Your hair plays a very important role in your personality and due to this lots of efforts have been taken to take care of hair health. There are various types of remedies, everyone, using, especially herbal remedies. Women in China, Japan, and South-East Asia have been using rice water for their hair treatment for centuries. Rice water is starchy water left over after the rice is cooked or left to soak. It is believed that it makes your hair smooth and shiny and helps the growth of hair. According to researchers in the period 795 to 1185, in Japan women had floor-length hair which were kept healthy by bathing in rice water. In China also Yao women had long hair and till the age of 80s, their hair remained black. The reason behind it was the bathing of hair in rice water. Here we look at how rice water helps the overall health of hair.
* Rice grains contain around 80 percent of starch and rice water is starchy water left over after cooking.
* Rice water contains many of the vitamins and minerals contained in rice. This includes amino acids, B vitamins, Vitamin E, and antioxidants.
* Because of all these highly nutritious things in it, rice water helps in various ways for your hair growth.
* Hair bath in rice water will help in various ways like it detangles hair, smoother hair, increases shine, makes hair stronger, and helps your hair grow strong.
Here we look at how rice water is made.
* Soaking rice is the easiest way. Take rice, rinse thoroughly and soak it in freshwater for about 30 minutes. Strain it to get rice water.
* Second way is to cook rice in a vessel and after it gets cooked properly, strain it and cool the starchy water which is rice water.
* Also the fermentation process of rice and starchy water of fermented rice is also of high benefits for hair health.