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How to use garlic to grow your hair
Beauty Tips

How to use garlic to grow your hair

By Gretel Morales - 2022-11-25T15:11:02Z
Having strong, healthy, abundant, and silky hair is anyone's dream, as a high-impact mane will always make us feel better. Besides expensive treatments, there are home remedies like rinses and masks that will help you leave your hair better than ever without spending a fortune.

As you may know, you can use ingredients like fruit, yogurt, honey, oats, vinegar, and more in your beauty routine. On this occasion, we took the task of researching garlic, its properties for hair, and how to apply it to strengthen, grow, and leave your hair silky, so take note!

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Benefits of garlic
Garlic is an essential ingredient in preparing sauces, moles, stews, and other Mexican dishes; however, it is also known for its health benefits and its apparent properties for promoting hair and nail growth. But how true is this?

On one hand, the portal Healthline emphasizes that garlic helps combat colds, high cholesterol levels, hypertension, and is a rich source of antioxidants, so it should not be missing from your diet.

In terms of beauty, this same portal mentions that, although care must be taken when applying garlic to hair or skin and more scientific evidence is needed, garlic does have beneficial properties for hair:
  • It could help promote hair growth.
  • It could protect hair from damage caused by sunlight.
  • It could protect the scalp.
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How to use garlic to promote hair growth
If you want to take advantage of the properties of garlic and promote your hair growth, don’t think twice and prepare this hydrating mask, you will notice the difference in no time!
  • 3 large garlic cloves
  • 3 tablespoons of olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon of honey
  • ½ cup of natural Greek yogurt
Instructions
  1. Process the garlic or chop it finely. Set aside.
  2. Mix the oil, honey, and yogurt.
  3. Add the garlic to the mixture and stir very well.
  4. Apply the garlic mask to the hair.
  5. Massage with your fingertips and let it sit for 10 minutes.
  6. Rinse with plenty of water and wash as usual.
You can apply this garlic mask for hair twice a week, as long as you do not notice irritation or discomfort during application.