5 easy-to-follow home tips for healthy and shiny looking hair this season

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In our busy and hustle-bustle lives, we often tend to forget about taking care of ourselves. While healthy lifestyle is important, we need to keep our skin care and hair care routine in mind.

Coming on the hair care routine, maintaining healthy hair is an essential part of woman's life for shining and luscious mane. Well, keeping hair in good condition is all in our hands. It entirely depends on proper hair care routine, well-balanced diet and use of essential oils time-to-time.

Here's a life-long tip for healthy shining hair which is - a balanced diet. Well-balanced diet is extremely important to have healthy hair. Protein rich, low dairy and low carbohydrates is the mantra. Good iron intake in food items including -spinach, apples, and pomegranate is very important.

But now, let's get into some easy-to follow home tips to get rid off problems like dandruff and hair fall and achieve healthy shiny-looking hair!

Control your dandruff

Dandruff troubles many of us. It makes the scalp itchy and it simply looks hideous. Lemon, vinegar, amla, honey are great for natual dandruff control. A paste made of a lemon squeeze, a dash of apple cider vinegar with some amla powder can be massaged on the scalp and left for 15 minutes to get rid of that stubborn dandruff.

Get rid off extra oil/sebum

People having oily hair should avoid using harsh shampoo and prefer mild shampoo to remove excess greasiness. If your hair becomes oily just a day after wash, try a vinegar rinse before shampoo. It is really effective in washing away that extra oil.

Nourish your dry hair

Every kitchen has some great items for conditioning your hair and make them silky and shiny. Egg yolk, honey and mayonnaise are great for deep conditioning. A paste of 2-3 egg yolks and honey applied for 15-20 minutes is an awesome way to naturally condition your hair. People with dry hair are advised not to use shampoo on a daily basis.

Tip: Apply a generous amount of oil on a regular basis and massage it before washing the hair. A mix of castor oil, almond oil, glycerine, vinegar, protein powder and sandalwood oil can do wonders in bringing out that natural shine.

Save every hair strand

Onion juice, ginger juice and castor oil (diluted) are irritants and are scientifically proven to be beneficial in hair loss problem. Also, 2-3 times per week use of onion juice on the scalp will reduce your hair fall.

General hair care tips

Normal hair is healthy and has a lot of bounce and shine. An occasional hot oil treatment will keep this hair in good condition. Other than this, there are a few things you should always keep in your mind like -avoid hot drying, use cold water to wash hair, use sulphate free and pH balanced shampoos, use a broad toothed comb, avoid combing in wet hair.

(IANS Inputs)

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