Coffee has long been popular as a universal cosmetic. Especially revered by his oriental beauties. This fragrant product nourishes the skin and hair, strengthens bulbs, helps restore shine and strength to the emaciated locks.
General recommendations
Doing hair masks with coffee, it is important to remember a few rules:
- Coffee is a natural dye, so cosmetics with it can only be used by owners of dark hair. The blond effect of the coffee mask can be disappointing.
- Coffee should be natural, and grind - medium or fine. Do not use the product with the addition of flavors - the benefit of such a mask will be minimal.
- For the mask, freshly prepared coffee without sugar, and the thickening that has remained after drinking, will suit. Some recipes use ground coffee in dry form.
Restoring mask
For thin fragile hair, a mask with coffee and olive oil is useful. Both products nourish the curls, restore their structure and eliminate the visited tips. If necessary, you can replace the olive oil with burdock or castor oil. To give extra shine to the hair, an essential oil (2 drops) of lemon or orange is added to the mask.
Oil (100 ml) is slightly heated in a microwave or in a water bath. It is added freshly ground coffee (2 - 3 tablespoons) and essential oil (if desired). The mass of the consistency should resemble a semi-liquid gruel.
The mask is applied to damp curls, distributing along the entire length, after half an hour, rinse with warm water with a neutral shampoo.
This restorative procedure must be repeated every week until the hair becomes healthy.
Firming Mask
To strengthen hair is effective mask containing coffee and cognac. It normalizes the blood circulation around the onion, speeding up growth and preventing hair loss, and also nourishes the hair, giving them strength and shine.
There are two most effective prescriptions.
- Coffee-brandy hair mask with honey - in equal proportions (3 spoons), you take cognac, honey and brewed freshly ground coffee. The components are combined and mixed. If the mass is too thick, you can add more cognac, until you get a liquid gruel. Mask is applied to the hair, kept under the heater for half an hour.
- The coffee-cognac hair mask with oil is especially effective for strengthening dry hair, as it also nourishes the hair. For cooking, you need olive or burdock oil (1 glass), which is heated in a bowl. In it add 3 spoons of ground coffee, mix and divide the mass into two parts. One adds cognac (2 spoons) - this mixture is applied to the roots. The second part (without cognac) is spread over the hair. The mask is kept for an hour under the heater.
Mask for dandruff
Cure dandruff will help coffee hair mask with onions - a product that has powerful antiseptic properties.
It will take:
- onion, ground on a grater;
- honey;
- Burr oil;
- coffee.
The ingredients are taken in equal proportions. If, in addition to dandruff, you suffer from hair loss, then you can add cognac to the mask. The ingredients are mixed, the mass is rubbed into the root portion of the hair, and is maintained for half an hour.
Attention! After such a mask for hair with coffee remains a sharp smell, as the essential oils of onions are absorbed into the skin. A few days later, the smell disappears.
Mask-rinse aid
For brownies and brunettes, who want to give the locks a pleasant coffee shade, the following hair mask will do: coffee (2 tablespoons), egg (1 piece) and warm milk (half cup) are thoroughly mixed. You can add any essential oil (1 - 3 drops). After the usual procedure of washing the head, the resulting mass is applied to the hair as a conditioner, after 15 minutes it is washed off.