Repair Your Hair With Egg Yolks

You don't need to spend hundreds a year on conditioning treatments. In less time than it takes to make breakfast, you can make an egg yolk conditioner! Here's how.

Is your hair dry, dull, damaged, brittle, coarse, or frizzy? Egg yolks might help repair your hair. You can use just egg yolks alone to repair your hair, with other ingredients, or as part of a hair mayonnaise. Here is everything you need to know about hair repair and egg yolks.

Deep-Conditioning Treatment
Replace your deep conditioner with a homemade egg yolk hair repair treatment. Here’s how:

• Crack open one egg (two if you have very long hair) and separate it so the yolk remains, then pour the yolk into a mixing bowl. Beat the egg yolk quickly with a fork or whisk until it is completely broken up and watery.
• Add one tablespoon of olive oil to your egg yolk. Beat again with the whisk or a fork until it is completely combined. If you don’t have olive oil, you can use baby oil instead, as it makes hair especially smooth and smells lovely!
• Next, slowly mix in one cup of lukewarm water. This is necessary in order to dilute the egg yolk and oil, which makes it easier to spread evenly throughout your entire head of hair.
• Wet hair completely in the bath or shower, then cleanse with a gentle shampoo. Rinse with cool water and squeeze excess water from hair.
• Pour half of the homemade egg yolk conditioner on top of your head. Use hands to apply the other half of the conditioner to the bottom of hair.
• Comb your homemade conditioner through your hair using a wide-toothed comb or your fingertips. Be sure to coat hair evenly Let it sit for five minutes.
• Rinse your hair thoroughly with lukewarm or cool water — not hot! Never use hot water when using eggs on hair. Hot water might actually cook the egg on your hair, making it smelly and hard to clean. Cool water rinses leave hair especially shiny.

Here are some other egg yolk remedies to repair your hair.

• To strengthen and repair hair, mix two egg yolks with two teaspoons of castor oil. Massage into hair, let sit, then rinse thoroughly and style as usual.
• Whip eggs with white wine vinegar to form a foamy mix. Pour the mixture over your hair and rinse with cool water. Try this once a month to keep hair smooth and lustrous.
• Beat an egg yolk until frothy. Add warm water to dilute and massage into hair and scalp. Rinse and apply conditioner, then rinse and style.
• Egg yolks work very well on dull dry hair when mixed with plain, unsweetened yogurt. Form a paste from this enriching combination and spread all over hair. Leave on for 30 minutes, then rinse, and you’ll find your hair shinier than ever!
• Immerse olive oil into a bowl of egg yolks and whisk — this is essentially a homemade mayonnaise. Massage into hair and let sit under a plastic cap for up to a half hour. Rinse with warm water.
• For a super-intense egg yolk hair repair treatment, combine one tablespoon of honey, one egg yolk, a half teaspoon of almond oil, and one tablespoon of yogurt. Make a sudsy paste and apply it to your hair. Let sit for 90 minutes. When you rinse it off, your hair will be completely moisturized and smooth.

Egg yolks are an easy, inexpensive, all-natural way for you to repair your hair and leave it healthy, beautiful, and strong.