Mustard for hair: how to grow hair in a couple of months( with reviews)

Mustard was known to our ancestors and was widely used as a medicinal plant in the Middle Ages. As you know, the soldiers of Alexander of Macedon took with them to military campaigns bags with mustard seeds, and in the East the seeds of this plant were generally valued in weight of gold. Today, mustard for hair is used in masks to stimulate the circulation of the scalp and to accelerate hair growth.

Rules for the use of mustard masks

Mustard seeds - clean, powdered with dry powder or with some food additives - in any form retain their main property - burning, irritation of the mucosa. It was it that once made mustard a famous spicy seasoning.

To the effect of the mustard mask was the strongest, you need to take not a table mustard, but a dry powder without any impurities. It can be easily bought at a pharmacy.

Here are the basic rules for using any mustard mask:

As the main ingredient of the mask, only dry mustard powder is used. Other mustard products are inadmissible.

Mustard powder should be diluted with warm( not hot!) Water, otherwise poisonous vapors will emit into the air and eyesight may even suffer.

If mustard needs to be made more active, "angrier", you can add a teaspoon of sugar to the main ingredients of the mask.

Mustard must be applied only on the roots of the hair, on the scalp, and in no case be smeared along the length, otherwise the burning effect will be useless.

Time of the mustard mask on the hair - no more than 15 minutes, otherwise you can easily get a scalp burn.

Benefit and harm of mustard mask

As already mentioned above, the uniqueness of mustard as a cosmetic means is that it can wake the hair follicles by warming the scalp well. Active work of hair bulbs is necessary with the growth of new hair, to strengthen the rod and prevent hair loss.

Also, mustard helps to remove the itch of the scalp, can dry the fatty skin and thereby reduce the process of sebum, and, therefore, prevent dandruff. This is what mustard is useful.

If we talk about what harms mustard and for what hair, then there are not so many contraindications. Perhaps, it is too tender a scalp, subject to burns, and thin hair. For them, masks with mustard are completely unsuitable.

The catalyst for hair growth

As already mentioned, the mustard for hair growth is almost universal. Here is the recipe for one of the hair growth masks with mustard powder: 2 tablespoons mustard + 2 tablespoons hot water + 2 tablespoons of any base oil( burdock, almond, peach, olive) + 1-2 teaspoons of sugar.

Mix all ingredients until smooth and apply to the scalp. Put on the cellophane cap and leave the mask for 15 minutes. Then wash off the mask and wash your hair with warm water and shampoo.

In a more gentle version, the ingredients can be: mustard powder + 1-2 yolks + half a cup of kefir. This mask can be washed off even without shampoo.

Or the second soft variant of a mustard mask: mustard powder + 1-2 tablespoons burdock or castor oil + egg yolk. The mask needs to be washed off with shampoo to wash off oil.

Reviews of women

Here are the reviews leave the girls and women who used a hair mask with mustard.

Lena writes:

Girl under the nickname kastaliya writes:

Yulia writes: "And on the eve of September 1 I cut off my wonderful hair below the priests to the state of" Kare on the Leg. "Now she decided to have long hair again, so she began to make a mustard mask. It really helps!3.7 centimeters in just one month! And this without the use of additional funds! "

Katrina writes:

Natalie writes:

Opinion of Trichologist

But experts in hair diseases do not share raptures about mustard mask. Elena, the trichologist of one of the Moscow clinics:

Photo of hair before and after mustard mask