Your humble kitchen is not just a treasure trove for great skincare remedies (as we learnt here last week) but also the 'Room of Requirement' for long beautiful hair! Read on!
Love is in the hair. We all love our hair but we also face some miserable hair woes at some time or the other. Let’s gear up to deal with these monstrous problems at home itself in the best possible natural way.
Chemicals have side-effects on your hair and maybe other parts of the body, so it is better to use natural and organic processes.
Hair problems:
Problem # 1: Hair Loss
This can be extremely horrifying. Hair loss and hair thinning occurs due to various reasons. Unhealthy eating habits, lack of protein in the diet, stress, using ample of chemical based products, regular usage of blow dryer/straightener/iron or may be some medicinal side effect.
Here are some quick fix home remedies to deal with hair loss.
Hot oil treatment
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Any natural oil: olive oil, canola coil, coconut oil, mustard oil, almond oil or castor oil
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Coconut milk
Ingredients:
Coconut milk (grind some coconut shavings and squeeze them well)
Method:
Mustard and Henna leaves
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Problem # 2: Premature Grey Hair
This dreadful greying of hair happens to all us at some point in life. There are various factors that contribute to premature greying of hair. Stress, reckless lifestyle, anemia, poor scalp conditioning nutritional deficiency, using electric dryers and concentrated hair dyes, as well as genetic disorders.
Let us seek some help from the following home remedies.
1. Coconut Oil and Lemon
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2. Amla Magic
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3. Curry leaves cure
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Problem # 3: Dry and Dull Hair
This can be a nightmare for most of you beautiful women out there. Hair becomes dry when it doesn’t receive enough moisturiser, also because the hair has to battle the monsoon, pollution, product residue and harsh chemicals.
Dry hair is dull hair as it loses its lustre and appears frizzy and unhealthy. Fight the dryness and dullness with the below mentioned home remedies.
1. Beer
Ingredients:
Beer
Method:
2. Baking Soda
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Problem # 4: Frizzy Hair
Humidity, strong winds and over exposure to sun are the major culprits of frizzy hair. Everyone hates the unmanageable frizzy hair days. Fight the frizz with these easy steps.
1. Honey and Milk
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2. Egg
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Problem # 5: Split Ends
Be it long hair or short, this is one of the most common hair problem faced by most women. Unfortunately like grey hair this one is most prominently visible. As the hair grows long it prevents the natural oils from reaching the ends of the hair strands leading to split ends. These are also caused by disproportionate and exaggerated use of chemical based hair products, regular straightening, trimming with blunt scissors, excessive exposure to sun and lack of nourishment.
Home remedies that fight with the split ends are:
1. Papaya Pack
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2. Banana, Egg and Honey
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3. Dal Treatment
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Problem # 6: Dandruff
This could be the most embarrassing and annoying hair problems of all. The white flakes known as dandruff are caused by various things like dry scalp or a very oily scalp, sensitivity towards certain products, lack of hair hygiene and some skin issues.
Here are some home remedies to battle out dandruff:
1. Lemon peels
Ingredients:
Lemon peels
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2. Yoghurt solution
Ingredients:
Yoghurt
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Photograph: Courtesy Lakme Fashion Week
Dipika Thawani, co-founder of i2Addicted.com, is a fashion designer by profession and baker by passion.
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