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Honey Hair Pack

From Upstate Locally Grown Market

<p>Honey and molasses are both natural humectants, meaning they attract and hold on to moisture. They are also excellent ingredients to use in creating your own conditioning hair pack to help combat dry winter hair. (Yield: 4.5 ounces)</p> <p>Ingredients<br /> 1/2 cup honey or molasses<br /> 1 tablespoon almond oil</p> <p>Directions<br /> Stir the honey and oil together until well mixed. Then apply the entire mixture to clean, damp hair and massage into your strands and scalp. Put on a shower cap or cover your hair with plastic wrap and leave the treatment on for 20 minutes. Shampoo and condition as usual.</p>
Source: EcoBeauty -- Scrubs, Rubs, Masks, and Bath Bombs for You and Your Friends" author Janice Cox shares some of her favorite recipes to soothe dry winter tresses. (Entered by Donna Putney)
Serves: 3oz, one treatment.


Ingredients
1/2 cup Honey or molassas
1 Tbs Almond Oil

Step by Step Instructions
  1. Stir the honey and oil together until well mixed.
  2. apply the entire mixture to clean, damp hair and massage into your strands and scalp.
  3. Put on a shower cap or cover your hair with plastic wrap and leave the treatment on for 20 minutes. Shampoo and condition as usual.