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A Few Tips for Making Your Own Home Hair Care Products
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All kinds of hair care products are available on the market today. You have your products for blondes, brunettes, redheads, frizz, waves; color-treated hair… the list goes on for miles. It can become very overwhelming to try and find a product that you like, and different products will react differently for different hair types. This is generally what keeps the hair care product industry rolling. Instead of wasting tons of money on products that may or may not help you hair to look and feel any better than it does now, why not try a natural homemade hair care product? Since you are making it, you know what goes into it. Can you honestly pronounce half of the ingredients on your shampoo bottle? Eventually your stylist will notice the waxy build up presented by several of the more well known products on the market.
To get started making your natural hair care products, all you need to do is be a little creative. Do not try to mix too many things at one time; (you should limit to two until you figure out how the concoction works for you), and have fun while you do it. The products you will need are likely already in your kitchen or bathroom, so you will save money no matter how large your hair care budget may be.
When deciding what ingredients to use, keep this general rule of thumb in mind. If you can ingest it safely, you are safe to use it on your hair. These are ingredients like fruit, cider vinegar, honey, and even beer. You can experiment with essential oils for fragrance, but remember that a few drops will go a long way.
Mix and test your ingredients, being sure to take note of what worked well and what did not. Search around for recipes that are geared toward your specific purpose. If you need a clarifying formula, you are definitely going to want to use different ingredients than say a deep cleansing conditioner.
Any failures you experience will only bring you closer to the magic organic formula that you customized for your hair and rather than becoming upset at your “failure” realize that in setting out to create one thing, you may have created something even better! The worst that can happen when experimenting with all natural ingredients is that you will just have to wash your hair again.
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All kinds of hair care products are available on the market today. You have your products for blondes, brunettes, redheads, frizz, waves; color-treated hair… the list goes on for miles. It can become very overwhelming to try and find a product that you like, and different products will react differently for different hair types. This is generally what keeps the hair care product industry rolling. Instead of wasting tons of money on products that may or may not help you hair to look and feel any better than it does now, why not try a natural homemade hair care product? Since you are making it, you know what goes into it. Can you honestly pronounce half of the ingredients on your shampoo bottle? Eventually your stylist will notice the waxy build up presented by several of the more well known products on the market.
To get started making your natural hair care products, all you need to do is be a little creative. Do not try to mix too many things at one time; (you should limit to two until you figure out how the concoction works for you), and have fun while you do it. The products you will need are likely already in your kitchen or bathroom, so you will save money no matter how large your hair care budget may be.
When deciding what ingredients to use, keep this general rule of thumb in mind. If you can ingest it safely, you are safe to use it on your hair. These are ingredients like fruit, cider vinegar, honey, and even beer. You can experiment with essential oils for fragrance, but remember that a few drops will go a long way.
Mix and test your ingredients, being sure to take note of what worked well and what did not. Search around for recipes that are geared toward your specific purpose. If you need a clarifying formula, you are definitely going to want to use different ingredients than say a deep cleansing conditioner.
Any failures you experience will only bring you closer to the magic organic formula that you customized for your hair and rather than becoming upset at your “failure” realize that in setting out to create one thing, you may have created something even better! The worst that can happen when experimenting with all natural ingredients is that you will just have to wash your hair again.
Sign up for our FREE Hairstyles Newsletter for monthly hairstyle and hair care tips like these, sent to your email for FREE!!!
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| Lulu | 11-01-2009 |
| Oil treatment is very gud nd u can make ur own jst using olive nd coconut oil d mixture shld b half a cup (a small cup)with a drop of an essential oil. Wet hair fst apply d oils on ur head put a plastic or shower cap. Leave 4 30min shampoo nd condition.4 any more jst email me james.nina3@gmail.com. | |
| lee | 10-23-2009 |
| useless without the hair recipes and i agree with the above comment - the article is misleading | |
| Gill | 09-13-2009 |
| Useless without ingredients needed.... | |
| jess | 09-12-2009 |
| it would of been nice to know which ingredients to use | |
| Me | 09-01-2009 |
| You shoulda listed the ingredients. This article is useless otherwise. | |
| susan | 08-26-2009 |
| well actually i waiting to read all the magic potions but alas it didnt eloberate,shouldnt it be done since the caption of the article read the same | |
| Alice Marie Mar | 08-21-2009 |
| COOL HAIR STYLE | |
| fatemah | 08-20-2009 |
| i dnt see the ingredients?! next time you should put some plz | |
| selena | 08-19-2009 |
| where r da recipes | |
| Div | 07-30-2009 |
| It helps and all but wahif you dont know wat to start with??? | |
| rix | 02-19-2009 |
| i just luv this tips they r grt.......... | |
| erna | 02-06-2009 |
| khadijah, its sounds like just the rite treatement for my hair, how much of each ingredient must I use and how do I use it? My hair is very very dry and damaged. | |
| 01-31-2009 | |
| um,where are the recipes you only listed directions but i dont see any recipes next time you do this just add some recipes or change ure title | |
| dany | 11-03-2008 |
| it is true not only for hair but for skin as well | |
| khadijah | 11-01-2008 |
| this article is actually true, i use avacordo, honey, egg and mayo in my hair, it helps to feeddry hair, and it even makes your hair go shiny with out that greasy feling i advise any women especcially with long hair to try this. it does wonders | |
| nancyyyy | 10-24-2008 |
| yea where r they???? i dont c anyy=[ | |
| daniella | 10-19-2008 |
| this helps but it gives u no ingredeants only directions no help | |
| :P | 10-18-2008 |
| recipies??? | |
| gabby | 10-14-2008 |
| where are the recepies??? | |
| Qandeel | 10-09-2008 |
| I m pakistani.i likle ur article about hair treatment | |
| cv | 10-03-2008 |
| i liked the idea!!! but they didnt give out the recipes!! | |
| Elle | 09-29-2008 |
| what a let down want some recipies !! | |
| Amy Juergens | 09-16-2008 |
| I love the Hairstyles | |
| (: | 09-14-2008 |
| Well this just sucked | |
| Lulu | 09-13-2008 |
| Sound good and all but i need some recipies too :( | |
| balooga | 09-11-2008 |
| i was pissed!!!! that they didnt have any recipes to go in my hair | |
| kat | 09-09-2008 |
| i know right me too, where are those recipies..?? | |
| taz | 09-07-2008 |
| good but i was dissipointed...where are suggested recipies? | |
| 08-29-2008 | |
| a bit obvious | |
| flowers | 08-25-2008 |
| this was an awsome article it helped m a lot to understand my own hair!!!!!!!!! | |
| Jonna William | 08-23-2008 |
| I think you could have done a better job at doing this. But still for little people like you are doing a pretty good job | |
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