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Best Essential Oils for Hair Growth

Explore the best essential oils for hair growth and how to use them safely for thicker, healthier hair with Davines’ sustainable formulas.

Updated on December 16, 2025 | 3 min read

Jaclyn LaBadia, Davines Writer

If you’re struggling to grow your hair, essential oils might be just the thing you need to give your strands a boost. Essential oils are a natural, holistic way to address hair growth, encouraging longer, stronger, healthier hair. We’re breaking down everything to know about essential oils for hair growth, including the most powerful ones, how to use them and the must-have Davines products to find them in. Your longer, healthier hair dreams are about to come true and it all starts now!

Key Takeaways

How to Use Essential Oils for Your Hair

Essential oils naturally support scalp health and hair growth.
Oils like lavender, peppermint, and rosemary boost circulation and strengthen hair.
Always dilute and patch-test essential oils before use.
Consistent use leads to healthier, thicker hair over time.
Davines products combine these oils with sustainable, salon-quality formulas for effective results.

Essential Oils for Hair Growth

Essential oils are highly concentrated extracts sourced from various plant parts like leaves, flowers, fruit peels, berries and roots. They’re commonly used for their mood-boosting abilities, soothing and healing properties and stimulating benefits, and date as far back as 4500 BC, with Ancient Egyptians using them in cosmetics and ointments. Essential oils are powerful ingredients that easily penetrate the skin to deliver essential nutrients, making them ideal for moisturizing the scalp, fortifying strands and unclogging pores, to promote hair growth. Even if longer hair isn’t a priority, you can't go wrong adding essential oils to your hair care routine. They offer lots of hair loving benefits, like preventing split ends, taming frizz and defining curls. At the very least, they’ll leave your hair silkier and stronger. Keep reading for more on using essential oils for hair growth.

How Essential Oils Promote Hair Growth

Essential oils can enhance mood, promote relaxation, improve concentration, relieve pain and inflammation, work as antiseptics and even help with immunity. They also help improve scalp health, hair texture, strength and shine, while minimizing hair loss and promoting growth. But how do they work? In short, essential oils work by stimulating blood flow to the scalp. They act as vasodilators, which means they widen the blood vessels. This is important because hair is non-essential tissue, or no longer living tissue. Encouraging blood flow allows the scalp to access and absorb more nutrients. So what oils are good for hair growth? Let’s get into it below.

Top 8 Essential Oils for Hair Growth

While there’s no magic remedy to quickly grow your hair, certain essential oils can be beneficial to boost growth. Essential oils can be a great addition to your hair care routine. These are the best oils for hair growth.

1. Lavender Essential Oil

With antimicrobial and antibacterial properties, lavender oil is incredibly beneficial to both the hair and scalp. It can soothe issues like a dry scalp, dermatitis, and dandruff. And studies suggest that it can also accelerate hair growth to some extent.

2. Peppermint Essential Oil

Peppermint oil is a scalp stimulant with vasodilating abilities. It expands the blood vessels just below the skin to improve blood flow and the delivery of essential nutrients to the hair follicles, promoting healthy hair growth.

3. Rosemary Essential Oil

One of the most widely accepted essential oils for hair growth is rosemary oil. Its benefits include promoting blood flow and stimulating hair regeneration. Studies suggest it's as effective as the hair growth drug minoxidil, without the side effects.

4. Cedarwood Essential Oil

Cedarwood oil balances the oil glands in the scalp, promoting hair growth and minimizing hair loss. And its antifungal and antibacterial properties keep the scalp healthy. Cedarwood is even more powerful when blended with lavender and rosemary oils.

5. Lemongrass Essential Oil

Lemongrass oil is an effective defense against dandruff, according to one study. It significantly reduces dandruff in as little as one week of daily use. And a flake-free scalp is optimal for promoting healthy hair growth.

6. Ylang-Ylang Essential Oil

Ylang-ylang oil stimulates oil production to help dry strands become less brittle, dull, and fragile. It’s deal for combatting frizz, and because It's also anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial and filled with antioxidants, so it even promotes hair growth on an oily scalp.

7. Tea Tree Essential Oil

Tea tree oil is beneficial for a dry, itchy, or oily scalp and those dealing with dandruff or hair loss. It reduces scalp irritation and helps reduce the production of excess sebum, both of which promote hair growth.

8. Sage Essential Oil

With the same compounds that make lavender oil so effective, sage oil helps to improve hair strength, making it more resistant to breakage, and in turn, increasing healthy hair growth.

Safe Usage of Essential Oils for Hair

When it comes to essential oils for hair growth, there are some things to keep in mind for safe use. Essential oils can irritate the skin or cause an allergic reaction, so they should never be used undiluted. Instead, they should be added to carrier oils like coconut, grapeseed, argan, or jojoba, with a dropper; touching them with your bare hands can be irritating. Avoid adverse reactions by testing a tiny amount of the oil or mixture on a small area of your skin before full use.

Essential Oils in Your Hair Care Routine

Ready to add some hair growth oils into your routine? Start with dry hair for maximum absorption. Once your essential oil is mixed with a carrier oil, rub it between your palms to warm it. Massage it into your scalp thoroughly, working it all the way through your hair. Let it sit for up to 30 minutes before washing it out with a gentle cleanser. Another way to use essential oils is to mix a few drops into your favorite shampoo or conditioner.

Davines’ Hair Solutions with Essential Oils

If you’d rather not do your own mixing, Davines offers several different formulas made with hair-loving essential oils. Add them to your routine for longer, stronger, healthier hair.

ENERGIZING Thickening Tonic

Ourleave-in thickening tonic supports healthy hair growth by invigorating the scalp with the regenerating benefits of eucalyptus oil. ENERGIZING Thickening Tonic increases the diameter of hair strands instantly, for hair that looks shiny and full bodied, without looking or feeling weighed down.

The Let It Go Circle

Our mask for stressed out strands supports hair health by hydrating and rebalancing with a sensory and relaxing scent for a true well-being experience. The sweet orange essential oil in The Let It Go Circle helps to relax the mind, while comforting hair and scalp that need a break.

ENERGIZING Shampoo

Our restorative balancing shampoo gently cleanses, moisturizing and stimulating fragile strands, that are prone to falling out. Formulated with peppermint oil, ENERGIZING Shampoo invigorates the scalp, reinforces the hair fiber to prevent breakage, and supports a healthy environment for new growth.

Nourishing Oil

Our hydrating hair oil supports healthy hair growth through a blend of eucalyptus, lavender, cedarwood, lemon and orange peel and bergamot oils. Nourishing Oil leaves strands soft, silky and shiny.

ENERGIZING Gel

Our strengthening gel for fine and stressed hair balances and invigorates the scalp and strands. Made with eucalyptus oil, ENERGIZING Gel helps stimulate new hair growth while reinforcing weak hair to prevent future breakage.

Benefits of Essential Oils

Essential oils can enhance mood, promote relaxation, improve concentration, relieve pain and inflammation, work as antiseptics and even help with immunity. They’re also incredibly powerful ingredients when it comes to healthy hair care. Essential oils help improve scalp health and hair texture, strength and shine, while minimizing hair loss and promoting growth. Follow our tips for using oils in your routine safely or choose one of our high quality formulas made with essential oils. Davines' is committed to providing natural, eco-friendly and effective hair care solutions.

FAQs

Which essential oil is the best for hair growth?

The best essential oils for hair growth are lavender, peppermint, rosemary, cedarwood, lemongrass, ylang ylang, tea tree and sage.

Which oil is best for the fastest hair growth?

Research suggests that rosemary and peppermint oil are the most effective for fast hair growth. Rosemary oil promotes growth by increasing circulation and nutrient delivery to hair follicles, while peppermint oil stimulates growth by dilating blood vessels in the scalp.

How do you mix essential oils for hair growth?

Use a dropper to mix 5-6 drops of essential oil per 1 ounce of a carrier oil. Carefully measure the desired amount of carrier oil and pour it into your container, then add the corresponding number of essential oil drops. Secure the cap on your container and shake gently to ensure the oils are thoroughly combined.

Which 5 oils are best for hair growth?

Lavender, peppermint, rosemary, tea tree and cedarwood are the 5 best essential oils for hair growth.

What are the big 3 for thinning hair?

When it comes to the best essential oils to use on thinning hair, the big 3 refer to rosemary, peppermint and cedarwood oils.

What oils should not be used on hair?

Oils to avoid on your hair include camphor, as it can be harsh on the scalp; castor, as it can cause a rare scalp disorder in which hair becomes twisted and matted; mineral, which can cause folliculitis; and olive oil, as it can clog pores resulting in acne on the scalp.

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