Do you prefer natural hair masks or natural leave-in rinses?

[Priska]

I think rinses feel more efficient, because you can use it after washing and conditioning and leave it there. When I rinse mask away, it many times feels it comes all away and no effect is left.
Well, oils are different... I was talking about herbal rinses here.

[shelomit]

For me masks tend to work much better, but my hair is easily weighed down and doesn't abide any kind of leave-in well. Typically I rinse my hair very thoroughly after washing; the most I can get away with is a very light rinse like catnip. Otherwise my hair starts to clump and misbehave.

[Priska]

True that it must be light. Gel usually gets hardened in hair and causes problems if you leave it there. But it's also good that I don't need to achieve the gel level, because teas are so much easier and quicker to prepare.

[Alilmi]

So far I have only done masks, but rinses sound so much more time efficient. I need to look into that!

What is your favorite herbal rinse, and what does it do?

Alex

[Priska]

With me fenugreek has been the best (but I don't have large experience of herbs). Gives soft, shiny, tangle free hair. So far best result I got from soaking fenugreek seeds in cold water overnight and rinsing my hair with that water and leaving that in hair (and eating the seeds )

To be honest, vinegar rinses might do the same. I made a mixture of vinegar and fenugreek and that was working!

[Priska]

Also flaxseed-fenugreekseed-gel worked very well (and of course that one must be rinsed out).