The best burdock hair masks
It is difficult to imagine a plant that effectively treats almost all hair diseases, is sold in any pharmacy and is affordable, except for burdock. This plant contains a storehouse of useful components, with the help of which you can significantly improve the appearance and health of your hair.
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The benefits of burdock hair masks
Known to everyone from childhood burdock- not only a weed, which they used to think of. It contains many trace elements and useful vitamins, valuable essential oils, vegetable proteins and unsaturated fatty acids. These components allow burdock to have a positive effect in the presence of itching, dry skin and dandruff. It is especially recommended to use burdock for the treatment of curls prone to hair loss.
Burdock mask, depending on the accompanying components, helps:
- Solve the problem of hair loss.
- Makes the scalp healthier.
- Reduces dryness of the epidermis.
- Regenerates hairs.
- Helps to cope with split ends.
- Provides additional nutrition to the epidermis.
- It cleanses the skin and strands well.
How to properly prepare burdock hair masks
When used correctly, burdock masks will make curls healthy and beautiful. And in order for the result to be more effective, you must adhere to simple recommendations:
- It is not necessary to wash your hair before applying the mixed composition, the product works equally well on wet and dry strands. After applying the mask, the entire mass of hair is collected and covered with polyethylene, a thick towel is wound over it for insulation.
- The duration of the mask should not be less than an hour. You can even leave mask for the night... Wash off the product very carefully using shampoo. In most cases, washing alone is not enough. To completely remove traces of burdock oil from the curls, you will need to wash them twice, or even three times.
- To get a good effect from burdock masks, they must be done twice a week. Then it will be possible to fully assess the result of leaving in a couple of months. If there is a pronounced problem, then care must be repeated every other day for one and a half months. After that, you need to interrupt the treatment for two months.
The use of burdock for care has no contraindications, except in cases of individual intolerance. To check this, you need to apply a drop of the product to the bend of the elbow and observe the reaction. If in a day there are no signs of allergy, then the mask can be safely used.
Burdock hair mask recipes
The simplest burdock mask is a burdock oil wrap. For such a wrap, you need to steam a little burdock oil and distribute it well over the strands. In this case, be sure to rub the product into the skin. The duration of exposure should be at least an hour. After that, the hair is washed with plenty of water and shampoo.
If the curls need to provide additional nutrition, then you need to make a mask with the yolk. Heat 3 large tablespoons of burdock oil, mix with raw yolk and 1 large spoonful of fresh lemon juice. After about an hour, the composition must be washed off.
If there is a need to enhance the growth of the strands, then make a mask with tincture of red hot pepper. The components for this mask are the same as in the previous recipe, only the lemon juice will need to be replaced with the same amount of tincture. The resulting mixture perfectly accelerates blood circulation and nourishes the curls well. The mixture turns out to be burning, but you still need to keep it as long as possible.
For naughty curls, which are very fluffy, a mask with cocoa will help. For her, you need to mix a large spoonful of cocoa powder, 2 large tablespoons of burdock oil and 1 raw yolk. This mixture is left on the strands for 1 hour, and acidified water is used to wash off.
Eliminate dropping out composition with honey and aloe juice will help. Burdock oil, melted honey and fresh juice from aloe leaf are mixed in equal amounts. The exposure time of the composition should also be at least an hour.
These beneficial masks will help to make your hair healthy and attractive.
