For the health and beauty of the scalp and lengths, nothing beats an oil application! Many of them have interesting properties for nourishing, sheathing, detangling and making the hair shine. They may be associated (or not) with essential oils if you want to create a more effective and “treating” mixture. If you face two problems, with for example an oily scalp and rather dry lengths, use two oils, chosen according to their virtues. You can also decide to treat a problem one day (the scalp), and another (lengths and ends) the next day… Before proceeding with your DIY treatment adapted to your hair problem, you adopt the right reflexes.
Hair bath: a 6-step routine
- We apply the vegetable oil or the mixture of oils in small quantity all over the scalp.
- Then we stretch it on the lengths and to the ends. Ideally, proceed strand by strand, smoothing the product and making it penetrate well into the fiber.
- Then, you tie your hair, tie a hot towel (or put on a plastic charlotte) around your head to maintain the heat and promote the penetration of the oils.
- A 30-minute break is enough if you’re in a hurry, but one o’clock will be more efficient. Very dry or frizzy hair can even leave the hair bath on overnight, making sure to protect their pillow.
- Rinse with a mild, natural shampoo: twice if you have oily hair, once on dry hair, which will leave a light protective film on the lengths.
- It is advisable to make an oil bath once a week if the hair is dry to very dry.
- For oily hair, the frequency can be reduced, once every 15 days for example.
In video: a regulating oil bath for oily hair
An oil bath to illuminate your colored hair
Ingredients : 1 tablespoon of coconut vegetable oil + 2 tablespoons of hibiscus vegetable oil + 3 drops ofylang ylang essential oil
What are its benefits ?
- Coconut oil nourishes and smoothes the hair fiber, while hibiscus oil, rich in antioxidants, coats and restores vitality and softness.
- Ylang-ylang essential oil brings shine to the hair.
- For light hair, the latter can be replaced by 3 drops of German chamomile essential oil, known to illuminate blonde highlights.
A hair bath to shape your fine hair
Ingredients : 1 tablespoon of vegetable coconut oil + 2 tablespoons of vegetable castor oil + 5 drops of rosemary cineole essential oil
What are its benefits ?
- Coconut oil nourishes and smoothes the hair fiber; that of castor knows how to repair devitalized, brittle hair and it promotes growth.
- Rosemary cineole essential oil is revitalizing.
- If the hair needs to be fortified, the latter can be replaced by 5 drops of Atlas cedar essential oil, which helps to slow hair loss, but can also eliminate dandruff.
A hair bath to fortify your gray hair
Ingredients : 2 or 3 tablespoons of vegetable castor oil + 3 drops of German chamomile essential oil
What are its benefits ?
- Castor oil, revitalizing, is particularly suitable for rough and dull hair. It can be replaced by the same quantity of amla oily macerate (plant extract diluted in‘Castor oil), which delays hair whitening and makes it shine. This mixture is commonly used by Indian women to beautify and fortify their ebony hair.
- German chamomile essential oil is a blue oil that effectively removes yellow highlights from white hair.
An oil bath to nourish your dry hair
Ingredients : 2 tablespoons of avocado vegetable oil + 1 tablespoon of argan vegetable oil + 3 drops of ylang-ylang essential oil
What are its benefits ?
- Very gentle, vegetable avocado oil is nourishing, protective and restructuring.
- Well known for its properties, argan oil is rich in antioxidant vitamin E and fatty acids. It brings regeneration and shine to dull hair.
- Ylang-ylang essential oil restores shine, but it also helps regulate the deficient sebum of dry hair.
How to properly store your care oil
The amounts suggested (generally 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil per application) are suitable for all heads, including long hair, unless they are very thick or literally drink the oil. You can obviously double the doses if you want to have a mixture ready for the next time. Provided you keep it in a small tinted glass bottle, which closes perfectly. And store it in a closet away from air, light and heat. He then keeps all his qualities for six months.
Read also :
- Scalp: how to take care of it
- What do I eat to keep beautiful hair?
- Hair: do your own color enhancer
