Avocado Moisturizing Deep Conditioner

Give your hair an extra special treat of moisture

This recipe works on the same principle as hot oil treatments or any deep conditioner in general. Start with damp hair clean hair and here’s what you’ll need;

1 small jar of real mayonnaise
1 ripe avocado

Put the avocado in a bowl and mash with a fork. Add the jar or mayonnaise and mix together until light green in colour. Smooth into your hair and cover with a plastic cap. Sit under a dryer or steamer for 20 minutes to allow for penetration. See the article on how to steam your hair without a steamer.
As the mayonnaise is mostly oil you may want to lightly shampoo your hair afterwards with a moisturizing shampoo but it’s not necessary. If you do decide to shampoo, remember to use a good creamy leave in conditioner afterwards. Your locks will be left very soft with improved moisture retention.

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Posted by BHI on March 12, 2010. Filed under Hair Treatments & Recipes, Moisturizing Treatments. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

Michelle

Do you have to use all of it or can you save it for another deep condition?

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I would not reccomend keeping this mixture due to avocados tendancy to oxidise and turn black. If your hair is natural or thick then you will find that this amount is only for one treatment anyway! Otherwise just halve the amounts.

Michelle

Oh ok. Thanks!
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Karen

How often to deep condition. Is that a heavy protein treatment

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It’s got a bit of protein from the egg and protein but I would say this is more moisturising coz of the amount of oil in it.

Sandy

I do the avocado as a pre poo every week for the pas 4 months and my hair has grown tremendously from neck length to almost bra strap length.

Eve

what happens if you deep condition fir 2 hrs with avocado and olive oil and coconut milk after shampooing and conditioning? My hair feels really soft and usually my hair is so hard to pull through after a wash but I had NO PROBLEMS at all. Is it ok to deep condition after pooing?

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That’s fine, the purpose of the treatment is to deep condition so it can be done after pooing. I just feel panicky if I think that I may have left some bits of avocado in my hair!

Yhaayhaah

Thank you. This is a quick and easy recipe. I just whipped one up into a creamy delight using bf’s mayo- O.O & a hand held blender . I have really strong nails and I’m pretty sure i’ve become protein sensitive or have too much protein. My hair has been really hard for a while now- almost a year. it used to be well moisturised with perfect coils. Now it’s stretched to almost straight. I keep having straight ends. Mind you, I use to henna a lot and now I haven’t been able to. Well, i’m ready to dc this Monday night . I’ll let you know. thanks!
Yhaayhaah

Update: I just got done with the avocado treatment. Thank you. My experience:
1) I just realised it’s a protein treatment
2) my hair felt really coarse and stripped/ strawy
3) granted I’m extremely protein sensitive, I’m not the best candidate for this treatment [by itself]
4) gratefully, I had some Jessicurl weekly deep treatment and I have that in now.
5) fortunately, my hair absorbed it well, it seemed, while i was applying it and it became more flexible.
6) Overall, I think i have a good balance now. I strengthened and then followed up with moisture.

Now i’m off to detangle while I still have Conditioner in my hair.

Thanks again!
Yhaayhaah

My results after deep condition- soft moisturised hair. I couldn’t be happier although it came after a hefty price to pay. My hair was clumped in tangles all over- the hair loss was a bit on the high side- just from combing in sheer frustration. All said, I’m happier for several good reasons- my hair feels new, it curls at the ends and is full and bouncy and SOFT! Thanks again. I think by clarifying (giovanni tea tree shampoo) and then performing your avocado treatment- it allowed my hair to absorb moisture (jessicurl) effectively.

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An avocado has about 4g protein and 29g of fat so for most people it will be a moisturizing treatment rather than protein. Having said that, depending on how much egg was in the mayo, it will bump up the protein count a bit more so for this treatment may be troublesome for the protein sensitive. I’m not surprised that your ends curled back up though because protein treatments tend to ‘heal’ heat damaged hair to some extent.

Glad to hear it worked out though, all’s well that ends well!

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RRO5E7STZ7FBAMTX4CTMPK5IT4 shelly

I tried this today and, like after all protein treatments my hair was tangled and extremely coarse.I had to condition after to get it to a more manageable state,is it that I am protein sensitive and what exactly is protein sensitive.What I don’t understand though is if protein is supposed to be good for your hair how can your hair be sensitive to it?

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Hi Shelly, you hair being tangled does not necessarily mean that you are protein sensitive. Read this article here to see if you are likely to be or if it’s just some treatments in particular that your hair doesn’t agree with: http://www.blackhairinformation.com/hair-treatments-and-recipes/protein-treatments/how-to-tell-if-your-hair-is-protein-sensitive/