No need for special ingredients, either.
I'm betting you've got most, if not all, of the ingredients for these treatments in your kitchen right now.
- Apple cider vinegar detangler.
- Ingredients:
- Apple cider vinegar
- Water.
Apple cider vinegar is a great non-chemical alternative to those chemical detanglers.
Simply put two tablespoons per cup of cool water into a spritzer bottle and shake before use.
If you want, you can add a couple of drops of essential oil to make it smell better, but I'd avoid lavender, which is a skin sensitizer and commonly causes allergic reactions. - Apple cider vinegar
- Oil and honey conditioning treatment.
- Ingredients:
- 2 tablespoons virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons of honey
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice.
Mix together the ingredients, massage into hair and scalp, and leave for 20 minutes before rinsing thoroughly and shampooing.
This treatment will make your hair wonderfully soft and supple - and it smells gorgeous! - 2 tablespoons virgin olive oil
- Love-my-hair-shiny super hair shine treatment.
- Ingredients:
- 2 teaspoons of fresh rosemary (or 1/2 teaspoon of dried rosemary), steeped in boiling water to make a tea, then completely cooled.
- 1 tablespoon honey or molasses
- 1 egg white, lightly beaten.
Mix together the ingredients - and make sure the rosemary mix has completely cooled first, or you'll have a mess on your hands!
Massage into hair and scalp and leave for 10 minutes before rinsing out and shampooing.
This is a great treatment for adding extra shine and sleekness to your hair. It's especially good for brunettes! - 2 teaspoons of fresh rosemary (or 1/2 teaspoon of dried rosemary), steeped in boiling water to make a tea, then completely cooled.
- Mayonnaise conditioner.
- Ingredients:
- Home made mayonnaise - or shop bought, natural mayonnaise (you want the high fat, real egg stuff).
Massage the mayonnaise thoroughly into your hair, then wrap your head in a warm towel for half an hour. Rinse thoroughly afterwards. - Home made mayonnaise - or shop bought, natural mayonnaise (you want the high fat, real egg stuff).
- Apple cider vinegar conditioner.
I've mentioned this one before, and use it all the time.- Ingredients:
- 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar
- Water.
Simply add one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar to a cup of water, and massage into your hair. This is best done in the shower!
Apple cider vinegar is the best conditioner I'ver ever used on my hair - it really does leave my dry(ish) hair tangle-free! - 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar
--You've taken the time to drop by: I'd love to hear your thoughts as well! Comments are really appreciated! Thanks!
20 comments:
Excellent! I just posted these on my Facebook fan page for my beauty readers. I am obsessed with vinegar rinses. I make them a lot - love em!
Thank you so much for these recipes and you are right I have all the ingredients in my pantry.
Will definitely be giving these a try.
Tania
Thank you!
Now I can go to my kitchen and get my conditioner, instead of running to the store.
Wow! What a collection! I've actually used the vinegar thing for years, but I use distilled instead of apple cider because it seems to work better and smell less. I actually don't use shampoo either, just baking soda and water. The "no poo" method as it's called. There's a post on my blog about it if you're curious.
Thanks for the tip on lavender... I am SUCH an allergic person!
Will point these out to my daughter to try as she has long very tight corkscrew ringlets and is looking for something to balance out our very hard water
Thanks for these great ideas for homemade conditioners. I remember my mom doing the mayo conditioner back in the 70's. I just wanted to point out that apple cider vinegar (ACV) is a wonderful way to make your hair shinny & helps with de-tangling ... but for myself it's something I am very careful with - I have curly hair & it become very dry/brittle on the ends (like straw) when I've used ACV & water. Curly hair tends to be more fragile & this may not work as well as people with straight hair - Just a thought.
Hi Daharja,
Great recipes. I'll have to give the rosemary one a try.
I've been using bi-carb and apple cider vinegar instead of shampoo and conditioner for nearly 2 years now. It's cheaper, environmentally friendly and my hair is in great condition. Except for the prematurely gery part.
On another note, hope you had a great time at the Midwinter Festival. I just had a look on the Octagon wedcam and it looked beautiful. Looking forward to seeing you photos.
Thank you, thank you - I'm clinging to being a brunette and very thankful for these conditioner recipes.
I also confess that my keen foodie/cook side just wants to use them all for sure food joy (that is also healthy).
Hope you have a happy mornings singing in beautiful St Pauls Cathedral,
Michelle xxx
Hi A Green Spell - Vinegar rinses are awesome. I've been tracking down old recipes and experimenting to make my own, and hair is really benefitting.
I've also stopped straightening it with irons on a regular basis, going for a more natural look, and find the rinses help it sit better and reduce the frizz.
Hi Tania - There's nothing worse than a "natural" recipe that you have to go buy 10 ingredients for, which ends up being more expensive than a shop-bought "natural" product! Having the stuff already is a major bonus :-)
Hi Sue - Rosemary in particular is a well-known hair shine and improver. It's excellent. Even adding the rosemary tea to the remnants of a conditioner bottle, shaking then using, will make a difference to your hair - or it does for me :-)
Hi Rebecca - I've been using baking soda interspersed with shampoo remnants from my mother who leaves them when she visits (the ultimate cheap "reuse") for a while now. It works so well. I prefer it to the shampoos - including her "pantene" which she shells out quite a bit for.
Lavender anything brings me out in a reaction, and I STILL can't believe the amount of products that use it for topical applications - including baby care items!
That's nuts - it's just that nonscientific mindset that believes "it's natural, it must be good for us".
By that reasoning, we'd be okay to eat cyanide (found in peach stones) and smother hydrochloric acid (found in the stomach of animals, including ourselves, as gastric acid) on ourselves! So silly.
Hi Katrina - Your daughter is so lucky! I'd kill for corkscrew ringlets!
A friend of mine (Ayla) has corkscrew red hair that is awesome - she hates it of course, while everyone else is green with jealousy.
Hi PastElegance - The mayo one is great, you're so right.
With the apple cider vinegar, it works primarily as a pH adjuster, bringing the hair back into balance. It also cleans up product remains that have been building up in the hair over a long time, if you use products.
I have heard some people saying that it dries out their hair, so maybe that's a problem depending on your hair type. That said, mine is quite by type and I've found the ACV helps it rebalance and build oil back.
But then, the best tip of all I ever got was to not wash my hair more than once a week - that helps my hair just regain its own natural oils better than any product.
I think the best way to go is just try different things and see what works for you. Some will, some won't. Use experience, and if it doesn't work for you, try something else. At least with these recipes you won't go broke giving them a go!
Like, my mother SWEARS by Pantene, but I find it leaves my hair all gunky. We're just all different, and one size - and one recipe - does not fit all.
Hi Nevyn - Yep, Baking soda and ACV works for me really well too :-)
Then I also really like the mayo treatment, which I do when my husband and the kids are not at home - you can't chase after a three year old with mayonnaise in your hair!
For grey, I think we just have to start accepting in our society that grey haired women are wonderful and beautiful :-)
Hi Bruise Mouse - I'm just catching up with comments, then a post about Midwinter will go up today :-)
Hi Mickle - I'm another one clinging to being a brunette - but the greys are starting to creep in fast! trouble is, my mother colours hers, so the rate I'm going I'll be grey long before she is! :-)
daharja, thanks for the reply! I have long (medium-fine) Botticelli curls & Your blog is what made me change to the "No Poo" method of cleaning my hair - I'd like to add that a year later my hair is in amazing condition!! Thank you so much for the info. Since my hair is more delicate, I'm always looking out for natural ways to keep my hair healthy & you have helped me tremendously!!!
I tried the vinegar in water conditioner. I poured it little by little onto my head in the shower. My hair was dry and tangled as ever. I have long hair. I'd like to get away from store bought conditioners altogether. I used 2 TBS distilled vinegar in 2 C water. Any suggestions?
I just googled this very thing and up poprd your blog!!!! Happy happy day! I am going to try this as I hate with a purple passion to pay for high priced hair products!! Thanks so much for posting
Hi! I made the honey conditioner yesterday. It left my hair looking and feeling like I had product in it. Do you think I used to much, did not rinse well enough...? I really like the conditioner, just not how it made my hair look!!
Thanks!!
Amanda
Love these! I'm on an adventure to go all natural with my families cleaning products as well as bath products. Thank you!
These seem great! I've read a lot of good things about vinegar rinses! I can finally start using this sort of stuff, I had to wait a while until I got rid of my hair loss phase. (Btw if anyone has really dry hair that falls out and they need a good shampoo, use Pro Naturals moroccan argan oil shampoo, got rid of my hair loss and dryness!)
But now my hair is healthy again, so I'm not afraid to use stronger things on my hair like vinegar :)
There also are natural ways to color or cover gray without all the harsh chemicals of hair color :black tea used as a hair rinse is good for premature gayness and darkening hair it also decreases shedding , black walnut hulls are a source of natural hair dye , cloves make great hair rinse to bring warm tones to Browns and enhance red and auburn highlights , sage is rich in antioxidant astringent and antibacterial qualities it is soothing half tonic and a natural treatment for scalp dryness sage tea adds shine and depth to dark hair and helps darken graying hair sage also will remove residual shampoo and conditioner that has built up on your hair to leave it shiny and soft. There are also good herbs for red highlights and blond :)
There are also good natural hair color like black walnut hulls , black tea as a hair rinse is good for premature grayness and darkening hair if also helps decrease shedding, sage is rich in antioxidant astringent and antibacterial qualities is a soothing hair tonic and a natural treatment for scalp dryness sage tea adds shine depth to dark hair and helps darken graying hair it also removes residual shampoo and conditioner that build up on your hair to leave it shiny and soft. Cloves make a great hair rinse to bring warm tones browns and enhances red and auburn highlights there are also good herbs for blonds and reds too
:)
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