Lavender for Health and Well-Being
Lavender treatment for hair loss; specifically the condition Alopecia Areata has proved both interesting and encouraging.
Yet again lavender as well as other essential oils; is proving to be effective in health and well-being.
I hope you find this as exciting as I do. Read on for more on this interesting study.
What is Alopecia Areata
This is a particularly distressing condition where clumps of hair fall out resulting in pronounced hair loss; often following an autoimmune disease.
In other instances, the cause is unknown. It is a condition that both men and women can suffer from and is most distressing to the one who has it.
Another Lavender Uses Breakthrough
Although the results were published in 1990′s, I thought it was of interest to my readers to write about the study that took place and the subsequent results of that trial.
Medical Trial Conducted
This medical trial was conducted by Dr Isabelle C Hay a dermatologist at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. With researchers from the Department of Dermatology they conducted a study on the effects of essential oils in people who had hair loss resulting from this condition.
Patients involved in Trial
86 patients were chosen and a double blind controlled study was undertaken. Over a seven month period half of the group were active and were given the essential oil treatment and the control group used carrier oils jojoba and grape seed.
Assessments and Follow-ups
Follow-ups were done at three and seven months and photos taken to verify the results of the trial.
The other outcomes-based measures undertaken were measurements of the severity of the alpoecia and mapping of the bald patches.
What Happened During the Trial
During the trial, patients were asked to massage the treatment onto their scalps for 2 minutes. They were also instructed to wrap their head in a warm towel to aid in absorption of the application. This was to be done daily. Conversely, the control group used the carrier oil to carry out the procedure.
Results of Study
At the completion of the study, 19 of the 43 patients in the active group demonstrated significant improved hair growth while only six of the 41 patients in the control group showed slight improvement.
What was most encouraging was that one man who had been almost completely bald grew a full head of hair after using the essential oil treatment being trialled! This lavender treatment for hair loss had definitely worked for him.
Conclusion
From the results shown; Dr Hay and the research team involved in this trial concluded that not only are essential oils safe to use in the treatment of alopecia areata. They also stimulate hair growth and in some instances there are remarkable results!
Important to Note
As with all treatments; we are all individuals and there will probably be varying degrees of success; just as there is with conservative medical treatments that are used in the treatment of hair loss.
You should not expect instant results. Remember this trial was over 7 months – so be patient.
As with all health advice; please see your medical practitioner/qualified practitioner if you suffer from any medical condition that is contra-indicated in the use of any essential oils.
Also, be sure to check that you are only ever using organically certified essential oils whatever your use for them.
The essential oils used in the trial are as follows:
- atlas cedarwood essential oil – 2 drops
- thyme essential oil – 2 drops
- rosemary essential oil – 3 drops
- lavender essential oil – 3 drops
- jojoba carrier oil – ½ teaspoon
- grapeseed carrier oil – 4 teaspoons
Apply as follows:
Preferably choose a glass jar to mix your oils. Firstly mix the carrier oils, jojoba and grape seed. Add the essential oils one at a time and then place the lid on the jar. Shake the oils together to ensure they are mixed thoroughly.
Now they are ready for you to apply. Gently massage into your scalp for 2 minutes daily. And finally, here’s to your success.
Importance of Lavender Treatment for Hair Loss
It is becoming increasingly evident to me how important lavender essential oil is in the treatment of health conditions such as hair loss.
With these results, lavender treatment for hair loss certainly shows that it can be effective for some who suffer with this condition.
Your testimonial of an effective result with lavender would help spread the word that this aromatic herb is an effective essential oil to be used in health and well-being.
Please note to source the essential oils mentioned in this article go to:
Essential Oils
Other Herbal Oils
Carrier Oils
And if you are interested in other articles about all things lavender, then click the posts below. My aim is to offer informed choices for my readers. Happy reading and enjoy.
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Lavender Essential Oil
Lavender for Health
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Hey Patricia,
Love your article. You show great enthusiasm in sharing about lavenders…Your blog posts show that you are really passionate about your topic..
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Hello Patricia. See this is why you should have a separate contact page with comments enabled so that way others can post to that instead of here where it’s irrelevant to the topic you are discussing.
Lavender essential oil seems to be a more organic way of restoring hair loss as oppose to all these chemicals that are on the market now. Do you have an online provider where you obtain yours? It would be great for you to share that with your readers, especially if we are not sure how to go abut finding it or who has good quality oils.
Thankyou so much Adam for your generous sharing of your techie knowledge. If I get stuck I will let you know. Thanks for your kind words about my blog too.
Patricia Perth Australia
Thanks for the helpful comments Karen. I have to work on these aspects of my blog but not easy so will try today to do that. Will message you with my techie questions! I am researching different sources for lavender products at the moment and when I am sure they are what I can recommend to my readers I will do a shopfront for them to purchase. Thanks for your input.
Patricia Perth Australia
Great post Patricia! I love the way you crush this post
it helps big time! Thanks for sharing. Take care.
Hi Samuel
Thanks for visiting my blog and taking the time to comment. Glad you liked the post. I love researching on the lovely lavender. Watch out for more coming soon.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hello…
Sorry, I wasn’t trying to barge in the discussion…I looked for a contact us tab but didn’t see one…So, I figured leaving a comment was the best way to reach her.
Hi again Adam
No problems. I haven’t done a contact page yet so no need to apologise. I appreciate your helpful advice.
Patricia Perth Australia
Who ever would have thought that lavender could help with hair loss. My 21 year old son has thinning hair, so it’s not like its falling out in clumps or anything.
He doesn’t seem to fussed about it though, and I doubt he would let me rub it into his scalp or wrap his head in a towel, although it could be fun to try
Hi Sire
There are different types of alopecia and it sounds like your son doesn’t have the one that was treated in this study. Some guys really get upset about it while others are not bothered.
Thanks for taking the time to visit and comment.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hello Patricia,
I haven’t suffered from hair loss, but have added lavender, and other essential oils into products I create to aid in hair loss prevention.
My aunt was losing her hair, however, when she used a hair butter that I created for her, she started to regain her hair.
Not only can people who suffer from hair loss use it, those looking to increase their hair growth can use lavender also. Lavender stimulates hair growth, this has been scientifically proven. I’m referring to the book Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database.
Hair loss prevention/Hair growth products are effective as a spray too.
I have a hair spray I’ve made for my hair, although my hair has always grow fast, I noticed an increase when I started using that product. I’ve been using those sprays for at least fifteen years.
How cool is that. Just goes to show the lovely lavender has so many amazing properties and more and more people are realising it. Great when it is backed up with medical trials too. Thanks for visiting again.
Patricia Perth Australia
I know someone who has suffered from hair loss and this certainly is a great break through. Informative post!
Thanks for visiting and taking the time to comment on my blog Rose. I have seen you on other sites. Will now return the luv and go visit your site and see what you have to say there. The lovely lavender has so many uses and I love researching it.
Patricia Perth Australia
Interesting to see that people will actually grow back hair using the treatment you have mentioned above. I am personally not such a big fan of lavender but it’s great to see what you can actually do with it.
Hi Patricia,
First of all, nice to connect with you, I’m Ben from EpicLaunch.com.
I have a friend who suffers from hairloss so I was looking for articles like this, thanks so much for sharing this info.
Again great to connect.
Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving a comment. You young bloggers are an inspiration to this baby boomer. I am sure I am going to learn heaps from you all. This treatment is for a specific type of hair loss so don’t know how it would go with other hair loss problems. very interesting what they are finding out about the lovely lavender. I’m loving blogging about it all. Please visit again.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hello Patricia,
Im really intrigued by your post on Lavender for thinning hair. I suffer from thinning hair from a long time medical condition that I surgery for several months ago. Now that I am recovering, it would be great to get my hair to growing the way it use to it still grows well but the growth is very slow and thin on top. would love to know more. I got certified as an herbalist several years ago but have not really studied alot on the essential oils.
Hi Dee
Firstly thankyou for visiting my blog. The medical trial was specifically for alopecia areata which is a condition usually caused by an autoimmune disease although with some cases they do not know the cause. Yours sounds like a different cause so I couldn’t say for sure if this would work for you.
However in one of the comments one of the commenters has used lavender successfully so as it is a natural health solution as long as you are able to use it with no side effects it may be worth a try. I would be interested to hear how you go. Hope that helps.
Always make sure you only ever use organic essential oils. I am doing a post on that soon.
Patricia Perth Australia
Thanks Julius for taking the time to visit and comment on my blog. There are actually men’s lavender products now that do not have too strong a perfume. The lovely lavender is improving in popularity again which I for one am pleased about
Patricia Perth Australia
Patricia,
Leave it to you to find yet another practical use for a lavender product. From reading your blog posts, it seems that you are starting to become one of the leading experts about the uses of lavender. Good for you.
Hello Patricia,
Great post, Since i am just 30 years old my hears are turning grey, Is there any treatment, One of my nephew whose has very tin hair from her birth she is just 4 years old, and the growth is less any tips from you side.
Thanks for the encouragement Kathy. Means a lot coming from you. I love researching and have some more interesting posts on the lovely lavender coming up soon. Watch this space.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hi Imran
Don’t have any solutions for grey hair. With your niece; it would be best for her to be seen by a medical specialist to find out why her hair is thinning. There are a lot of causes of alopecia (hair baldness) and it needs to be diagnosed by an expert. This medical trial was specifically for alopecia areata which is a type of hair loss usually related to autoimmune disease although some people suffer from it and they don’t know the cause. Hope they can help your niece as it is hard to suffer hair thinning so young. Thanks for visiting my blog and taking the time to comment.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hey Patricia, I cannot believe all of the lavender uses. You’re making me dig out my book on essential oils. It’s a Bible, actually.
Thanks for educating us!
I’m still not sure how it would work on MY hair.
Hi Kissie
Nice to see you back. I really enjoy all your posts so it is nice that you can come enjoy mine too. I am doing an article on essential oils next so watch this space. You could have something to add.
Patricia Perth Australia
Cool, will do!
Look forward to any input you can give. Will be doing afew posts on the lovely lavender and its uses in our healthy & well being Kissie. It is so enjoyable to research this amazing aromatic herb. Really enjoying it.
Patricia Perth Australia
Patricia,
Oddly enough my Commentluv feed for the Hive Health Media site hasn’t been working for the past three or four days. Not sure why… This only affects me when I write comments on Commentluv enabled blogs.
I’ve added your blog to the Commentluv enabled health and fitness blog list.
What I don’t know about Lavender is, well, an awful lot! I look forward to reading your insightful blog and learning more.
Hi Jarret
Thanks for taking the time to checkout my blog and comment. I am pleased to be added to your list. When I originally had ideas for this blog I thought it would mainly be in the gardening sphere but there are so many uses for the lovely lavender that I need to do justice to this and let my readers know what I find out from my research.
Patricia Perth Australia
For several years, I have seen lots of men are experiencing hair loss in their “baby boomer” age. It is common to our country (Philippines) now, and I don’t want to be like them. Men are forcing themselves to go bald or skin head because of hair loss. Lavender essential oil really helps us a lot to maintain our hair very strong to our scalp. No matter what shampoo do we use, there’s still a chance that we experience hair loss or fall, especially women. I think it’s time for me to look for any organic lavender essential oil available in the mall or drug store, even if I’m semi-bald right now.
Jeff
Hi Jeff
The type of baldness you are describing is not what they were treating in the medical trial. However, it certainly doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy using lavender products. Will be interested to hear how you get on.
Patricia Perth Australia
Wow, never though lavender could help me prevent hair loss, I don’t know how practical it would be to add it to my current treatment (as I’m already using some other lotion) but it definitely was an interesting read.
It depends what type of hair loss you are talking about. This treatment was specifically for Alopecia Areata so as far as other causes and types, I haven’t seen medical trials as yet. I have seen anecdotal accounts of other successful results. Hope it works for you.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hi Patricia,
This is an astonishing result, indeed! I would never have thought that lavender can be used for the treatment of alopecia areata. But it appears it can have remarkable results. My brother shows a tendency to lose hair and this may help him.
Hi Matthew
The more research I do on the lovely lavender the more amazed I am by its many uses. Lots more to share in future posts. This study was only done on alopecia areata so I don’t know what the results would be for other types of baldness. Would be interesting to have more feedback on this. Thanks for visiting my blog.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hi Patricia,
I’ve always loved the smell of lavender and I remember keeping the sachets in my closets. I had no idea that it could aid in hair loss. That’s great news. I’m really enjoying learning more about lavender here on your blog. Thanks so much!
Love that you have looked around and taken the time to comment on a couple of my posts. Thanks Estava. Will be over to visit your site shortly. Thanks for visiting.
Patricia Perth Australia
Bookmarked, and added my voice to the chorus on Stumbleupon approving of this post. Definitely will keep a lookout for more studies like this one – anything that combats hair loss is appreciated on my end.
Hi Ashok
Didn’t realise the article was popular on StumbleUpon. Wow, thanks for taking the time to come over and let me know. Much appreciated.
I have lots more posts to be written that shows the many uses of the lovely lavender. Hope you find them equally enjoyable to read.
Patricia Perth Australia
In addition to lavender one of the best ways to enhance its effects is to eat a whole food plant based diet aka raw foods for a period of about 30 days. Actually I just posted some videos myself relating to the subject of raw food diets and stumbled upon this site.
Most problems such as hair loss can be cured without drugs or surgery as long as we stop falling victims to Big Pharma marketing scams…
Hi Head Coach
Thanks for visiting and taking the time to comment. I have just visited your site and see you are really committed to a healthy lifestyle
Have you thought of getting together with other natural health blogs? There are many in the commentluv community that blog specifically about natural health. If you want more information then let me know through my contact page.
I have a nursing background, but like you got tired of all the claims of the Pharma companies. So many side effects and often so little positive results.
Sadly, often people want to have quick fixes rather than alter their lifestyle.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hello Patricia,
Mostly of the men have this kind of problem and my grandfather are one of them but then he’s getting old (around 75 yrs. old) so he never felt conscious with it. Good thing to know that this organic one may help to lessen this problem and I’ll gonna check this out soon.. Thanks for the informative write-ups.
Hi Taylor
This study was done on a specific type of hair loss, which isn’t associated with old age.
I found the research done on this aromatic herb very interesting. And definitely good news for those with alopecia areata.
Patricia Perth Australia
My Uncle Trece is suffering from hair loss. He is only 40 years old, but we could see that his hair line is receding. Then, I saw your article and was fascinated with this “lavender treatment for hair loss”. The smell of lavender is definitely invigorating and I’m sure that he will gonna love the smell and the effect that the product has on him.
Hi Andy
This particular study only looked at a specific hair loss problem called alopecia areata. Don’t know how effective it would be on other types of hair loss.
Glad you found this informative. Thanks for stopping by and staying to comment.
Patricia Perth Australia
Thanks for the marvelous posting! I actually enjoyed reading it, you’re a great author.I will always bookmark your blog and will often come back sometime soon. I want to encourage one to continue your great work, have a nice holiday weekend!
Hi James
Thanks for the kind words about my blog. Glad you enjoyed the post.
Wrote this awhile back and there are heaps more posts you can hopefully enjoy too as you search through my small niche lavender blog.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hi! Someone in my Myspace group shared this site with us so I came to check it out. I’m definitely loving the information. I’m book-marking and will be tweeting this to my followers!
Hi Kelley
Wow, I am surprised and encouraged that my small niche lavender blog got a mention in your group
Haven’t written any new articles for awhile as I am planning on moving this site and at the moment I am busy setting up another new site too.
Will continue to write about the lovely lavender, as soon as all the planned changes have taken place.
Thanks for the kind words too. Have a great weekend and as soon as the changes are implemented will be publishing a post about it here.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hey Patricia,
I had no idea that lavender was a good way of preventing alopecia. I work for a company called BuyWigs and so I myself know a lot about hair loss, but now thanks to your article I’ve learnt a lot more. I can start telling our customers about this!
Thank you so much for the tips!
Hi Robin
Glad you learnt something from the post. Lavender sure is an amazing aromatic herb and I am constantly surprised at its many uses.
With more and more clinical trials being done, there is now the overwhelming positive results that natural health products needed to show that these products do work.
Thanks for stopping by and hope your clients find this helpful too. As I said in the article this is specifically a study on alopecia areata so I don’t know how effective it would be for other forms of alopecia.
Patricia Perth Australia
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