Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Natural Homemade Recipes for Normal Hair

Natural Homemade Recipes for Normal HairNormal hair reflects the light well and shines in the sun. If these qualities are kept for several days after head washing, your hair belongs to the normal type. This type of hair also differs with elasticity. Normal hair does not split and is easy to comb.

Important! Normal hair should be washed once a week with soft water. Hard water doesn’t do for normal hair.

Recipe 1. Pour a mixture of dried herbs with boiling water (take 1 tablespoon chamomile, 1 tablespoon linden and 1 tablespoon of nettle for 200 ml water). After half an hour draft the decoction, add liquid vitamins A, B1, B12, E (in oil) and add the crushed pieces of rye-bread. In 15 minutes apply the mask on the hair and leave for 1-1,5 hours. Then rinse with a big number of running water.

Recipe 2. Mix 50 ml of vodka with a teaspoon of lemon juice and rub into the scalp every other day for 2-3 weeks.

Recipe 3. Take 1 cup of dry grass thyme. Pound it into powder. Pour the herbal powder with ½ liter of boiling mineral water, cool and filter. After head washing apply this infusion on your hair and wrap the head with warm towel for 15 minutes.

Recipe 4. Take 250-300 gram of pumpkin flesh, grate it, and squeeze the juice. Add 1 tablespoon of olive oil, two drops of basil oil and two drops of ylang-ylang oil. Rub the resulting mass into hair roots, wrap them with film, and keep for 30 minutes. Then wash hair with shampoo.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Hair Split Ends Treatment

Hair Split Ends TreatmentLet’s look through some best remedies for dry hair and hair split ends.

• Prefer special hair care products that are made to prevent the splits, they usually include oils and extracts.

• Go for deep conditioning treatment every week, if possible. Use special or home-made masks. Conditioning is necessary every time after a chemical curling. Always apply the conditioner or mask on your hair, from the root to tip and cover your head with a shower cap. Leave it for the time from 10 minutes to 3 hours. This will help you to prevent the split ends, if you do it once a week regularly.

• An effective remedy for split ends is trimming. The question is about two to three centimeters from the tip. This can prevent the split ends. You can do this at home or visit your hairdresser, but the common rule is: have a trim regularly.

• Avoid too much brushing, go without hairdryer from time to time and never use scratch or shampoo hair and scalp before any chemical service.

• In addition to shampoos (or instead of) use sour milk or yogurt to wash your hair, and also whey, rye bread, egg yolks, etc. After washing rinse the hair with herbal decoctions or apply restoring balm on the entire length of the hair.

You see as they split they also break away, so your hair get shorter every time you brush it. Always wash your hair from the root along to the tip. So, if you want to keep your hair long, don't ignore hair split ends.

Monday, November 23, 2009

Hair Split Ends Reasons

How many death-blows to hopes have been experienced by a lot of women who tried to grow long hair, because of hair split ends? Unfortunately long beautiful hair and hair split ends are incompatible. Hair split ends are most often seen in long hair and it is a common aggravation of anyone trying to grow their hair.

Never say die! Don’t give up your dream about beautiful long hair. The problem can be solved with good hair care. Split ends are more common for dry or brittle hair, and typical results of damage such as careless brushing or defective hair accessories.

Main reasons for hair split ends are:

• The natural scalp oils are necessary to reach the ends, making them more vulnerable than the roots. So hair split ends show if they are insufficient. The longer hair you have the drier they are.

• Your hair ends have a long exposure to the sun, experience more shampoos and been overheated by hairdryers and straighteners. The result is hair dryness and brittle ends.

• If you do not cut your hair regularly, it means you don’t take a proper care about them. An inopportune and rare cutting is possibly the main cause of hair split ends. Cut hair ends regularly and you will prevent splitting.

• Hair coloring, especially hair lightening, when done too often causes dry brittle ends.

• Winds, frost, overheated rooms and dry air also make hair dry.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Natural Homemade Recipes for Dry Hair

Dry hair does not reflect much light, that’s why it looks very dull. Dry hair usually has split ends, easily tears and tangles. It is difficult to comb. Quite often you can find dry fine dandruff on the head. Here you can find some homemade recipes for dry hair care. All of them are natural and easy to make.

1. Take 1 tablespoon burdock oil, 1 yolk, 1 teaspoon honey, 1 teaspoon of brandy and 1 teaspoon of aloe juice. Mix all ingredients carefully and apply the mixture on your hair. Put the polyethylene hat on the head and keep the mask for 2-3 hours. Then rinse with plenty of running water.

2. To eliminate dry dandruff you should take 4 tablespoons of the calamus roots and pour them with 1/2 liters of water. Boil 15 minutes, draw for 30-40 minutes and then filter. Wash the hair after shampooing with this rinser.

3. Beat 2 egg whites in foam. Then rub the foam into the hair and in the scalp and leave until it dries. Then rinse and wash hair with shampoo and warm water.

4. Mix onion juice with vegetable oil and lemon juice in equal parts. Gently massage the mixture into wet hair. Leave for 20-30 minutes on hair. Cover head with the piece of polyethylene. Then rinse with warm water and wash with shampoo.

5. Rinse hair with parsley broth after washing to make your hair shining. To make a rinser you need take 50 grams of parsley and pour it with 500 milliliters of water. Boil for 15 minutes, then cool and filter.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Natural Hair Care Tips

Do you want to keep your hair beautiful? It is not a secret; all women dream about healthy, beautiful, natural hair. It is well known you can spend hundreds of dollars buying the numerous products available for natural hair use. Some of them are useless, some useful, as luck would have it.

However, breaking the bank is really not necessary to keep a healthy, strong and shiny natural care. Natural hair care implicates natural products. You might be surprised to know you already have necessary natural ingredients in your own kitchen and your own garden!

Creating your own hair recipes helps you to make new, closer, even intimate relationship with your hair. If you take care about them in holograph, think about them, and look after them, they will love you back undoubtedly.

You may use many products for natural hair care: herbs (as hair rinses); eggs, oils, honey (as hair masks components). There are some simple rules to follow to find your perfect devising:

- Start with simple recipes. Ask an experienced person to help you, or look for some books or articles. After you go through the will, start making your own recipes.

- Don't mix too many things at once. Start with mixing one main ingredient and adding a small amount of another. It's much easier to find out the effect of the particular remedy when your ingredients list is limited. The best way is to create two-ingredient masks and try them until you see that works well on your hair.

- If there is one particular ingredient you find the best on your hair make it a constant component for your hair recipes, use it as a standard part of all your masks.

- Use only fresh and natural components. Prefer herbs grown with your own hands (you can place some flower boxes of the balcony and grow rumple, calendula, chamomile and salvia) or herbs from your nearest wood or field. Make sure they are rather far from the city industrial area and car roads.

- Take note of what herb works for you and how it works. Write down recipes those which are better for clarifying and those that can be used for great deep conditioners.

- Be creative! Make experiments with essential oils (just some drops), try ethanolic herb extracts (sometimes it is good for oily hair), and make your own hair oils (use nettle and burdock’s roots).

- Keep in mind, zero result is also a good result! It lets you know what you should not use. The worst case scenario with the use of your homemade products is the need to wash your hair again. Remember: natural ingredients are safe!