Cosmetics - recipes made at home part 1

Different types of hair require different approaches in hair treatments, preparations for dark hair aren't be much of use if you're blonde, or if you have greasy hair surely you wont use a shampoo for lush curls. You wont need a lot of ingredients, just a few that you have in your kitchen. Recipes that were used by our grandmothers are still great and miracoulus. Their ingredients will feed your hair and make it shine. And what's also important you don't have to spend a lot of money.

Restorative banana mask

Ingredients:

• half of banana
• one big spoon of honey
• one big spoon of olive oil
• a few mint leaves

Bananas have a lot of potassium and vitamins that are good for your hair, and olive oil is moisturizing. Mint will calm your hair roots and "cool" your head. Chop up banana and mint leaves and then mix them until you get pasta. Put this pasta in a bowl with honey and olive oil and mix them together. Put that mask on your hair and leave it for 20 minutes before washing it off.

Mask for damaged and dry hair

Ingredients:

• Olive oil
•  Honey

Mix equal parts (depending on how long is your hair) of honey and olive oil. Honey has a lot of vitamins that nurture your hair and makes it shine and olive oil is moisturizing it. Put this on you hair from down to up and cover your hair with a plastic bag and make sure it's tight. Over the bag put a warm towel and leave it for 30 minutes before washing your hair. This treatment is great for gray hair and for best results it's good to do it once a week.

Mask for greasy hair

Ingredients:

• one spoon of dandelion root
• one apple
• three spoons of green clay
• lemon juice (squeezed from 1 lemon)

With a help of a blender blend dandelion roots with 1dl water and 1 apple until you get smooth mixture. Add 3 spoons of green clay and lemon juice and mix until the mixture becomes homogeneus. Keep the mask on for 1 hour then wash it off.

Dry hair mask

Ingredients:

• 3 spoons of parsley root
• 3 spoons of castor oil

Parsley root has a substance that in combination with castor oil removes dandruff. Mix the chopped parsley root with castor oil and apply it to your hear and leave it there for 15 minutes and then wash your hair.

Chamomile shampoo for shiny hair

Ingredients:

• 4 bags of chamomile tea
• half a cup of boiling water
• half cup of baby shampoo

Put the tea bags in the boiling water and leave it or 30 minutes to cool off a bit. Mix in with baby shampoo and mix it until the mixture is smooth and without lumps. Apply the shampoo like any other.

Hair spray made of lemon

Lemon gives volumen to thin hair, makes it more shiny and smells good. Blond girls should avoid this recipe if they don't want to be white :)

Ingredients:

• 3 lemons
• small pot of water
• spray bottle

Slice the lemon and put it into the pot of water, after the water starts boiling leave it to cool for an hour or so. When the water is completely cool squeeze all the lemons inside and add to the water. After that put the water into the spray bottle.

Hair loss losion

Ingredients:

• 15 spoons of chopped nettle leaves
•  5 spoons of chamomile flower
•  300 ml of wine vinegar

In 1.2 l of boiling water put the chopped nettle leaves, Leave it closed for 2 hours to cool and after 2 hours heat it again but it must not boil for the second time. When this is done add the chamomile leaves and leave it covered for another 2 hours. After it's cooled strain it and the cover the leaves with wine vinegar and mix it well. Every second night massage it onto your head.

There are many ways for nurturing you hair, however the natural ways are the best and the nature gives us all ingredients to take care for our health.