DIY Scalp Scrub: Naturally Good!
Doing a DIY scalp scrub helps to regenerate the whole body! Taking care of your hair allows you to always have it healthy and shiny. But a little more attention also gives you mind-blowing results: in fact, healthy hair also grows much faster. And if your dream is to make them stretch, don't miss our advice, but first take a look at the video below.
Do you love DIY in your home? Use natural products!
Natural eco-friendly is always an added value in an era like ours, where ready-made prevails, the industrial product with substances that are not always harmless for our health and in this case for the well-being of the skin of our head. But how is the homemade scrub done? First, you can do it when and how you want. There are many recipes and the ingredients are simple and you probably already have them in your kitchen cupboard. A delicate and natural DIY scrub is a real panacea for the care of your hair, to deeply cleanse and restore life to the skin of the scalp, as it is for the face, hands, feet and your whole body. . With a gentle exfoliation, the skin is purified, the production of sebum, even if you have very oily hair, normalizes, the dead cells, which become dandruff that drizzles on your shoulders, go away and increase the growth of hair, their beauty, health and endurance. Often even after a great scrub and a thorough shampoo, the hair looks dull, frizzy and without shine with impurities not removed, cosmetic residues, sweat and hardened sebum, dust or dirt from smog and smoke. Sometimes there are desquamations to be removed, caused by seborrheic dermatitis, therefore dandruff, which if it is dry falls off easily, if it is oily it remains attached to the skin. The scrub serves to unblock pores and follicles, allowing faster and healthier hair growth. As with the face, if it is subjected to a light scrub, which removes all impurities and dead cells, its use for the scalp serves to oxygenate it, to clean the follicles, so that the hair benefits clearly, such as health, strength, shine and non-abnormal cell renewal.
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At home you can prepare excellent natural scrubs, with food products and essential oils and use them even once a week, if you have rather oily head skin, or at most twice a month if it is normal, so as not to excessively stress it, when not. it is necessary. The scrub should be applied to the scalp with damp hair, massaging it for a few minutes, to reactivate the superficial circulation.
Leave it on for a while and then rinse with not hot water, so as not to add further stress to the heat of the hair dryer. Be careful not to massage too vigorously, as you could irritate some small lesions due to peeling of the skin. If you want one sweeter scrub, apply it on completely wet hair, leave it on the scalp for a few minutes without massaging and then rinse.
And when your hair is really healthy and strong, it's time to think about the look!
Natural foods and essential oils!
Among the various ingredients with which it is possible to prepare it, choose the ones that are most suitable for you and that can solve the problems of your scalp and your hair. As with all scrubs, you need a grainy product to exfoliate, a gel or milk to moisturize and soften the skin, and an oil to nourish it. If your skin is very delicate, opt for a grainy product for brown sugar or coffee. The salt and baking soda may be too rough for the scalp skin, unless there are high, yellowish scaling, difficult to remove, as a consequence of a seborrheic dermatitis. To moisturize the skin, aloe vera gel or even coconut milk is good, to nourish it an oil such as linseed or argan oil (jojoba is less suitable, however, for oily skin). Two tablespoons of baking soda, brown sugar and a good quality conditioner and here is another excellent natural scrub and suitable for all types of hair, greasy, dry, normal. You can also use tea tree oil as a nutrient that can also be purchased online on Amazon as well as in specialized stores. If your skin is really very sensitive, but oily, remove the baking soda and use brown sugar and tea tree oil. In fact, this product is always very effective in all versions of scrub treatment and for every area of your body.
For an exfoliating and purifying scrub in depth for oily hair with dandruff, the one made with conditioner and lemon juice with a detox effect is excellent. The one with sugar, coconut oil and honey is very suitable for dry and damaged hair. Coconut oil, sea salt, honey and apple cider vinegar: this is a scrub that nourishes, strengthens and purifies. Salt acts as an exfoliator, coconut oil is nourishing, a little honey acts as a conditioner and apple cider vinegar is an anti-dandruff and anti-hair loss ingredient. What more could you want? Ground coffee, aloe vera and castor oil are perfect for delicate and sensitive skin. In fact, coffee is a delicate exfoliant, aloe vera gel has a good moisturizing effect and castor oil strengthens and gives shine to the hair, as well as other essential oils, such as flaxseed and hemp. with which you get very light exfoliating scrubs for very sensitive skin, but with dandruff.
Good cosmetics also in herbal medicine or pharmacy.
There are also scrubs and other types of perfumery or pharmacy hair cosmetics with excellent components. You can check the INCI on the web and buy them on Amazon, which gives good guarantees of safe purchase. In beauty salons or hairdressers do not forget to check if the products contain parabens or silicones or other unnatural substances, which can harm the health of your hair and scalp skin. Thoroughly investigate the components, do not be fooled by low-priced products, check how they have been tested for nickel and whether they are hypoallergenic, so as not to run the risk of running into annoying and long-lasting allergies.
In many good products on the market there is sea salt, which refreshes and purifies the skin of the head and balances the production of sebum. Buy only non-aggressive and low-foaming shampoos, which can take away the skin's natural oils. When you have to do the dye or a scrub, do not forget to make balm packs or real hair masks that strengthen the skin of the scalp before these treatments and that contain plant foods and essential oils, precious and effective natural remedies, which even after shampooing they leave fatty acids on your hair, which will bring well-being to your hair as well as shine and resistance, acting on the hair shaft and also on the follicles.
You can buy them in any beauty center on the advice of your trusted beautician, in herbal medicine, in perfumery or on Amazon. The important thing is that they are of good quality and based as much as possible on natural products. But you can still do them at home, with excellent results and with a lot of satisfaction, as you did with the scrub. You are now an expert!
There are many types of natural and do-it-yourself hair masks, olive oil with honey, coconut oil with avocado, green clay with corn starch, nettle with black tea, oil of castor with shea butter and honey, to yogurt with an egg and honey, to henna with arnica essential oil.
Choose the one you prefer and good scrub to all!
