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How to Repair Your Hair with Olive Oil

a Care2 favorite by Annie B. Bond

After a long winter’s exposure to dry indoor heat, our hair needs some nourishing relief! Here’s the simple solution. This easy hair treatment will result in healthier, more manageable hair and a really clean, invigorated scalp. Olive oil nourishes, conditions, and improves the strength and elasticity of your hair, while the couldn’t-be-easier process is both stress-reducing and health-promoting.

Here’s how…

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Princess T.

Mix olive oil and honey in equal amounts to an equal amount of your organic conditioner , preferably Jasons Shampoo and Conditioner and wrap your hair in saran wrap and sit under the dryer for 30 mins...... AWESOME!!!

Annie Flanders

for chie and eva -- olive oil has more uses than for cooking. :)

my sicilian aunt used olive oil on her face for decades. when she was in her 80s she still had no wrinkles on her face or neck.

i use extra virgin olive oil, by the way.

Chie Fanestil

l would like to find out if this olive oil you're referring to is the olive oil for cooking?

Eva T.
  • Eva T. says
  • Oct 11, 2009 5:30 AM

What I have at home is extra virgin olive oil. Is it ok though?

Annie Flanders

i use a combination of coconut oil and almond oil on my face [mixed with shea butter, neem and red palm oil]. the excess on m y hands i run through my hair.

Ray P.
  • Ray P. says
  • Oct 10, 2009 3:10 AM

Combine equal quantities of Olive oil, Coconut oil and almond oil. Warm bottle of mixture in bowl of hot water. Use fingertips to gently massage warm oil mixture onto your scalp in circular movement for about 15mins. Place shower cap over head for half an hour. Shampoo and condition. Treat twice weekly - Also GENTLY massage scalp daily which helps stimulate blood to your scalp.Strengthens and stops hair loss. Also take Biotin tablets.

Annie Flanders

on a normal daily basis, we usually lose about 100 hairs. but if they are coming off all at once, one might consider going to a doctor.

be well.

Poo ko
  • Poo ko says
  • Sep 18, 2009 11:46 AM

can anybody help me.. off late every time i wash my hair, more than 100 strands fall! im terrified..! any suggestions, as to what can help me?

Annie Flanders

Thank you Annie for this recipe. I use coconut oil as a conditioner and it makes my hair very soft and shiny. :::::smile:::::

Shirley Higgins

Thankyou for this hair conditioner recipe. I do however believe & agree with some of the other entries, that hair health comes from within & no matter what you do to the outside, it won't make it any healthier. But, conditioning it & applying natural treatments is good to prevent outside damage such as blow drying, weather, heat, chemicals etc.

Yes, to eating a healthy diet & less sugars. More quality protein & nuts, seeds, seaweed, natural yoghurts, vegetables etc.

Rosemary oil is good for hair growth to massage into the scalp. Also helps with improving memory.

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Adapted from The Herbal Home Spa by Greta Breedlove (Storey Books, 1998). Copyright (c) 1998 by Greta Breedlove. Reprinted by permission of Storey Books.

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