.
• Mix the olive oil with the almond oil. Leave it on about 5 mins after it starts to burn. Rinse well to clear dandruff. Massage your hair with warm coconut oil and apply the juice of two lemons, leave the oil on for about 2 hours. Shampoo with a mild shampoo. Repeat 2-3 times a week. It will help you in dandruff control.
• After shampooing, rinse the hair and scalp with vinegar. This loosens the glue that holds the nits onto the hair shafts. Cover the scalp with a shower cap for 15-20 min. Comb the hair thoroughly with a special fine-toothed nit comb, and rinse thoroughly.
• Make a paster of one teaspoon lime juice and one teaspoon garlic and apply to hair.
• Rinse the hair after soaking some neem leaves in water and then filtering. It is also a common remedy to get rid of dandruff.
• Soak two tablespoons fenugreek seeds in water overnight. In the morning grind into a fine paste. Apply all over scalp and leave for an hour. Wash with mild shampoo

Some More Home Remedies for Dandruff

Pain killer aspirin, used for relieving aches, can serve you equally effectively to eliminate the problem of dandruff? Just crush and powder two aspirin tablets and add it to your shampoo. Leave the mixture on your scalp for two minutes. Rinse and wash properly to remove the aspirin particles completely.

You can directly use Aloe Vera gel to remove excess dandruff. It is very effective home remedy for dandruff.

Boil a mixture of 4-5 dried thyme and two cups of water for 10 minutes. When the mixture cools down, massage it on the scalp and leave it for half an hour

Massage your scalp with warm coconut or castor oil twice a week.

Make a mixture of 2 teaspoons of vinegar and 6 teaspoons of water and apply it on the scalp before you go to bed. Keep it for the whole night with a towel around the head. Rinse your head with vinegar water again in the morning.

You can also use a mixture of 1 teaspoon of lemon juice and 2-teaspoons of vinegar. Massage the scalp with this solution. It is used as an effective dandruff treatment.

Apply warmed coconut oil with the juice of two lemons, and leave in hair for two hours before washing your hair

Rub olive oil on scalp, let sit for several minutes and wash off.