To date, on the shelves of beauty shops, you can find many different means for lightening hair. But most of the products of the chemical industry do not just change the color of the curls, but also harm them. Therefore, a large number of women use to lighten hair with kefir, and not with modern means.
Does the yogurt clarify the hair?
Kefir has a unique property: it seems to wash out the pigment from the hair, making them lighter, regardless of whether they are painted or their natural color. But, in addition, the sour-milk product revitalizes the hair. Kefir mask for lightening hair in just a few applications:
- make the locks light and shiny;
- add volume;
- will clean the scalp from the head (from the subcutaneous);
- activates hair growth;
- protect locks from harmful environment;
- restore the structure of damaged hair.
Of course, "repaint" dark hair in light with kefir will not work, but the effect of light natural clarification on one tone without chemical interference will be obtained. Perhaps a more intense change in shade, but it depends on the general condition and type of hair.
Recipes of kefir masks for lightening hair
The easiest way to lighten the hair a little with kefir is to apply such a sour milk product to the entire length of the hair, preheating it. This kefir mask is done at night, so the hair must always wear a cellophane cap. Kefir is washed off with plain warm water. Lightening of dark hair with kefir is best done using a mask:
- Preheat 100 ml of kefir (best fat-free).
- Stuff in it 1 egg (chicken) and mix with 5 g of cocoa.
- The mixture is applied to the hair for 3-4 hours, and then rinse with warm water and shampoo.
This mask is best done once in 7 days for 2 months.
To lighten hair, you can use a mask with yogurt and lemon . To do it, you need:
- Thoroughly mix 50 ml of kefir (preferably 1% or fat-free), 15 ml of cognac, freshly squeezed 1/2 lemon juice, 5 ml of shampoo, 1 chicken egg.
- The resulting mixture should be immediately applied to the entire length of your curls, and then cover your hair with a towel.
Keep the mask for at least 3 hours, and it is best to do it at night - so you will achieve the greatest possible clarification.
If you have oily scalp, then you need to use a kefir-honey hair mask. For its preparation, stir 5 grams of mustard (preferably dry) in 160 ml of kefir, add 1 yolk, 15 g of honey and 3 drops of almond oil (can be substituted for burdock) in the mixture. This mask for hair is applied only for half an hour.
Owners of dry hair is better not to clarify the hair with kefir and honey, as this will only increase the dryness. They are suitable kefir mask with egg. To make it, you need to mix 100 ml of yogurt, 1 yolk and 5 ml of olive oil. This mask on the hair is applied for 1 hour.
How correctly to apply kefir for lightening of hair?
Kefir mask for lightening hair can not harm the hair. But at its use nevertheless it is necessary to observe some rules:
- First, always warm up the yogurt a little so that it does not get too cold.
- Secondly, apply such sour-milk masks with massage movements and only on completely dry hair.
- In addition, always wear a polyethylene free cap on your hair and wrap your head with a towel. This will enhance the effect of masks, and the healing properties of kefir.
- And to improve and lighten hair even more, wash your hair not with simple water and shampoo, but with decoction of chamomile (200 ml of water for 15 g of dry chamomile).