We’re pretty sold on using kitchen ingredients in beauty recipes. This way, whenever that avocado is too ripe to be eaten, it can be turned into an excellent hair mask! This prevents waste, and it’s a great way to extend the food’s beneficial properties to external use. Here are 12 natural ways to health up your hair – with food!
12 Ways to Use Food for Healthy Hair
1. Honey
It’s your hair’s best friend! Naturally moisturizing, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory, it makes a good mask for overly dry, irritated scalp . You can also combine it with lemon to lighten your hair.
Try: Honey hair masks or DIY Hair Lightening Spray
2. Pumpkin
It’s seasonal, so why not make full use of its benefits? It’s rich in vitamins, beta-carotene, potassium and zinc and it helps moisturize dry hair.
Try: Pumpkin & honey hair mask
3. Apple
Or apple sauce, to be exact. The malic acid helps cleanse the scalp by breaking down clogged hair follicles and dead skin.
Try: Cleansing Applesauce Scalp Treatment
4. Blackberry
They have antioxidant effects which fight the damaging environmental effects on hair and leave it shiny and voluminous.
Try: Blackberry Hair Mask
5. Beer
It makes hair thicker and shinier, with just a simple rinse! The yeast in beer plumps up the hair shaft while the hops and malt are said to nourish and stimulate the hair shaft.
Try: Rosemary Guinness Volumizing Hair Rinse
6. Coconut milk
Obviously! It contains healthy proteins and essential fats, both of which boost hair growth.
Try: Coconut Milk Mask for Thinning Hair
7. Avocado
Moisturizing and delicious, avocado is the long-lost BFF of your hair. You can use it on its own or mashed with some peppermint essential oil and use after washing your hair.
Try: Simple Hydrating Avocado Hair Mask
8. Yogurt
Turn yogurt into a hair mask to benefit from the lactic acid that cleanses, nourishes and strengthens the hair follicle.
Try: Honey, Coconut Oil and Yogurt Deep Conditioning Hair Mask
9. Coconut oil
This heavy oil penetrates deep into the hair shaft and it’s excellent on split ends or dry hair.
Try: Rosemary Coconut Oil Hair Spray for Dry, Damaged Hair
10. Banana
Bananas can work magic on your hair! Just mix with olive oil and honey for a hydrating hair and scalp mask.
Try: Banana and Honey Hair Mask
11. Baking soda
An extraordinary cleanser that gently exfoliates the scalp and removes product buildup on the hair shaft.
Try: 3 DIY Deep Cleansing Scalp Scrubs
12. Eggs
If you’re struggling with split ends, serve your hair an egg. Packed with protein and amino acids, eggs restore hair’s shine, strength and volume.
Try: Egg Protein Hair Conditioner
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I try all that but nothing good happen to my hair!plz helpmy hair to grow
My friend, At fiftyfour,I was bald and grey,over my ears were two inches of thinking grey hair,I had all ready accepted at 30 as my hair started thining that’s the way it is with all males,at 30 I also started practicing and old Marshall arts from gung fu call demok,beating the tips of my fingers created much pain for the first year,but the pain subsided and advance to metal poles,also went to message parlors,love head messages, not lower half mind you,I wasn’t getting much work in plumbing so I went back to maintenance, couldn’t go to get messages so I started doing my own messages on my own head,three days later as I looked in the mirror I noted three little white hair popped up in the same area on my head-wooooooo,how the hell?acknowledging it must be the messaging,I started messaging my head everyday,twice a day if I could fit it in ,every day more hair,I came up with a devise cause my finger tips were getting to though,I use a rubber curry comb used for horses,I sanded off the ridges,rounded them so they would create a wave on my scalp,after bringing the sebum to the surface,using honey,lemon,coconut oil,yogart,and trader joes shampoo,first to get the sebum out,its goowey,then leaving shampoo in to give your hair protein the second time,randrewo634@gmail.com
These are very good tips!
You can eat foods such as walnuts also to ensure that you do not develop issues such as dandruff. Particular foods can have wondrous benefits for hair health.
These solutions r really vry helpful if usd properly…i love it
These are super helpful. And I have most of these ingredients in my house. I need to try this…
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