Oil Hair Massage - How to Give Yourself a Great Hair Massage and Make Your Own Hair Oil Recipes

By Arthur Bakeright

A regular oil hair massage incorporating a strong scalp massage with the right hair oil massage recipes will help to give you strong, silky, healthy hair.  Start a routine of a weekly oil hair massage and you’ll see a great improvement in how your hair looks and feels.  

Oil Hair massage revitalizes your hair, boosts blood circulation to the scalp and helps to remove dead skin.   

Hair Massage Oil Recipes 

Use a base of olive, sunflower, coconut, almond or lavender oil.  Or you can combine them.  Try different combination to find what you feel is best for your scalp and also which appeals most to your sense of smell. 

Then add a small quantity of other oils for therapeutic value. 

·         Rosemary oil is beneficial for dandruff 

·         Titre oil is anti-fungal 

·         Lemon oil is a wonderful cleanser 

·         Sandal brings a feeling of freshness to the scalp 

The ratio of base oil to therapeutic oil should be approximately 10:1 

Warm the oil slightly be placing the oil container in a bowl of warm to hot water. 

Alternative Hair Oil Massage Recipes 

As an alternative to the all oil blends, you can also blend your base oil with honey at a ratio of 3:1 or 3:2.   

Another option is to take a ripe peeled avocado, add a spoon of honey and a little oil and blend into a paste.  This is very moisturizing and cleansing. 

Oil Hair Massage Procedure 

Massage your scalp with your fingertips coated in your oil blend.  If your fingers start to feel dry, apply more oil.  Massage your scalp with firm circular motions ensuring that you are moving your skin over your skull and not just moving the fingertips over the surface of the skin.  Continue the hair massage for a minimum of 10 minutes, longer is better. 

When the massage is complete, wrap a warm towel around your scalp, covering all the hair, and leave for 30 minutes.  Then wash and condition. 

Give yourself an oil hair massage each week and you will notice your hair grow strong, shiny, healthy and more manageable.  It also lubricates and revitalises the scalp.  Experiment with some of the hair oil massage recipes provided here to find which works best for you. 

Some have also reported that treating yourself with an oil hair massage once or twice per week also help create a greater sense of calmness and well being.