Homemade Conditioner for your Hair
October 11, 2006 by Jejeizahfaye
Published in Hair
Easy, homemade conditioners.
Kitchen-based treatments for shiny, healthy-looking hair are cheap, easy, and fun to use.
Find the right one for you and try it after shampooing (leave in for 5 minutes).
Repeat every few weeks or as needed.
Lemon juice or vinegar
It removes build up from hair products
Best for dirty, oily, or frequently conditioned hair
Pour 1 cup through hair; rinse; then use your regular conditioner
Overuse can strip natural oils, damaging hair. Do not use everyday, or on treated hair. Left on, it will lighten hair in the sun
Beer
Adds body and shine
For fine, limp hair, but also good for all types of hair
Pour 1 can onto hair; rinse. Condition if hair is dry.
Beer must be fresh, not flat. Safe to use everyday
Egg yolks
Adds shine; conditions slightly
For dry, dull hair
Massage 2 yolks into hair; rinse. No additional conditioner needed
Wash out with next shampoo. May make fine hair a bit oily.
Mayonnaise
Adds shine; deeply moisturizes
For very dry, dull hair
Massage 2 tablespoons into hair; rinse. No additional conditioner needed
For very dry hair only. Could leave normal hair looking greasy for days.
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October 11th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
An interesting idea.
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:28 pm
I tried the mayonnaise and egg with olive oil. It made my hair coarser than ever. It took me over 10 minutes to comb all the tangles out of my hair. I don’t know what the problem was. The minute I put the mayo on my hair I could tell this was not going to work. What happened?
April 4th, 2008 at 4:30 am
for shine and healthy hear
May 20th, 2008 at 2:33 am
Hello,
I am doing a science fair for school, and I want to create my own conditioner. I want the conditioner to make your hair smooth and silky, not hard to brush after your shower or bath, not bad for your hair and cheaper than the ones you buy in the super market?
May 24th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
it makes your hair coarser wen its wet
but wen its drie it has shine and luster
June 21st, 2008 at 3:54 pm
I have naturally dry and curly hair. I have tried the vinegar tip before and thinking of it now, it really removed buildup from my hair and moreover it added shine to it. I think that I’ll resume to this as from now.I have also tried the lemon tip but my hair was drier.
As for the beer tip, I’ll try it.
October 11th, 2008 at 1:22 am
Do any of these recipes for your hair make your hair stink really bad?
December 6th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
#2,if you use fake-mayonnaise (miraclewhip, salad dressing) it can dry your hair out. Could that be the problem?
January 30th, 2009 at 11:40 am
i have really think and dry hair and i heard of adding alvacado to the mayonaise tip will it work? will it make my hair stink?
February 15th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Soy mayo works only since egg and dairy mayo is full of toxins. Beer and eggs doesn’t work either since it full of toxins. Animal products are cruel anyway since I have something called compassion. People need to look it up. Vinegar and lemon is great. I use it 4 times a month.
February 23rd, 2009 at 7:16 am
I have tried egg yolk to my hair it really work’s. One can also go for fresh aelo-vera gel to the hair, it will give bounce and shine to hair.
March 5th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Egg yolk works wonderfully for shine, doesn’t do much to condition though.
April 12th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
does anyone know a recipe to make a homemade version of wen hair
conditioner. I LOVE IT! But, I can’t afford to keep buying it!
June 7th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Natasha, please stop misleading people with your agenda. If you have facts and sources to back up your claims then fine, but don’t go spewing false or unverified information just because you are offended by the use of animal products. Eggs have sulfur, and sulfur actually helps to remove toxins so I don’t know how you can say that the egg is full of toxins when I know that is not the case, therefore I discredit your entire post. You need to look it up. Furthermore, for someone who claims to be compassionate, you sure do not hesitate to belittle others who do not hold your views.
June 10th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Thanks for steppin up Alexi #14, and jeez Natasha regarding toxins, did you know that some studies say soy products cause breast cancer, google it! So step off your high horse for god’s sake, this is a hair forum… speakin of, my hair is dry, frizzy and processed. I found a ratio of 3/4 honey & 1/4 olive oil mixed and applied after shampooing work really well, especially if you put a shower cap over that and sleep with it. adding tea tree oil or essential oil helps with the smell of anything except mayo, which did nothing anyway for my hair.
June 19th, 2009 at 8:33 am
Speaking of olive oil and honey! I did that last nite and I slept with a shower cap and scarf (to keep my head somewhat heated). I’m about to wash it out now. This mixture works great! It leaves your hair extremely soft and its aids in maintaining friz.
July 20th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
I’ve done the mayo and when I saturated my hair with it, it was a tangled stinky mess. However once I shampoo’d the mayo out my hair was soft and shiney.
February 3rd, 2010 at 5:20 am
Ick natasha, your post left me feeling grimey.
There is nothing worse anyone can do for their cause than spreading false or misleading information.
When you get caught, and you will get caught, it makes you completely untrustworthy, and makes any good intentions you (hopefully) might have had become completely cancled out because of your high and mighty arrogance and bully behavior. At least I hope your intention was to spread the message that treating animals with cruelty is wrong, and not that you were just trying to put anyone who doesn’t agree with your point of veiw down by trying to make them seem to be heartless evil monsters who don’t give a crap about causing suffering to another living creature, which it sure seemed like you were trying to cause with your post.
Implying that people who use eggs or dairy products somehow don’t have compassion is completely outrageous, false, and not to mention makes you look like your the one lacking in the department of empathy, compassion and kindness.
Yes there is alot of horrible cruelty taking place in dairy, chicken, and other animal product farms, but there are also some farms out there that are completely compassionate and kind to their animals.
If you care at all about the plight of those mistreated animals, you should focus your energies on promoting and spreading the word of those kind farmers who do treat their animals kindly, and spreading FACTS (that is actually important) about those farms that are being cruel, so that people can boycot those ones, and reward the good ones with their buisness.
Or spread the word about other ways of doing things that don’t involve anything that you believe to be wrong.
Sharing the vinegar and lemon tidbit was great, and if you had said something like:
“For those of us out there who do not want to use anything that was created using animal products or harmful chemicals or cruel practices, I’ve found that using vinegar and lemon works great, and you wont have to worry where that animal product your using might have come from, because there isn’t any.
Since so many farms treat their animals so cruely, it’s hard to know if what you are using was created by causing another living creature suffering, and so it might be better just to avoid that worry alltogether by staying away from anything that might have been created from/by an animal, just to be on the safe side.
So lemon and vinegar is a great way to avoid animal products, while still getting the benifits.”
I don’t think anyone would have had an issue with that, and you would have done waaaaayyyyy more to get your point of veiw across than what you just did.
Just because you are obviously a vegan, doesn’t mean there is anything actually wrong with eating eggs or dairy products, when they are collected the right way.
Veganism is your choice based on your oppinion that eating anything that comes from an animal in any way shape or form is wrong, you are entitled to your oppinon, but you are not entitled to lie in an effort to brainwash others into thinking your point of veiw is the only true point of veiw, by misleading them and not allowing them to actually make an informed decision on their own (sound familiar?).
Eggs DO NOT contain baby chickens, if they were fertalised, there would be blood and tissue inside the eggs, and if there are no boy chickens around, they can’t become baby chickens, ever, once they are eggs on the ground.
And as long as the humans who take the eggs are treating the chickens kindly and keeping the healthy and happy, there is nothing hurting the chicken by harvesting the eggs, they would either be eaten by other critters, or get crushed and rot anyway if they didn’t.
Yes, there is no doubt that some chickens are being treated in disgustingly horrible ways, but not all of them are, and condeming anyone who uses eggs is no different than condeming anyone who is a different religion than you, or a different skin colour than you, or a different sexual orientation than you, or happens to have a different lifestyle of any kind from you.
It is all discrimination.
If you don’t have the facts on what that person is actually and factually doing, and if you don’t know them personally, you are discriminating against them, period.
The deffinition of discrimination is:
“Treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit.”
Deciding that anyone who uses animal products has no compassion, is discrimination.
You accomplish absolutely nothing by insulting people, all you do is make them completely disregard everything you have to say, because if some of what you say can be proven to be false, when you act as though it is absolute fact, nothing you say can be trusted.
I really really hope you were just really really tired and really really grumpy or something, and didn’t mean to say that, because I would hate for anyone to be that arrogant and ignorant, it isn’t good for anyone.