Coffee for Hair Growth!

[empressri]

so how are the caffeinated scalps going? heehee!

still no fresh coffee here. OH! ladies, i forgot, if yall are using fresh coffee, use the grounds to exfoliate areas with cellulite. it helps temporarily "shrink" the area.

 

[JustKiya]

I still haven't gotten the powder - - though I was eying the grounds from my coffee this weekend.

 

[LilBrownied]

I just want to update that I really love this coffee olive-oil/spritz combo. Under the twists, my hair feels moisturized and very soft. I'm taking pics of my growth this Friday I believe, and I think I've had some progress. Either way, coffee's a cheap daily spritz and my alternative to aloe vera juice n such!

 

[kitamay]

It did! Much better than the coffee smell IMO.

 

[charmtreese]

I did another green tea rinse Sunday! Im also drinking at least one cup of green tea a day due to the benefits it has upon hair when consumed!

 

[LovinLocks]

Hmm...I drink a half a pot a day, never thought to use it on my hair. I read somewhere that used coffee grounds are a great exfoliant and helps with cellulite.

I've been using coffee grinds in an apres glow bar that I make (a foot exfoliant product).

 

[aribell]

If the main benefit of caffeine in the study was to block the dht from causing the hair to shed, then could using caffeine on the eyelashes also extend their anagen phase, also allowing them to grow longer? I think I want longer eyelashes just as much as I want longer hair. (hmm...I'm thinking of a new coffee-ground/castor oil mascara mix...)

 

[missnurselady]

I did a coffee rinse today and it was nice. How often are you ladies doing this??

 

[DarkHair]

I did a coffee rinse today and it was nice. How often are you ladies doing this??

I'm doing mine once per week.

 

[Filmatic]

I have been doing coffee/tea rinses. I use one cup of coffee then pour tea over and then put my DC on. It had worked wondering. My hair is soft and has less shedding and even breakage. This is a keeper for me. I am doing it twice a week. I also do an ACV rinse afterwards.

 

[ebonylocs]

Yeah, a concentration of 0.005% is - tiny. I suck at math. *thinks*

If you used 10 ounces of 'solution' you would use 1/2 ounce of caffeine? Is that right? And 5 oz = 1/4 oz of caffeine, so forth and so on? Or are my percents totally off?

No Kiya, you'd have to divide the amount of caffeine by 10 yet again. 0.005 is 5 parts to 1000 parts. So it would be 0.05 ounce to 10 ounces. OR 0.5 (i.e. 1/2) oz to 100 oz. Or 0.25 (i.e. 1/4) ounce to 50 ounces. It's very very dilute. If I were to do this, I think I'd double the concentration the scientists used and use 1 part to 100 parts. Even that would be quite difficult to measure.

I'm very interested in trying this because my hair has been shedding like mad lately.

 

[Tamrin]

I'm loving my coffee challenge. I use MT and I stopped taking the garlic and I have not had any shedding at all due to the coffee rinse. My hair is darker and feels stronger.

Warning. Expresso coffee rinse at 11PM will leave you looking like this . I was up steaming the carpet in my foyer at 2AM. So its best to do it during the day or in the morning.

 

[EMJazzy]

I'm loving my coffee challenge. I use MT and I stopped taking the garlic and I have not had any shedding at all due to the coffee rinse. My hair is darker and feels stronger.

Warning. Expresso coffee rinse at 11PM will leave you looking like this . I was up steaming the carpet in my foyer at 2AM. So its best to do it during the day or in the morning.

 

[Lenee925]

I just got my caffeine shampoo all the way from Deutchsland!

 

[guyanesesista]

I have been following this thread from day 1. I really wanna try this. My edges are shot to hell.

 

[jrae]

I have been doing coffee/tea rinses. I use one cup of coffee then pour tea over and then put my DC on. It had worked wondering. My hair is soft and has less shedding and even breakage. This is a keeper for me. I am doing it twice a week. I also do an ACV rinse afterwards.

Does the tea wash out the coffee smell effectively?

 

[Filmatic]

Yep. That's why I like to add it over. Once that is on, the coffee smell goes away.

 

[Irresistible]

Ive been meaning to try this , but had the thought of tea being kind of acidic,(isnt it?) and wondered what that would do .........but I see everyone is posting good reports.......so I will go ahead

 

[guyanesesista]

Anyone using folger's mild roasted? What brands are other ladies using as well as the degree of roast eg mild, medium dark, dark? TIA.

 

[SparklingFlame]

I know that I use to put used coffee grounds in a plant that I had at the office and that plant started growing uncontrobally(sp?)........

Really?!?

I'll add it to my house plants then. I just got some fresh grounds that I can add.

So what ya'll think is more potent: coffee or tea?

 

[SparklingFlame]

Y'all don't get it. Believe me, coffee is strongest in caffeine the closer it is to green. The more you roast it, the more caffeine you lose. That's why people don't get the jitters so much from a french roast or espresso that they would get with a regular American drip coffee. Green coffee would yield more caffeine than tea. I guess that if someone ground and boiled the green one, they would get a coffee that looks like Arab coffee drink (like what is drunk in Saudi) and it resembles a light tea. You'd probably not get the staining. I have some green coffee beans around here somewhere and I'll test it. If anyone wanted to try it, got to an Arab marketplace or Ethiopian one (they like to roast their own coffee for ceremonies etc.). They definitely say to not use instant tea or coffee as a hair rinse:

http://www.curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=974748

Ok please help a sista out.

I love coffee but Im a bit ignorant about green coffee and coffee drips.

What is a coffee drip? I take it its not the same thing as me putting it in my coffee maker. Doing it that way is brewing?

I dont have any Ethiopian or Arab stores around here only Indian stores. Do you know of a good place online to get this green coffee?

I plan on doing this caffeine thing. I am currently using BT and protective styling so this caffine should give me an extra umph of hair growth.

I love the 37% longer growing phase. YEAH!!!

I am on a mission for MBL so hopefully I can get there before March.

 

[JustKiya]

No Kiya, you'd have to divide the amount of caffeine by 10 yet again. 0.005 is 5 parts to 1000 parts. So it would be 0.05 ounce to 10 ounces. OR 0.5 (i.e. 1/2) oz to 100 oz. Or 0.25 (i.e. 1/4) ounce to 50 ounces. It's very very dilute. If I were to do this, I think I'd double the concentration the scientists used and use 1 part to 100 parts. Even that would be quite difficult to measure.

I'm very interested in trying this because my hair has been shedding like mad lately.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I knew something looked real off about that.

Sheesh. Even if you did 1/4 ounce to 25 ounces (which is about half a tablespoon, I think, and double the study) that's a whole lot of product.

Hrrrm. Shoot, the straight coffee might be easier - or I need to find smaller measuring spoons....

 

[guyanesesista]

So I made a mix with tbsp folger's and 1 cup hot water. I'll spray some on my edges in the morning and come back with an update.

 

[me-T]

where have i been? need to get some tea bags and make some MTea....git it? m-t, m-tea.......nevermind. sleep on it.

 

[SparklingFlame]

I finally got thru this whole thread.

OK screw all that.

I think I'm gonna order me some powder and just add a very very small amount to some water and rinse with that once a week.

 

[Iluvsmuhgrass]

I've only been following a little bit of this. AND.....


I brewed a pot... drank some..... and rinsed my grass with the rest. Too soon to tell anything. lol. Um..... it woke me up.

 

[nuggetrock]

Ok...so I went IN with my mixture! I did 1 tablespoon (15ml) of ground coffee (Folgers Breakfast Blend...the lightest roasted of their product line) mixed with 1 oz (30ml) of jojoba oil...double boiled it in a glass jar submerged in a pot of boiling water until I could smell the coffee and saw the color of the oil take on the coffee color. I let it cool and infuse overnight, then strained it through cheesecloth and added another ounce of jojoba oil ..then put it in a salon hair-coloring bottle (you know, the one with the pointy tip). When I used it, I applied to my parts (I have braids now) and then gave myself a head massage. I got alot of tingle! I think that's hair growing tingle!
I've only been using it 3 times a week..as a pre-oil to my MT/OCT/jojoba mix before I go to bed. So far so good. I will update with progress info when I take them down in a couple of weeks.

HHG!!!

 

[guyanesesista]

You do that at night? Don't it keep you up? Anyhoo I'm bout to steal... I mean borrow that recipe, sounds good but I'll be using the mild folger's and olive oil. Thanks for the info.

 

[Lita]

I Think I Might Try This! Happy Hair Growing!

 

[guyanesesista]

So I tried it on my temples. Idk, I didn't feel no tingle or whatever but I did feel a lil more alive.