All-Natural Lavender and Cucumber Gel Deep Hair Conditioner for Damaged and Dry Hair
This is yet another hair conditioner recipe that can help to nourish damaged hair from heating tools, chemically processed or environmental harsh elements such as the UV sunrays. Sometimes it is good to restore hair health after it goes through damage instead of cutting it altogether. Join me to create all-natural lavender and cucumber gel deep hair conditioner for damaged and dry hair.
HAIRCARE
Hair conditioners are hair products that are used to replenish moisture and improve hair health. Hair conditioners can reduce friction between hair strands, make your hair smoother, silky and easy to comb. Hair conditioners can be specialized to improve their effectiveness in order to address a certain hair issue. They are several types like deep conditioners, rinse-out hair conditioners, dry hair conditioners, protein hair conditioners or leave-in hair conditioners.
This Lavender and Cucumber Gel Hair Conditioner can deeply condition your hair and restore moisture to dry and damaged hair with opened cuticles and holed shafts. Conditioning your hair can make it easier to style and manage your hair.
Selecting Ingredients
Olive oil: It is one of the best carrier oil. Olive oil can prevent hair breakage and damage by coating the hair shaft thus making hair shaft stronger. This is oil can reduce split ends and reduced open hair cuticles.
Cucumber gel: This gel contains lots of antioxidants that can be used to strengthen and repairs hair follicles, reduce hair dryness, reduce hair thinning from heat damage and thicken hair which can be a good ingredient for a deep hair conditioner.
Emulsifying wax NF: To make cucumber gel, essential oils and carrier oils combine and bind well to create an emulsion that is your deep hair conditioner.
Stearic acid: These are white flakes derived from vegetable fats. You'll add these with oil-based ingredients. Stearic acid helps to form a moisture barrier on the hair strands. Help to keep your hair hydrated that will be beneficial for dry and damaged hair.
Liquid lecithin: It is a brown colored liquid derived from soybeans or other plant-based sources. It is used in food and other home products as additives. Helps to bind water-based ingredients with oil-based ingredients. Usually added to the oil-based ingredients.
Distilled water: This sterilized and clean water used in your recipe. This recipe, in fact, more than 80% is water. Don't use tap water or even bottled water, it is highly likely contaminated with microbes, impurities like chloride and minerals like lead from pipes that may affect the quality of your deep hair conditioner and reduce its shelf-life.
Xanthan gum powder: It is an odorless gum powder coming from a certain type of bacteria. Xanthan gum is a good thickening agent. To prevent the deep hair conditioner from being to watery and runny you add this powder. Other equally good options are resin gum, guar gum.
Lavender essential oil: This essential oil can have more benefits from stimulating hair growth lavender oil can help improve scalp health and rejuvenate damaged hair and prevent new growth from undergoing future damage.
Vitamin E oil: Vitamin E oil can nourish your hair but in this scenario it is used as a preservative agent. Vitamin E oil has tocopherol that can replenish damaged and dry hair.
Ingredients
2 tablespoons of olive oil
1 tablespoon of cucumber gel
2 teaspoons of emulsifying wax NF
½ teaspoons of stearic acid
½ teaspoon of liquid lecithin
.½ cup of distilled water
⅛ of xanthan gum powder
25 drops of lavender essential oil
15 drops of vitamin E oil
Prepare your ingredients together with a measuring cup, glass bowl, kitchen thermometer, saucepan, teaspoons, tablespoons and hand-held mixer. Brace yourself and make your deep hair conditioner!
Instructions
Begin preparing your recipe by mixing together olive oil, emulsifying wax, stearic acid and liquid lecithin in a glass measuring cup.
Now place your glass measuring cup in a saucepan containing few inches of water. place the saucepan in stove top and let it simmer till 160-180 Fahrenheit. Use a double boiler instead if you got one.
Meanwhile, take another glass measuring cup and combine cucumber, distilled water and xanthan gum powder in it. Repeat step 2 with this glass measuring cup or use another double boiler.
Pour the oil/wax mixture from the glass measuring cup into a glass bowl. Start mixing with a hand-held blender, start on low speed to medium speed for 2 to 3 minutes.
Add the water mixture that you made in step 3, into oil/wax mixture and continue blending.
Now increase the speed to high and continue blending for 5 minutes.
Add lavender essential oil and vitamin E oil drop by drop and mix again at high speed for more 5 minutes.
Take your mixture and pour it in a well-sterilized pump bottle. Use within 14 days.
How to Use Lavender and Cucumber Gel Deep Hair Conditioner
After making your deep hair conditioner now you can use it. Hair conditioners can help your hair manageability till another hair wash. Follow these steps:
While your freshly cleansed hair is still damp, apply a generous amount of deep conditioner to the palms of your hands and rub together.
Take a big blob of deep hair conditioner and rub it between palms of your hands.
Massage your hair and scalp, starting at hair ends to roots. You can use a wooden or silicone hair massager.
Gently comb the conditioner through your hair from the roots to the ends.
Put your shower cap on your head or wear a heating cap.
Leave the deep hair conditioner for 30 to an hour minutes.
Rinse out your hair with lukewarm water.
Dry your hair with a microfiber towel.
Blow dry your hair then apply hair serum or nourishing hair oil and comb through with wide-toothed comb.
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