A woman’s hair is one of the major aspects of her beauty. Beautiful, clean, healthy looking hair makes all the difference. Diet, genes and maintenance, play a massive role in hair appearance. A person who is genetically predisposed to voluminous hair, may find that their hair becomes thin due to poor diet or maintenance.
Just like the body, the hair needs a balanced diet to stay healthy. In this respect, when seeking for hair treatment, one should always go for those treatments that are natural, and that could be advantageous to the hair not only when applied on the hair, but also when eaten, a typical example being avocado
Maintaining black relaxed or permed hair can sometimes prove to be an odious task, because of the numerous chemicals involved in the making of the relaxer products. Prolonged usage of chemicals on the hair has the tendency to deplete hair of its natural oils (which is not a good thing for black hair, for it is naturally dry), and cause breakage.
However, with or without a perm, black hair can remain flawless, healthy and radian, with the right treatment.
Here is a natural, affordable hair treatment recipe that restores volume, shine and helps prevents breakage.
Avocado Hair Treatment Recipe
Requirements
- An Empty Container
- A table spoon
- 1 huge ripe avocado
- 3 table spoons full of cholesterol
- 1 tea spoon full of shear butter
- 2 table spoons full of a mixture of cinnamon, coconut and tea tree oil
- 1 tea spoon full of aloe vera gel
- 1 tea spoon full of olive oil
- 1 tea spoon hair placenta
- 1 tea spoon honey
- 1 egg (yolk)
- 3 vitamin E capsules
Directions
- Peel out the avocado and put in the container
- Add Cholesterol
- Add shear butter and mix with table spoon
- Add the oil mixture (cinnamon, coconut, tea tree), continue to mix with spoon
- Add the aloe vera gel and keep mixing
- Add olive oil, don’t stop mixing
- Add placenta
- Add honey
- Add the eye yolk (mixing the whole time)
- Squeeze in the vitamin E capsules
- Mix and observe the consistency (Result should be a fine creamy mask. Mixture could be but in a blender if the consistency is irregular).
- Now apply thoroughly through dry hair preferably with fingers.
- Wear a shower cap over and leave in for at least 30 minutes, preferably an hour or two
- Wash out (preferably with aloe vera shampoo)
Results
A beautiful, healthy looking, replenished hair!
Additional Advice:
There are two things that are essential to healthy looking black hair, i.e water and oil. Drink lots of fluids and oil the hair with good natural oils that the hair can absorb.
Black hair is beautiful, but it has to be maintained for it to appear healthy.
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