Natural Hair Masks For Dry And Damaged Hair

30 September, 2024

If you’re reading this, it’s probably time you set aside an evening this week to treat yourself and offer your hair some TLC. To help you plan your night of slathering and lathering, we’ve put up our top 7 favorite DIY hair masks and hair treatments for you to try. Pour yourself a glass of wine, queue up your Netflix, and get ready for healthy hair.

Why Hair Masks

Hair masks are fast yet incredibly potent, effective solutions to supply your hair with plenty of health benefits in less than 20 minutes. Think of hair masks like high powered hair conditioners, offering your hair advantages like smoothing and moisturizing, a boost to grow, adding shine, and even fighting against infections. While some hair salons provide pricey hair treatments that give comparable effects, we've opted to go straight to Mother Nature for our hair masks. This collection of hair masks just require a few, all-natural ingredients apiece, which can easily be found in your fridge or cabinet and originate straight from the Earth. The recipes we’re going to share with you are all fantastic hair masks to help nourish, protect, and moisturize your hair, so you can guarantee you're putting your best hair forward. 

Read also: How To Maintain Healthy Hair During Winter

The ingredients 

Here’s a shopping list of the all-natural components that will be included in the concoctions we’re going to share with you. Whenever possible, we advocate to go with the organic alternative, to guarantee that the ingredients you're adding to your hair are free from growth agents and pesticides:- Avocados

  • Strawberries
  •  Lemon
  •  Honey
  •  Coconut Oil
  •  Coconut Milk
  •  Brown Sugar
  •  Banana

1. Coconut Oil + Honey Hair Mask (Repairing) 

Let’s go down the components and their advantages.

Coconut Oil

Coconuts certainly seem to be the miracle element for your hair. Coconut Oil can be used for hair and skin, is a healthy fat for cooking, assists in digestion, supports the body's natural hormones...the benefits of Coconut Oil are unlimited! Coconut Oil for hair keeps it moist and supple and prevents hair breaking due of its excellent moisture retention powers. Since Coconut Oil is filled with fatty acids, it enters the hair more thoroughly than ordinary conditioners, leading to attractive soft, silky, lustrous hair. We recommend to use Organic Coconut Oil wherever possible. 

Honey

The advantages of honey are infinite! First, honey is fantastic for maintaining moisture in your hair since it is a natural humectant. This implies that it pulls moisture into the hair and prevents it from leaving. This is especially wonderful if you have dry hair and need an extra burst of moisture and hydration. Honey is also an emollient, which helps smoothen and soften your hair, and brings back any lost luster and shine to your hair. 

Read also: Is Olive Oil Effective For Dry Hair

The Ingredients

1 tablespoon of Coconut Oil
1 tablespoon of honey

Directions:

  • Mix all ingredients into a bowl
  •  Transfer mix into a saucepan and cook up until melted
  •  Apply to hair from top to bottom and cover with a shower cap
  •  Let it settle for 15-20 mins
  •  Rinse

Need further instructions on how to create this Coconut Oil and honey hair mask at home? Click here to view a video instruction. 

2. Coconut Oil + Cinnamon Hair Mask (Hair Growth) 

Coconut Oil

We’ve spoken about Coconut Oil in the last mask recipe and you’ll find Coconut Oil to be in many different hair mask recipes due of its hydrating and moisturizing capabilities. 

Cinnamon

Cinnamon has antibacterial characteristics that assist your hair grow, helps with dandruff, hair loss, and strengthens your hair follicles as well. When applied to your hair, cinnamon stimulates circulation to the scalp, boosting blood flow to the hair follicles, and resulting to stimulated hair growth. If you're seeking for longer hair, this is the hair mask for you. Let’s get to stirring!

Ingredients:

 1 tablespoon of Coconut Oil
 1 teaspoon of cinnamon

Directions:

  •  Mix these two items in a bowl, and make sure they are blended properly.
  •  Part your hair down the middle and start by putting it down the part and on your scalp.
  •  Use your fingertips to massage the product into your scalp. *Bonus Head Massage*
  •  Tie your hair up and cover with a shower helmet or a towel
  •  Let this mask rest for 30-45 minutes and then rinse with your usual shampoo and conditioner.

3. Egg + Lemon Hair Mask (Oily Hair) 

Eggs

Eggs are rich in Vitamins A, D, and E, proteins and fatty acids, which help keep the luster and shine in your hair. As your hair is largely constituted of protein, this added boost to the hair leaves it feeling healthy and rejuvenated. On top of being wonderful when cooked to an omelette - it's also a terrific natural conditioner!

Lemons

Lemon is great for people with an oily scalp, since lemon juice has the qualities of absorbing excess oil and grease in the scalp. Lemon is abundant in Vitamin C, which contributes to strong hair, and its acidic nature will assist clean your hair from any deposited cosmetics and dust. Lemon also includes a chemical called Limonene, which gives bounce and gloss to drab, lifeless hair. Lemon juice is also useful for combating Dandruff, as it has anti-fungal characteristics. Who knew there were all many advantages of lemon!

Ingredients:

- 1 egg
- ½ lemon

Directions:

  • Crack an egg, and be sure to only utilize the egg white.
  •  Squeeze one half of a lemon into a mixing dish.
  •  Mix the egg white and lemon juice together until you get a smooth consistency.
  •  Apply to moist hair from top to bottom.
  •  Tie hair up and cover with a shower cap
  •  Let this mask rest for 30-45 minutes and rinse with shampoo and conditioner.

Of course, the easiest approach to get rid of oily hair is through preventative measures. Learn more here. 

If you’d want to step your hair mask up a level, here’s a recipe for a hair mask that will not only assist with your oil concerns, but also soften and restore that natural shine.

Another variation add in some coconut milk

Surprise! Coconut milk is a natural hair repairing remedy. It's no surprise, since coconut milk is made from the healthy, white flesh of coconuts. Are you suffering from hair loss? If so, coconut milk is loaded with vitamins like Niacin and Folate, which stimulates circulation in the scalp, promoting hair growth. Do you have dry hair? Coconut milk also contains Vitamin E and healthy fats, which nourish dry hair, moisture hair root to tip, and acts as a natural hair de-tangler.

Ingredients:

  •  1 egg - 1 cup of coconut milk
  •  1 squeeze of lemon
  •  2 teaspoons of olive oil