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Lightening hair with lemon: mask recipe
You can lighten your hair without using chemical dyes. For this, time-tested home remedies are used, for example, lightening hair with lemon.
Lightening hair with lemon: mask recipe
Features of lightening hair with lemon juice
Lemon juice not only brightens the hair, but also gives it a dazzling shine, and also saturates it with useful elements. The technology of such lightening is quite simple: freshly squeezed lemon juice is applied to unwashed hair and left in the sun for 20-30 minutes, after which they wash their hair with cool water and shampoo. The brightening effect is achieved due to citric acid, which, penetrating into the hair shaft, partially destroys its pigment. But do not expect that in one procedure the brown-haired woman will become a platinum blonde: this will not happen. Lemon juice brightens gently: with this natural brightener, light blond strands will lighten 1-2 shades, and dark hair will acquire a reddish-copper tint. And the result will not be visible immediately.
For owners of light hair, 1-2 procedures are usually enough, and for brown-haired women and brunettes it is recommended to lighten hair with lemon juice 3-5 times
Considering that pure lemon juice dries out hair, this natural brightener should be used with caution. Do not abuse it. In addition, after lightening your hair with lemon juice, you need to make moisturizing and nourishing masks, as well as use balms and conditioners. Lemon juice is ideal for lightening healthy and oily hair, but it is not recommended for dry, damaged and brittle hair. In addition, you should not lighten hair previously dyed with chemical dyes with lemon juice: the color can turn out to be the most unpredictable.
How to make lemon hair clarifier
To prepare hair dye, squeeze the juice from 2 lemons and mix it with a liter of water. After washing, the hair is rinsed with this solution, and then the hair is allowed to dry naturally.
In addition, a mixture of freshly squeezed lemon juice and vodka (1: 1 ratio) is used to lighten hair. Such a composition is applied to the strands, left for 27-30 minutes and washed off with cool water.
In no case should you rinse off lemon juice with hot water: this will dry out your hair.
To prepare this healing composition, you will need the following ingredients:
- 1 cup boiling water
- ½ cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 3 tbsp. l. chopped burdock root
- 3 tbsp. l. chopped calamus root
All these components are mixed, after which the mixture is infused for 6-7 hours in a warm, shaded place. This remedy is recommended to be rubbed into the scalp: this procedure has a beneficial effect on the condition of the skin. And if the mixture (2-3 tsp) is diluted with water (1-1,5 l) and the hair is rinsed with the resulting solution after washing, it will acquire a light shade.
Homemade rinse for lightening blond and light brown hair
You will need the following components:
- ½ l apple cider vinegar
- 4 lemons
- 30 g minced rhubarb root
- 20 g dried chamomile flowers
- 20 g calendula flowers
- 50 g of acacia honey
- 50 ml 95% alcohol
Juice is squeezed out of lemons. The pulp and peel are chopped in a blender, then the resulting gruel is mixed with chopped rhubarb root and apple cider vinegar, bring the mixture to a boil and cook over low heat for 7-10 minutes. Then add half the lemon juice, as well as calendula and chamomile flowers, cover the container with a lid and cook for another 3-5 minutes. After the dishes are removed from the heat and the mixture is left to infuse for another 17–20 minutes. The cooled agent is filtered, enriched with honey, alcohol and the remaining lemon juice. The cosmetic mixture prepared according to this recipe is diluted with water (for 1 liter of water 1 tbsp. L. “Cocktail”) and rinsed hair.
To prevent the clarifying composition from deteriorating, it should be stored in the refrigerator in a tightly closed glass container for no more than 7 days.
Also, the bleaching mixture is used undiluted. To do this, the strands are smeared with “paint” and covered with cling film. This mask is kept for 30-40 minutes, and then washed off with cold water.
How to lighten hair with lemon essential oil
Take some olive oil and mix it with a few drops of lemon aroma oil. This oil mixture is applied to the root system and covers the hair along its entire length. A damp towel is wrapped over the head and left for 27-30 minutes.
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