My cup of Tea: The Beauty of Chamomile

Camomile/Chamomile is best known as a tea, a calming and relaxing tea to be certain. However, there's more to Chamomile Tea than just drinking it, who would have thought that it can also be used on the skin and on the hair? Awesome, right? So why throw them right away after drinking if you could use it again?

Since...
I dyed my hair black, I've been feeling off the weather. I feel so BORING, but of course I don't want to bleach my hair again, NO MORE HARM. So I've decided to research on how can I lighten it bit NATURALLY--just to add a little bit of color shine when the sunlight hit my hair...and that's where chamomile tea entered.

Chamomile Tea on Hair

Chamomile Tea as a hair lightener is more effective on blondes rather than brunette, I'm a brunette so the only perk I can get to it as a lightener is the brownish-reddish shine it gives when the sunlight hit my hair. Moreover, another thing I love about using chamomile tea on my hair is that it untangles my hair--I really don't know but it really does, everytime I brush my chamomile tea-showered hair: there are no tangles and as well as falling hair. 

How I use it on my hair:

• Boil 3-5 cups of water
• When boiled, remove from heat. Pour it into a container or a basin.
• Put 1-2 Chamomile teabags on it (any brand will do).
• Let it cool.
• When the tea cooled down, be ready to soak your hair into it. Another method is to put the tea on a spray bottle, so instead of soaking your hair, you can just spray the tea all over your hair. Let the tea sit on your hair for 30 minutes then spray or soak it again, do this three times then rinse it with cold water. 

However, as for me, I just let my hair dry with it. I don't rinse it out. I wet my hair, shampoo it, condition it, rinse it then shower it with a generous amount of chamomile tea then I'M DONE. I do this in order to lengthen the lightening effect of the tea, because the brownish-reddish shine is just temporary, sorry to inform you about that pretties.

Chamomile Tea on Face and Skin

If it can lighten your hair, sure it can add glow on your skin. I cannot promise a kojic-gluta white skin to you but, I do swear that chamomile tea can give you a clean, healthy and glowing skin. I also used it to remove my eye-bags and also as a treatment to my heat rash and pimples. It moisturizes the skin and at the same time cleanses it.

How I use it on my Skin:

As an eye-bag treatment

• After drinking your cup of Chamomile Tea, instead of throwing the teabag directly into the bin, put it inside the fridge. Let it cool down.
• Before you went to bed, get it and put it on your dark circles (eye bags) for 10 minutes or until the coolness went off.
• Then after that: take it off, then now sir you can finally throw it into the bin (or you can use it on your hair, it is up to you).

As a moisturizer 

• Boil 5 cups of water
• When boiled, remove from heat and pour it into a basin.
• Put the teabag(s) in it.
• Let it cool down.
• When it reached your desired water temperature, get a face towel, soak it then wash your body and face with it. Another technique, which what I'm currently doing, is putting it on a spray bottle, just like what I've stated above, and spraying it all over my body and my face and letting it dry--NO RINSE.

So that's it, hope this helps. ♥

Maybe from now on, you will think twice on throwing your chamomile teabags directly into the bin after a sweet and calming tea time. (^ u ^)