Make your own hair treatment – the best recipes

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Make hair treatment yourself
The 5 best recipes for silky hair

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Karolina Herring

Just take a look in the refrigerator, because there are useful ingredients for DIY hair treatments. We show you the 5 best do-it-yourself recipes for a shiny mane of dreams.

Not only a long mane should be specially cared for and treated gently, a bob or short haircut can quickly become brittle or lose its shine. Updo hairstyles or even the ponytail also put strain on the hair in the long run.

This is why split ends, dry tips and the like should be prevented – with intensive care like one Hair treatment or conditioner that gets deep into the structure of the hair. The best thing about it? We don't have to buy expensive, in the worst case, silicone-laden products in the drugstore, but can easily imitate a hair treatment with home remedies from the kitchen.

We introduce you five different home remedy recipes beyond aloe vera, coconut oil and shea butter for different hair needs and explain to you how easy it is to make hair treatments yourself.

For dry hair: avocado and olive oil treatment

Hair is brittle and dry and feels more like being grasped through straw? Then we should treat damaged hair to an extra dose of moisture. Because dry hair ends tend to thin out. The result? They no longer grow, but break off at the ends. An avocado and olive oil hair mask gives the ultimate moisture boost:

For this you need:

  • 1 avocado
  • 2 tablespoons Jojoba oil or olive oil
  • 1 squirt of lemon juice

Make your own avocado olive oil cure

  1. Remove the core of the avocado and separate and chop all the pulp from the skin.
  2. Mix two tablespoons of jojoba oil or olive oil and add a dash of lemon juice.
  3. Mix together and massage into the lengths of the hair. Avoid the roots and the scalp. For an even greater effect, wrap the ends of your hair with cling film.
  4. Then pour lukewarm water over them and take the leftovers with them shampoo wash out.

Tip: Argan oil for the hair is also particularly rich. A mask with the oil helps especially with a dry, itchy scalp!

For hair at risk of split ends: banana and almond treatment

If styling with heat is an inevitable part of the daily beauty ritual, then the tips should be given a good dose of care. Because split ends are not to be trifled with! Depending on the shape of the split ends, hair breakage can occur, which means that the hair stops growing and thins.

For this you need:

Make your own banana and almond cure

  1. This hair treatment can be made quickly. Chop the banana with a fork and add two or three drops of almond oil.
  2. Put the mix on the scalp and massage into the tips, leave it on for a short time and then rinse thoroughly.

For stubborn, brittle hair: honey-olive oil treatment

A honey and olive oil cure helps to make hair look beautiful and shiny again. It gives the hair its suppleness back. As a humectant, honey also nourishes the hair structure, strengthens the roots and reduces hair loss. A real all-round talent.

For this you need:

  • 1 to 2 tablespoons of honey
  • 1 dash of olive oil

Make your own honey-olive oil cure

  1. Two tablespoons of honey with the olive oil on the stove or for 30 seconds in the microwave heat.
  2. Distribute the lukewarm hair mask evenly over the hair and cover with a shower cap.
  3. Leave on for up to 30 minutes. Then rinse the cure thoroughly and wash off all honey residues.

For damaged hair: nettle and buttermilk treatment

Do you like to change the hair color and also straighten your hair regularly? Damaged hair should then be given a little recovery with a nettle and buttermilk cure.

For this you need:

Make nettle buttermilk cure yourself

  1. Bring the nettle tea to the boil and let it cool down until it is lukewarm. Let the tea steep for 15 minutes and then mix with a cup of buttermilk.
  2. Then apply the mixed hair care product to damp hair and massage well.
  3. Leave on for 10 minutes, then pour nettle tea onto the hair again.
  4. The nettle tea can remain in the hair as leave-in care and no longer needs to be rinsed out with water. A perfect home remedy!

For oily hair: Apple cider vinegar conditioner

Oily roots and the hair look like a little oil carpet? Then a mixture of apple cider vinegar and lemon juice helps to degrease the hair and make it look nice and fresh. Acetic acid also reduces the pH of the scalp and can fight dandruff. If you have an itchy scalp, hair care can provide relief.

For this you need:

  • 1 glass of water
  • 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
  • 1 fresh lemon

Make apple cider vinegar rinse yourself

  1. Squeeze the lemon and mix with a glass of water and a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar.
  2. Drizzle the mixture over the hair.
  3. Rinse thoroughly immediately afterwards so that the vinegar smell disappears completely. This gives the hair a nice shine without looking greasy.

This should be kept in mind when applying a hair treatment

A homemade cure or mask is good for the hair once or twice a week Good. So it gets the care it needs. The hair is repaired in the deeper structures and hair damage is prevented.

This should be done with the hair damp or towel dry be. Massage the treatment or conditioner from the ends of the hair down to the roots and act for between 3 to 5 minutes to let. For an even deeper impact Before shampooing, apply the mixture to the hair and let it soak in for 15 to 30 minutes and then rinse.

On the other hand, we would not recommend a cure: a beer cure or rinse for your hair. Although it strengthens and gives shine, the strong yeast odor remains anchored in the structure even the next few washes.

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