Hair can get dry and brittle, especially in the summer months during time spent outside, at the beach, or swimming in a chlorine laden pool. Use of harsh chemical products can also damage hair, but this conditioning treatment helps nourish hair and strengthen it.
Try this easy and inexpensive home treatment that will naturally improve your hair. I even use this on my four year old to make her hair more manageable and easier to brush (she is very tender-headed). This recipe is so simple, it is hard to call it a recipe, but it works really well so I thought I’d share it anyway. Please note that it will leave hair oily and need to be washed/rinsed well as to not leave residue.
If you’re looking for other natural hair care recipes, check out my homemade coconut shampoo, DIY Beach Waves Hairspray and Dry Shampoo for Dark or Light Hair.
Too busy to DIY? Try my Wellnesse brand shampoo and conditioner for all hair types — or try this formula if you have curly hair.
Nourishing Hair Oil Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 TBSP olive oil
- 1 TBSP coconut oil
- 1 TBSP honey
- 1 tsp Epsom salt (or magnesium flakes)
Instructions
- Combine all the ingredients and whisk or blend well (I used an immersion blender). You may have to heat the coconut oil slightly to soften it. The Epsom salt will still be somewhat gritty but will dissolve and work in to the hair once applied.
- Over a sink or shower, massage the oil through the hair and scalp. Put a shower cap on (or old towel) and leave on for up to 30 minutes.
- In the shower, rinse well, then shampoo.
Notes
Have you ever used oil on your hair? How did it work?
Need to be at one with nature hence very interested in natural products.
Love your recipes.
I have not been able to find Magnesium flakes but I have magnesium oil. Can I substitute & if yes, how much?
Following up… Scary feeling in the shower but hair is is totally fine. In fact it’s very soft and shiny when I eventually took the towel off my head and combed through it. This is the second time I used this recipe. The first time this did not happen but I did not have epsom salt the first time.
Help! I didn’t read the part about no longer than 30 minutes and left this in for several hours. I just rinsed it, lightly shampooed and then realized I have this big patch of coarse sticky straw-like hair that I could not get unsticky in the shower even when adding more shampoo and conditioner. I also did a apple cider vinegar and water rinse which I had planned to do to clean my scalp. I noticed this sticky patch before the vinegar so I know that has nothing to do with it. How the heck do I get this out of my hair?
Any suggestions for FINE, thin, curly hair? 2 of my three girls have hair like this. I also do and mine is really dry. It is also thin as you described, in large part to pregnancy and nursing as well. (#6 will be born about the time our oldest will be 9.5!!)
I believe i read somewhere else on this site that you could make a dyi hair treatment with essential oils so I have been mixing castor oil coconut oil argan and olive oil with a few drops of aloe vera from a live plant. I had just experienced some major hair loss and breakage after my hair for some unsure reason became very dry and brittle. It’s a total mystery why this happened. I had been using rogaine beauce I have had nutritional hair loss and a lot of dead follicles I believe for a very long time. Never been evaluated by a doctor but have been anorexic or very very calorie conscious and protein deficient for like 30 years. Well, my hubby added more chlorine than usual to our pool and the next day after swimming in it I became sick..totally not related but I didnt wash my hair for a few days after swimming in it from being sick. So it was left in my hair so my thoughts are maybe the chlorine reacted with the rogain or something, I also got a spray tan but wore a cap, so unless it somehow seeped through, I dont know still baffled but for whatever reason my hair became so dry and brittle kind of like out of nowhere and about 50 % broke off so I am treating with this dyi oil treatment. I was reading to increase hair growth apply to scalp, what about applying to the hair and scalp, to treat the hair as well?
Do you use the whole recipe all at once or can I store it for later use. I have short hair and I don’t think I will need it all.
Yes, I am wondering this, too!
This worked amazing on my hair! I warmed it all, blended it & applied the sticky mess to my hair, focusing on the bottom half of my hair. I have loads of fine, straight hair down to the middle of my back and a scalp that tends toward oily. Will double it next time. Two washes with regular shampoo (which is free of all the stuff…) & my hair came out beautiful! Thanks again, Katie!!