Hair masks are one of the economical ways to care and protect your hair.

These protect the strands from the harmful effects of negative environmental factors, restore their natural shine and silkiness.

If you have dry and damaged hair, natural homemade hair masks might help you to make your hair healthier.

HAIR MASK DIY

1) How To Make Avocado Hair Mask?

Because of it’s nourishing qualities, avocado has become widely used in homemade facial and hair masks.

This amazing fruit is ideal to make a homemade hair mask for all hair types. With the help of one avocado you can restore your hair’s health and flawless look.

Avocado Hair Mask Recipe

Mix one mashed avocado with one cup of creamy yogurt and 1 tablespoon of jojoba oil. Apply the mixture on your hair evenly, wrap your head with plastic wrap or wear a tight plastic cap on and leave the mask on for 20-30 minutes. Then wash your hair with soft herbal shampoo.

2) How To Use Banana Hair Mask?

Banana is recommended to use in natural masks if your hair is damaged.

Hair Mask Banana Honey Recipe

For this recipe you need to mix 1 banana, 2 tablespoons of yogurt, a few drops of ylang-ylang, 1 teaspoon honey and 2 capsules of vitamin E.

Use a blender to mix all together. Apply the mask and leave on for an hour. Then thoroughly rinse the hair with a mild shampoo. For rinsing, it is also better to use a mineral water instead.

3) Egg and Honey Hair Mask For Damaged Hair

To prepare this mask you will need: one teaspoon of honey, one tablespoon of lemon juice and one egg yolk.

Mix well all ingredients together. This mask should be applied to your wet hair and scalp with light massage movements. Then the mask should be left on for 10 minutes. Wash off with warm water.

Apply this mask 2-3 times a week for best results.

4) Cranberry Hair Mask

Mix three tablespoons of cranberry juice with two tablespoons of olive oil, add two egg yolks. Whisk all together. Then add one drop of essential lemon oil and whisk again. Apply to your wet hair for 30 minutes.

It is recommended to do this 2-3 times per month.

5) DIY Hair Mask With Pine Needles

What to do with pine needles? Here is a natural solution for your dry hair.

For this mask you will need: water, pine needles, egg white and yolk, one tablespoon of cognac or brandy, one tablespoon of sour cream.

Take a handful of pine needles. Put them in a bowl and pour boiling water over needles so they are covered with water. Cover and boil for 40 minutes on a low heat. Then remove and allow to stand for 20 minutes.

Get rid of the needles and leave the liquid. Pour it into a ceramic bowl. Whip an egg white. Stir all together: needles water, whipped egg white, a tablespoon of brandy. Add a tablespoon of sour cream and whipped egg yolk. That’s it, the homemade hair mask is ready.

Divide the hair into strands and then apply the mask to the scalp and distribute evenly. Wrap a towel around your head and leave the mask on for 40 minutes.

6) Hair Mask With Sour Cream

Mix two tablespoons of low fat sour cream with one egg yolk and a teaspoon of yogurt. Add one teaspoon of honey. Apply the mixture to your wet hair and it should be left on for 40 minutes. Then washed off with warm water.

Depending on how damaged your hair is, it’s recommended to apply this hair mask 1-2 times a week.

HOW TO GET RID OF SPLIT ENDS

Anyone with both dry and oil hair can have dry split ends.

Most people with long thin hair struggle with this problem. You must know that restoring hair ends is impossible. The only way to change the situation is to cut hair ends off.

Home Remedies For Split Ends

• Before you wash your hair, you need to apply plenty of oil (olive, burdock, almond) and leave it on for 20 minutes. Then you can wash your hair as usual. The point is that with oil on hair we protect the ends from drying out, which inevitably occurs during washing with regular shampoo.
• When washing your hair try using soft cream shampoos that contain extracts from wheat sprouts, lime blossom, chamomile, as well as lecithin and vitamins.
• Make a hair mask of egg yolk and castor oil : add a mixture of egg yolk and one tablespoon of castor oil to shampoo for dry hair, apply on hair and leave on for 1 hour.
• Always air drying your hair after washing rather than drying it with a towel.

How to cut split ends? Does Hot Scissors Work ?

You can cut your damaged hair : hot scissors is a solution for split ends. This technique will instantly improve your hair.

However, you should remember that this procedure does not cure the damaged hair because it only improves it’s appearance for some time.

How to Prevent Split Ends?

Your best option is to do treatments and natural masks that prevent split ends from happening in the first place.

You might have heard of cosmetics products that claim they treat split ends.

However as we’ve mentioned earlier, there is not cure for this. Once the ends are split – you just can cut these off.

These products contain silicon that works like glue and basically gluing ends together.

You should be aware that silicon is bad for hair and will not fix the problem of damaged ends.

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