Hair mask and treatments

Treatment for dry hair:

Dry hair suffers from lack of moisture and essential fatty acids. There are many causes and reasons as to why the hair tends to be dry. Some of these reasons are due to damage, wither this damage is environmental, chemical or heat damage. Dry hair tends to look dull, frizzy, hard to comb and suffers from split ends beside breakage.

If your hair is suffering from any of these symptoms, then use one of these recipes to repair your locks.

• Get one avocado, peel it off and smash it with a spoon or you can use a blender too. After your co-wash or poo, add the avocado mixture to your hair and leave it for 15 minutes or even 20. Rinse it off with cool water, dry your hair and style as usual.
  
  
• Get one cucumber (if your hair is thick then use two) use a blender to create a creamy mix, add this mix to your hair for 15minutes and rinse with water.
  
  
  
• Extra Virgin Olive Oil treatment leaves your thirty hair feeling moisturized and full, get a two tbs of this oil and warm it up for few seconds (in microwave). Massage the warm oil in your scalp, keep on massaging well. Cover your hair with a hair cap and wait for 30minutes. Then rinse if off with cool water.
  

Treatments and tips for oily hair:

Oily hair tends to get dirty quick and most probably itchy too. Oily hair is common in soft hair textures whereas coarse hair tends to be dry by nature. There are many reasons why hair tends to be oily. These reasons range from heredity to hormonal fluctuation. Oily hair shouldn't be a major problem, remember oil protects hair shaft from harsh environment.

You can use these home remedy treatments to cure oily hair:

• Get 2 carrots (depending on thickness of hair) and use a blender to create a carrot paste, leave it on your hair after shampooing it. Leave this paste on for 15mintues and rinse well with cool water.
  
  
• Use Apple Cider Vinegar as a hair rinse after each poo or co-wash.
  
  
• Get 2 tbs lemon juice - mix it with 1 litter of water and use it as a hair rinse.
  
  
• Wash your hair once to twice a week with any shampoo that's directed for oily hair.
  
  
• Avoid adding lots of oil in your hair also reduce the amount of oil in any hair recipes you use.
  

Almond Oil

If your not allergic to NUTS then why not try Almond oil on your skin today.

Say goodbye to skin moisturizer and start incorporating natural oils to your skin regime.

We all know that natural oils have a lot of benefits and today I'm going to tell you about the magic of almond oil.

Almond oil softens and moisture dry irritated skin, it also tighten it and delays aging process. Meaning your skin will look younger, honest you won't need anti aging skin products if you use almond oil instead. And you don't even need to worry about your dark circles because almond oil will lighten it. Other benefits of this oil is curing muscle pain, itchiness, chopped lips, improves complexion and retains glow.

Also hair benefits from this oil, it is proven that almond oil smooths hair cuticles and helps in growing hair plus thickens the hair.

Almond oil is cheap and it's natural and best of all its available to all. So how can you use this oil, well first of all make sure you get a pure natural almond oil. Try finding it in your local grocery store.

For hair:

* Pre-Poo: apply a generous amount of almond oil before you shampoo your hair, you can leave it in your hair overnight and then shampoo your hair in the morning.


* HOT: Use almond oil as a hot oil treatment, warm some almond oil in the microwave using a mug or plastic container. Test the oil temperature with your finger, if it burns then let it cool for a while. Get an empty color applicator bottle (check image at the side) and pour the oil inside it. Apply the oil to your scalp and massage it for few minutes. Wear a shower cap on or a heating cap. Wash off your hair after an hour or overnight.


* Sealing: To seal mouister in your hair apply almond oil to the ends of your hair after your hair wash.



For Skin:

* Face: Apply few drops of almond oil to your skin before bed and massage it in circler motoin. You can also use it after your morning face wash and under makeup too. NOTE: if you find your face is oily then it means you've used too much oil, just use less next time.

* Lips: for chopped lips or just to smoothen your lips, add a drop of oil in your finger and massage through your lips.


* Body: Massage your whole body with almond oil for a sexy glow before outing or just if you want to feel sexy. I mix almond oil with my daily body cream for extra shine and moisture. You can also polish your body with this oil at the sauna for silk feel and ever beautiful skin.


If you have any almond oil recipes please share them with me and my beautiful readers :)

Hair tea rinse

Part of me going natural with my hair is using a lot of natural herbs, oils and products. Recently I've learned about the benefit of caffeine on hair growth and how it can be used as growth stimulator.

Since tea has a high rate of caffeine, I've decided to add tea rinse to my hair rituals and I'm enjoying it alot.

I've already stopped using shampoo and instead I use my herbal wash which I will post on some other day.

Now, with my tea I use it as a final rinse for my hair, then I style as usual or just tie my hair in a pony.

To prepare I get any tea bags I have; I love green tea, red tea and peppermint tea. I just mix and match. Sometimes I add parsley as its known widely in the Arab culture for its rich moisture trait.

Here I've added parsley leaves, green tea and red tea bags.

I boil my tea mixture till the water changes color. Then I put it in a jar


Pour it and wait for it to cool down or
sometime I add cold water/ice to make it cool down faster

After my hair wash, I pour the tea into my hair as final rinse :)

Other Tips:

• If you are suffering from hair loss then add cloves to the tea water and let it boil with the tea. Cloves will help stop your hair loss.
  
  
• If you want thick hair or head full of hair then use tea rinse with every hair wash you get.
  
  
• for extra shine and moisture, add two/three drops of olive oil to your tea mixture.
  
  
• Yes you can use any hair products after your tea rinse.
  

Deep conditioning

Today I had a hot oil treatment, then I deep conditioning one. I'm happy to say that my hair changed after washing. It's more soft and defiantly moisture since I suffer from dry hair at my sides and neck.

The hot oil:
I mixed 1tsp. Amla oil, 1tsp. Vitka oil, 1tsp olive pepper oil with 1tsp of Himani oil. After mixing I boiled them on low temprtaue then added a slice of butter.

After 5 boiling point I took the mixture off the stove and drained it in one of my empity Go Dro oil bottles.

I had to wait for it to cool down, please be careful when boiling oils on stove. They tend to be really hot and might burn you, so you have to let them cool down before using and always test it before pouring it on your scalb.

After 15mins, it was warm even on my skin, I took the mixture and started oiling my scalp. Ofcoz I didn't use it all so I still have a lot left for the weeks that fallow.

Then I started massaging my scalp with a head massager machine I have. And boy didn't I feel good, it almost felt like having sex :p

I left the hot oil for two hours on my hair before washing it off and adding my deep conditioner.

Now for my deep conditioner I used chorastrol and cracked one egg with it. Covered my hair with plastic cap for an hour and washed the deep conditioner with cool water since I had egg on my hair too.

End results: My hair is soft, moistured and smells good =)