Haircare should be part of every daily routine, yet sometimes it can be challenging with an unpredictable schedule. Here are some helpful tips that will enable you to maintain beauty and look your best!
Avoid hot showers as these can strip your protective oils. Instead, rinse your hair with warm or cool water when washing it out.
1. Apple Cider Vinegar Rinse
Apple cider vinegar has quickly become one of the trendiest ingredients around, found everywhere from salad dressings to DIY beauty concoctions. Not only is this household staple great for deodorizing and cleaning purposes, but it can also help improve shine by dissolving product build-up in hair strands while controlling frizz.
Apple cider vinegar’s acetic acid can act as an effective skin toner and can also help balance your scalp’s pH level, making it an ideal ingredient for homemade hair rinses. Furthermore, ACV provides essential vitamins and minerals beneficial to hair health including potassium, B vitamins, and vitamin C – making this DIY hair rinse even better!
If you don’t have time or the inclination to make an ACV rinse at home, many popular shampoos and conditioners now contain this versatile ingredient for added shine and volume.
2. Chamomile Tea Rinse
This hair rinse lightens and adds natural highlights to hair while acting as an anti-dandruff remedy and helping reduce split ends.
Pour hot water over chamomile flowers and allow them to steep for 5-10 minutes before straining and saving the liquid as a reserve. Strain flowers out before saving liquid.
Once the tea has cooled, transfer to an applicator bottle and apply directly onto your scalp and strands for approximately thirty minutes before rinsing out.
Use this tea rinse on either your entire head, or on specific areas if desired, once every couple days for optimal results. Chamomile in this tea rinse is very gentle and won’t strip your locks of their natural hue, making this an excellent solution for blondes seeking to revive faded locks.
3. Coconut Milk Rinse
Coconut milk has earned a solid reputation as an all-natural way to add moisture and soften hair strands, providing effective treatment against dryness and damage. It penetrates deep into the cortex of each strand for deep conditioning of dry tresses.
Use this nourishing treatment to give your thirsty strands a healthy dose of vitamins A, B, E and C – traditionally employed by Polynesian women to their great effect on locks!
Make an hydrating scalp treatment using one-half cup of fresh or canned coconut milk mixed with two tablespoons of olive oil, massaging this into your scalp and hair. This recipe can help repair damaged locks while limiting frizz and keeping color vibrant – store any extra in a spray bottle for midday refreshment!
4. Olive Oil
Olive oil, long considered an integral part of Mediterranean cuisine and beauty staple for Jennifer Lopez, can provide effective natural solutions for many beauty concerns. Olive oil’s moisturizing properties help moisturize dry strands while simultaneously helping prevent split ends while adding shine and smoothing them out.
Corney notes that her product can be especially helpful to those with kinky or curly textures who need additional hydration due to their winding strand pattern. Furthermore, it helps prevent dandruff by softening flaky patches on the scalp and softening flaky scales on their head.
As a hot oil treatment, heat up half a cup of olive oil and massage it into your dry strands for best results. Be wary not to apply it directly onto the scalp and before using hot tools such as blow dryers as its temperature may cause burns on them.
5. Lemon Juice
Lemons contain citric acid which has natural clarifying properties to remove build-up from hair products and hard water residue that dulls your locks. They also possess astringent and toning qualities which balance natural oil production while at the same time helping remove any extra oil that makes your locks feel greasy.
Lemon juice can be an economical and safe solution to lighten hair color without bleaching underlying hues, as Monahan explains. Lemon juice works particularly well when applied directly onto light highlights as it doesn’t remove color pigmentation beneath.
Be mindful to avoid excessive lemon juice usage as too much can cause phytophotodermatitis – a skin condition in which acidic substances such as lemon can lead to sun-induced rashes on the scalp after being applied directly onto it. Rinsing hair after applying lemon juice with warm water after application should help.https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z0wxVwtN25E