Hair Masks and Envelopments

Hair masks and envelopments are usually used for dry hair, but can be useful for oily but long and tip fractured hair.

All masks and envelopments have the same principle: tepefy the mass and put it on your hair, muffle up your head with shower cap or cellophane and warm towel. Keep it in two or three hours, or a longer if your hair is very dry, fractured or damaged. Then wash your hair as usually, but use oil hair shampoo or wash twice to remove oil.

Here are some recipes, you may also make your own ones using herbal teas, oils, honey and eggs.

 Mix egg with some oil (olive, calendula, burdock oil), honey and brandy;

 Mix egg with honey and burdock oil. Make myrtleflag and nettle tea. Blend both compositions;

 Mix and warm up a composition of burdock, nettle, rose and calendula oils. Use twice a week;

 Extract herbs of calendula, chamomile, nettle, salvia and birch leaves with 40% alcohol within 7 – 10 days, mix with burdock oil. Rub into scalp for 20 minutes;

 Make tea of chamomile, sandy everlasting and celandine, mix with brandy, burdock oil, vitellus and honey. Use for dry hair;

 Mix cod-liver oil with burdock oil, one vitellus and lecithin. Heat oils in boiling-water bath, mix with vitellus, take away and condense, add lecithin. Use for slipping hair.

You can create your own recipies, remember the keystones: use high quality products; heat oils; muffle up your hair during a procedure.

Greasy Hair Treatment

Greasy hair needs the special attention and care. How often should you wash greasy hair? There are recommendations that it is necessary to wash greasy hair every 4 or 5 days. There are also other recommendations to wash greasy hair every day. We advise you to wash your hair as often as it gets dirty. You should comb your hair with sparse comb touching your head skin gently (it is better to use horn comb because it absorbs grease perfectly).

What remedy should you use for washing greasy hair? Use shampoos for greasy hair only. Water temperature shouldn’t be hot (40-45C). In addition to shampoo, use herbal remedies for greasy hair. For example, after washing your hair rinse it with tincture of nettle, plantain, and coltsfoot. Take one tablespoon of each herb and fill them up with 0.5 liters of boiling water. Let tincture draw for half an hour in a closed dish, and then filter it. Use a hair dryer as rarely as possible, it is better to let your hair dry naturally.

Masks for greasy hair. You can oil your hair with the composition of two parts of lemon juice and one part of carrot juice in an hour or two before washing your hair. But after washing you should rinse your hair with water of room temperature with lemon juice added into it (one tablespoon of lemon juice for two liters of water.)

Ashberry could help you to control hair greasiness. The ashberry decoction is prepared in such manner: fill up 1 tablespoon of berries with 2 glasses of boiling water and boil them for 10 minutes.

Bark of oak decoction may help to reduce hair greasiness. To prepare the decoction you should take three tablespoons of oak bark, and boiling them for 15 minutes with 1 liter of water. This decoction should be used after filtering as water for washing hair. You should use this decoction every five or seven days during two months for effective greasy hair control.

Here is the recipe of effective lotion: fill up two tablespoons of linden flowers with 0.5 liters of boiling water and then simmer them for two or three minutes. Then cool and filter the decoction, add one tablespoon of vinegar or juice of one lemon, a quarter of a cup of calendula spirit decoction (eucalyptus or camphoric alcohol).

For greasy hair treatment, use the following recipe. Rub lemon juice into your hair between washing it. It is preferably to rub it every other day into partings with cotton pad soaked in a mixture of lemon juice (2 tablespoons) and vodka, or 45% alcohol (half a glass). It has a great effect.