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 & oil hair mask 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