Rinsing hair with lemon is recommended for more oily hair type. The procedure helps to eliminate excessive sebum of hair and keep it fresh and voluminous for longer. Lemon juice also gives strands of beautiful, natural shine that has nothing to do with an unhealthy shine of curls from their increased fat content.
In particular, this citrus enriches the scalp with vitamins, especially vitamin C, and brightens hair. Therefore, if you are not scary getting a slightly lighter shade of hair after rinse and you have oily strands, then this method is for you.
Dry hair can also be rinsed with water and lemon for refreshing and giving them a natural shine, but with the addition of emollients, see below.
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Ways to use lemon to rinse hair
Of course, it is advisable to have a citrus juicer. Can dispense with it and crush the lemon pulp, and then squeeze the juice through cheesecloth, but it will be longer, and less juice.
So, for one procedure you need to add to 1 liter of clean and slightly warm water juice squeezed from one lemon. Next, when washing your hair, at the very end, when you have already washed off the shampoo and balm (if it applied) rinse the hair with prepared water with lemon.
Pour water on the head with a small stream, while massaging second hand hair roots. After no longer rinse.
Then dry your head in the usual way and look at sensations for a couple of days. If any discomfort, the locks will stick together, comb badly or something another, then at the next rinse try reducing the amount of lemon juice, experiment and pick the most suitable proportions.
The recipe for a lemon broth for rinsing oily hair
Finely chop the whole washed lemon with peel and place into some saucepan. In the same saucepan, interpret the citrus, preferably mashed potato. Now pour the resulting slurry half a liter of cold water and put on fire.
Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for about 5 minutes. After that, cover and leave until the broth is barely warm. Strain and use to rinse hair covering the head in the same manner as described above.
This option rinsing hair with lemon promotes good styling curls, i.e. the product acts as a natural fixative. You can even just moisten slightly moist strands with this decoction before drying and stacking them.
Also, rinse hair with high fat content well with water lemon oil.
It is an essential oil that is added to water in the amount of several drops (3-5 drops per 1 liter). It will also be refresh and significantly reduce greasy hair, eliminate oily dandruff and a little lighten curls.
How to use lemon to rinse dry hair
Because this acidic citrus has a degreasing and drying property, add to 1 liter of water should be quite a bit of juice, literally 1-2 tbsp. l In such proportions, the composition will not dry locks, but at the same time it will give them shine and silkiness.
You can also add to the water with lemon 1 tsp. glycerin (per 1 liter liquid), which is sold in any pharmacy. It will contribute more hydration of the hair, but do not overdo it with glycerin, otherwise the effect will be reversed and the substance, on the contrary, will draw out all moisture with hair.
Rinsing dry and fair hair with lemon and camomile.
In this method, instead of water, an infusion of pharmacy chamomile is used (a couple of tablespoons of dried flowers is poured 1 liter of boiling water, tightly covered with a lid and infused until the infusion is not will become warm). After being filtered.
To all the infusion of chamomile is added 2 tbsp. l lemon juice. For mitigation, again, you can add another 1 tsp. glycerin or your hair balm.
Chamomile in particular contributes to a lighter and more golden shade of hair.
