- Fresh home made rose water made hair feel amazing !

[RedheadMistress]

- I've been researching what to use in my homemade condish and stumbled upon a simple recipe on how to make my own rose water:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWkwurYKpO4

Instead of using a couple of drops of almond oil I used EVOO because I'm visiting family and this is all the oil we had that sounded good .

I didn't use damask roses either, but I used rosa damalis, we call them "nyponrosor" in Swedish and they're called "Glaceous Dog Rose" in English according to Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_dumalis
It looks like this:


I just got impatient and this is a kind of rose that grows a lot where I am in Sweden so I thought I would try it . Used a lot of water and a couple handfuls or rose leaves and the water ended up dark red, not light pink like in the video where the person uses Damask roses (that are dark red) which I found very surprising .

I don't have a spray bottle so I just took a small cup and rinsed my hair with it and massaged it into my scalp and wrapped a towel around it so it slowly dried and now that my hair is mostly dry it feels amazing, it almost feels like a light clarifying wash btu without my hair feeling awful. My hair feels like it got more body and it looks more straight and it smells like roses !

This is what it looks like now (sorry about ****ty pic, using webcam since I didn't bring my camera):



and normally it is more curly like this:


Also it seems shinier and Way less frizziness and this is only after one rinse . Think I'm going to do this way more often, it costs nothing, if you can find roses in nature !

I can't stop touching the top inches of my hair, the most healthy bits are So incredibly soft . . !

I suggest more people do this, it feels very pampering, more so than other things I do, since it involves wild flowers

[ladonna]

I am thinking of collecting the wild rose petals from the forest where I live, they look the same as the roses you used thanks.

[Tia2010]

Oh, that sounds nice.. My neighbor grows tons of roses in all different varieties, so I will be asking for some cuts

[kallarina]

Oh boo, I would only be able to get roses if I bought them. They don't grow wild anywhere around here...
Congrats on the lovely hair!

[Hgunderman]

Oh wow, that sounds like it would be so great and soothing for the hair. I wonder if I could find any suitable roses in Wyoming Thanks for sharing!

[winship2]

How interesting, thank you!

[jenni0416]

Sounds great!! Definitely going to try it...wondering if the type of roses is all that important...

[HintOfMint]

Now that I'm home, I have access to my mother's rose garden! That was a really easy recipe too, much easier than I expected.

I wonder if I could use coconut oil instead of almond oil...

[AnqeIicDemise]

I do something similar with lavender. There's an empty lot down the street from us where lavender grows wild. I like to take walks during the summer and take some armfulls at night when the bees are less active.

[RedheadMistress]

I do something similar with lavender. There's an empty lot down the street from us where lavender grows wild. I like to take walks during the summer and take some armfulls at night when the bees are less active.

- That's a good idea, I didn't think of picking roses when bees are less active, instead I just had to peek inside the flower to make sure no bee was in it, saw 5 other bees going to other flowers though which worried me hehe .