Arabian Secrets of Beautiful Hair. Part 2.

Remedy for hair growth
In oriental harems beauties used to take advantage of sweet almond crushed kernels mixed with milk; it made their hair grow faster and thicker. To prepare this mixture, you will need a quarter cup of sweet almond kernels and warm milk. Pound almonds for pulp condition and dissolve them with milk to sour cream condition. Rub almond-milk paste in hair roots twice a week.

A ginger mask also promotes hair growth: mix 1 tablespoon of grated ginger (you can use ginger powder) with 1 tablespoon of jojoba oil or sesame oil. It is better to leave the mask on hair for all night covering your head with a towel.

Dried fruits
Dry fruit of figs is an excellent remedy to strengthen your hair. Grind 2 or 3 dried fruit of figs. Pour 1 cup of milk in a separate enameled cookware, put figs in the milk, mix them all carefully, close with a lid and put the mixture on fire. Wait until the mixture boils, diminish the fire to a minimum and let the paste boil until becoming a homogeneous mass. Cool the paste off. Rub the part of it in hair roots and distribute the rest of it to all hair length. Leave it for 20-30 minutes, covering your head with a towel. Wash the mask away with warm water. Wash your head with one of oriental shampoos.

Raisin masks are able to help hair loss. To do this, take a handful of light raisins, put them into enameled glassware, and fill with 0.5 liters of boiling water. Close the glassware with a lid and boil for 10-15 minutes on low heat; let it stand for 2 hours. Then strain the broth into a separate dish. Grade raisins to a pulp condition; add 1 egg yolk, 1 teaspoon of liquid honey, 1 teaspoon of olive oil, 0.5 teaspoon of salt. Mix it all thoroughly. If the mixture is too thick, add a little amount of broth and stir the mass. Apply it on your hair and keep the mask for about an hour. Rinse your hair with water and then wash it with shampoo.

Oils
Coconut oil strengthens, nourishes the hair, and makes it shine. It makes dry and depleted hair being shine and luxuriant. In addition, applying of all vegetable oils is an excellent way for dyeing fixation and giving hair the radiant beauty after henna or basma dyeing (the traditional oriental dyes). Apply coconut oil on all hair length for 20-60 minutes. Wash your hair with an oriental shampoo.

Amla oil (Indian gooseberry) is a magical remedy for girls who want to improve significantly hair quality, thickness, and accelerate its growth. Put oil on your hair along its length for 20-60 minutes. Wash your hair with oriental shampoo.

Arabian Secrets of Beautiful Hair. Part 1.

Oriental women usually have healthy and shiny hair; it is an indispensable condition of their beauty, because hair always completes their image. So, why oriental enchantresses have luxurious heads of hair? Traditionally in the countries of the Arab world and in India also women and girls have used dairy products, oils and water with plant extracts to take care of their hair; these popular recipes and formulations are the main secret of exceptional density, health and shine of their hair.

Oriental shampoos
For many centuries, Arabian beauties have been using dairy products instead of usual shampoos and soaps for hair washing; dairy products create a fatty layer which helps to protect hair from harmful effects of ardent sun and dry wind. Today we can use usual kefir for these purposes. Pour kefir carefully on your head, massage it slightly, and then rinse your hair thoroughly with warm water. A solution of citric or acetic acid will make your hair shine; rinse your hair with this solution (dissolve 1 tablespoon of acid in 2 liters of water).

Shampoo for greasy hair: mix 1 egg yolk, 2 tablespoons of water, and half teaspoon of camphor oil in a ceramic dish. Apply this mixture is on your hair, distribute the mixture evenly, massage your hair slightly. Wash it away with warm water.

Shampoo for dry hair: mix 1 yolk with half teaspoon of vegetable oil (olive, coconut, almond one). This nutritious blend helps to restore your hair and gives it an amazing shine. Wash it off with cool water.

Magic mustard
Mix 1 tablespoon of mustard powder with 3 tablespoons of kefir, add 1 egg yolk, 1 teaspoon of honey and 1 teaspoon of almond oil. Apply the resulting blend on your hair along all its length. Cover your head with a towel and leave it for of 30-40 minutes. Wash the mask away with warm water.

Mix 1 tablespoon of mustard powder, dissolve it in 2 liters of warm water. You should rinse your hair with this solution to remove greasy glance. In addition, your hair will not become dirty quickly if you use mustard rinsing.

SPA Treatment For Your Hair

Aloe and olive shampoo
Medicative herbs and aloe-vera will award you the pleasure to enjoy soft and incredibly aromatic foam. Mix 1 glass of boiling water with ½ glass of dried blossoms: chamomile for blondes, hibiscus for the red-haired and rosemary for brunettes. Cover the glass with a top, cool it and pass through a sieve. Add ½ bar of Castile soap, a teaspoon of olive oil and two teaspoons of aloe-vera for ⅓ cup of the herbs mix. Place everything into the vessel and mix it.

Herbs treatment for your hair
Herbal extracts, shampoos, conditioners and the head-skin oils will protect your hair and make it shiny. Chamomiles and rhubarb are highly recommended to be used by blondes. Alkanna tinctoria, henna and hibiscus are good for red-haired. Brunettes should apply lavender, rosemary and Artemisia (sage) containing means. Apple, avocado, blackberry are the right fruit for dry hair to be cared for. Regarding conditioners, they should contain banana, fig and pears. One can find plenty of proteins, vitamins and nourishing substances in fruit juices and extracts. They are known to strengthen hair and favor its growth.

Banana and molasses conditioner
Listed below ingredients are to be applied while treating dry and glitter less hair: one banana, ¼ cup of honey (½ cup for blondes), ¼ cup of molasses (for brunettes only), 2 teaspoons of wheat acrospires, mix everything. Spread the mixture on clean hair, leave it on for 20 minutes and then wash it off carefully. This mixture may be used as the regular conditioner and it will be a RESCUE for your dry hair. Molasses and honey will make your hair shiny, wheat acrospires will enrich it carefully with vitamins, and banana will treat your dry curls.

Orange-chamomile rinser
Use fresh ingredients only and make the high-quality domestic rinser while at home: 1 cup of chamomile (or ½ of the dry herb), 1 orange peel, 1 cup of apple vinegar and 2 cup of water. Warm ingredient on the weak fire and take it off after 6-8 minutes. Cool it. Spread your hand-made rinser on just-washed hair, leave it on for 5 minutes and wash it off carefully. Dry your hair as usual. The apple vinegar will get your head rid of dead cells and prevents dandruff coming up. Chamomile and orange will make your hair soft, shiny and silky.

Avocado conditioner
Protein containing foodstuffs (eggs and avocado) will surely make your hair shiny, glittering and silky. Mix together 1 egg and ½ avocado. Spread the mixture on your head skin and hair with light massage motions. Leave it on for 20-30 minutes, then start washing it off with cool water and continue with water getting warmer and warmer.

Natural Hair Dyeing: Henna. Part 2.

Red secrets
Before applying on your hair you may add jojoba or burdock oil to henna powder dissolved in boiling water. It leads to double effect: a dye covers your hair evenly thanks to oils; at the same time it strengthens the hair roots. Also, in order to achieve the synergies you may dissolve henna not with boiling water but with hot whey, which would make your hair shine and smoothness.
Vegetable oil can also neutralize the excessive color brightness. You should warm up a bit of vegetable oil (preferably on a steam bath) and rub it into dyed hair carefully. Wait until your hair becomes dry, and wash it with shampoo. Repeat the procedure if the result is not noticeable.
Henna is used to fade. But do not use henna more often than once in a period of two months. You could get a reverse effect from frequent use of henna: your hair may become dull. If you want to refresh a dyeing, do it using henna rinse. Dissolve 1 package of henna in 1L of boiling water (you can change the proportions, depending on hair length). Filter the mixture carefully; then cool it and rinse your hair with it.

Beautiful colors
You can get almost all most fashionable hues from flame-red to bright brown using henna. If you want to have got a deep chestnut color on dark hair, add 1-2 tablespoons of instant coffee.
And if you prefer colors of bordeaux, dissolve henna powder in hot beetroot juice but not in water. Henna also can help you to become a brunette: mix henna with basma in equal proportions to rich this effect. Basma is a dyeing powder extracted from leaves of indigo.
To achieve more interesting colors mix henna powder with such decoctions. Chamomile decoction (chamomile gives hair a wonderful golden hue) lime flowers decoction (you will get brown hue), onion skin decoction (a warm color of brown or purple, if onion is blue), buckthorn, calendula, tansy decoctions (you’ll get yellowish color options), or juice of elder-berries decoction (violet-red, purple colors) or raspberry decoction (red hues).

Natural Hair Dyeing: Henna. Part 1.

Lawsonia inermis powder is one of the best remedies for hair care. It can be used for various purposes, such as hair dyeing, treatment, and therapy. The mixture of henna pasta and other ingredients will make your hair shine and gentle as if you have visited the beauty salon.

Henna is a powder derived from dried leaves of Lawsonia alba. In the East it is traditionally used for hair dyeing, for seborrhea sicca treatment, for hair strengthening and improving hair growth, for hair loss treatment. Henna is a natural product, it nourishes hair, and does not contain chemical compounds (ammonia, oxidants or other harmful substances), as opposed to chemical dyes.

You may also use essential oils, herbs and milk whey together with lawsonia powder when dyeing your hair with henna. Damaged or decolorized hair is dyed intensively as a rule; it doesn’t worth dyeing your hair if it is permed or grey. After dyeing your hair with henna you shouldn’t have your hair permed or use chemical dyes for a long period. The results could be unpredictable.

Depending on your hair length, you will need 1-3 bags of henna powder, a towel, a large brush, a small ceramic bowl, some cream, rubber gloves, plastic cap or plastic bag for hair dyeing. You must remember that the dye should be applied on clean and wet hair. The procedure of dyeing itself approximately lasts for 1,5-2 hours (you should rather make a test on one lock before dyeing all your hair, it could help to determine accurately how much time henna could remain on your hair to achieve the desired color). Henna is not a chemical remedy; it takes time to fix well on hair. But the result will exceed your expectations.

Fill henna powder with boiling water in ceramic bowl, then put it on steam bath and boil the mixture to a thick cream condition. There should not be flakes in henna. It is better to start dyeing with your neck. Then apply the dye on your temples and on top of your head; in conclusion dye all your hair length. Ensure henna does not hit on your skin.

After you've dyed the hair, massage it to make henna cover it evenly. Wrap your head with plastic pellicle or packet, put a roller from cotton-wool on your forehead from the hairline; and then cover your head with towel.

After the time of dyeing is over, you should rinse your hair properly. Rinse your hair until the water flowing from them is absolutely clear. After dyeing your hair becomes pretty and has beautiful color, it shines healthy and becomes more dense and luxuriant. In addition henna creates special layer for hair protection.

Simple Ways to Better Your Hair Look

Your hair’s beauty, elasticity, softness and glitter depend not so much on your health as on the right way your take care of them. You can get your hair beautiful and healthy with the help of the simplest methods.

Cut your hair ends more often
The possibility to get your hair ends split is higher while using the hair drier regularly. The hair tips, if long hair especially, do not get required amount of their natural head skin grease thus they are dryer than the rest of hair and more friable. The best way to avoid this is preventing. Brush your hair the right way. Remember, the experts advice is to NOT to brush your hair while wet. It makes sense! While wet hair brushed, it gets stretched too much, thus they get damaged easily. Dry hair should be brushed carefully with a single movement from roots toward tips. This way the natural hair bulb grease which protects and moistens your hair when spread evenly along the full hair length and reaches the tips where it’s highly needed.
The other way to solve the matter is to cut a couple inches off. Impossible thing is trying to restore the hair split tips.

Make your hair shine
Hair loses its shine with the lapse of time. It happens because while ageing your skin produces fewer amounts of moisture holding ceramides, also productivity of sebaceous glands goes down. As a result your hair becomes dingy and dry. Hair perm and dyeing deepen above mentioned processes.

* Apply hair conditioners and balms while every wash. Ones a fortnight would be helpful to treat your hair more carefully with nourishing mask applied.
* Healthy glitter will come up when brush your hair with real bristle brush. Unlike plastic brushes the natural bristle is made of tiny scales which clean your hair of the dust and mud and make it shining.
* Select a suitable color. Add some brilliance and warmth dyeing or shading means. Your hair now will shiny the new way.
* Well, and to give the final touch spread a specially-purposed mean – spray or serum – to add some glitter. The most important is NOT to overdone it. Use a little bit of those and your hair will look shiny not greasy.

How to add some volume
Thin or heavy-haired women get often upset with the lack of hairdo volume. Apply mousses and sprays to add some volume. Usual hairspray will also work: spray a bit of it to the hair roots while hair rose slightly and let it get dry out. Comb your hair slightly.