Olive Oil Hair Treatment

Olive Oil Hair Treatment: It's easy to incorporate olive oil into your hair care routine. Get the shiny, frizzy-free hair you desire by using EVOO.

Benefits of Olive Oil in Hair Treatments

Did you know that using olive oil to get healthy hair has been popular with Mediterranean women for centuries?

Some benefits to using olive oil in your hair care routine:

Helps to repair split ends as well as stopping breakage and hair loss

With oil infused into your hair, it helps the hair to become shiny

Helps to control dandruff and dry scalp

Work well to heal damaged hair and eliminate dry hair

Moisturizes curly hair and black hair to keep hair from becoming frizzy

Can help thicken and plumpen hair as it does when it's healthier

Contributes to hair growth because when hair is healthier, it will retain length

Olive Oil Hair Conditioner Recipes

Olive oil can easily be used in homemade recipes for hair problems. You can make hair masks and add olive oil to conditioners. A really simple home remedy using olive oil is the basic hot oil treatment. Read on to learn how to do each of these.

Olive Oil and Honey Hair Mask

Mix together 3 tablespoons of Extra virgin Olive Oil and 1/2 cup of honey.
Spread the mixture through your hair until it is thoroughly coated throughout.
Put on a plastic cap oreven a shower cap for approximately 30 minutes.

The heat from your body will warm the mixture helping it to penetrate your hair. Afterwards, rinse and shampoo. Go about your usual hair care routine. You'll notice your hair more moisturized and shiny and have less frizz.

Hair Mask with Olive Oil and Egg

Combine 4 tablespoons of olive oil and 2 eggs.
Spread the mixture throughout your hair making sure to saturate it thoroughly.
Put on a plastic cap. If you don't have a plastic cap then you can use saran wrap.
Let it sit on your hair for 20 minutes or so and then rinse with just warm water. (Do not use hot water to avoid "cooking" the egg.)

The egg will add protein to your hair and help repair damage while the olive oil with get moisture into your hair and help it to shine.

Olive Oil Hair Conditioning Treatment

Don't forget you can always add oil to a thick hair conditioner to make it more moisturizing. Use only about a teaspoon otherwise you'll end up with greasy hair since you'll be rinsing and moving on to styling.

Simple Olive Hot Oil Treatment

You can also do a simple hot oil treatment with olive oil.

Heat up about 4 tablespoons of olive oil and then apply to your hair.
Massage the oil into your scalp to help with dandruff and dry scalp.
Put on a plastic cap and let sit for 30 minutes.
Rinse and then continue your shampoo process for healthier shinier hair.

This treatment is great for hair and a dry scalp. A dry scalp can be helped due to the fatty acids being absorbed by the scalp making the skin more flexible, moisturized, and hydrated inside out.

Best Olive Oil for Hair

There are four main types of olive oil that you should know about in order to choose the best one:

Extra Virgin Olive Oil is unrefined. It is considered to have no processing and holdthe most nutrients. It is not extracted by heat or by using chemicals but is simply the first pressing of an olive oil. The flavor of extra virgin olive oil is very delicate. Also has lower acidity and higher clarity.

Virgin Olive oil can be from a second pressing though in some case it still comes fromthe first pressing. The major difference is that the flavor is different from extra virgin. It also contains less nutrients and has a higher acidity level.

Pure Olive Oil is generally referred to just as "olive oil"and it is not from a first or second pressing of an olive. It is derived through processing, filtering, and/or refining. Sometimes pure olive oil is combined with extra virgin olive oil to give it better flavor.

Light Olive Oil is the same as Extra Light Olive Oil. This kind goes through even more processing that pure olive oil. The flavor is extremely mild.

When choosing to do an olive oil hair treatment, you want to choose the best kind. Therefore, choose the highest quality olive oil which is organic extra virgin olive oil.

Olive Oil Hair Products

You have probably noticed that lately many hair care lines are now claiming to contain olive oil in their products. Some of these products are very popular and work really well for black hair.

A popular brand is the Organic Root Stimulator hair line. This line of hair products has a hair lotion that contains olive oil called "Olive Oil Moisturizing Hair Lotion." This hair lotion works really well to moisturize curly and kinky hair types. It does not contain any mineral oil.

Organic Root Stimular (ORS) also makes a relaxer or perm that contains the hydrating olive oil called Olive Oil Relaxer.

One product that I keepon regular rotation in my own hair care routine is ORS Olive Oil Replenishing Pak. This deep conditioner is so creamy and good-smelling that I just enjoy the application of it to my hair. More than that, I find that it hydrates my hair and helps it to recover - getting it ready to be styled.

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