Do Your Tresses Need Some TLC? Try This Easy DIY Hair Mask With Coconut Oil

Sometimes your hair needs a little extra TLC, especially if it’s been a while since you last visited the salon. If you can’t get to a professional, an easy at-home treatment might already be in your pantry. Enter: the DIY hair mask with coconut oil.

Nothing nourishes your hair quite like coconut oil, thanks to all sorts of natural goodness (more on that below). Combined with sweet ingredients like honey, brown sugar, and more, coconut oil can help restore, replenish, and rehydrate your strands back to health–and potentially keep them protected for a while!  Scroll on to see two ways to make an easy DIY hair mask with coconut oil at home. Breakage, dryness, dullness, and frizz? Girl, bye!

Ingredients:

• Coconut Oil: A great source of fatty acids, which makes hair smooth and shiny and prevents breakage of wet hair during shampooing/conditioning
• Honey: Adds moisture and shine, reduces frizz
• Brown Sugar: Excellent exfoliator, increases blood circulation
• Cinnamon: Has antimicrobial properties and stimulates increased blood circulation
• Sweet Orange Essential Oil: Great moisturizer and antimicrobial agent

Instructions:

Apply either of these to hair in sections starting at the scalp then massaging in. Note: These are amazing for your hair but can be messy! I recommend applying at the beginning of your shower/relaxing bath.  Let the hair mask sit while you take your shower and then shampoo and condition last.

1. DIY Hair Mask with Coconut Oil, Brown Sugar, and Sweet Orange Essential Oil: Mix equal parts warm coconut oil and brown sugar, add orange essential oil (4-6 drops). Benefits: Exfoliation, antimicrobial, moisture, smells amazing!

2. DIY Hair Mask with Coconut Oil, Honey, Cinnamon: Equal parts coconut oil, honey, and half part cinnamon. Benefits: Increased blood flow for hair growth, antimicrobial, reduce frizz, increase moisture and shine

Additional Tips:

• Organic, unrefined Virgin Coconut Oil is best.
• You can substitute Olive oil for coconut oil if there’s none on hand (or you have a coconut allergy).
• It’s always a good idea to try mask on small place of skin to make sure there’s no reaction if you are unsure of allergies or have sensitive skin.

Did you try either of these DIY hair masks? Tell us your thoughts in the comments–then shop hair accessories to adorn your newly-refreshed strands!

(Images via Erin Ryser; Additional copy by Rachel Aschenbrand-Robinson)