A well-known grandma’s remedy, egg hair masks are still very popular natural treatments for nourishing and repairing the hair. Obviously, they are full of benefits! We’ll show you why it’s worth trying them, with our recipes for all hair types!
We know it is capable of pampering the skin of our face when used as a mask to hydrate our face or to make homemade anti-blackhead patches, but the egg has more than one turn in its yolk and its white when it comes to our beauty. Proteins (including eight essential amino acids), vitamins (including vitamins A, D, E, B2, B5, B9, B12), minerals (such as zinc, iron, potassium, phosphorus): the egg is simply a compendium of elements that are good for the hair fiber, and therefore for the health and beauty of our hair. It moisturizes, nourishes and strengthens lengths to prevent breakage and split ends, makes them shiny and soft, and even helps stimulate hair growth to let us flaunt dreamy lengths.
Easy to use, it reveals various benefits depending on how it is used to take care of our strands, and has the advantage of being a cheap ingredient that we usually have all on hand. Economical and practical: all it took was all that was needed for the egg to establish itself as the ideal natural ingredient for the preparation of our own homemade hair treatments and masks.
Which part of the egg is good for the hair?
Both ! White or yellow, the two parts of the egg can be useful to pamper your hair. The lutein in egg yolks helps strengthen and regenerate hair, while the proteins and water that make up egg white hydrate and nourish the hair in addition to making it shiny.
How to use the egg on the hair?
From a purely practical point of view: simply by breaking one or two to keep the yolk (s) and / or the white (s), and by mixing it (s) with a few ingredients natural hair plucked from your kitchen to concoct a homemade hair treatment. A real child’s play!
Regarding its different uses, if it is its use as a hair mask that interests us here, also know that the egg can also be used to create a natural shampoo that is easy to make.
Finally, in the case of egg masks more precisely, it will be necessary to revise your hair routine a little because this type of mask must generally be carried out before the shampoo in order to be able to rinse the egg correctly. Your care home-made will therefore upset your habits a little.
Our egg-based hair mask recipe for dull hair
Your hair lacks shine and the natural reflections of your color have been missing for some time in your lengths? It’s time to give them back a beautiful shine, a sign of hair health.
The ingredients you need:
– a natural yogurt
– an egg
- In a bowl, put the whole egg, yellow and white combined to benefit from their revitalizing properties, and beat everything as you would for making an omelet.
- Add two tablespoons of plain yoghurt whose moisturizing properties are useful to find more softness to the touch, then mix to obtain a homogeneous and creamy mixture.
- Apply the mixture to your lengths, strand by strand then leave on for ten to twenty minutes before rinsing thoroughly with fresh clear water.
- Shampoo as usual.
Your hair should regain shine and softness once dried!
Our egg-based hair mask recipe for oily or combination hair
You don’t think you can benefit from the benefits of the egg because your hair grows quickly? False! It is quite possible to take care of your lengths thanks to it, while treating excess sebum at the roots. To do this, simply combine the revitalizing and moisturizing effects of the egg with another ingredient that is a regulator.
The ingredients you need:
– an egg
– a lemon (preferably organic)
- In a bowl, put your whole egg.
- Beat it so that the white and the yolk are well mixed.
- Then add the juice of half a lemon.
- Mix again to obtain a homogeneous texture.
- Apply your special oily hair mask not only on the lengths, but also at the roots to treat your scalp in the process.
- Leave on for five to ten minutes then rinse with clean water.
- Then shampoo for your hair type.
The egg-lemon combination is ideal for nourishing the hair without weighing it down and regulating excess sebum at the roots without risking insufficient care of the lengths.
Bonus: lemon maximizes the shine of the hair so that it finally shines with a beautiful shine, and not excess fat!
Our egg-based hair mask recipe for dry and damaged hair
When hair is coarse and brittle, it needs a good dose of nutrition to regain softness and strength.
The ingredients you need:
– two eggs
– olive oil
– of honey
- In a bowl, put two egg yolks.
- Add the equivalent of three or four tablespoons of olive oil depending on the length of your hair then mix.
- Then add a teaspoon of honey and mix again to distribute this last ingredient in the mixture.
- Apply your repairing egg mask to your hair that you have previously moistened, strand by strand, making sure to put some on the ends.
- Leave on for about fifteen minutes on your hair.
- Rinse off the egg-based mask with clean water, then wash your hair with a mild shampoo so as not to attack your fragile hair fiber.
Thanks to the revitalizing and nourishing properties of egg, oil and honey, your hair will be regenerated and well nourished after washing, it will regain suppleness and softness.
Our egg-based hair mask recipe for frizzy and frizzy hair
Very curly and frizzy hair is naturally more fragile and drier than Caucasian hair. They need maximum care, and an egg mask even more nourishing than others!
The ingredients you need:
– a lawyer
– an egg
– olive oil
– liquid honey
- In a bowl, put the flesh of an avocado and mash it with a fork.
- Add the equivalent of two tablespoons of olive oil.
- Complete with two tablespoons of liquid honey.
- Add the egg yolk.
- Mix well until you obtain a smooth dough, with as few pieces as possible.
- Apply this highly nourishing mask all over your hair.
- Leave on for twenty to thirty minutes before washing your hair with a mild moisturizing shampoo.
Our tip for maximizing efficiency : cover your hair with a shower cap to allow the active ingredients to penetrate the hair fiber as well as possible.
You will see, this synergy of ingredients will strengthen your hair, nourish it intensely and restore a beautiful shine to your fragile hair fiber.
All you have to do is choose the recipe that suits you best!
Good to know for all recipes
- While the amounts indicated are generally sufficient for short, medium to long hair, with very long hair it may be beneficial to double the amounts to be sure you have enough product for all the lengths.
- Egg masks can be used as a pre-shampoo treatment on dry hair, but they reveal the maximum of their benefits on damp hair. So remember to moisten your hair well before applying your mask.
No time to jump into a recipe that takes a few minutes to prepare?
So try our express mask recipe !
What you need :
– two to three eggs
– a little vegetable oil
- Separate the whites from the yolks to keep only the yolks.
- Add a tablespoon of vegetable oil such as olive oil, almond oil, or avocado oil. Mix everything with a fork and voila! All you have to do is apply this egg-based minute mask on your lengths and ends.
How to make homemade egg shampoo?
If we have revealed the thousand and one facets of its use as a hair mask, the oldest and known use of the egg in the hair routine remains egg shampoo.
Moisturizing and purifying, the egg allows us to gently cleanse our hair, whatever its type, and to provide appreciable care to the lengths to make them soft and shiny. To make it, just beat two to three whole eggs (depending on the length of your hair) then use the beaten eggs as a shampoo. Nothing’s easier ! Thanks to the lecithin in the egg, you can emulsify your shampoo with a little water when washing. The only precaution to take: do not use too hot water in the shower, otherwise the egg could start to “cook” and this would not facilitate rinsing.
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Elodie Le Gall
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