Showing posts with label Natural Hair Conditioners. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Natural Hair Conditioners. Show all posts

Monday, January 24, 2011

Detangler for Hair

Does your hair behave funny when washed? Do they adopt a very uncanny position even though they are squeaky clean. Does your hair make you feel embarrassed by the way they shoot up like grass straws? If you wag your head surreptitiously, then you very well know what I am talking about. Well yes, the frizz in your hair that makes your hair appear dry, coarse and bushy. The same old story of hair mismanagement. Every time your hair acts the way it always does, you have the tendency to blame it all on the genetic compositions. Nevertheless, I don't deny the role that genetics play in our hair type and texture, but in my opinion holding them responsible for a bushy crop on the head is not the correct inference. The care that you invest as a part of your daily hair care routine reaps you a beautiful, nourished crop or a famine stricken harvest. Detangler for healthy hair proves to be an essential hair care routine that one needs to implement. Yes, detangler for hair is the answer to your much awaited query.

What is a Hair Detangler?

A hair detangler is a product that prevents your hair from developing knots. It also helps loosen the tangled hair strands. Loosening knotted, tangled hair is a difficult task. It requires immense patience and phenomenal grit in order to bear the pain this 'pulling' job causes. Selecting a detangler for hair could be based on trial and error method. It could be a daunting task to choose one over the other. However it is better to go through the dilemma of selection rather than be subjected to the agony of tangles and knots. Detanglers for hair prevent hair from encountering problems such as frizzy hair, static in the hair, split-ends and hair breakage. The best detangler for curly hair is the leave-in conditioner that makes the hair manageable and give it a 'well-looked after' look. Fine hair looks very limp if a detangler is used in excess. The best detangler for fine hair would be a conditioner that does not weigh down the hair making it look limp and lifeless.

Homemade Detangler for Hair - Learn How to Make One!

Yes, you could concoct your own detangler for hair - a homemade hair product! It is an easy, quick and comprehensive process. So what are you waiting for? Get your table and ingredients ready as you read these instructions to make the best detangler for hair!
  1. Furnish your kitchen counter with a spray bottle, water and a hair conditioner.
  2. Empty about 2 to 3 tablespoons of your preferred conditioner into a spray bottle.
  3. After you have filled the medium sized spray bottle with the conditioner add water and thoroughly shake the bottle in order to distribute the conditioner.
  4. Viola! Your homemade detangler for hair is ready! You could spray a small amount of the contents on the hair and then start the detangling process.
  5. Shake the bottle every time you plan to use the solution. You will find a considerable difference in the way you deal with those snarls!
Natural Detangler for Hair - A Recipe for You!

A natural detangler works wonders for your hair. It is safer and you can rest assured that your hair is in the nurturing lap of nature. Here is a recipe to make a natural detangler for your hair. A step by step procedure is laid down just for you!
  1. Heat a cup of distilled water in a pan for a few minutes.
  2. Now pour the hot water in a container and add 2 teaspoons of unscented conditioner base to it. Stir the contents well.
  3. Allow the mixture to stand till the mixture retains its normal room temperature. Add apricot kernel oil and an essential oil that you prefer, to the container. Keep stirring.
  4. Pour the contents of the bowl into a squeeze bottle. You could use it the next time you find your hair dry and scaly. Your detangler for hair is ready!
The detangler for hair will aid you in getting hair that looks sleek, stylish and at the same time, healthy and glossy. Hope this article aids you to get rid of knotty affairs. The only thing I wish for is, if only hair were made of rubber, they could be so very flexible! What do you think?

Detangler for Hair

Does your hair behave funny when washed? Do they adopt a very uncanny position even though they are squeaky clean. Does your hair make you feel embarrassed by the way they shoot up like grass straws? If you wag your head surreptitiously, then you very well know what I am talking about. Well yes, the frizz in your hair that makes your hair appear dry, coarse and bushy. The same old story of hair mismanagement. Every time your hair acts the way it always does, you have the tendency to blame it all on the genetic compositions. Nevertheless, I don't deny the role that genetics play in our hair type and texture, but in my opinion holding them responsible for a bushy crop on the head is not the correct inference. The care that you invest as a part of your daily hair care routine reaps you a beautiful, nourished crop or a famine stricken harvest. Detangler for healthy hair proves to be an essential hair care routine that one needs to implement. Yes, detangler for hair is the answer to your much awaited query.

What is a Hair Detangler?

A hair detangler is a product that prevents your hair from developing knots. It also helps loosen the tangled hair strands. Loosening knotted, tangled hair is a difficult task. It requires immense patience and phenomenal grit in order to bear the pain this 'pulling' job causes. Selecting a detangler for hair could be based on trial and error method. It could be a daunting task to choose one over the other. However it is better to go through the dilemma of selection rather than be subjected to the agony of tangles and knots. Detanglers for hair prevent hair from encountering problems such as frizzy hair, static in the hair, split-ends and hair breakage. The best detangler for curly hair is the leave-in conditioner that makes the hair manageable and give it a 'well-looked after' look. Fine hair looks very limp if a detangler is used in excess. The best detangler for fine hair would be a conditioner that does not weigh down the hair making it look limp and lifeless.

Homemade Detangler for Hair - Learn How to Make One!

Yes, you could concoct your own detangler for hair - a homemade hair product! It is an easy, quick and comprehensive process. So what are you waiting for? Get your table and ingredients ready as you read these instructions to make the best detangler for hair!
  1. Furnish your kitchen counter with a spray bottle, water and a hair conditioner.
  2. Empty about 2 to 3 tablespoons of your preferred conditioner into a spray bottle.
  3. After you have filled the medium sized spray bottle with the conditioner add water and thoroughly shake the bottle in order to distribute the conditioner.
  4. Viola! Your homemade detangler for hair is ready! You could spray a small amount of the contents on the hair and then start the detangling process.
  5. Shake the bottle every time you plan to use the solution. You will find a considerable difference in the way you deal with those snarls!
Natural Detangler for Hair - A Recipe for You!

A natural detangler works wonders for your hair. It is safer and you can rest assured that your hair is in the nurturing lap of nature. Here is a recipe to make a natural detangler for your hair. A step by step procedure is laid down just for you!
  1. Heat a cup of distilled water in a pan for a few minutes.
  2. Now pour the hot water in a container and add 2 teaspoons of unscented conditioner base to it. Stir the contents well.
  3. Allow the mixture to stand till the mixture retains its normal room temperature. Add apricot kernel oil and an essential oil that you prefer, to the container. Keep stirring.
  4. Pour the contents of the bowl into a squeeze bottle. You could use it the next time you find your hair dry and scaly. Your detangler for hair is ready!
The detangler for hair will aid you in getting hair that looks sleek, stylish and at the same time, healthy and glossy. Hope this article aids you to get rid of knotty affairs. The only thing I wish for is, if only hair were made of rubber, they could be so very flexible! What do you think?

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Hair Conditioner Recipe

Women.... Who made 'em? God must have been a... genius. Their hair. They say that the hair is everything, you know? Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of curls, and just wanted to go to sleep forever? ~ Bo Goldman

The hair is the crowning glory of the human head, more so of the feminine human head! Hair of the head assumes an important position in all of our lives, irrespective of whether or not we have it! Those of us who have it pay attention to preserve it and those of us who do not have it either lament its absence or harrow over ways to gain it by pursuing the commercialized chimeras of wondrous products that promise a crop (read hair) on the barren soil (read scalp) without necessitating any tilling (read surgical procedure). Those of us who are lucky enough to have decent hair growth on our scalp (I count my blessings every day!) are always on the look out for preserving our manes and making it thicker, glossier, healthier by either using commercial hair care products or by conjuring up hair wash and hair conditioner recipe at home themselves!

Due to these reasons, neither is there a dearth of commercial hair care products in the market nor is there a deficit in the number of users and buyers of those products. However, more often than not, most of us would prefer to give our manes the benefit and wholesomeness of fresh, natural and herbal preparations than harsh chemical treatments. Although there are a lot of commercially available good quality ready-to-use herbal hair products in the market, most of those products don't impart the full benefits claimed by them because natural ingredients work best when fresh and not stored or preserved over a long time. Keeping this constraint in mind, here are a couple of natural hair conditioner recipe that you can whip up at home using easily available natural and herbal ingredients. You may be amazed to find that most of these ingredients are staple residents of your kitchen and refrigerator!

Hair Conditioners Made at Home

Given below are a few hair conditioner recipe along with instructions on how to make hair conditioner at home that you can use fresh for best results.

Lemon, Tea and Honey Hair Conditioner

Ingredients
  • Juice of two lemons
  • Two tablespoon fulls of honey
  • Liquor extracted from one teaspoon full of tea leaves
Preparation
  • Mix all ingredients together in a plastic or ceramic vessel. Do not use metallic vessels as the acidity of the lemon juice can react with the metal.
  • You can also add half a cup of fenugreek liquor for more shine and luster.
How to Use
  • Shampoo your hair thoroughly, preferably with a herbal hair wash.
  • Apply the mixture on your wet, washed hair.
  • Leave on for about two to three minutes.
  • Rinse thoroughly with water till all trace of stickiness has disappeared.
  • Towel dry gently.
This hair conditioner recipe is ideal for normal to oily hair.

Banana, Egg-Yolk, Honey and Lemon Hair Conditioner

Ingredients
  • 1 Ripe Banana
  • Yolk of two eggs
  • Juice of one lemon
  • Two tablespoon fulls honey
Preparation
    Mash the banana till it's reduced to a smooth pulp.
  • Add all the other ingredients to the banana pulp and mix till the texture is smooth.
How to Use
  • Wrap a hot towel around freshly shampooed hair.
  • Steam your hair this way for about a minute.
  • Remove the towel and apply the banana pulp mixture on the steamed hair.
  • Keep for about 5-7 minutes.
  • Rinse thoroughly with plain, cold water till all traces of the conditioner are washed off.
This homemade deep hair conditioner recipe is an ideal hair conditioner for dry hair. It can also be used safely on damaged and color treated hair.

Lemon, Vinegar, Honey and Holy Basil Hair Conditioner

Ingredients
  • Juice of two lemons
  • One Teaspoon full of vinegar
  • Two table spoon fulls of honey
  • One cup of Holy Basil liquor extract
Preparation
    Extract the liquor from fresh Holy Basil leaves by a cup of pouring hot (near boiling but not boiling) water over the leaves and keeping the vessel covered. Keep it like this till the concoction cools down top room temperature. Stain the greenish liquor.
  • Add all the other ingredients to this liquor and mix well.
  • You can also add egg white for better shine and volume.
How to Use
  • Apply to freshly washed wet hair.
  • You may want to wear a shower cap to prevent the conditioning mixture from dripping off.
  • Keep for two to three minutes and wash off thoroughly with cold water.
  • For best results, wear a shower cap after applying the conditioner to freshly washed hair and wrap a hot towel over the shower cap. The heat will assist in better penetration by the conditioner.
This homemade hair conditioner is ideal for oily hair and flaky scalp. However, too frequent use can strip hair of natural oils and the vinegar content can discolor hair if left on for too long. Also, if this conditioner is not rinsed off thoroughly before going out in the sun, the vinegar can further bleach the hair.

Natural Hair Conditioners

The following herbal and household ingredients are known and time-tested as some of the best natural hair conditioners around. Any combination of these items can be used to for hair conditioner made at home to suit individual hair care needs.
  • Lemon juice
  • Vinegar
  • Honey
  • Amla (read Amla Juice Benefits to know more)
  • Holy Basil
  • Henna
  • Egg (both white and yolk)
  • Banana
  • Papaya Fruit
  • Aloe Vera
  • Fenugreek
  • Green Apple extracts
  • Olive Oil
  • Coconut Oil
  • Coconut Milk
  • Yogurt
You can make and use these natural hair conditioner recipe fresh at home which means that you get to derive the maximum benefits of the natural vitamins, proteins and other nutrients that are lost in commercial herbal preparations. Coupled with these, a regular intake of dairy and poultry food items such as milk, cottage cheese, eggs, chicken, yogurt, etc., make sure that your hair gets all the proteins it needs for growth and damage repair from within. All this leaves you with silkier, shinier hair. So go ahead, whip up your own hair conditioner recipe and get hair that's neighbor's envy, owner's pride!

Hair Conditioner Recipe

Women.... Who made 'em? God must have been a... genius. Their hair. They say that the hair is everything, you know? Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of curls, and just wanted to go to sleep forever? ~ Bo Goldman

The hair is the crowning glory of the human head, more so of the feminine human head! Hair of the head assumes an important position in all of our lives, irrespective of whether or not we have it! Those of us who have it pay attention to preserve it and those of us who do not have it either lament its absence or harrow over ways to gain it by pursuing the commercialized chimeras of wondrous products that promise a crop (read hair) on the barren soil (read scalp) without necessitating any tilling (read surgical procedure). Those of us who are lucky enough to have decent hair growth on our scalp (I count my blessings every day!) are always on the look out for preserving our manes and making it thicker, glossier, healthier by either using commercial hair care products or by conjuring up hair wash and hair conditioner recipe at home themselves!

Due to these reasons, neither is there a dearth of commercial hair care products in the market nor is there a deficit in the number of users and buyers of those products. However, more often than not, most of us would prefer to give our manes the benefit and wholesomeness of fresh, natural and herbal preparations than harsh chemical treatments. Although there are a lot of commercially available good quality ready-to-use herbal hair products in the market, most of those products don't impart the full benefits claimed by them because natural ingredients work best when fresh and not stored or preserved over a long time. Keeping this constraint in mind, here are a couple of natural hair conditioner recipe that you can whip up at home using easily available natural and herbal ingredients. You may be amazed to find that most of these ingredients are staple residents of your kitchen and refrigerator!

Hair Conditioners Made at Home

Given below are a few hair conditioner recipe along with instructions on how to make hair conditioner at home that you can use fresh for best results.

Lemon, Tea and Honey Hair Conditioner

Ingredients
  • Juice of two lemons
  • Two tablespoon fulls of honey
  • Liquor extracted from one teaspoon full of tea leaves
Preparation
  • Mix all ingredients together in a plastic or ceramic vessel. Do not use metallic vessels as the acidity of the lemon juice can react with the metal.
  • You can also add half a cup of fenugreek liquor for more shine and luster.
How to Use
  • Shampoo your hair thoroughly, preferably with a herbal hair wash.
  • Apply the mixture on your wet, washed hair.
  • Leave on for about two to three minutes.
  • Rinse thoroughly with water till all trace of stickiness has disappeared.
  • Towel dry gently.
This hair conditioner recipe is ideal for normal to oily hair.

Banana, Egg-Yolk, Honey and Lemon Hair Conditioner

Ingredients
  • 1 Ripe Banana
  • Yolk of two eggs
  • Juice of one lemon
  • Two tablespoon fulls honey
Preparation
    Mash the banana till it's reduced to a smooth pulp.
  • Add all the other ingredients to the banana pulp and mix till the texture is smooth.
How to Use
  • Wrap a hot towel around freshly shampooed hair.
  • Steam your hair this way for about a minute.
  • Remove the towel and apply the banana pulp mixture on the steamed hair.
  • Keep for about 5-7 minutes.
  • Rinse thoroughly with plain, cold water till all traces of the conditioner are washed off.
This homemade deep hair conditioner recipe is an ideal hair conditioner for dry hair. It can also be used safely on damaged and color treated hair.

Lemon, Vinegar, Honey and Holy Basil Hair Conditioner

Ingredients
  • Juice of two lemons
  • One Teaspoon full of vinegar
  • Two table spoon fulls of honey
  • One cup of Holy Basil liquor extract
Preparation
    Extract the liquor from fresh Holy Basil leaves by a cup of pouring hot (near boiling but not boiling) water over the leaves and keeping the vessel covered. Keep it like this till the concoction cools down top room temperature. Stain the greenish liquor.
  • Add all the other ingredients to this liquor and mix well.
  • You can also add egg white for better shine and volume.
How to Use
  • Apply to freshly washed wet hair.
  • You may want to wear a shower cap to prevent the conditioning mixture from dripping off.
  • Keep for two to three minutes and wash off thoroughly with cold water.
  • For best results, wear a shower cap after applying the conditioner to freshly washed hair and wrap a hot towel over the shower cap. The heat will assist in better penetration by the conditioner.
This homemade hair conditioner is ideal for oily hair and flaky scalp. However, too frequent use can strip hair of natural oils and the vinegar content can discolor hair if left on for too long. Also, if this conditioner is not rinsed off thoroughly before going out in the sun, the vinegar can further bleach the hair.

Natural Hair Conditioners

The following herbal and household ingredients are known and time-tested as some of the best natural hair conditioners around. Any combination of these items can be used to for hair conditioner made at home to suit individual hair care needs.
  • Lemon juice
  • Vinegar
  • Honey
  • Amla (read Amla Juice Benefits to know more)
  • Holy Basil
  • Henna
  • Egg (both white and yolk)
  • Banana
  • Papaya Fruit
  • Aloe Vera
  • Fenugreek
  • Green Apple extracts
  • Olive Oil
  • Coconut Oil
  • Coconut Milk
  • Yogurt
You can make and use these natural hair conditioner recipe fresh at home which means that you get to derive the maximum benefits of the natural vitamins, proteins and other nutrients that are lost in commercial herbal preparations. Coupled with these, a regular intake of dairy and poultry food items such as milk, cottage cheese, eggs, chicken, yogurt, etc., make sure that your hair gets all the proteins it needs for growth and damage repair from within. All this leaves you with silkier, shinier hair. So go ahead, whip up your own hair conditioner recipe and get hair that's neighbor's envy, owner's pride!