Household hair soap: benefits and recipes for home masks

Not so long ago, when such a wide variety of detergents for hair was not, soap was actively used to wash the head. Due to its composition, this product not only perfectly cleans the curls from dirt, but also strengthens them and gives a natural shine. And today, in search of a natural alternative to chemical shampoos and masks, many women are increasingly resorting to folk remedies, including on the basis of ordinary household soap.

Can I wash my head with soap?

As the long-term positive experience of our grandmothers shows, it is possible. Among the main advantages of using this tool is:

• thickening of the structure of the hair
• shine and smoothness of curls
• reduction of hair loss
• control of the sebaceous glands
• wetting of dry tips
• elimination of dandruff

Most often in the care of hair this soap is used instead of shampoo. To prepare the washing base, a small amount of laundry soap is rubbed on the grater, warm water is added and mixed. The finished solution is applied to damp hair, massaged and thoroughly washed.

Attention! To neutralize the harmful effect of alkali at the end of washing with the use of laundry soap, rinses must be rinsed with acidic water with lemon or vinegar.

My head with laundry soap: homemade hair recipes

You can use the laundry soap and as a natural basis in the masked masks for healing curls. We offer you some of the most effective recipes.

Nourishing mask based on soap and yogurt

Necessary ingredients:

• household soap - 25 gr.
• kefir - 1/2 cup
• cocoa powder - 1 tsp.
• essential oil of rosemary or tea tree - 3 drops
• honey - 2 tsp.

Stages of preparation:

1. Rub the soap on the grater.

2. A little warm kefir in a microwave and fill it with soap chips. Stir the mass until smooth.
   
   
   
   

3. Add cocoa, essential oil and liquid honey. Mix everything thoroughly.

4. Finish the product on the hair for 15 minutes.
5. Wash off with water at room temperature several times using shampoo.

Moisturizing mask with cream and laundry soap

Necessary ingredients:

• laundry soap - 20 gr.
• cream - 2 tsp
• vegetable oil - 3 tsp.

Stages of preparation:

1. Grind on a fine grater laundry soap.
2. Add cream to the resulting shavings and mix.
3. Pour the vegetable oil into the resulting mixture.
4. Pour the mass in a glass or pottery. Set it for 10 seconds in the microwave to heat.
5. After 10-20 seconds, mix the product and place it again in the oven until it dissolves completely.
6. Cool the mass and apply to the hair with a scallop.
7. Leave the mask on for 20 minutes.
8. Rinse with warm water and shampoo.

Tar soap: a recipe for cooking at home

In the fight against dandruff and fragility of hair, tar tar is often used, which you can cook yourself.

Necessary ingredients:

• olive oil and castor oil - 120 grams each.
• sunflower oil - 60 gr.
• Burdock oil - 90 gr.
• coconut oil - 150 gr.
• Culinary fat - 160 gr.
• a decoction of St. John's wort - 200 gr.
• alkali - 100 gr.
• citric acid - 7 g.

Stages of preparation:

1. Prepared butter mix in a bowl.
2. In advance, brew a steep decoction of St. John's wort. For this, pour 200 grams of grass 300 ml of boiling water, let the broth cool down a little.
3. Melt the fat in a water bath.
4. Add to it a mixture of oils, alkali, strained herbal broth and citric acid.
5. Thoroughly mix the mass and pour into a silicone mold. Keep in the fridge.

Apply the product as a shampoo can be 1 time a week, while first lather your hands, and then the formed foam is distributed over wet hair.