Hair Conditioning Tips

First of all, hair conditioning is its moistening. But hair conditioner has sleeking and repairing functions except of moisturizing. Hair conditioner value is not only in the fact that after using it we have well-groomed, shining hair that do not get tangled, but in the fact that it restores the hair, moisturizes and protects it from harmful environment as well. What should we know about the hair conditioner for using it with maximum benefit for the hair?

• Any type of hair needs conditioning. Even greasy hair requires moisturizing.

• There is no need to keep normal hair conditioning on hair because it is not a mask. Conditioning substance must stay on hair surface but not penetrate inside it.

• In contrast to conventional conditioner, intensive conditioner should not just being hold on the hair during the time specified in the instructions, it is better to wear a plastic hat or a plastic bag, and cover the head with towel.

• Intensive conditioners (whey) can moisturize the hair more deeply, but you cannot use them oftener than once per two weeks.

• If it is indicated on the vial with hair conditioner that it needs to be washed off, do not keep it on the hair. The conditioner not being washed could not prevent your hair from overdrying with hairdryer, but could make it heavier, so it becomes greasy very quickly.

• Those people commit an error that apply hair conditioner only at the hair tips and do not wash it off, trying to cure splitting tips. Regular using of hair conditioner is capable to prevent the emergence of splitting tips, but the conditioner is not able to cure them.

• Indelible conditioners that can be applied on dry hair are produced as sprays. You should not simply splash hair conditioner on your hair but distribute it with your hands along the hair in the direction from roots to tips, allegedly smoothing your locks. Another portion of the hair conditioner should be applied to your hair tips.

Algorithm of hair conditioning:
1. Wash your head with shampoo, then gently wring out your hair or blot it with towel and then apply the conditioner.
2. Air-conditioner is designed to moisturize the hair only, so do not apply it on hair roots, and of course do not rub it into head skin.
3. After applying the conditioner, do not forget to comb your hair and distribute it evenly on your hair.
4. For better work of hair conditioner, you should wash it off properly with cool water.

Treat Your Hair with Natural Masks Only. Part 3.

Masks for your hair strengthening
• Mix in 2 teaspoons of honey and bur oil, add 2 egg yolks. Rub this mixture into your head skin and wash your head off in 40 minutes. Apply this mask once a week for 2-3 months.

• Mix 1 spoon of chamomile flowers, lime tree flowers and nettle leaves, pour them with a glass of boiling water. Strain this tincture after half an hour and add some drops of vitamin A, B1, B12 and E. Crumble a bit of rye bread into the tincture and in 15 minutes spread it on your head. Put on a plastic cap and wash your hair carefully in 1-1.5 hours.

• Pour 3 spoons of nettle leaves with 1 liter of hot water and brew it for 30-40 minutes. Strain the tincture and immediately spread it on the roots of your clean hair. Do the same procedure not less than 1 or 2 times a weeks.

Special means for your hair treatment
• Mix carefully 1 teaspoon of castor oil, 1 teaspoon of bur oil, 2 teaspoons of lemon or birch juice. Rub this mixture into your hair and head skin with light massage motions and put on a warm hat for 1 or 2 hours. Then wash your hair with warm water and an egg yolk. First you should rinse your head with clean water and then apply the egg yolk. Any other egg-based shampoo substitute can be applied. You can use this mask every day.

• Take equal amounts of plantain, nettle, pharmaceutical chamomile and rye bread crumb. Pour 1 spoon of this mixture with ½ glass of boiling water and draw it for 2 hours. Then filter this tincture and soften crestless rye bread in it. Spread the gruel you’ve got on your hair, cover your head with plastic film and put on a thick terry towel. Leave the mask on for about an hour, and then wash it off carefully with warm water.

• Pour 1 teaspoon of chamomile, Saint-John's wort, nettle and birch tree leaves with ½ glass of vegetable oil. Cover the jar carefully and draw the tincture for a week in a dark place. Filter the tincture. Spread this oily mixture on your hair, cover your head with plastic film and put on a thick terry towel. Keep the mask on for 1 or 1½ hour and then wash it off carefully with warm water and shampoo.

• Wash your head with shampoo, spread fat kefir on your hair from the roots along to the ends. Cover the head with plastic film, wrap with a terry towel and leave it on for 40 minutes. Then wash it off with water and a bit of shampoo. Do the same procedure once a week for the best result.

Treat Your Hair with Natural Masks Only. Part 2.

Masks for dry and normal hair treatment
• Take 2 egg yolks, 2 spoons of bur oil, 3 spoons of arnica tincture, 1 spoon of mayonnaise, 1 teaspoon of honey and 2 crumbled garlic cloves. Mix all the components carefully and rub the mixture into your hair roots, then spread it along hairs and leave for 30-40 min. Wrap your head with warmed towel. Put another warmed towel on as soon as the previous one gets cold. Wash your hair a couple of times with hot water and no shampoo or soap used.

• Rub a mixture of castor oil (1 spoon), olive oil (1 spoon) and shampoo for dry hair (1 teaspoon) into your head skin. Wrap your head with warmed towel and wash it with warm water in 2 hours. Shampoo might not be used while your head washed after this wrapping.

• One more extremely useful composition! Take 1 egg yolk, 1 spoon of vegetable or olive oil, 1 teaspoon of honey, 1 teaspoon of cognac and mix the components carefully. Spread the mixture on your head and keep it for about 30-40 minutes.

• Mix 4 spoons of carrot juice and 2 spoons of lemon juice together. Add a glass of peppermint decoction and mix again. Wash your hair and rub this mixture into hair after washing. Keep the mask for 5 minutes and wash again thoroughly.

Masks for greasy hair treatment
• Chop and pound 100 grams of green onion till the juice shows up and add 25 grams of cognac. Spread the mask on your hair, cover the head with plastic bag and wrap it with a warm towel. Wash it off in an hour with warm water.

• Grind with mixer 300 grams of fresh or frozen whortleberries and pour them with 1 glass of boiling water. After the mixture cools a bit, spare it on your hair. Cover the head with plastic film and wrap it with a warm towel. Wash the mask in 30 minutes.

• 30 minutes before washing rub the mixture of 1 teaspoon of honey, 1 teaspoon of aloe juice, 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, 1 egg yolk and 1 mashed clove of garlic into your head skin and hair.

• Mix 1 fresh egg yolk with 1 teaspoon of cognac. Wash your hair and rub this mask into your head skin, keep it for 10 minutes and then wash your hair carefully.

• Mix 1 spoon of olive oil with 1 spoon of honey carefully and rub this mask into your hair roots. Wrap your head with a towel for an hour. Wash your hair with shampoo.

• Spread the mixture of 1 spoon of mustard powder, 2 spoons of strong black tea and 1 egg yolk on your hair and leave it for 30 minutes. Wash your hair with water only. Shampoo is not needed. Apply once every 3-4 days till permanent effect shows up.

Treat Your Hair with Natural Masks Only. Part 1.

Your hair problems will definitely go off right after their nourishing mode is the right way adjusted, with vitamins and natural hair masks applied regularly. Hair is considered to represent a woman the same way her visit card does. I regret to state that nature hasn’t endowed all the women with thick and shiny head of hair. If you DO wish to get beautiful healthy hair then go ahead, apply masks to treat it with. Those are the simplest and most effective mean to protect your hair from hostile environment impact, to make it shiny and silky.

We often neglect hair masks and limit our hair treatment down to balsam mostly, sometimes to shampoo only. Hair balsam and conditioners regular applying is aimed to reduce shampoos’ negative impact on your hair structure, also to give your hair plenty of nutrients. As for the mask – it should be your regular procedure. Masks satiate your hair with nutrients immediately, moisten it, remove visible injuries, improve its structure and make it shiny.

Believe me, any type of hair needs nourishing and moistening masks. Lightened hair is being dried our heavily thus it need to be moistened and nourished at least twice a week. Greasy hair needs to be treated with adsorbing clay based masks. Long greasy hair often has pretty dry tips. If YES, then your greasy hair needs some adsorption, while the tips "wish" to be nourished and "agglutinated". Your splitting hair tips require a different mask to be applied – the butyraceous one.

How often should you apply masks? It depends on your hair type and condition. While critical condition, go ahead and use the mask 2-3 times per a week; once a month will be good enough for prophylactic usage. Please, follow up some rules when preparing hair masks on your own. The most important thing – the fresh-made natural masks should be used for your hair treatment. Keep it on for a strictly defined period of time and then wash your hair thoroughly.

Any masks, except the ones for greasy hair roots treatment, should be carefully spread from the mid of your hair-length approximately as the root zone of it is not injured, it’s pretty still fit and pretty strong and such a method is not really necessary applied. The best way to spread the masks is to be rubbed into the hairs without touching skin with your head bowed down.

Dark Chocolate or Black Night? Your Choice is Basma!

There is another favorite hair dye besides henna in the East. It is called basma. This vegetable hair dye is environmentally friendly. It is prepared from dried leaves of tropical plant indigo, which have greenish grey color. Basma can be used only with henna or coffee, because basma itself can dye your hair in green or greenish blue. Basma has excellent cosmetology properties: it stimulates hair growth and gives it a natural shine, improves hair structure, strengthens hair roots, and eliminates dandruff.

Also as henna, basma should be prepared immediately before applying on hair; you have not to store a hair dye. Take from 20 till 100 grams of basma and henna powder depending on your hair length. The proportion is determined depending on the desired tone and hue intensity. Having dissolved a powder in proportion of 1:1 you will get a nice brown hue. If you want to get hair so black as night, the proportion should be 1:2 (henna: basma); but having changed the proportion of components (1:2 basma: henna) you will get hair of bronze color.

Apply the dye dissolved with water to cream mixture to dry or wet clean hair; it is better to start with back of the head. Then apply the dye on top of the head and on temples, and then on the entire length. For effect enhancing you should put plastic hat on your head, and then cover it with a towel. Keep the dye for 20-30 minutes (for having a light tone), or 1-3 hours (for having rich dark tone).

However, dyes from natural ingredients are not permanent as chemical dyes are. Therefore hair dyed with henna or basma should be spared; wash it with mild shampoos and rinse it with conditioners and balms of the same type (do not use deep cleaning shampoos!). Maintain the color intensity using such a rinse. Pour the mixture of 25 grams of henna and 25 grams of basma with 1.5 liters of boiling water. Filter the mixture carefully, cool it and rinse your hair with it. You have to moisturize your hair regularly and nourish it with protein masks for keeping the resulting hair shine. You can make the mask by yourself: mix 2 egg yolks, 1 teaspoon of honey, aloe leaf juice, 1 teaspoon of castor oil.

You should remember: if your hair is dyed with vegetable dye, you cannot use artificial dyes. The reaction of chemical agents with henna and basma can lead to unexpected results, including blue or green hue. Natural dye has to be completely washed off.

Clay for Your Hair Beauty

Clay mask is a very effective remedy and, at the same time clay mask is the most sparing therapy. They absorb dirt, clean the hair and head skin, stimulate blood microcirculation, give volume to the hair, do not make it heavier, and also they have antiseptic properties. Clay for masks is diluted with water to thick cream consistency and is applied on wet hair for 15 minutes. After this time you should massage your head slightly, and then wash the clay off your hair properly. You should apply clay masks twice a week to achieve the desired effect.

There is clay of different colors on offer; each of them has its own effect.
• The white clay is the most effective remedy when hair loss and fragility.
• If you have seborrhea you should use the green clay.
• Red clay unloads head skin irritations.
• Yellow clay helps you to fight with dandruff.
• Blue clay cleanses deeply, it oxygenates and protects your hair.
You can make masks from clay only, or mix clay with other useful substances for the hair. Today I offer you several masks of white and blue clay.

Mask with honey and mustard
Mash one teaspoon of blue clay with 1 teaspoon of butter, add 1 egg yolk and 1 teaspoon of liquid honey, lemon juice and mustard powder. Mix it all, rub it into the hair roots, and determine the residues along the length of your hair. Put a plastic bag on your head; cover it with wool shawl or towel. In an hour wash your head. This mask is able to breathe a life into the weakest hair.

Mask with garlic
Mix the juice of 2 garlic cloves with 1 tablespoon of lemon juice and 2 tablespoons of blue clay. Add some water and apply it on your hair. Cover your head with a towel, and wash the mask away with warm water and shampoo in 30 minutes. This mask is good for greasy hair. It normalizes the work of sebaceous glands, stimulates hair growth and makes it shine.

Mask with pepper
Grind one Bulgarian pepper of medium size, and then add 2 tablespoons of kefir, 1 tablespoon of white clay and mix it. Apply the mask on your hair; put a plastic bag on your head and a towel over it. Wash away the mask properly in 20-30 minutes. This mask is able to bring your dry and dull hair back into life.

Mask with sea-buckthorn
Mash 2 tablespoons of sea-buckthorn berries (they can be defrost), mix them with 2 tablespoons of milk, and pour with 2 tablespoons of white clay stirring it constantly. Put the derived homogeneous mass on your hair for 20 minutes. Wash the mask away with a shampoo you usually use. This mask is good for splitting hair.

Banana Masks for Dry Hair

Bananas contain minerals and other nutrients that promote hair recovery and rehabilitation. Banana mask is perfectly suited for dry, dyed hair and for hair after the perm. Choose the perfect recipe and care about your hair with a pleasure.

- Mash one banana with a fork; add 2 teaspoons of honey and 2 teaspoons of wheat seedlings. Mix the ingredients to obtain a uniform mass. Apply at clean, damp hair and leave for 20 minutes. It is better to wear rubber hat and wrap up your head with a bath towel.

- Take 1 banana and make a banana pulp, add 2 tablespoons of oat flour and 1 tablespoon of burdock oil. Apply the derived mixture at your hair, wear plastic hat and wrap up your head with a bath towel for 30-40 minutes. Wash the mask off with shampoo.

- Mash one ripe banana with a fork, then add 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Apply the mixture at damp hair from roots to tips. Massage your head skin. Wear rubber hat and wrap up your head with a bath towel. Leave it for 30 minutes. Wash your hair off with warm water before using shampoo and conditioner.

- Take 1 ripe banana, a half of a ripe mango, 2 tablespoons of yogurt or kefir, 2 teaspoons of olive oil and 1 teaspoon of liquid honey. Mix all ingredients carefully. Apply the mask at your hair avoiding the roots if you have oily hair, and covering the tips. Leave for 30 minutes, and then wash your hair properly.

Winter Beauty Program for Your Hair

Cold and dense hats is not an easy test for your hair. Your hair is crumpled, and thus it becomes more fragile, it does not "breathe" and becomes greasy faster. Besides, lack of vitamins in the body begins to affect the general condition of your hair negatively. To maintain a luxurious head of hair, you need to apply regenerative therapy regularly; and then your hair will become soft, silken and gentle.

Masks with clay and ash berries will help you to fight against wiry greasy hair. Here is the recipe of a clay mask. Take a packet of green cosmetic clay; dilute it with water according to the instruction. Add a few drops of wheat sprout oil (or calendula, or rosemary oil). Apply the mask on your hair and put a plastic cap on your head. Leave it for 30 minutes, and then wash it away carefully massaging your head. Mask of ash berries: mash fresh berries in a bowl; add a few drops of mint pepper essential oil. Put the pulp on your hair and head skin and hold it for 30 minutes. Then rinse your hair carefully.

If your curls look dull, brittle and lifeless, the vitamin session will help to revive them. Vegetable oils and natural ingredients are the excellent basis for such session. For example, here is a honey-oat mask: mix 100 grams of honey, 100 grams of oat flakes, and in 5 drops of lemon and cucumber juice. Heat the mixture slightly, and then rub it into your hair roots. Wash it away after 30 minutes. Repeat the procedure once a week.

You should try the following effective procedures to restore the structure of damaged hair. Compress with burdock oil. Distribute oil along the length of your hair, wrap you head up with towel and hold it for 30 minutes. After that you should wash your hair with shampoo carefully. Burdock oil is an excellent remedy to restore the hair structure, and to protect your hair from frangibility. Try burdock roots lotion. Steam several crushed burdock roots (or parsley, or licorice) and rinse your clean hair with this decoction. Rub it into your hair massaging your head skin, leave it for 2-3 minutes and wash it away. This remedy delivers your hair from the dandruff.

Regenerative mask will help to ensure your hair protection from wind and cold, as well as hair tips protection from splitting-off. Mix 1 egg yolk with 1 tablespoon of burdock oil, add few drops of olive oil. If you have greasy hair, you can add a few drops of fresh lemon juice. Heat the mixture slightly and apply it on your wet hair (you should not rub it into your hair roots). Put a plastic hat on your head, wind a towel round your head and leave it for 1 hour, then wash the mask away with water and shampoo.

In addition, it is very important to comb your hair regularly if you want your hair to look shiny and well-groomed. You should comb your hair every morning and evening. It is better to comb it in different directions 4-5 minutes before going to bed; it improves skin blood supply. The comb should be with a few scallops, made of bone, wood, horn or plastic.