DIY Beauty: Apple Cider Clarifying Detox Treatment
You may want to start stashing apple cider vinegar in the shower as well as the kitchen cupboard. This remarkable ingredient can do more than dress salads -- it's also a fabulous all-in-one clarifying treatment for all of you natural beauties on a budget. Apple Cider Vinegar, also known as ACV eliminates product build-up, hard water minerals, and impurities without stripping moisture.
Apple cider vinegar is a natural detangler and conditioner. It can improve the porosity of hair by sealing the hair cuticle, thereby reducing frizz and sealing split ends. As a result, hair will maintain more moisture and reflect more light, so it shines. ACV removes product build-up left from wax, gel, and hair spray, without stripping hair of its natural oils. When used regularly in your natural hair care routine, apple cider vinegar can revitalize your hair, leaving it soft and smooth.Dry, itchy scalp? The malic acid in apple cider vinegar gives it antibacterial and antifungal properties that will calm and heal an itchy, dry scalp. Making ACV great for cleaning makeup brushes, too. We admit that we don't clean our makeup brushes as often as we should. But you'll want to wash out germ buildup on makeup brushes once a month.
This detoxifying hair treatment is enriched with eucalyptus oil to cleanse, refresh, and stimulate the scalp without stripping hair of essential moisture. It effectively eliminates product build-up that tends to weight hair down and dulling residues such as smoke, pollutants, and hard water minerals. When used once a twice a month (or as needed), hair is left soft, gleaming, and full of body.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup apple cider vinegar
- 1 cup water
- 1 tablespoon baking soda
- 5 drops of eucalyptus essential oil
Instructions:
Mix the apple cider vinegar, water and eucalyptus essential oil together. Next, whisk in the baking soda. Mix well. After shampooing, pour the mixture into your hair. A spray bottle works well. Spritz your hair with the mixture and massage it into your scalp. Let the apple cider vinegar potion sit for a a minute or two before rinsing hair with water. No need for conditioner. The Apple Cider Clarifying Detox Treatment will leave hair feeling smooth and silky.
