3 Secretes To Grow Natural Hair With Onion Water & How To Incorporate It

Today we are talking about onion water for hair growth and this has been trending for some time now and we want to talk about the science behind it, why it actually makes sense and the best way to use it.

3 Secretes To Grow Natural Hair With Onion Water

What Is An Onion?

An onion is a vegetable and it is readily available, so it's very easy to get, it's not like a mysterious ingredient. You don't even have to order it online, they have some really cool chemistry within it that helps to promote healthy growing hair such as it has polyphenol. 

1. Polyphenols

Polyphenols are organic compounds within onions and they're also in herbs, plants, veggies and fruits as well. But in this case, polyphenols are ferulic acid and quercetin. 

• Ferulic acid is an antioxidant which is great for our hair and our scalp because the sun tends to release these things called free radicals and free radicals can interrupt and hinder our hair growth cycle. So that's what antioxidants do, they help to reduce free radicals. On top of that, feralic acid is anti-microbial, so all the little bad bacteria like living on your scalp that can also hinder hair growth. So having onion juice that has ferulic acid and it can also help to reduce the bad bacteria on your scalp.

• The second polyphenol family is quercetin. Quercetin is amazing also in rice water as well, it is anti-inflammatory. A lot of hair growth issues or hair loss issues comes from inflammation and inflammation has a tendency to cause inflammation around the follicle, it can shrink the follicle which can then lead to thinning and then eventually hair loss. But when you have an anti-inflammatory like quercetin, it reverses that.

2. Sulfur 

Onion has a high amount of sulfur. Sulfur is antibacterial, it is anti-fungal. But on top of that, our hair is made up of sulfur. We know keratin, the protein that makes up our hair, but if we go a little bit deeper we have these disulfide bonds are made up of sulfur. So it is essential to our hair. Sulfur is known for strengthening the hair, strengthening the follicle, increasing the elasticity of our hair, so that we stretch our hair, we style our hair, we comb our hair, it doesn't easily break off. On top of that, it helps to improve our hair texture as well and it also helps with shine.

3. Amino Acids

The last cool thing about onions is that it contains amino acids. Amino acids are the building blocks of our hair, very similar to sulfur you have amino acids that really make up the hair itself. But the little chains and linkages of our hair is made up of amino acids, and onions happen to have a nice amount of arginine within it. Arginine is known for supporting blood circulation around the hair follicle. And blood circulation is crucial for hair growth, so you're getting some great support from there on top of that. Because it's essential to our hair, it's part of the building blocks of our hair, it's going to also improve our hair texture and promote shine as well similar to sulfur.

How To Incorporate Onion Into Your Hair Regimen?

You can do this multiple ways, you can do onion butter, onion juice or onion oil. Choose between the onion water and the onion juice or taking an actual onion that is like just been sliced and rubbing the juiciness of it on your scalp. It can get kind of messy but the results are worth it. 

• So if you want to make onion water, chopping up an onion like slicing it, peeling off the layers, you don't even have to dice it up and put it into boiling water. Let it boil, let it cool down, once it cools down, you can literally rinse your hair with this onion water on your wash day. Doing this after your shampoo, when your scalp is fresh and clean, apply the rinse the onion Water Rinse, let it stay on for about 5 or 10 minutes and then you can go ahead, rinse that off and proceed to your conditioner or if you don't mind the smell of it you can use it as your final rinse.

• Your second option would be onion juice where you are blending up the actual onion, and taking that pulp with a cheesecloth and squeezing the cheesecloth and you're going to get the onion juice itself. You can take this mixture, put it in like in a nozzle bottle, put it on your scalp along your roots and massage it in, leave it in about 10 minutes and then rinse it off.

• And then your third option would be onion oil. This is pretty probably the easiest option because you can go online right now and purchase onion oil.