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Best Hair Mask For Dry and Itchy scalp - get rid for dry and itchy scalp

Dry scalp is very common problem among all men or women. Dry scalp is so irritable and itchy, sometimes it feels like a rough sand desert on our head. Dry scalp makes our hair dry, rough and frizzy, and common cause of hair fall.

It may occurs in any season, because it doesn't due to environmental condition but it occurs due to lack of nutrition and hydration in your diet. Healthy eating is essential for healthy hair. Healthy food which is rich in protein and fat acts as an internal moisturizer for our body. It is very important to get enough protein-rich diet in every day.
 
Anything you try for your dry scalp, don't show any wonder or miracle if you are dry from inside.So, hydrating yourself by a lot of water and fluids.

Besides healthy diet, you can try these simple and effective homemade hair mask. These hair mask helps you to remove scalp dryness and flaky skin from you head and makes your scalp cool and calm.

Best Hair Mask For Dry and Itchy Scalp


Coconut Oil Hair Mask

Coconut oil is the most popular hair conditioner for dry scalp. Coconut oil helps to improving hair cuticle and scalp skin, repair damaged hair and prevents keratin loss. Its anti-fungal property helps to removing any fungal infection as well as helps in itchy scalp. It also improves dull and frizzy hair and provides moisture in it.
Massage 10 minutes your head scalp with warm coconut oil with gentle motion. After that wrap your head with wet towel ( towel dip in warm water and squeeze it). Leave it for 20 minutes and then wash your hair with shampoo. Its makes your hair soft and smooth. 
You can add 1 tbsp of lemon juice or 1 tbsp honey with coconut oil.

Yogurt Hair Mask

If you have dry, damage or breakage hair problem than yogurt is the best hair treatment for it. Yogurt contains vitamins and proteins in it, so if you are looking for a quick treatment it can be used.

You can use yogurt directly or mix 1 tbsp olive oil in it. Apply over the entire scalp and leave it for 20 minutes. Rinse it with cold water. It cool and calm you itchy dry scalp.
 

Banana Avocado Mask

Banana is rich in vitamins, potassium,and carbohydrates. Banana is great for dry itchy scalp, prevents split ends, and decreases hair fall. Banana is moisture rich fruit which helps to increase the moisture content in your hair and scalp. Avocado also has the nourishing and moisturizing qualities and helping to beautify your dry hair ends.
 


Take a ripe banana and half avocado, and blend them well. Apply this paste on scalp and covering your hair length. Leave this hair mask for 15- 20 minutes and wash properly.

Honey & Olive Oil Hair Mask

Olive oil amazing oil for nourishing our skin, but it also good for our hair. Olive oil is rich in vitamins, minerals and natural oil acids. It is also one of the most convenient oil for all skin types. Honey has anti-bacterial and anti -fungal properties.

Take 1/2 cup honey and 1/4 cup olive oil. Mix it well. Slightly heat the mixture over low heat to whisk both together well. Use a double boiler to do this. Apply this on your scalp and hair, wrap your head with plastic bag for 20-30 minutes. Rinse and wash.


Use these homemade hair mask in your daily regime of hair care than you get smooth, clean and calm scalp. If you want to know the cause of dry, flack and dandruff skin in detail than check out this link: http://diethealthfashion.blogspot.in/2015/03/a-big-problem-of-our-hair-dandruff-it.html


Try and Happy !!!

5 Best Natural Hair Conditioners - For your smooth, soft and beautiful hair

In today's world, style and fashion is the top priority for all. We all want to look best and beautiful from head to toe. We always try to wears latest trendy clothes, do makeup according to trend, matching footwear's, hair styling and maintain our-self in all fields. 

All these things are essential but somewhere we got the side effects from over doing makeup and hair styling. 

Regular wearing of makeup damages our skin like dry skin, closed skin pores. Like this hair, regular using of  hair gels, sprays, harsh shampoos, or hair styling tools ( hair straightener, curlers etc) damages our hair too. So, proper skin and hair care is very important and essential, if  we want to look beautiful and gorgeous.


For cleaning our hair, we use different types of shampoos and it works good but only hair cleaning is not enough for our hair, they also wants moisturisation and nourishment. Regular use of shampoo makes our hair dry, frizzy and causes split ends. 

For treating this, our hair experts introduce hair conditioner. Hair conditioner is the product that changes the texture and appearance of our hair. As you know that hair conditioner is applied after shampooing. 

In market, there is wide range of hair conditioner products are available  including rinse out, leave it and spray on. The main purpose of Hair conditioner is to restoring moisture and smoothing the hair cuticle of the hair follicles. It helps to make your hair soft , smooth and shiner. These are good for hair but if we found natural hair conditioner at our home than why we bought these artificial conditioner. 


It is difficult to find desired conditioner according to our hair type that is why natural hair conditioner is always recommended. Natural conditioners are very effective and harmless. It also provides deep conditioning to our hair. 

5 Best Natural Hair Conditioners

There are some Natural Hair Conditioner which deep condition and ease the dryness in our hair. Read on to find out more about them.

Yogurt

If you have dry, damage or breakage hair problem than yogurt is the best hair treatment for it. Yogurt contains vitamins and proteins in it, so if you are looking for a quick treatment it can be used.


You can use yogurt directly or mix 1 tbsp olive oil in it. Apply over the entire scalp and leave it for 20 minutes. Rinse it with cold water.

Banana

Banana is rich in vitamins, potassium,and carbohydrates. Banana is great for dry itchy scalp, prevents split ends, and decreases hair fall. Banana is moisture rich fruit which helps to increase the moisture content in your hair and scalp.


Take a ripe banana and mash it, apply this paste on over our scalp to hair tip. You can add 1 tbsp honey and coconut oil in it. Leave it for 15 minutes and than wash off with cold water.

Eggs

From many decades, eggs are used for hair treatments. Eggs provides strengthening to your hair and also helps your dull hair to make it silky and shiny.  Eggs are rich source of protein and vitamins, it is the best natural remedy for dull and damaged hair. 




Use of egg as a hair conditioner is so easy. Simply make a mixture of  1 egg yolk, 1 tbsp olive oil, 1 tbsp honey and mix it well. Apply this mixture over your scalp and massage gently. Cover your head with shower cap or with towel and leave it for 20 minutes. Wash your hair with Luke warm water. 

Henna

Henna is the natural herbal powder of henna leaves. Henna is a good conditioner for your hair and also helps to prevents itchy dandruff scalp. Its make your hair silky and shiny. It is also used for coloring hair. 


Mix 2 cups henna powder with 2 tbsp amla ( dry gooseberry )powder, 2 tbsp methi (Fenugreek) powder and half cup yogurt before 2-3 hours of applying it. Apply this paste over you scalp to hair tips and leave it for 1-2 hours. Wash with cold water.

Coconut oil

Coconut oil is the most popular hair conditioner. Coconut oil helps to improving hair cuticle and scalp skin, repair damaged hair and prevents keratin loss. Its anti-fungal property helps to removing any fungal infection as well as helps in  itchy scalp. It also improves dull and frizzy hair and provides moisture in it.


Massage 10 minutes your head scalp with warm coconut oil with gentle motion. After that wrap your head with wet towel ( towel dip in warm water and squeeze it). Leave it for 20 minutes and then wash your hair with shampoo. Its makes your hair soft and smooth. You can add 1 tbsp of lemon juice with coconut oil.

The key component to get healthy hair naturally is use natural hair conditioners on a regular basis. Add this in your daily hair care regime. Personally, I loved to use henna on my hair. By using it, henna gives burgundy red color to my hair and it looks so beautiful. So, try these natural ingredient as a conditioner and it will makes your hair more manageable, soft, smooth and shiner.

Yummy banana muffins recipe

Banana is very nutritious fruit, rich in high fibre, vitamins and anti oxidants. Most of us and our kids don't like banana, and not eat directly. 
So, you can use different and easy tricks for them, you can use banana in smoothies, cakes, shakes , muffins and many mores. As in form of muffins, bananas are great for kids or even for us. 
So, starts with ingredients that you need in this recipe.

Image source :gimmesomeoven.com

 Ingredients -

  • 2 cup all-purpose flour 
  • 1 cup mashed bananas(3 ripe banana)
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 125 gm butter (melted & cooled)
  • 1 tbsp baking soda 
  • 1/2 tbsp salt  
  • 2 egg (beaten) 
  • 1 tbsp vanilla essence
For icing - 
  • 2 tbsp pure icing sugar
  • 1 tbsp cream butter

 How to make banana muffins?


 Steps -

  • First, preheat your oven to 200 °C. Take a bowl , combine flour, sugar and cinnamon.
  • Now, add butter, milk, eggs and vanilla essence to flour mixture. Using a large spoon, stir gently to mix well.
  • After mixing it, add mashed banana into it.
  • Using spoon, fill this mixture in greased or paper-lined muffin cups half full.(12 cups)
  • Bake for 18-20/minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. 
  • Cool it for 5-10 minutes, remove from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. 
  • For icing, beat cream cheese and icing sugar with hand blender. Make a smooth and fluffy icing.
  • Spread this over muffins or cupcakes and serve it.

Nutritional Facts-
1 muffins : 200 calories, 7 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 18 mg cholesterol, 209 mg sodium, 36 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 2 g protein .