Damask Rose Oil as a Natural Hair Oil Treatment
Damask rose oil works on hair when two things are right: the oil is light enough to absorb, and you use less than you think. For most hair, that means one to four drops of a rose infusion in jojoba, applied to the ends, never the roots. Used that way it softens, adds shine and leaves a rose scent that lasts until the next wash. Used heavily, any oil will flatten hair, and that is where most people give up on hair oils.
Why a rose infusion suits hair
Most hair oils are built on heavy bases: coconut, castor, or silicones that coat the strand and make it look shiny by sitting on top of it. They work until they build up, and then hair looks limp.
ETHERNAL is carried in jojoba and sweet almond oil. Jojoba is structurally close to the sebum the scalp produces on its own, so the hair treats it as familiar and absorbs it rather than wearing it. Sweet almond oil is light, rich in fatty acids and vitamin E, and has been used on hair for generations to soften the lengths.
Into that base go Damask rose petals, 70 percent by weight, slowly infused so the oil carries the petal’s vitamins, antioxidants and scent. The result softens without weight, and the scent, a fresh cut rose, stays in the hair through the day.
How much to use, by hair type
Fine or thin hair: one drop, on the last few centimeters of the ends only.
Medium hair: two drops, through the lengths and ends.
Thick, curly or coily hair: three to four drops, through the lengths, and more on the ends where hair is oldest and driest.
Always warm the drops between your palms first, then press and smooth rather than rub. Start with less. You can always add a drop; you cannot take one away without washing.
Before washing
Applied 20 to 30 minutes before shampooing, a few drops through dry lengths protect the hair from being stripped by the wash. Shampoo removes the hair’s own oils along with dirt; an oil applied first means the wash takes some of that instead. Hair comes out softer and less tangled, and needs less conditioner.
For this use, three to four drops is right for most hair, more for very long or very dry hair.
As a finishing oil
On dry, styled hair, one drop warmed between the palms and smoothed over the surface and through the ends settles flyaways, adds a soft shine and leaves the scent. This is the use most people keep, because it takes ten seconds and the rose follows you all day.
On the scalp
The scalp is skin, and a dry, tight scalp responds to oil the way dry skin on the face does. Two or three drops on the fingertips, worked into the scalp in small circles before bed, and washed out in the morning or at the next wash.
Keep this to once or twice a week, and skip it if your scalp is oily or prone to flaking from yeast, which oil can feed. The scalp does not need to be oiled daily.
What to expect
The first thing you will notice is the scent. It is soft, close, and it lasts in the hair longer than on skin, because hair holds fragrance well.
The second is texture. Within a couple of weeks of use on the ends, hair feels softer and tangles less. Oil does not repair split ends, nothing does except cutting them, but it makes the ends less likely to split further.
The third is that you use less of everything else. Less conditioner, less styling product, less heat to smooth.
One bottle for hair, face and body
The same oil you put on your ends is the one you put on your face and body. That is the point of a rose infusion in skin compatible oils: it was never made for a single category. The 15ml Signature Oil is the easiest size to keep by the mirror for hair; the 30ml is the daily bottle for face, hair and body together.
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