How to Treat Hair with Olive Oils

  

We all know that olive oil is well known as a natural moisturizer for the skin, face, hair and lips. It is also recommended to drink a few tablespoons a day for an overall glow and to help your body function better. It's a great alternative to expensive deep conditioners if you already have it in your home. Here are tips to help you treat your hair with olive oil. you will need olive oil and towel.

1.Comb your hair out dry until there are no tangles and start to saturate it with olive oil. Adding a little olive oil each time so that your hair is covered, but not dripping. Use a wide toothed comb to spread the olive oil from your roots to your ends. After hair is completely blanketed with olive oil, twist and put into a bun.

2.Wet a hand towel with water and place in microwave for 1-2 minutes. Remove wet hand towel and it should be steaming. Be careful before touching as it can be too hot. Once it is cool enough to touch but still steaming, wrap the towel tightly around your hair and secure over your head.

3.Keep your hair under the towel for 10-30 minutes depending on how deeply you need to condition your hair. After your treatment, rinse and style as usual. Your hair should look and feel a lot softer, shinier and overall, more beautiful.

How to Use Olive Oil to Promote Hair Growth

Keep olive oil in the bathroom for its numerous beauty uses.

Olive oil can be used in a number of beauty treatments. It can be used to shave your legs, to moisturize your body and to treat dry facial skin. Olive oil is also believed to be beneficial to hair. Not only does it add moisture to drying hair, but it can also help promote hair growth. It is not actually the olive oil that makes hair grow, but it's the way the olive oil is used.
 Things you'll need:
• Olive oil

• Bowl

• Microwave

• Shampoo

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1.Pour 1 cup olive oil into a microwave-safe bowl.

2.Place the bowl in the microwave, and heat it up for about 10 seconds. The oil should be warm and not burning.

3.Test the oil with your finger to make sure the temperature is not too hot.

4.Pour the oil over your scalp.

5.Use your hands to massage the olive oil into your scalp. Massaging the scalp with oil helps blood to circulate through the scalp, which promotes the growth of hair follicles.

6.Massage the scalp with the oil for about 10 minutes.

7.Wash the oil out in the shower with shampoo and water.

8.Repeat this treatment a couple of times a week.

How to Control New Hair Growth Between Relaxers With Olive Oil

Use olive oil to stretch the time in between relaxer applications.

African-American women with relaxed hair can use extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) as a pre-shampoo treatment to manage new growth in between relaxer applications. A pre-shampoo treatment consists of applying oil to the hair and leaving it in for a period of time before shampooing the hair. The curls in coils in your natural hair makes it hard for natural oils produced by the scalp to travel down the hair shaft, which often results in dry, unruly new growth. The vitamin-E contents in EVOO softens new growth, makes it manageable and helps it blend in with your relaxed hair during relaxer stretches.

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• Towel

• Plastic hair cap

• Hooded Dryer

• Color applicator bottle

• Shampoo

• Conditioner

1.Warm a cup of EVOO in the microwave to a lukewarm temperature. Don't heat the oil too long because it will scald your scalp when you apply the oil to your hair. Dip your finger into the cup to check the oil's temperature after heating. You can use cool olive oil, but some people like to warm the oil before applying it to the hair to increase oil's softening effect, says African-American hair expert Gennifer Miller.

2.Pour the EVOO into a color applicator bottle. You can simply pour the olive oil on your hair, but using an applicator bottle works well to direct the oil over your scalp and prevents creating a mess. You can find applicator bottles in beauty supply stores, cooking supply stores or drug stores.

3.Saturate your hair with water and wring out the excess.

4.Apply the olive oil to your hair as if you were applying color. Focus the applicator bottle on the roots of your hair to saturate your new growth. Make sure you cover all of your new growth with olive oil and apply some olive on to the relaxed portion of your hair.

5.Massage your scalp for 5 to 10 minutes to help the oil seep into your scalp. Cover your hair with a hot towel or sit under a hooded dryer with a plastic cap on your hair to let the oil penetrate for 20 minutes to one hour.

6.Shampoo your hair and follow-up with a conditioner to lock in the moisture from the olive oil treatment.

7.Repeat this process at least once a week until your next relaxer application to make your new growth easier to manage.