People Are Growing These Plants That You Can Squeeze Natural Shampoo From

I am adding this to my list of plants in the Spring.

Meet the Zingiber zerumbet or most commonly known as the Shampoo Ginger Lily. This is a perennial from the ginger family of plants.

While it is beautiful and exotic looking, it actually has some amazing benefits aside from it’s beauty…

The flowers and rhizomes are very fragrant that have a pleasant warm ginger spice scent.

They produce a light red juice that collects inside of the flower cone that can be extracted and “suds” to be used for shampoo, hence the name Shampoo Ginger Lily!

You can simply squeeze the cone-shaped flower and collect the sap which can then be massaged into the skin and hair. And get this – if you leave them planted in the group, the sap will refill on it’s own. WOAH!

In fact, one woman went viral on TikTok when she shared this small bit of amazing information and people have been in awe ever since.

Aside from using it as shampoo or cleansing the skin, it can actually be eaten and use medicinally.

Medicinally the plant has several well researched uses including as an anti-inflammatory, for digestive issues, for treating diarrhea, and for treating intestinal worms.

So, where can you grow this amazing plant? Well, it grows best in moist, shaded, forested areas in tropical areas around the world such as it’s native home Hawaii.

I don’t know about you, but I am totally going to try to grow some of these come Spring. You can get Shampoo Ginger Lily Seeds here.