Carrot has been well-known for improving your eyesight and skin. However, it seems like not all of us aware of the magical benefits of carrot juice for hair growth. Yes, it is the true golden ingredient for thick, long and smooth hair.
Carrots – the magical ingredient for hair growth (Source: Internet)
Benefits of carrot juice for hair growth
We all know that carrots are filled with full of nutritions like vitamin A, E, C, fibers, etc. that is famous for its ability to delay the aging process, and they can also improve your hair growth. Let’s find out how this cheap, common vegetable can work such magic on your hair!
Carrots prevent hair loss
Hair loss – the worry of everyone (Source: Internet)
Hair loss, which can be caused by stress, one’s endocrine, metabolism or living habit, etc., has always been the real worry of not only women but men as well. To avoid this situation, it is important to ensure that you provide your hair proper supply of vitamins, minerals – which are fully contained in carrots.
Vitamin E found in carrots can promote blood circulation in the scalp, which reduces the breakdown of hair as well as prevents the hair-aging, thereby deleting your hair loss problems.
Besides, carrots contain a huge amount of beta carotene (creating the red-orange pigment of the plant) which prevents your hair and scalp from dryness, avoiding hair loss. This provitamin A can also be found in sweet potato, mango or pumpkin.
Carrot juice benefits hair growth
Vitamin A in carrots plays the vital role in nourishing your hair to grow more and be more firmly. If your body lacks this vitamin, hair thinning is unavoidable. Regular consumption of carrots will improve your hair strength and brighten its look.
Carrot juice for hair growth is also highly recommended because it supplies our bodies with lots of vitamins C and E. As mentioned above, these components can improve scalp blood circulation. Therefore, hair growth could be promoted faster.
Carrots nourish your hair shinier
Yes! Just like the way it makes your skin shines, carrots will also nourish your hair with thousands of minerals and vitamins, make it stronger, thicker, shinier and smoother. Another secret of carrots juice that you may not know is that it can help to prevent your hair from premature graying. Mind blow! Isn’t it?
Carrot juice recipe for hair growth
So now the benefits of carrot juice for hair growth is answered, but lots of questions are still remained. How to make carrot juice for hair growth? How much carrot juice for hair growth is OK? Don’t worry, there are thousands ways from easy to complicated for you to make use of this common ingredient to improve your hair!
Carrot juice hair growth challenge
Carrot juice hair growth challenge (Source: Internet)
This is the easiest way of nourishing your hair by carrots. Taking on this challenge, you will consume carrots every day in a month. Make sure you do not skip any days at all, and then just wait for the magic on your hair, skin and body.
The suggested amount of carrot consumed is 2 carrots per day. You would not want to eat more than that, as excessive amount of vitamin A can lead to a lot of harmful conditions including hair loss (which sounds a bit ridiculous though). You can drink carrot juice, cut and mix them with fruits, etc. Try not to make the challenge boring!
Carrot oil for hair
Kill two birds with one stones with this recipe! It is a great way to fully nourish your hair with not only minerals and vitamins from carrots but also golden components in the olive oil. Carrot oil is perfect for anyone who desire long, thick and moist hair. You can also make carrot oil with shea or coconut oil.
Carrot oil for hair (Source: Internet)
It is easy to make this carrot oil:
Grate carrots into a glass jar
- Pour olive oil over the grated carrot
- Keep the jar closed in a dark, dry place for a week
- When the oil turns into orange color, take out the carrot
Once a week, use carrot oil to massage your hair for 30 minutes before washing and you will have perfect thick, strong, shiny hair. You can make lots of carrot oil and store it for months in dark, dry places. Make sure not to let any water touch the oil.
Carrot hair mask
Never skip the carrot-based hair mask if you want a perfect solution for all your hair problems. While carrots combat hair loss and boost hair growth, other ingredients like eggs, yogurt, avocado, lemon juice, etc. will make up the rest, giving you a charming stream of shiny hair.
Carrot, Avocado hair mask
- Boil and cut carrots into small pieces
- Blend carrots and avocados into a smooth mixture
- Massage the mask onto your hair, leave it for 30 minutes
- Wash your hair with gentle shampoo and warm water
With tons of nutritions and vitamins, avocados and carrots will nourish your hair to recover from damages and grow strong, thick and smooth.
Carrot, Yogurt, Egg hair mask
- Boil, cut carrots into small pieces and blend into a smooth mixture
- Mix carrot paste with no-sugar-added yogurt and an egg
- Massage the mask onto your hair, leave it for 30 minutes
- Wash your hair with gentle shampoo and warm water
Both carrots and yogurt can fix hair loss and boost your hair growth. Yogurt is also a perfect ingredient for vulnerable hair due to its protein content – the essential nutrient making up hair and nails. The mixture will give your hair such a shiny, smooth look like in salons.
7 other home ingredients stimulate hair growth unexpectedly
Coconut oil
Coconut oil is the best hair care ingredient from nature. With natural nutrients and antibacterial ingredients, coconut oil, when used to incubate hair, will help smooth hair, restore damage, clean dandruff and quickly grow and thicken.
In addition, quality coconut oil can also be used to eat and drink directly. You can prepare coconut oil with dishes or dilute the oil into a cup of warm water to drink every morning, which will effectively nourish healthy hair from the inside.
Grapefruit peel
Grapefruit peels for shampooing or distilling into grapefruit essential oil are all effective in stimulating hair growth quickly. For grapefruit essential oil, for maximum use, you should put essential oil into a spray bottle, after shampooing and drying your hair, spray the essential oils into the hair roots and massage gently. You can also spray once in the early morning when you wake up to improve thinning areas.
Aloe
Aloe vera is a medicinal drug for skin and hair due to its high content of vitamin E. For cases of women losing hair due to hormonal changes, this is a perfect savior, because aloe vera will supplementing the scalp skin with vitamin E deficiency due to hormonal hormone depletion. Usage is simple: take fresh aloe vera gel onto your scalp from 30 minutes to 2 hours or mix it into conditioner to rinse your hair after each shampoo.
Honey
Pure honey is a natural moisturizer and antibacterial agent, so in addition to enhancing the body’s resistance, beauty effects on the skin, honey when used to care for hair also brings nutrients that are especially good for scalp, help hair grow more and stronger.
Use honey to dry hair twice a week and wash it with shampoo and clean water with a few drops of lemon juice. Persist after about 2 months, you will surely be surprised by the effectiveness that this method brings.
Green tea leaf
With high anti-oxidant and bactericidal properties thanks to its high content of vitamins and minerals, green tea is the most widely used ingredient to beautify and improve the appearance of skin and hair. Using water from green tea leaves to shampoo your hair will give you a clean, dandruff hair that is stronger and thicker than normal shampooing.
Apple
As a fruit that contains a lot of vitamin B2, apples provide superior antioxidant properties for the body and help hair grow up to 70%. Therefore, just using a pure apple mixture to incubate the hair or use apple cider vinegar, cider to soak up the scalp with cotton wool will make hair grow faster, growing in areas of thinning or bald hair.
Lemongrass
Using lemongrass combined with a grapefruit peel to shampoo or use citronella oil in combination with hair conditioner oil is effective to nourish healthy and antibacterial hair follicles to prevent dandruff, thereby causing hair to shed less, hair grow much up. In addition, the fragrant lemongrass will definitely make you feel comfortable and relaxed every time you apply this method.
Yes, there you have best and easiest carrot recipes for hair growth. Pick one of these “juices” for your hair, try it out and wait for the wonders. In the case of not having much time for carrot oil or carrot mask, never miss the everyday carrot juice for hair growth!
I am Thomas Taw, the CEO of CITIZENSNIPS. I have experience in hair product development and chemical research, as well as sustainable resource engineering. In 2009, I co-created Sunsilk, one of the world's leading haircare brands. More recently, I was the CEO of SMOKINGPANDA LTD. I am a professional with a strong track record in delivering tangible results. Full his bio.
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