All Natural Yucca Shampoo -

All Natural Yucca Shampoo

The Yucca plant a member of the Lily family has sword shaped leaves with large panicles of white flowers. Known as “Adam’s Needle or “ Soapweed” is often grown as decorative border plants. Many Natives have used the Yucca plant to make baskets, rope and sandals as well soap and shampoo.
Radiant shiny hair is easy to have when you follow the Navajos way. It’s been said some natives have used Yucca Shampoo to prevent hair loss and dandruff.
The Yucca plant contains a substance called saponin which is a natural detergent. It is the saponin found in the Yucca Plant that creates foamy suds when agitated in water. Yucca are commonly found in the U.S. Southwest or Mexico.

Method

To make your own version of Yucca Shampoo: Look for fresh young Yucca plants. Cut off a piece of the root and peel the brown off of the root until you have exposed the white root inside. Once clean take a hammer, smash the Yucca root until it breaks in pieces.

Wet the Yucca root, while holding the root over a basin of warm water, rub the root like a bar of soap to get mounds of lather from it. Wash your hair with the lather for a few minutes, gently massaging the scalp. Rinse very well in warm water making sure that no Yucca pieces remain in your hair.

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