The confidence in appearance and enhancing personal looks as well as influencing a person’s personality might not be done by anything other than their hair. As crazy as it sounds it is mostly true, but does it apply to every hair, No hair that is well maintained and healthy is worthy of acclimating to this feat.
Fine healthy hair is also a sign of overall health, well-being, good hygiene, and proper care hence let us take a look at a few steps to improve your hair growth and enhance health using hair masks. This natural way is both effective and keeps further damage away without added stress so let’s get into it.
Hair Masks From Your Kitchen
Coconut oil Hair mask
Let us make a hair mask with natural ingredients
Required Ingredients: Coconut oil
How to make: Use warm coconut oil and apply it to the scalp and hair. Instead of immediate wash leave for 30 minutes overnight and then shampoo
Benefits: Doing these hair masks is of course a natural remedy meaning you’ll be away from harsh chemicals. Moisturizing the scalp also reduces the loss of protein and consists of fatty acids that penetrate the hair strands which result in enhancing growth.
Aloe Vera Hair Mask
From healthy herbs and plant groups let’s try aloe vera.
Ingredients: Aloe Vera Gel
How to use: Use the gel of aloe vera from the plant itself or enhanced forms available within the market. Apply well specifically to the scalp and leave it untouched for 30 minutes. Then gently rinse it off and dry your hair softly and not harshly.
Benefits: Aloe vera is an overall remedy for skin, hair, and much more. It’s both natural and effective with properties such as proteolytic enzymes that are responsible for repairing dead skin cells on the scalp and overall boosting hair growth.
Egg Mask
Ingredients: Raw eggs and Olive oil for application
How to apply: Mix the eggs with olive oil or coconut oil as a substitute and properly apply to your hair. Leave them untouched for 20 minutes and gently rinse off
Benefits: Eating aside eggs is great for the skin and body which includes the hair. Rich in proteins and vitamins that genuinely make your hair follicles strong as well as promote its growth.
Avocado Mask
Ingredients required: Avocado, Honey, and effective essential oil.
How to apply: Mash the avocados and mix them with honey and recommended oil mainly olive oil. Let it soak the nutrients and properties for around 30 minutes and as obvious rinse it off to clean.
Benefits; The fruit avocado is filled with vitamins and healthy fats that nourish and encourage the growth of new and healthy hair.
Onion Juice mask
Keeping fruits aside let us jump into vegetables and try a hair mask which offers great benefits.
Ingredients required: Onion juice, coconut oil
How to apply: mix both the coconut oil and the onion juice (that is blended with sufficient water and absorbed drops) and apply them to the scalp of the hair for around 15-30 minutes. Later gently wash
Benefits: Onion is known for its sulfur content, which promotes blood circulation to the follicles of hair. This lets you grow healthy hair and enhances it.
Fenugreek Seed Mask
Ingredients required: Yogurt with fenugreek seeds
How to use: Before using make sure to soak the fenugreek seeds overnight then drind them into a paste which is mixed with yogurt. Gently apply to every corner of your hair and before rinsing keep them untouched for around 30 minutes.
Benefits: Talking about the benefits of fenugreek seeds for hair it has proteins and nicotinic acid that overall stimulates hair growth and makes the hair strands stronger.
Tips for using Hair Masks
Since you are aware of some effective hair maks that protect, enhance, and keep your hair healthy let us look at some tips or advice to follow to maximize the benefits
- Consistency is the key: Whatever remedy you try or whatever ingredients you use, understand that a consistent effort to maintain would only show you results and no miracles would happen
- Massage the scalp: If you decide to take care of your hair, ensure to apply and massage thoroughly on the scalp to find results. The scalp is the place for the growth of hair and is meant to be treated. Hair at the end is just more prone to breakage and doesn’t guarantee overall healthy hair when treated.
- Rinse properly: Rinse your hair gently and properly to clean and improve your hair and get rid of buildups that might cause the hair to weigh down and trouble your scalp.
- Patch Test: a patch test before trying any treatment or remedy is necessary to minimize the damage. A patch test would help to figure out allergic reactions or irritations.
- Healthy lifestyle: For overall well-being and health which also includes your hair, opt for a healthy lifestyle with a balanced diet, proper hydration reduced stress, and staying away from harmful environments such as factories or natural toxic areas in case of work or any other reason. Use protectives like caps and reduce the use of products with too many chemicals.
Wrap Up
In conclusion, there are yet more hair masks and remedies you can use to treat your hair for overall health and well-being. Do research few remedies or alternatives tailored to your specific hair and skin type. Using hair masks is a healthy way to nourish the scalp strengthen the hair and also to promote growth.
Remember the advice in this article to be consistent and accompany them with a healthy lifestyle. In certain cases due to health conditions or aging you might face issues with your hair therefore visit a healthcare expert to get the best guidance and suggestions on how to treat your hair.
While maks are effective each natural ingredient leaves different impacts and reactions as each person is different hence do a patch test and find the right one for you. Overall these tips grant you healthy and confident hair worth embracing and reflect your personality.
References:
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- Robbins CR. Chemical and Physical Behavior of Human Hair. 5th ed. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; 2012. [Google Scholar]
