Homemade Hair Masks

By: Amanda Coggin (View Profile)

Blend the olive oil, honey, egg, and cucumber and apply to your hair, wrapping your head in a shower cap. Massage into your hair to create some heat. Leave for thirty minutes, shampoo thoroughly, and rinse well to avoid greasiness the next day.

Avocado Treatment Mask
If like me, you buy avocados but can never eat them fast enough, you’ll like this mask.

Ingredients:
One ripe avocado
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons honey

Mash the flesh of one ripe avocado. Add 1 tablespoon of honey and 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Mix the flesh of the avocado with the honey and olive oil until you have a creamy texture and cover your hair. Add ingredients, depending on the length of your hair. Leave on for twenty minutes and rinse with a gentle shampoo.

A Bowl of Cereal on Your Head
For dry and damaged hair, bananas and almond oil will moisten your scalp and make your hair smell good enough to eat.

Ingredients:
One ripe banana
A few drops of almond oil
1/2 cup whole milk
1 tablespoon honey 

Mix banana, almond oil, milk, and honey, and massage into your scalp. Mix well and massage down into your hair. Leave in for fifteen to thirty minutes and then shampoo until clean.

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posted: 05.22.2008
Allie Firestone
Yes! Great for those of us who shop at Trader Joe's and are forced to buy more avocados than we can eat.
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