Hair mask with sea buckthorn oil
Hair mask with sea buckthorn oil is an excellent treatment for damaged and weakened strands. Sea buckthorn oil is a squeeze from the fruits of the plant with the same name.
The ancient Chinese, Mongols, Greeks and Slavs knew that sea buckthorn oil is good for hair. It is widely used as a scalp and hair care product for a Tibetan woman. A real "sea buckthorn boom" was observed in Russia in the middle of the last century. Nevertheless, even now this unique tool has not lost its relevance. It is widely used in cosmetology, including hair care.
Content:
- How sea buckthorn oil masks affect hair condition
- Rules for using sea buckthorn oil hair masks
- Sea buckthorn oil hair mask recipes
- Sea buckthorn oil: buy or make your own?
How sea buckthorn oil masks affect hair condition
There is no reason to doubt that sea buckthorn oil has a positive effect on the condition of the hair.
The proof of this fact is the rich chemical composition of this product:
- Vitamin A and E, which are part of the oil, stimulate hair growth, make it shinier, smoother and more well-groomed. Hair regains the lost volume, receives reliable protection from ultraviolet radiation. The scalp retains moisture better, which prevents excessive dryness and dandruff.
- B vitamins (B1, B2, B3, B6) from sea buckthorn oil stimulate the renewal of scalp cells, which ensures the growth of healthy hair. Vitamin B6 actively fights dandruff.
- Vitamin C helps to regulate the work of the sebaceous glands, eliminating excess oily hair. The hairstyle becomes more voluminous, any microdamages on the scalp heal faster.
- Selenium from sea buckthorn oil protects hair from negative external factors, and also prevents foreign substances from accumulating in them. Hair stops falling out, strength and shine return to it.
- Sea buckthorn oil contains useful acids, for example, palmitoleic, oleic, linoleic. All of them are unique substances that act as antioxidants, have a positive effect on hair growth, strengthen them from the inside.
Thus, sea buckthorn oil acts as a natural antioxidant, has anti-inflammatory, sunscreen and regenerative properties. It is good to use it to heal damaged, colored and prone to hair loss. The oil base allows you to combine the product with almost any component.
Masks with sea buckthorn oil are very effective for treating dry hair prone to dandruff. With its help, baldness and seborrhea are successfully treated. Sea buckthorn oil acts as a natural protection, as it envelops the hair with the finest invisible film. It perfectly "saves" from various thermal injuries that a woman receives every day while drying her hair with a hairdryer or pulling it with tongs.
Thanks to the sea buckthorn oil, hair follicles can be strengthened. When used correctly, it penetrates deep into the hair roots and restores their structure from the inside.
Rules for using sea buckthorn oil hair masks
For all the benefits of sea buckthorn oil to be 100% transferred to the hair, it must be used correctly.
There are certain subtleties of using this product in various compositions for hair care:
- Warm up the oil before you apply it to your hair. The optimum temperature for the ready-mix is 50 ° C Celsius. To prevent the oil from losing its beneficial qualities, it should not be heated more. It is necessary to carry out heating in a gentle way, using a water bath for this purpose.
- To prepare the mask, you need to take the amount of oil that you need to use at a time. This is especially true for multi-component masks. You should not store a mask with sea buckthorn oil, since with constant contact with oxygen it oxidizes and its useful qualities disappear.
- Hair and scalp must be additionally insulated. For this purpose, you can use a plastic cap and a terry towel. This "mini-greenhouse" will allow the pores to open. This, in turn, will enable the active active substances to penetrate as deeply as possible.
- If the product needs to be distributed over the entire length of the hair, then for this purpose it is convenient to use a comb with wide teeth. To make it easier to comb your hair, you can apply a few drops of sea buckthorn oil to the comb.
- You need to withstand the mask on the head for the time indicated in the recipe. You should not exceed it.
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Before the first use of a mask based on sea buckthorn oil, an allergic reaction test should be performed. To do this, a small amount of oil should be applied to the inner fold of the elbow and left for half an hour. If after this time there is no redness or rashes on the treated area, then the product can be safely used for hair care.
A mask with sea buckthorn oil is not applied to the scalp if it has erosion or ulcers.
Naturally, the mask with sea buckthorn oil has a very oily consistency, so you need to remove it from the hair correctly. Most often, you can completely rinse your head in two times using regular shampoo. However, if too much product has been applied to the hair, then rinsing off the mask will be somewhat more difficult.
Firstly, you should only use warm or even slightly hot water to wash your hair. Secondly, you can use additional shampoos that have the ability to bind fat. In this case, you should choose only natural products, the list of which is actually quite wide. For example, you can wash your hair with mustard powder diluted in water, the usual shampoo with the addition of soda, or egg yolk with tomato juice. After the head is washed, you need to rinse it with water with the addition of lemon juice (juice of 1 lemon is taken per liter of liquid).
Sea buckthorn oil hair mask recipes
Sea buckthorn oil can be used as a hair care product without adding any ingredients. The oil is simply heated and applied to the strands for 60 minutes. This time is optimal to saturate the scalp and hair with all the beneficial substances from the oil. The mask is best applied both to the hair roots and to their ends.
When the hair is dry
- To prepare the mask, you need not only sea buckthorn, but also olive oil, which is mixed in a 2: 1 ratio. If the hair is of medium thickness, then 1 tablespoon of sea buckthorn oil and 1/2 spoon of olive oil is enough. They also add sour cream of 25% fat (1/2 tablespoon) and chicken yolk. All components must be mixed in such a way that the mass becomes homogeneous. It is left on the head for 2 hours.
- Another "oil" mask contains burdock and sea buckthorn oil in a 1: 2 ratio. To them you need to add an ampoule of vitamins A and E and 2 drops of grapefruit oil. Before use, such a mask must be warmed up. It is enough to keep this remedy on the head for at least 40 minutes.
- To get rid of excessive dryness of the scalp, you can use a mask based on oil and decoction of burdock roots. It is convenient to brew the herb in filter bags. To prepare the broth, take 4 bags of crushed burdock roots, pour 250 ml of water into them, bring to a boil, and then insist for 45 minutes. Then the filter bags are wrung out. Add two tablespoons of oil to 1/2 cup of broth and apply the product to the hair. The holding time of the mask is half an hour. The head must be insulated.
When hair is oily
- To eliminate excess fat from the head, you can use a mask with sea buckthorn oil and colorless henna. To prepare a composition that will be applied to hair of medium thickness, 2 tablespoons of oil and a tablespoon of colorless henna are enough, which is previously dissolved with hot water until a gruel is formed. The mask is applied for 40 minutes and then washed off. It is not necessary to insulate your head.
- Although oil masks are rarely used to treat oily hair, a sea buckthorn oil mask can help regulate the sebaceous glands. To do this, you need to mix oil (1 tbsp. L) with 50 ml of fat-free kefir and add mustard powder (2 tbsp. L). Such a remedy is kept on the hair for no longer than half an hour, after which it is washed off. The head is not insulated during the procedure. Use the mask no more than 1 time in 7 days, so as not to weigh the hair down once again. The number of procedures in one course should be equal to 10.
When hair falls out
- To prepare a useful composition, you will need 2 tablespoons of mustard and sea buckthorn oil. After the powder dissolves in the mask, cognac (a teaspoon) is added to the mixture. It is best to leave such a composition on the head for 30 minutes, however, if the mask is very burning, then you can wash it off earlier.
- The honey-oil mask is a real vitamin and mineral "bomb" for hair loss. At the same time, it is very simple to prepare. It is enough to mix 2 tbsp. tablespoons of butter and liquid buckwheat honey. Leave such a useful composition on your hair for at least an hour. The head must be insulated.
Anti-dandruff mask
Pure sea buckthorn oil can cope with dandruff. However, to get the effect after the first application, the oil (10 ml) can be supplemented with salt (5 g), blue clay (10 g) and a decoction of calendula flowers (15 ml).
The salt must first be crushed in a mortar, and the clay must be diluted with a decoction of calendula flowers. After that, all components must be mixed and left on the hair for 15 minutes. It is very good to wash off such a mask with alkaline mineral water. In order to get rid of dandruff completely, you will need to conduct a course of 12 procedures.
Sea buckthorn oil: buy or make your own?
Of course, the easiest way is to buy ready-made oil at the pharmacy. In this case, be sure to familiarize yourself with the expiration date. It is important that the oil does not have foreign impurities, only in this case we can talk about its one hundred percent benefit.
You can make your own butter at home. In this case, you will not have to worry about its quality. To do this, you need to sort out fresh sea buckthorn berries, separate them from the stalks and rinse well. Then the berries need to be placed in a juicer. The resulting juice is filtered again using a fine sieve.
The filtered liquid is poured into a glass container and removed to a dark and cool place. After two weeks, oil forms on the surface of the squeezed juice. It must be collected using a syringe without a needle. To keep the oil longer, it must be sterilized. The finished oil is stored in the refrigerator.
In any case, no matter what oil a woman chooses: homemade or industrial production, with proper use, it will have a positive effect on the condition of the hair and scalp.
Find out more: Planting, picking, beneficial properties and recipes for using sea buckthorn
The author of the article: German Olga Leonidovna, trichologist, specially for the website ayzdorov.ru
