Lighten the hair without damaging it

Give a touch of honey to naturally light brown hair, make the blond even brighter and brighter, or give gold-colored reflections to ash-colored hair: here is the desire to lighten the hair by combining many women and also many men who want to wear a little sun, light and vitality around your face .

Usually the season in which the hair naturally lights up is the summer, when, among the chlorine of the pool, the sun and sea water are more exposed. But if you can't manage to wait for the summer, here is something that can be useful for you about natural DIY treatments to lighten your hair.

These homemade preparations are often based on chamomile, but there are also other products or naturally lightening foods, such as light beer, neutral or cassia hue, turmeric, saffron, ginger, lemon and honey.

Chamomile to lighten the hair

A few tablespoons of dried or fresh chamomile flowers to boil for a few minutes, a little lemon or a tablespoon of cold-added apple vinegar, and here is a quick final lightening rinse for your hair, to be left to dry if possible sun, to get an even more evident effect. It should be repeated once a week to obtain beautiful light reflections.

Lemon juice for lighter hair

The natural lemon juice, rich in citric acid, carries away the pigment of the hair, leaving the hair devoid of color. It is used to spray it on the lengths of the hair, mixing it with warm water, leaving it on for about 20 minutes, even better if in the sun, but taking care not to stain the skin, otherwise spots may form. Rinse and deeply hydrate your hair because it dries a lot.

Honey for warm reflexes

An excellent honey wrap - which develops hydrogen peroxide, lightening and antibacterial agent - and olive oil, left in place if possible covered with a plastic cap or with a towel for as long as possible, helps to lighten the hair naturally ; once kept for at least half an hour they wash and rinse their hair well.

Henne, the golden dust

Chamomile, cassia, turmeric : all spices that added to a neutral henne base give golden and luminous reflections, as well as helping to deeply nourish the hair; ideal for those with dark blond or light brown hair and want to create tone-on-tone shades in a completely natural and economical way.

Hair at full speed!

Take a basin and, by placing your hair over it, pour a can of light beer at room temperature onto the hair, making sure that the rest goes into the basin.

With your hands, pour the remaining beer back into the bowl on the hair, gently massaging the skin. Use the shampoo and conditioner as usual and let the hair dry in the sun if possible.

Curiosity : According to the anthropologist Frost, wanting to make blondes would even derive from the ice age, when men, forced to travel long distances in order to find some nourishment, exhausted by fatigue and food scarcity, abandoned polygamy becoming monogamous.

This created a greater competition among women, so the lighter ones of hair attracted the attention of men more and were the chosen ones. Other than Marilyn!

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