Rice Ferments & Herbal Hair Treatments

Fermented rice water has been the secret to beautiful long and healthy hair for village women and imperial princesses in the China, Japan, and Southeast Asia since ancient times.  Women from Huangluo Village, in southern China, have extraordinarily long hair that stays black until they are around 80 years old. Their average hair length is about 6 feet. Part of their secret to having such long hair lies in washing it with fermented rice water.

Fermented rice water is rice water that has slightly soured. It is rich in antioxidants, minerals, vitamin E, and probiotic microbes. Rice extracts have moisturizing properties. You can use rice water for your face, body, and hair.

With our Rejuvenating Hair Treatment, we have added a combination of 15 prebiotic herbs, which increases the nutrient value of the probiotic rice ferment. The herbs we selected are all beneficial for hair, scalp and skin. We found that fermented herbal rice water treatments increased the shine, color spectrum and hair elasticity.  It also decreased surface friction.

In our family we no longer use any commercial hair shampoos, conditioners or detanglers. We only use our probiotic shampoo bars and our ferments as rinses and conditioners. Once we detoxified our hair and scalp from old chemical residue, we didn’t need to wash our hair as often. Our scalp conditions cleared up and our hair strength, shine and luster increased so much that we could see the effects in just weeks, even on hair that had been damaged from bleach, color treatments and perms.

ORGANIC HERBS:

Horsetail, Nettle, Oatstraw, Rosemary, Thyme, Sage, Yarrow, Holy Basil, Lavender, Green Tea, Black Tea, Fo-Ti, Amla Berries, Fenugreek Seeds and Parsley Root. 

DIRECTIONS:

How to Make the Herbal Tea:

Bring ½ gallon filtered water to a near boil. Add Herbs. Let tea sit at room temperature until cool.

How to Make the Rice Culture in the Herbal Tea:

Strain the herbs out. Add the rice to the tea and stir. Cover the jar with a breathable cloth or coffee filter and rubber band. Let sit at room temperature for 2-3 days. Stir every day. NOTE: Cooler temperatures slow fermenting process. We have fermented ours for over a week if needed.

Strain the rice out of the water and discard the rice into a compost. Store the strained tea in the fridge in a jar with a tight lid.

Take out enough fermented rice/herb water mix and put in a small glass jar to keep in the shower for a few days use. Leave the remainder of the ferment in the fridge.

If you want your small jar of rice/tea water to continue to ferment in the shower, cover it with a breathable cloth and rubber band. If you don’t want your rice/tea to continue to ferment, cover it with a tight lid. Additional fermentation increases the probiotic microbial levels in this culture and can facilitate hair improvement. When the herbs are cultured with the microbes in the rice ferment they form prebiotic nutrition that feed both the microbes and your scalp and hair.

Optional: You can add a few drops of essential oil to the ferment you leave in the shower for aroma.

For a Special Honey ferment: After fermenting the rice/tea for 48 hours, mix 1 cup warm water with 1 Tbsp. honey, stir until honey is dissolved, cool and add to tea. Let ferment for another 12-24 hours and then store in the fridge with a tight lid. The honey feeds the probiotic microbes and increases their activity.

How to Use the Herbal/Rice Water Hair Treatment:
Shampoo hair as usual. Pour rice/herb tea over hair and massage into scalp. Make sure to get the ends of your hair thoroughly wet with the tea mixture. You can either wash the tea out, or leave it in, then dry and style as usual. If you experience a slight film on your hair it will easily brush out. After several treatments you should notice your hair getting softer and shinier. This hair treatment can be used as often as needed.

Our New Empyreal Botanical Herbal Hair Oil is a powerful blend of superfoods, medicinal herbs and top-quality oils rich in nutrients and minerals to help rebuild hair, scalp and skin.  These herbs and oils create deep conditioning and revitalization of damaged cells.  Light and not greasy in texture.

Helps with frizzy fly-away hair, dandruff, breakage, hair growth, Ph balancing, limp, dry, and damaged hair, split ends, and as a protection from high-heat styling tools.  These potent ingredients help stimulate blood flow at the roots, while adding shine and strength to your hair.

Suggested Use

A little bit of oil goes a long way.

Option 1: Wash hair and while still wet, put about 5 drops in hands and massage into hair.  Massage a couple of drops into scalp.  Brush or comb in and leave on.

Option 2: Massage a handful of oil into hair and roots and leave in for several hours or overnight.  Cover with a silk or shower cap. 

Option 3: Massage into hair and scalp before a sauna.  The steam and heat will help the oils penetrate.

Option 4: Gently warm the oil before massaging it into hair and scalp.

Option 5: Wash hair with our probiotic shampoo bar, rinse, massage Rejuvenating Hair Treatment into hair and scalp.  Lightly rinse.  Squeeze out excess water and apply Botanical Hair oil to hair shafts and scalp as needed.

This oil can be washed out after a treatment using natural shampoo, or left in.

INGREDIENTS: 

Organic Oils: Sunflower Oil, Rosehip Seed Oil, Avocado Oil, Moroccan Argan Oil, Jojoba Oil, Pumpkin Seed Oil, Grapeseed Oil, Apricot Kernel Oil, Evening Primrose Oil, Cherry Kernel Oil and Black Seed Oil

Essential Oils: Rosemary, Ylang Ylang, Bergamot, Cedarwood and Rosewood

Herbs:  Alma Berry, Bay Leaves, Basil, Borage, Burdock Leaf, Calendula, Chamomile, Citrus Rinds, Comfrey, Elderberry - flowers, leaves, berries, Fenugreek Root, Ginger Root, Green Tea, Horsetail, Hops, Lavender Flowers, Lemon Balm, Lemon Grass, Licorice Root, Marshmallow Root, Nettle, Oat Straw, Plantain, Rosehips - Flower Petals and Berries, Rosemary, Sage, Saw Palmetto Berries, Thyme, Witch Hazel, and Yarrow

**The herbs have been wild-crafted, organically sourced, and/or grown in our garden.

Sunflower Oil is rich in vitamins like A, B, C and E and minerals like iron, potassium and calcium. Ample content of essential nutrients, antioxidants and fatty acids in sunflower oil make it highly beneficial for hair health. It helps with protection from UV light and acts as a moisturizer. Sunflower oil is known to be light that is why it is absorbed easily.

Rosehip Seed Oil promotes scalp health, alleviates dandruff, may help strengthen hair follicles, promotes hair growth, has anti-inflammatory properties and helps to prevent hair loss

Avocado Oil is rich in antioxidants, minerals, essential fatty acids and biotin, may unclog hair follicles and help to stimulate blood flow, light weight and absorbs easily into the scalp, reduces dandruff and may help prevent hair breakage

Moroccan Argan Oil adds a healthy shine to hair and helps to control frizz, is able to absorb deeply into the hair creating a barrier against dryness and breakage, can help protect hair from high heat styling tools, stimulates hair growth and effective at improving moisture retention

Jojoba Oil can help regulate sebum production making it great for both dry and oily scalps, since it resembles the natural oil our skin produces it absorbs deeply into the hair shaft without leaving a greasy residue, may help balance the PH of your scalp to combat dryness and flakiness and helps to promote hair growth

Pumpkin Seed Oil is a natural conditioner that adds shine to hair, promotes hair growth and strengthens hair follicles

Grapeseed Oil may help protect hair from heat damage, promotes hair growth, it is rich Vitamin E, essential fatty acids and antioxidants which strengthens the hair making it softer and it can help reduce dandruff and hair loss

Apricot Kernel Oil helps reduce frizz, is deeply moisturizing, enhances shine and luster, strengthens hair making it less prone to breakage and promotes hair growth

Evening Primrose Oil has anti-inflammatory properties that can help reduce dandruff and other scalp issues and it can help lock moisture into the scalp promoting healthier hair and growth

Cherry Kernel Oil stimulates blood circulation delivering nutrients to the hair follicles, strengthens damaged hair reducing breakage and split ends, very conditioning helping to keep hair soft and manageable and restores natural luster 

Black Seed Oil can help reduce hair loss, it enhances hair texture, making it shinier and more manageable, improves scalp health, promotes hair growth and can help to hydrate and moisturize hair

NOTICE: 

We are not licensed medical providers. We sincerely hope our products improve your health and well-being, but we make no guarantees. As in all things, trust your wisest eternal Self with your own individual life and body system.  

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*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.