Tea rinses: what do you use?

[selderon]

What tea do you use for tea rinses and how well do you think it works?

Is there a difference in efficacy between regular and decaf tea?

[MindBeforeMouth]

Good question. I have also wanted to know this!

[Jcv-Shelley]

Well I'm not sure if this is useful- but I use cheaps ones bought in publix. It's called Nature's Place Organic 100% Green Tea. My hair feels softer afterwards with a little flyaways.

[MonaLisa]

I was actually scared that tea would leave hair feeling more rough or sticky! I'm really curious about this, and how good does it actually do!
Really considering trying it soon!
I'll watch this thread

[jesis]

I just use whatever I have. I've only done them a couple of times but they make my hair super soft! I usually use fruit or honey flavored green tea, or anything that I've tried and didn't like that is just sitting in the cupboard.

[SwordWomanRiona]

I use black Breakfast tea, and tea-rinse every Sunday.
As already stated () in the recent thread I began about my first tea-rinse (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=68071), tea-rinses work great for me. I don't get rough hair at all, I get soft, shiny and cleaner hair. I've got rather greasy roots and the tea-rinses seem to keep the grease more at bay! Plus I think I'm beginning to get some more reddish highlights (that was my original aim when I began tea-rinsing).
Hope this helps

[selderon]

So my beloved and I were at the store getting groceries this afternoon. I put a can of decaf coffee in the cart, explaining that I'm trying to be kinder to my body. Then I reminded him we needed to get tea. He's the kind of man who shops like it's a hunting trip. He wants to go into the store, kill the groceries and lug them home. So he immediately began to try to help me find the right tea so we could hurry up and be done.

"You need black tea, right? How about black cherry?"
"That's an herbal tea. I need tea with tea leaves."
"I don't see any black tea. Wait! Black chai."

This went on for a couple minutes until I found some Earl Grey.

"Wait. How come you're getting caffeinated tea and decaffeinated coffee?"
"Because the coffee is for drinking."
"What's the tea for?" (He's thoroughly puzzled now.)
"It's for hair conditioner."
"What??? You HAVE hair conditioner! What's wrong with normal conditioner?" (He was beginning to envision the bathtub lined with jars of mysterious potions. This worried him.)
"Nothing is wrong with normal conditioner. The point of the tea is that it makes hair really shiny. Very expensive conditioners have tea extracts in them for that very reason."
"Well, how often are you going to do this?"
"Maybe once a week?" This was less worrisome.
"Ok, how much do you need?"
"Oh, I think about a cup."
"A CUP??????" His voice rose an octave and people were staring.
"Yes, dear. A cup. A cup a week."
"Do you have any idea how much that is???"
"Um, yes, sweetie. I know what a cup is."
"We can't afford that! Do you have any idea how much is in that little box???"

At this point I realized he thought I mean a cup of tea leaves every week.

"Oh! No, honey. I cup of brewed tea!"
"Well how am I supposed to know that?"

I forget he doesn't know all this stuff... yet. Poor man.

[MissCoco]

I use Earl Grey or black tea. I'm going try a dark ayurvedic tea sometime, but I know it'll probably work; any dark tea works for me, being a brunette.

[jeanniet]

This is interesting! I use an herbal rinse for conditioning; do you think I could add some black tea to it (Earl Grey) and get a good effect? Is this a final rinse, or is it rinsed out with water?

Oh, and one more question--do you think the tea rinse has a darkening effect? If it tones down my henna roots, so much the better!

[varintalonguard]

I use tension tamer tea. I mix it with aloe vera juice and sometime chamomile tea. I find that this eases the need for cones on my damaged ends.