Hair Styling Oil
Today, many beauty salons offer a very fashionable procedure - aroma combing. This is a process of lightly combing hair using essential oils of various effects. However, such an event can be held at home without spending large sums on it. To conduct it correctly, you must follow some rules:
- a comb is needed either from wood or from pig bristles. Artificial materials may react with the oil.
- do not use perfume or toilet water during aroma combing. Odors can mix and cause an allergic reaction.
- Oil should be applied to the comb in different places in a few drops. Too much liquid will give your hair a messy greasy sheen.
- Before starting the procedure, it is not necessary to wash your hair - the effect of this will not worsen.
- The duration of aromatherapy for hair in one session should be from 3 to 10 minutes. Up to 3 sessions can be done per day. In total, the course is designed for about a week. You can repeat the course after a two-week break.
- Only one oil should be used throughout the course.
- It is not recommended to completely lubricate oily hair - just slightly wet the tips.
Benefit
From frequent dyeing, the use of a hair dryer, curling irons and ironing, the hair dries up, delaminates and breaks. Such hair needs additional protection.Hair styling oil, as it were, dresses each hair in a separate case, creates protection and prevents moisture from evaporating. This remedy is also suitable for owners of curly hair who want to have beautiful smooth hair.
After aroma combing, the hair looks healthier and easier to style. This is confirmed by the numerous reviews of those women who have already experienced such therapy on themselves. The most common oils that are used for care and styling:
- Almond oil. It is rightfully considered a universal remedy for the care of all types of hair. It is able to adjust the work of the sebaceous glands to a normal rhythm and reduce oily sheen. Weakened and dry tips of the oil will moisturize and give them a well-groomed healthy look. Add a few drops of this product to your usual balms and masks, and to enhance the effect, wrap your head in a towel and keep warm for 40 minutes.
Oily hair mask recipe: mix 1 tbsp. almond oil with two drops of cypress and cedar ether, heat the mixture in a water bath, leave for 40 minutes and rinse.
- Olive oil effective on its own without additional ingredients. It nourishes the scalp, moisturizes, relieves itching and moisturizes it. For the best effect, it is heated in a water bath and wrapped for 2-2.5 hours. After that, wash off with warm water mixed with lemon juice. To achieve a greater effect of treatment, you can make a cocktail with additives from oils of almonds, wheat, jojoba, apricot kernels, etc.
Mask against hair loss: mix equal proportions of lemon juice with olive oil and heat slightly. Rub into the scalp, warm and leave overnight. Wash your hair well with shampoo in the morning.
- Sesame oil has regenerative properties and is able to restore hairline after unsuccessful experiments with dyeing, extensions, etc. This is the perfect remedy for curly hair. It not only smoothes tangled strands that are difficult to comb, but also eliminates their dryness, and also adds shine. In addition, it frees the scalp from all kinds of pollution and dead cells. When going to the beach, do not forget to throw this magic tool into your bag - it blocks ultraviolet rays and preserves hair pigment.
Mask for shine and moisturizing: slightly dilute the pulp of a ripe banana with warm water, add 1 tbsp. l. sesame and 1 tsp. avocado oils. Keep warm on hair for 40 minutes.
- Avocado oil. It not only nourishes and strengthens hair follicles, but also eliminates dandruff and accelerates hair growth. As well as almond, it is an excellent protective agent from the sun and other negative environmental influences. For treatment, you should use an unrefined product that can be purchased at a pharmacy. It differs from the refined greenish tint. The product enhances its effect in combination with burdock and castor oils, rosemary, chamomile and ylang-ylang.
To straighten naughty curls and give them smoothness, you can make the following mask: 1 tbsp. l. dilute henna in a glass of warm water, leave for 40 minutes, add 1 tbsp. l. avocado oil and 5 drops of orange oil. Apply to hair and create a thermal effect. Keep for 40 minutes, then rinse with warm running water.
Application rules
Any essential oil can have not only a healing effect, but also be used as a styling agent. To do this, you must follow a few simple rules:
- oil components can be applied not only before using styling products such as foam or gel, but also as a finishing touch to the hairstyle. Fluffy strands will take on a well-groomed look, and your styling will look like the work of an expensive stylist.
- You can apply ether on both styled and loose hair. So they will be easier to comb and acquire a natural shine.
- Keep the mask on the roots for no more than two hours, so that the pores do not clog and the reverse effect of hair loss does not turn out.
- To get a beautiful hairstyle, oil products should be used regularly, and not occasionally.