Honey for hair: recipes for the most effective home masks

Honey is one of those natural products that have been widely used at all times to prepare home hair care products. To date, the choice of cosmetics based on honey is huge, but many women still prefer the folk recipes with natural honey. About the recipes of the most effective masks for hair based on honey, which can be prepared at home and will be discussed in our article.

Recipe for a regenerating egg-honey mask for hair

The main benefit of honey for hair is that it has unique properties that provide deep nourishment, promote regeneration and strengthen damaged ringlets along the entire length. If we talk about the most effective home recipes, then the best honey for the hair manifests itself in combination with the egg. We offer you a simple mask recipe with egg and honey to restore dry and damaged hair.

Necessary ingredients:

Stages of preparation:

  1. Prepare all the ingredients for the mask. In advance, take the eggs out of the refrigerator so that they become room temperature - this is necessary for the homogeneity of the finished mixture.

  2. Prepare a fresh chamomile broth. The broth can be prepared from the flowers of the chemist's chamomile, and it is possible, as in our cases, to use chamomile in sachets. To prepare the decoction from the first option you need 1 tablespoon. dry flowers chamomile, and for the second -1 sachet. In both cases, chamomile should be poured into 0.5 cups of boiling water, cool and strain the resulting broth through gauze.

  3. While the chamomile broth cools down, break the eggs into a small bowl and beat whisk.

    You can also use yolk to prepare the mask. In this case, the yolk-honey mixture will be directed to hair restoration, while the honey mask with the whole egg will also give a strengthening effect.
  4. Add honey in the cooled chamomile broth and mix thoroughly until smooth.

  5. In the resulting mass, pour the eggs, continuously stirring until a uniform smooth consistency.

  6. Solim the egg-honey mask and apply to moistened hair with light massaging movements, neatly distributing the mixture along the entire length.

The approximate time of the procedure is from 45 to 90 minutes, depending on the initial condition of the hair.

Honey masks for hair growth at home

As a basis for the recipe for making a home mask for hair growth, you can take the above-described egg-honey recipe. But instead of salt, use 2-3 tbsp. l. olive oil, which must first be slightly heated in a water bath.

Activate the growth of hair will also help the following ingredients: red pepper, cinnamon, cabbage juice, aloe, burdock oil. As a rule, they are used in combination with liquid natural honey in the ratio of 1: 2. For example, you can make an excellent mask, combining 1 tbsp. spoon of tincture of red pepper with 2 tbsp. spoons of honey. Apply the resulting mixture to the roots of hair and keep the mask for 30 to 60 minutes.

For even greater efficiency in honey masks for hair growth it is recommended to add 1 tbsp. l. olive or castor oil.

Honey for lightening hair

Apply natural honey and for gentle discoloration of hair. And it can be used as an independent means for clarification, and mixed with additional ingredients. For example, with herbal decoction of chamomile or cinnamon. For the preparation of honey masks for lightening hair with additional components, the proportion is 1: 1. The duration of the clarifying masks with honey varies from 40 minutes and up to 2-4 hours, depending on the desired result (the longer, the lighter the hair).

The effect of clarification depends largely on the quality and type of honey. Stronger than all brightens stone honey. The next in terms of the effect of clarification is floral honey. But light lightening, literally at 0.5-1 tone, can be achieved with the help of honey from mixed herbs.

Also, when lightening hair, you can use a bow, or rather, an infusion of onion husk. The husk itself does not lighten the hair, but in combination with honey it acts as a catalyst for the process, so it takes less time for the procedure. To prepare the infusion, pour 0.5 cups of onion husks with a glass of water and bring the mixture to a boil. Cool and strain the broth, and then add a few spoons into the honey mask. Typically, the time of the decolorization procedure using onion decoction decreases from a few hours to 30--40 minutes.