Beauty treatments from your kitchen = Revived Water, Alkaline Water,works your body both inside and out.

Mimi Barre, For the Daily Facts
Posted: 06/02/2009 10:36:08 PM PDT

Question: Are store-bought hair products better than homemade?
Mimi: Many homemade products are inexpensive and safe to use.

Following are recipes for homemade hair care products. Remember that these recipes are from all fresh ingredients and have no preservatives. Mix up in small quantities, usually only what will be used immediately. Some will keep if stored in the refrigerator.

Shampoos

High-gloss Hollywood shampoo: Separate an egg. Beat the yolk until frothy, add about two tablespoons of shampoo (or as much as you need for your length hair). Dampen your hair and shampoo with the egg shampoo. Leave it on for about five minutes. NOW READ THIS!

RINSE WITH COOL WATER! If you rinse with warm water, it will cook the egg, and you'll have a terrible time getting it out of your hair. Who wants scrambled eggs in her hair?

Eggstra special Dry Hair High Style treatment: Which came first - the chicken or the egg? Don't be chicken. Try this shampoo for glorious hair. Separate an egg as above. Beat the yolk until frothy. Add a tablespoon of olive oil. Apply the egg yolk/oil mixture to dry hair. Add a little warm water as needed to spread. Massage well into the scalp. Be sure ends are well saturated. Wrap with a plastic shower bonnet, waxed paper, or plastic wrap. Put a towel on over to keep warm. After 10 minutes rinse with tepid water. Do NOT use hot water. It will cook the egg. Towel dry your hair
then follow the egg white beaten frothy. Work well into hair. Rinse with tepid water. NOT hot! Style as usual.
Kitchen cabinet shock treatment: If a build-up of old hair products or swimming pool chlorine is dulling your hair, you need a stripping shampoo. This "from your kitchen" one is effective and inexpensive. Mix TWO Tablespoons of cheap shampoo with TWO teaspoons of Arm and Hammer baking soda. An expensive shampoo with lots of conditioners defeats the purpose. The first step is to strip the hair, so you don't want conditioners. Increase amount with same proportions if you have long hair. Use this to shampoo as usual. Rinse well. Your hair will feel dry and matted. Finish with an acid rinse (see below). Follow with a deep conditioner.

Rinses

Acid rinses: Mix two tablespoons strained lemon juice or vinegar in one cup warm water. After washing and rinsing your hair, pour this acid rinse through as a final rinse. Do not rinse out. This helps combat dandruff, itchy scalp, and tangles caused by alkaline shampoos that strip the natural acid mantle from the scalp and hair. Hair and skin are naturally acidic. Soaps, detergents, and shampoos are alkaline. The "shock treatment" above is super alkaline to strip the hair. So the acid rinse is needed.

UNLESS YOU USE A ALKALINE/KANGEN/REVIVED WATER PRODUCT WHICH PRODUCES THE EXACT ACIDITY FOR YOUR SKIN AND HAIR ph5.5..... SLIGHTY ACIDIC.
WE BELIVE WORK FROM INSIDE WITH ALKALINE WATER and OUTSIDE SLIGHTLY ACIDIC.
Revived water products gives you both these requirements for your whole well being.

Highlighting rinse: Steep a cup of strong chamomile tea. Use as the final rinse. Do not rinse out.

Herbal "Tea" rinses: Make a strong infusion by steeping any of the following herbs: chamomile, rosemary, or marjoram to relax, or mint to stimulate and invigorate. Strain the "tea" and use as a final rinse.

From the garden rinses: To make citrus "tea," cut citrus rinds in little pieces. Boil and steep in water and allow to cool. Strain. Citrus lifts the spirits. A blend of orange, lemon, and grapefruit essential oils is called Joy. Run the used citrus rind down the garbage disposal to sweeten it.

Lemon & Lavender to soothe, sedate, and De-stress: Prepare lemon rinds as above adding an equal amount of lavender buds to the infusion. Strain.

Rose water (available at a health food store): Add one tablespoon to two cups of warm water. Or, collect strongly scented rose petals in a jar with a tight fitting lid. Cover with vodka. Continue adding rose petals until the jar is full, then smash the petals down into the vodka. Allow to steep several days. Smell periodically until a good aroma develops. Strain and blend with warm water for a rinse.

"Gee, you smell good" rinse: Add one teaspoon of vanilla to a cup of warm water to use as a final rinse. Do not rinse out.

Lightener

Hollywood Hi Lites: Pour undiluted, strained lemon juice into a spritzer bottle. Spray on your dry hair. Sit in the sun to bleach streaks. (This can be quite drying, so do some deep conditioning). If you have dark hair, the streaks will be reddish.

Conditioners

Italian Salad hair rescue. Good for dry, itchy scalp. Rub olive oil into dry hair. Massage well into the scalp. Shampoo. Towel dry. Mix 1/4 cup vinegar in one quart of warm water. Pour this rinse through your hair. If this is done in the shower, allow the rinse to flow over your body. It is good to relieve itchy skin. Work the rinse through your hair as you pour. Do NOT rinse off. Leave the vinegar in your hair and on your body. When it dries, the vinegar smell will leave.

California Salad Conditioners: Apply one of the following to DRY hair before shampooing: 1. Mash up a ripe avocado with a teaspoon of lemon juice. Smear the avocado masque all over dry hair. 2. Warm salad oil, and apply to dry ends. 3. Slather mayonnaise on dry hair and work in well. After goo-ping up your hair with any of the above, wrap it up in plastic wrap for an hour. Rinse with warm water and shampoo.

Mediterranean detangler: After shampooing and rinsing your hair, apply two to four drops of olive oil to your DRY hands. Rub your hands together vigorously to warm the oil. Rub the oil into the ends of your damp hair. Tangles will comb out easily and your hair will have a nice shine.

Styling lotions

You gotta be kidding styling lotions: The old standby, BEER, still can't be beat as a bodybuilding styling lotion. Use stale beer as a final rinse (don't rinse out) and set your hair.

Mix Knox unflavored gelatin according to the directions on the package, using TWICE the amount of water. Apply to damp hair by dipping your comb in a glass of the mixture, or pour the setting lotion into a squirt-top bottle and pour on some as needed. Set your hair. When it is dry, it will hold the curl well.

Roaring '20s flappers used magnesium citrate (a laxative from the drug store) to add gloss and set their spit curls.