A set of mandatory measures aimed at maintaining the health of the hair includes the systematic use of nutritious, moisturizing, regenerating compounds. Vitamin hair masks help well with a number of common problems.
At home, preparing medical mixtures is easy. But so that the effect of the procedures does not turn out to be neutral, it is worth knowing in advance which vitamins to use, how to mix, when and how to apply the mask on the skin and scalp.
Vitamins for hair: useful properties, spectrum of exposure
Vitamins A, E, group B are most often used for making vitamin masks for hair at home. Vitamins C, D, PP are less commonly used. The pharmacological form of the drug is an oil solution. In pharmacies, vitamins are sold in ampoules, capsules, glass bottles.
Vitamins in any case are useful for hair, but have a different focus:
1. Vitamin A (Retinol) helps restore hair structure, stimulates growth, increases elasticity, elasticity of strands.
2. Vitamin E (tocopherol) exhibits antioxidant and regenerative properties, improves blood circulation to the skin and follicles. Protects hair from ultraviolet radiation, accelerates their growth, gives shine, silkiness.
3. Thiamine (B1) positively affects the state of follicles, stimulates hair growth.
4. Vitamin B4 (Choline) stabilizes the functioning of the sebaceous glands, eliminates peeling of the epidermis, helps fight dandruff.
5. Vitamin B9 (Folic Acid) reduces hair loss, serves as prevention of early graying.
6. Pyridoxine (B6) relieves irritation, itching of the skin.
7. Nicotinic acid (niacin, vitamin B3) improves structure and prevents plentiful loss, stimulates active hair growth.
The composition of masks with vitamins for hair is selected, starting from a specific task that needs to be solved at the moment. To expand the spectrum of action and enhance the effectiveness of drugs, vegetable oils, natural products, dimexide are used.
How to cook vitamin hair masks at home
Fat-soluble substances, which include oily solutions of vitamins, oxidize quickly in air and lose their beneficial properties. Therefore, it is necessary to prepare therapeutic masks with vitamins for hair according to certain rules.
The main conditions:
1. Vitamins are added to the mask at the very end, immediately before use.
2. Vegetable, cosmetic oils are heated before mixing - so vitamins dissolve faster and absorb better.
3. Vitamin B12 is not recommended to be mixed with riboflavin (B2), tocopherol, vitamin A. These substances react and minimize the healing qualities of the masks. Vitamin B12 will bring maximum benefit in combination with folic acid and vitamin B5.
It is impossible to store masks with pharmacy vitamins for a long time. Due to oxidation, the mixture becomes useless, its therapeutic effect is reduced to zero.
How to apply vitamin masks for hair at home: important points
From any cosmetic procedures I want to get the most positive result. And so that changes for the better appear as soon as possible. And for this you need to follow certain rules. Especially when it comes to treating hair with self-prepared, vitamin masks.
The conditions are as follows:
1. Mixtures in which fat-soluble substances are present are applied to dry, preferably unwashed, strands.
2. Masks with burning agents (pepper, mustard) are rubbed exclusively into the skin and hair roots. In length and on the damaged ends of the strands, such mixtures are not recommended.
3. After applying the composition, the head is always covered with a film (put on a shower cap) and wrapped in a thick towel.
4. Therapeutic procedures using vitamin hair masks at home are recommended at intervals of 4 days. For the prevention of mixtures with vitamins, it is undesirable to use more than 1 time per week.
It is best to perform the procedures in the evening, before bedtime. The masks are gently rubbed into the roots and evenly applied to the locks with delicate movements, without pressure. Leave for 60-90 minutes, no less. Complete the procedure by washing the hair with a neutral shampoo.
Examples of Vitamin Hair Masks at Home
1. Restoring weakened, lifeless strands
The treatment mask includes:
• Vitamin A - 1 tsp;
• one raw yolk;
• in equal volumes (in a tablespoon) - onion juice + castor oil + alcohol tincture of hot pepper + burdock oil.
Instruction:
1. Yolk slightly beaten. Mixed with warmed oils, juice, vitamin.
2. Rub the mixture into the roots (do not distribute among the strands!). Wound up a head.
3. Washed off with shampoo, having waited half an hour.
If onion hair remains on the hair, you need to rinse your head with lemon water. Such a rinse is prepared from juice of medium-sized acid citrus and a liter of acceptable hot water.
2. Stimulation of rapid hair growth
We prepare the mask with the addition of mustard powder - a "hot" agent that enhances blood circulation in the skin. Due to this, the local metabolism is accelerated, the "sleeping" bulbs wake up, the scalp is renewed, the hair grows back faster, becomes thicker, more magnificent.
For a mustard vitamin mask you need:
• liquid vitamin A, liquid tocopherol - each teaspoonful .;
• burdock oil - 1 tsp;
• mustard (dry powder) - without mountain 2 tbsp. l .;
• water (not cold, boiled) - 3 dessert l.;
• yolk.
Instruction:
1. Mustard was poured into a bowl, poured water, made gruel.
2. Yolk beaten with a fork. Poured into mustard.
3. Oil burdock warmed up, interfered in a mustard-egg mixture.
4. The last to inject liquid vitamins into the mask.
5. The prepared warm mixture was slightly rubbed into the roots.
6. Massaged the head, wrapped in a towel.
It is not necessary to apply the composition to the hair itself. After an hour, wash off the mask.
3. Nutrition + regeneration of severely damaged, dead brittle strands
A complex mask with a shock dose of vitamins and burdock oil to saturate the hair with nutrients. It includes:
• vitamin E;
• liquid riboflavin;
• burdock oil;
• yolks.
For a single treatment, one yolk is enough. Plus, a tablespoon of the remaining ingredients.
Instruction:
1. Beat the yolk, mixed with warmed oil.
2. Introduced liquid vitamins. Mixed up.
3. The mask was applied first to the roots, then distributed evenly along the length of the hair.
4. Carefully processed the ends of the locks. Wound up a head.
We are waiting for an hour. Wash off the mask.
4. Mask with ylang-ylang for hair with split ends
The composition is very simple: a tablespoon of a solution of riboflavin, tocopherol, avocado oil. Plus, 3 drops of ylang ylang essential oil.
Instruction:
1. All mixed, heated over steam.
2. Apply the mixture evenly through the hair.
3. Separately processed more carefully the ends of the locks.
4. Wound up a head.
They waited an hour and washed off the mask with shampoo.
5. Procedures against loss and to strengthen the structure of hair:
Option 1. The yolk was whipped with a blender. Pouring a spoonful of burdock, sea buckthorn and almond oil. Mixed up. Added liquid vitamins - B3, B6, B12, each ampoule. Put a mask on the roots and hair. Washed off after 90 minutes.
Option 2 The vitamin D ampoule was mixed with 1/4 tbsp. castor oil and applied to washed dry locks. After 20 minutes, the oil solution was washed off. Next, they rubbed it into the scalp and applied 3 yolks to the hair, whipped into a foam. After 3 minutes, washed off.
In order for the treatment result to appear as quickly as possible, it is recommended that such manipulations be performed 3 days in a row. Then take a break for a week.
6. Vitamin mask with healing herbs to enhance shine
The mask includes:
• linden blossom, chamomile, nettle leaf - 1 tbsp. l .;
• vitamins A, E, B1 - 1 tsp;
• boiling water - 200 ml;
• crumb of rye bread - 200 g.
Instruction:
1. Herbs were boiled in a jar with boiling water. Left to insist for half an hour.
2. Strain and slightly cool the broth.
3. The crumb crumbled and poured into a decoction. Set aside for 20 minutes.
4. Strain and squeeze the bread with herbs through cheesecloth.
5. Introduced into the mixture of three liquid vitamins. Mixed up.
6. The fresh mask is gently rubbed into the roots and distributed evenly through the hair. Wound up a head.
7. After an hour, the mask was thoroughly washed off the hair.
If the strands are naughty, hard, the black bread in such a mask is exchanged for yolk.
7. Tea vitamin mask with tinting effect for brunettes and brown-haired women
The composition of the treatment mask includes:
• liquid vitamins (pyridoxine and B12) - 1 ampoule;
• boiling water - 250 ml;
• aloe juice - 1 tbsp. l .;
• yolk;
• dry tea leaves - 1 tbsp. l
Instruction:
1. Boiled water (steep) brewed tea.
2. After half an hour, the tea was filtered. Cool to a comfortable temperature.
3. Added aloe, beaten yolk. Lastly, vitamins were added to the mask.
4. The mixture was applied to the roots and evenly distributed through the hair to the ends.
After an hour, everything was washed off with warm water without shampoo.
In addition to the examples cited in medical hair masks, honey, tincture of Eleutherococcus, kefir, brewer's yeast are used. Vitamins can be very useful to add to any mask for a teaspoon / tablespoon. The main thing to remember at the same time is that the effect of the composition will be most useful, if not just applied to the curls, but rub the vitamin mixture well into the roots. And, of course, do not wash off the mask ahead of time.
