By experimenting with restorative balm recipes, you can achieve excellent results: your hair will become strong and thick.In addition to home remedies, there are also balms from trusted companies.
Hair is constantly exposed to external influences, for example from the sun, the use of untreated water, sudden climate changes.All these phenomena make hair weak, brittle and lifeless.One of the effective means of restoring a healthy appearance to hair is considered a restorative hair balm.
The explanation for this is simple: the hair strengthening balm contains a powerful complex of vitamins and healing vegetable oils.Any restorative balm provides hair with temporary protection from the negative factors of the surrounding atmosphere.
Homemade balm is better than store-bought
Typically, homemade cosmetics are considered more effective, as their contents are natural products and are cheaper in price than in stores.There are some other benefits of home remedies for hair restoration:
- Selection of products for any hair type.
- The product will not contain petroleum products.
- The products are only natural.
- Try different products.
But there is a small drawback - it takes time to prepare the balms and their short shelf life.You can make two types of hair strengthening balm within the walls of your home:
- Balm with minimal retention (single use).
- Reusable balm.
In the second case, the balm can be stored from 4 to seven days, otherwise all healing qualities will be lost.Most often, disposable products include products such as kefir, yolks and medicinal herbs.
The methods of using these balms are different.As a rule, it is applied to clean, damp hair, preferably lightly massaged and distributed over the entire length of the hair.Waiting time varies depending on the problem:
- for prevention, it is quite possible to limit yourself to 5-10 minutes;
- To solve the problem of split ends, it means leaving the product on for 15-25 minutes;
- if you treat the hair structure, keep the product under a special cap or plastic bag for 35-45 minutes.
Repairing balms at home
If you decide to prepare effective balms for hair restoration, then when making some recipes you will need to visit special stores to purchase this or that ingredient.It's worth a nice run for your hair to “reborn” again and gain strength.
As for most of these recipes, they will need to be prepared before use.An excellent strengthening balm is made from natural honey, raw yolk and agave (aloe) juice.Agave is consumed when it is at least three years old.You need to take ceramic dishes, agave juice and honey (in liquid form) - one by one, add one yolk to the existing mixture (if the hair is long, then two yolks), mix everything well and spread the resulting balm on wet hair along the entire length.Leave the product for 20-25 minutes.This balm will be a good hair follicle strengthening agent.
The next recipe is herbal, also called “grandmother's”.Before you start cooking, you need to understand well which herb is suitable for a particular hair type, this is a very important point:
- Chamomile and burdock are suitable for dry and brittle hair;
- oak bark, calendula and coltsfoot will save oily hair;
- Calamus root and chamomile decoction are suitable for light hair.
“Grandma's” balms are the easiest to prepare and do not require a specific proportion: pour 2 to 4 tablespoons of dry herbs with boiling water (300 ml - 500 ml), leave in a thermos for three to four hours.Then strain and pour into a dark bottle.Use the product after each hair wash.For longer storage, it is allowed to add a thickener.
The strengthening balm is in great demand and can be prepared professionally even at home.You need to stock up on the following ingredients:
- base oils (it can be a mixture of avocado, almond and peach oils), in the amount of three teaspoons;
- purified water 55 ml;
- fresh lemon juice, 30 ml;
- 1/5 tablespoon of gelatin;
- 15 drops of the famous wheat protein;
- wax - half a teaspoon;
- D-panthenol – half a teaspoon;
- essential oils.
Balms from stores
Still, there are people who like to save time, so it will be easier to go to the store and buy a strengthening balm.Experts will help you choose the right product, or you can first familiarize yourself with the information via the Internet.On store shelves you can find expensive strengthening balms (mostly branded products), as well as products at affordable prices.